Obama: “What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable…
“You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree.”
My latest.
There has been a feverish attempt to deny that the conflict between Israel and Palestine has anything to do with European colonialism.
So I went into British archival history and brought back some receipts https://t.co/fxjCjvIBzg
"Much of the justification for killing civilians is based on a fashionable ideology, 'decolonization,' which, taken at face value, rules out the negotiation of two states ... and is as dangerous as it is false," @simonmontefiore writes: https://t.co/9zvLNoUqnI
The left meme that every conflict is necessarily reduced to oppressor/oppressee, with no room for nuance, and that any action of an oppressee is either laudable or not it's fault, is dangerous
It leaves no room to even consider reality. Every claim from one side immediately treated as established fact, every claim from the other an obvious lie.
So you end up with situations where huge, respected news organisations are reporting as fact things that have already been shown by technically adept news gatherers outside newsrooms to be false or at the very least highly uncertain. It’s hugely damaging to trust in journalism.