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The pasta ban might seem unnecessary at a glance, but it is entirely plausible that Israel harbors legitimate fears of Palestinian Khamas militants using pasta in rituals to summon the Flying Spaghetti Monster which would then wreak havoc on the Democratic nation of Israel. There’s two-sides folks. . . two-sides!
The horrors that the al-Samouni clan experienced are the latest in a series of traumas that began during the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive when soldiers killed 48 of their family members in Operation Cast Lead.
The army had corralled several families under one roof and fired missiles at the house, killing dozens. Some people managed to get out, waving white flags, but when the Red Cross was granted permission to enter the building three days later, they were met with the harrowing sight of 13 injured people, including eight children, who spent days without food or water, surrounded by the bodies of their parents and relatives.
One of those killed was Zahwa’s husband, Attiya. Their daughter Amal, who is Abdullah’s twin sister, was only eight at the time but remembers everything in vivid detail.
“That cold January day, 100 Israeli soldiers raided our home and killed my dad in front of us,” the 24-year-old said. “They first threw a grenade at the entrance of the house, engulfing us in smoke.”
The soldiers shouted in Hebrew for the homeowner to step forward. Attiya, who had worked previously in Israel, raised his arms and identified himself.
“They shot him between the eyes, then in the chest,” Amal said. “Then they kept shooting, riddling his body with bullets.”
Earlier, as the tanks surrounded their home, Attiya had taught his children to say in Hebrew “We are children”, but it made no difference.
“After they shot my dad they began firing at us,” Amal said. “Abdullah and I were both wounded. They set a fire in one of the bedrooms, and we were suffocating from the smoke.”
Hamam was barely a year old at the time. Their brother Ahmad, four years old at the time, was shot twice in the head and in the chest and was left to bleed to death until dawn the next day, as the Israeli army prevented any ambulances from reaching the area.
Ahmad died in his mother Zahwa’s arms. She had lost her husband, her son, and her home and in the 15 years since that fateful day, the family had to work twice as hard to rebuild their lives.
The author of this hit piece, Yuval Abraham, is an Israeli journalist and activist. They have authored so many interesting articles, that I cannot post them all. I highly recommend that any readers seeking further insight on the nature of this conflict to check him out.
I don’t think time is the important factor. If the U.S. today was the same U.S. 300 years ago, then we would 100% have a moral obligation to shut that shit down.
Now there is a diverse population, a culturally rich melting pot. However the U.S. is still plagued with racists/bigots, problematic entities, and a corrupt government.
Anyone who believes in any sort of racial supremacy, born in the US or not, should get kicked the fuck out.
Any problematic entities, such as oil companies ruining this land, should be dealt with. If Native Americans start biting back because their way of life is getting fucked especially, then they have my full support.
U.S. government is rife with corruption which spreads through many sectors ranging from health care to law enforcement. If Native Americans somehow overthrew the current government and replaced it with something more democratic, representative, or something just better, people would not have a logical reason to complain.
TL;DR
Time is irrelevant. The U.S. is no longer full of cunts, but the ones that do exist should GTFO.
I could not immediately see their method for ranking factuality.
They claim on their website that they don’t do most of their own fact checking:
“Media Bias/Fact Check rarely conducts original fact checks as many other sources are faster and do a better job. We primarily rely on fact-checkers affiliated with the International Fact-Checking Network ( IFCN).”
According to Media Bias/Fact Check’s Wikipedia page, writers at the Poynter Institute, developer of the IFCN, have made the following statement: “Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific.”
It is interesting that one of Media Bias/Fact Check’s criteria is biased wording and then they made the following assessment about Times of Israel: “The Times of Israel covers Israeli and regional news with minimally loaded language…” Meanwhile, the caption for the top headline on the Times of Israel at this time is: “PM’s office says families of those slated to be freed have been notified * G7 foreign ministers urge further extension of ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-ruling terror group” Terror group does not sound like minimally loaded language. Now if the people who created the criteria to measure biased language are not concious of the fact that terror or terrorist in place of militant or rebel is biased language, then that will skew results through algorithmic bias.
