At the wedding of a dear friend in New Jersey, former hostage Omer Shem Tov gets emotional as he recites the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel.
I long ago swore off angry reviews. But a book this packed with historical blunders, bad faith, and ideological toxicity makes restraint dishonorable. https://t.co/Eb521sVLtc
Civil disobedience:
1) Non-violently transgress a law you believe unjust
2) Accept the legal consequences
3) A public shocked by the harshness of the punishment forces changes in the law.
Palestine Action:
1) Smash property and hurt people
2) Demand to be exempted from legal consequences
3) A public shocked by the violence of the crimes committed thinks, "actually these sentences seem rather light under the circumstances."
Don’t be fooled:
While you work hard to pay your taxes, people in Gaza are enjoying days at the Mediterranean Sea, while media outlets and NGOs continue telling you they are being killed indiscriminately and dying of hunger.
For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks.
It's dozens now. Maybe more.
But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media.
Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases.
No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.
Just like @coldxman wiped the floor with @ComicDaveSmith, he’s done it again. This time with @PeterBeinart.
Watch the full debate: https://t.co/Za8pRDSOQj
Israel:
- was invaded by an explicitly genocidal army that is larger than most European armies
- fought a war against an enemy that embeds in civilian homes and doesn’t wear uniforms
- issued evacuation notices
- paused the war for vaccinations
- facilitated humanitarian aid
- kept the internet on
- has more rigorous rules for engagement than NATO
- has lawyers who review every single military engagement decision
- primarily inflicted casualties on fighting-age males, with women and children vastly underrepresented
- ended the war the instant they got their hostages back
"Gaza genocide" is a conspiracy theory that requires you to believe that none of the above is true.
@Molly85224872@havivrettiggur It's a trend line, Molly.
A few months ago, you thought there were no Hamas terrorists among them. Imagine what you'll learn tomorrow.
For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks.
It's dozens now. Maybe more.
But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media.
Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases.
No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.