Yup,. the hypocrisy is so thick you can taste it, and it's bitter with a strong hint of propaganda. the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.
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the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.
This is an objectively true statement. Of course the world is lead by assholes.
We all know that power corrupts. Neuroscience has shown that getting power damages the brain's capacity for empathy.
You just can't lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.
It's extremely frustrating to hold the apparently controversial opinion that killing civilians is, consistently, a bad thing.
my favorite is that everybody is referring to the israel palestine thing as a genocide, but i have yet to see anybody piss and shit themselves over what russia is doing to ukraine.
Let alone what russia is doing to it's own domestic population. Take a guess on how putin is still popular after putting hundreds of thousands of people to death in a needless war.
For one thing, the US sends huge amounts of money to Ukraine for defense against Russia, and huge amounts of money to Israel for "defense" against Palestine. I care way less what people "piss and shit themselves over" than where the material support goes.
Yeah but Trump would end support to Ukraine.
What does this have to do with my reply or the other user's comment?
That in the very real and current contest between Biden and Trump that Biden at least supports Ukraine, whereas Trump supports Russia and would likely support Isreal to the extent of starting WWIII in the middle east to bring about the apocalypse for his evangelical base, who earnestly believe they'll be raptured to heaven while the rest of us live through a nightmarish helscape. Which is looking less crazy by the day because some people won't vote for an old man who doesn't 100% align with their political views vs fanatical insanity spearheaded by an also old man.
So nothing, really. I'm also not very convinced that any US president is going to deviate very far from foreign policy status quo-- Trump loves the weapons manufacturers as much as Biden does, and both conflicts are ultimately a gift to them.
Hell, a while ago France24 wasn't even using the terms "Israel" or "IDF" in any of it's reporting on the sacking of Gaza - they were literally pretending the bullets, bombs and missiles was being fired and dropped by some unknown party.
when the victims are lighter skinned
When the victims aren't strategic to US interests*
While that may be partially true, The Guardian ironically has a good opinion piece of the exact quotes being said by news reporter about "European" children getting bombed from 2022. Sometimes it IS related to the colour of their eyes and skin, and dismissive comments like yours come across pretty ignorant.
Some reporters being racist, doesn't mean that sensibilities of people aren't moved when it's non-white people, this was very patent during China's oppressive policies against Uyghur in Xinjiang. There were years of condemnation and of people calling it genocide, and there was massive outcry here on Reddit. Would you say Uyghur are white, or is it just convenient to remember them and being concerned because the whole thing paints China in a bad light? I didn't see nearly the same level of outrage during the actual genocide against Rohingya Muslims in south-east Asia.
Just off reading headlines..is "entering" and "bombing" the same thing now?
Off headlines not.
Off reality Al Shifa is far more destroyed than the Ukrainian hospital.
I don’t think Ukraine is known for hiding military assets in things like hospitals.
You can keep trying to make them the same but they aren’t.
I wonder how it would read if they quoted the Russian military in the headline on the right.
The Russian story was "defective Ukrainian air defense missle hit hospital". But since that has now been debunked because of evidence of the missile being Russian. they'll also just say something about a terrorist base.
Or actually, they will just still say it was a defective air defense missile. Looking at the amount of people here still repeating the lie about the military base it appears not to matter that it gets fully debunked. The drones will repeat anything they are told.
I am tired of these comparisions. The Ukraine war has a clear good and a clear bad side. The same cannot be said about the Israel/Palastine war. Both parties are equally shitty. There is just one side much more powerful so more capable to commit cruelties. The only clear good people here are the civillians suffering on both sides.
A hospital full of civilians being bombed is bad regardless of the context. There's no point in media outlets spinning shit like this. They're just acting as propagandists for Israel by throwing softballs like this.
Palestine is far more black and white than Ukraine. I'd recommend you read up on it.
Nothing about middle east conflicts is close to black and white. I'd recommend you read up on it.
Nothing about middle east conflicts
Spoken like a true racist, grouping up "middle east conflicts" as if it was a single entity.
Pretty easy actually, Palestinians were there living their lives and having a sense of nationality as Palestinians since the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. Zionists decided they didn't care about that, decided they deserved their ancestral homeland, and western countries helped them militarily to relocate hundreds of thousands of people and murder tens of thousands on top. It's almost quite literally that easy.
Spoken like a true racist, grouping up “middle east conflicts” as if it was a single entity.
most people would do the same for general geographic regions though.
If it were a war between germany and france for example, it would be referred to as a "western" war. Russia vs China would be eastern for example.
Most of these wars are culturally related, especially in the middle east where they seem to have a particular style of warfare, it only seems fair to refer to it as "middle eastern" arguably, the only one that isn't really doing this style of warfare here is israel. Though they clearly have reservations on morals.
Wow, funny, I didn't hear the bombing of Yugoslavia and its disintegration, the invasion of Ukraine, and similar conflicts in Europe ever called altogether "European issues", but separated very well individually.
well technically, semantically it would be "eastern european" even though it's not really a thing. And it is generally considered to be a "european" problem, if you look into the matters from a more global perspective, it's entirely fair to state that.
My main point though was that it's not "racist" to exclaim that, it's just incredibly broad and referential. Which in current times is probably reasonable.
My point is that extremely broad claims about extremely different and unrelated issues, and painting them all "oh so difficult", is a tool used by western media to make people think the problems are too complicated to be solved and there's just nothing to do about violence in "the middle east", as US and its allies weren't responsible for more than half of it.
Okay, so Russia Invaded Ukraine. Russia is the Aggressor.
The Hamas attacked Israel, so Israel exterminates Palestine and claims it wants to exterminate the Hamas. The Hamas have committed Warcrimes and hides the self behind Civilians and the IDF does a whole lot of warcrimes too. Both sides are shirt,, just the IDF has done a bit more shit than the Hamas. Theres no good side in this conflict. Both sides want to exterminate each other and sacrifice the Palestinian civilians for this.
I don't know where you see a more black and white scheme in the middle east conflict than in the Ukraine war, but I'm willing to read your explanation.
You appear to forget 75 years of israel invading Palestine. And putting Palestinians in a concentration camp.
And 75 Years of the Hamas Attacking Israel. Israel has killed much more Palestinians that the other way around, but its still more complicated than The Ukraine war.
Ukraine has also been attacking russian troops since the beginning of the invasion, what's your point?
My point is, that in The current conflict the Hamas attacked first. Ukraine didnt.
Hamas attacked first
Palestinians was there before Israel was even conceived, and the first Nakba, in 1948, which marks the hard line of the invasion, in which 750k+ Palestinians were forcibly relocated, was started by Israel. History didn't start on October 7th
That's why I pointed out that the CURRENT conflict has been started by the Hamas. Israel may have started this conflict a long time ago, but the Palestinians also have their fair share of commiting warcrimes and violence against Israel.
If Jewish people in Nazi Germany had started a series of terrorist attacks against civilians, would you be comparing them to Nazis and telling that "both have a fair share of blood in their hands"? Because it's THAT black and white.
It's the opposite. Israel/Palestine war has a clear evil side (Israel) and a clear victim (Palestine). Ukraine war is a complicated mess.
So the victims are the ones who openly call for the death of an entire group of people? Their founding Charter literally calls for the elimination of Jews.... and after they slaughtered the women and children in October they said they'll do it again. They're the victim to you? Interesting.