this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
35 points (94.9% liked)

World News

34956 readers
466 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

without Hamas as a party, she didn't see how any order could be complied with without Israel unilaterally withdrawing and being forced to accept subsequent attacks

Yet another stereotypical pro-Israel whataboutism. There's a hell of a lot of wiggle room between "don't keep bombing and starving Palestinian civilians while making most of them homeless on purpose" and "unilaterally withdraw completely".

Also, it falsely assumes that it's a conventional war between two armies with somewhat equal conditions, which could hardly be further from the truth: Israel has one of the largest and most advanced militaries in the world and Hamas' "fighters" are a few thousand scattered terrorists with whatever weaponry they can cobble together in spite of the embargo.

most requested orders amounted to "follow IHL", which Israel is already bound to order or no order

Which would make it a stern reminder, since they're currently ignoring that obligation completely. That doesn't invalidate the order at all.

she believes SA is conflating Hamas and Palestinian civilians in several key arguments

Because so is the Israeli government. Every civilian location they bomb, they claim was a secret Hamas base, hardly ever producing a shred of proof or even reliable information that might make them mistakenly think that's the case.

I didn't find anything overtly biased in her analysis

As demonstrated above and in my original comment, she's either extremely biased or totally incompetent. Which in turn means that your assessment comes from

a) your own bias,

b) your own ignorance,

c) you being deliberately dishonest or

d) more than one of the above.

My money's on d.