Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?
52fighters@kbin.social 7 months ago
Y'all, this is a rhetorical question meant to serve as a zinger against Israel. OP doesn't want actual answers.
machinin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s also a good discussion of how propaganda works. I mean, we continually see how Israel lies, now we’re seeing the misinformation campaign about all the “combatants” being released that are actually teenage boys, many of whom were captured for throwing rocks and may face 20 years in prison for it.
redballooon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
To talk about Israels propaganda in today’s social media landscape is propaganda itself.
Pretty much on all channels there’s a between 10:1 and 20:1 relationship between pro Palestinian vs pro Israel comments.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s great no? People are waking up to the propaganda. Seeing the reality of how our governments spin everything to justify whatever military objective they want to achieve.
Ukraine? Defending against colonizing oppressors is their plight in any way possible and they are heroes!
Israel? The colonizing oppressors are now the defenders! Defending against colonization and oppression is wrong and you’re not to allow to kill a single person ever!
redballooon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh dear.
NewDark@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Social media, not western news agencies. The news is highly biased toward Israel even if the people generally aren’t falling for it.
redballooon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
As I said in the other comment, not falling for one sides propaganda doesn’t automatically mean the other side is right. What we have on social media is propaganda for a supposed Palestinian side, but overwhelmingly it’s Hamas’ talking points, which are clearly anti Israel, but lacking in the “pro Palestinian” cause.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In my experience, people aren’t citing Hamas propaganda as if it were fact, they give it the appropriate level of skepticism. They don’t do that with IDF press releases or propaganda from the Israeli government so it is worth pointing out that all governments and affiliated news outlets put out biased reporting during war time.
Also, as a US taxpayer, my money is funding bombs being dropped on Gaza, they didn’t fund Hamas’ improvised rockets. Those were cobbled together using material stolen from the people of Gaza. As a result, I expect honest accountability of how those weapons are used.
SCB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They were bought from Iran, generally. Sometimes from other Iran-backed militants, which is the same thing
crashfrog@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Throwing a rock at someone can cause grievous injury or death. We’re not talking about pebbles; they’re throwing multi-kilogram stones in an attempt to damage IDF property and harm IDF soldiers.
And you may say “ok, well, that’s war; soldiers and their equipment are fair game” and that’s fair, but if you attack enemy soldiers that makes you a soldier, whatever your age might be.
So the IDF can either capture and imprison these people, or they can shoot them. Sometimes they do - the prisoners held by IDF are the ones they didn’t.
bababatman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.
Face it, team Israel is deep in the toilet, stinking of shit and sewage, and the smell ain’t never coming out. Not in this life time nor in the next.
Called karma, dude.
SCB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Theyre neither colonial nor occupying. They’re invading in response to a foreign government massacring their people. The reason for the massacre was to force Israel to respond and thus damage Israel’s normalization of diplomacy with Saudi Arabia.
Hamas isn’t fighting off colonial oppressors. They are engaging in politically motivated terror strikes designed to weaken the standing of a people they want to exterminate, at the cost of the lives of their civilians.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Being a soldier illegally on someone’s land is highly illegal they have no business being in the west bank whatsoever but expanding their illegal colonies