First, allow me to say that I can’t help but appreciate your initial use of neutral language to ease the reader in before throwing out straight accusations as if they were fact. Sneaky sneaky, I like it.
It’s that their account is solely dedicated to that activity.
Has it ever occured to you, that someone would want to compartmentalize different aspects of their life or belief, especially controversial ones to avoid doxxing and harassment? I’m actually genuinely surprised that a lemmy.ml user would not be conscious of just how identifying information can be over time. Even if no one piece can directly identify an individual, with enough pieces, a picture can be painted. Even the way I type or punctuate leaves a thumbprint.
It isn’t really grassroots, but possible astroturfing.
First unsubstantiated accusation. Let’s goooo! Is the requirement for any action to be grassroots that I explicitly identify myself? If I go to a protest that I believe in, wearing a mask, is it no longer grassroots? If your definition of grassroots is contingent on the lack of privacy, then sure.
When you say astroturfing, are you speaking about the posts or the votes? I post because I want to share the perspectives and voices that are absent in much of the ethnocentric Western media. Honestly, I am surprised by the general positive reception that these posts have been getting, and seeing an abundance pro-human rights, pro-justice voices is a breath of fresh air.
Also their account was created fairly recently, and around the time Hexbear was widely rejected by many instances in the federation.
The one thing I don’t mind sharing is that this is my initial account I made back during the great Reddit Exodus, lmao. I initially planned on using it for normal use, but then the war broke out. I saw braindead Reddit takes, and felt compelled to speak.
When I saw Lemmy.world ban archive links, be criticized for being too big and thus defeating the purpose of decentralization, and the festering brain rot infecting .world that resulted from the mass migration of Redditors, I decided to jump ship and never look back.
I am going to keep keep doing what I have been doing, not just for the users here but in hopes that some of the readers themselves will further propogate the unheard voices of the masses.
Workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel after October 7 were summarily arrested, interrogated, beaten, and tortured, before being declared illegal by Israeli authorities.
Here will be a compiled list of 972 magazine articles related to this conflict, continually updated as I delve into this harrowing treasure trove of information:
Israeli Army Says It Killed Three Hostages Mistakenly Identified as a Threat in Northern Gaza (www.haaretz.com)
Archived version
Civilians sheltering inside a Gaza school killed execution-style (www.aljazeera.com)
Two teenagers killed, 15 detained in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)
October 6: Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers attack West Bank town of Huwara...
‘A hand here, a head there’: Israeli warplanes kill dozens in central Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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What ‘tunnels’ and ‘hostages’ mean in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
March 2, 2009: The pasta, paper and hearing aids that could threaten Israeli security
Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza blindfolded, stripped to underwear (www.aljazeera.com)
December 3, 2023: ‘Death corridor’: The al-Samounis recall terror of ‘safe passage’ in Gaza...
Two Gaza brothers stripped, jeered at by Israeli army, one taken captive (www.aljazeera.com)
‘Death corridor’: The al-Samounis recall terror of ‘safe passage’ in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated (www.nbcnews.com)
“No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.
Ahmed Wanted Israelis to Listen to Gazans. Then 23 of His Family Members Were Killed (www.haaretz.com)
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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)
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‘My son was killed on October 6. There was no Hamas’ (www.aljazeera.com)
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Israeli air strikes pound Gaza as truce with Hamas ends (www.aljazeera.com)
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid (www.aljazeera.com)
Video: Eight-year-old Adam al-Ghoul and 15-year-old Basel Abu al-Wafa shot dead by israeli soldiers
‘Military camp’: Palestinian town of Huwara under 55-day Israeli closure (www.aljazeera.com)
Jailed without charge: How Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce (www.aljazeera.com)
Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions (www.aljazeera.com)
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Gaza workers stranded in Israel were tortured, interrogated (mondoweiss.net)
Workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel after October 7 were summarily arrested, interrogated, beaten, and tortured, before being declared illegal by Israeli authorities.
Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread II (lemmy.ml)
This is the second megathread for discussion regarding the crisis....