A few key revelations related to Gaza coverage in last few days:
- Almost all of the media in Gaza were in a Hamas-run WhatsApp group that dictated and coordinated coverage. Including contributors to major western news organizations.
- Al Jazeera fired 24 of their media members from Gaza for direct ties to terror groups
- Admission that anyone in Gaza who reported anything contrary to Hamas claims was likely to be killed by Hamas.
Almost all of the information that came out of Gaza was part of a coordinated disinformation campaign by the very people who started the war.
@aziz0nomics@EFischberger@nytimes Clearly the Hamas Jihadis, still suffering from the devastating effects of postpartum depression following the birth of their flowering democracy in 2006 were the true victims of Oct 7.
I envy the director who called his own country's army something worse than any enemy ever called it, and then drove home.
I envy that he signed his name to it.
I envy that his face is on the poster.
I envy that the state's revenge was a press release.
I envy that the ministers who despise him can only threaten his funding.
I envy that his worst punishment is being hated loudly by people with keyboards.
I envy that Iranian propaganda spends millions and never reaches the accusation he made himself, unpaid, on camera.
I envy that he will be invited to debate his critics on television.
I envy that his critics want to argue with him at all.
I envy that his mother watched the ceremony from her living room.
I envy that his mother has a living room.
I envy him because forty minutes past the last checkpoint, outside his country and outside his law, the review arrives at night, on motorcycles.
I envy him because out there, men take you out in your underwear so the street remembers it.
I envy him because an hour from his editing room, but under a different flag, a film like that ends on a rooftop, with the director going over the edge.
I envy him because in that place, the director own people will drag the body through the market, so the next director understands the notes.
I envy him because 50 kilometers from the theater that screened his film, and past the border of everything he is accused of, they shoot the knees first, so the neighborhood hears the whole verdict.
I envy him because there, the sentence includes your brothers.
I envy him because there, the sentence includes the house your father built.
I envy him because there, a rumor that you spoke to a foreign journalist is the entire trial.
I envy him because there, nobody cuts your budget, they cut you.
I envy that the distance between his applause and that rooftop is shorter than his commute, and that no one confuses the two jurisdictions.
I envy that he says all of it from inside the country he is accusing.
@Suge_Grits@amess@HenMazzig Because they are not Israeli citizens. Hamas took away their votes after Palestinians voted for them into power in 2006. Hamas then murdered and purged Fatah and all other political opposition from Gaza. No further election were held in gaza after the 2006 election.
@SirajAHashmi Honestly, after the shitshow that was the Walz admin, a candidate who throws shoes like fists and goes full gunnery sergeant Hartman on incompetent idiots is the ideal Dem candidate for the once great state of fucked beyond all recognition Minnesota