• @dustyData@lemmy.world
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    2567 months ago

    Wanna get even angrier? Since the cease fire was agreed, Israel released 150 Palestinian people. In that time, they have also made 133 new arrests of Palestinians for the crime of…celebrating the release of Palestinians.

    If this were done by a movie villain, people would criticize it for being too cartoonishly evil and unrealistic.

    • @NAXLAB@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Imma need a hardcore source for this. Not because I doubt it, but because I’d like to include it in an essay

        • @Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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          417 months ago

          It’s the ‘arrested for celebrating’ part that we want a source for and I didn’t see any in this article about it. Just seems very odd Israel would admit such a thing, so if they did I want a solid source to share with others.

          • @Sparlock@lemmy.world
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            657 months ago

            You could literally use google and find lots of stories talking about it. Here is a snippet from just one.

            THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT narrative surrounding the Palestinian prisoners being released during this temporary ceasefire is both insidious and dishonest. Interior Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has banned Palestinians from celebrating their release. “My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy,” he said. “Expressions of joy are equivalent to backing terrorism, victory celebrations give backing to those human scum, for those Nazis.” He told Israeli police to deploy an “iron fist” to enforce his edict. https://theintercept.com/2023/11/26/palestine-israel-prisoners/

            That is pretty fuckin clear.

            • @MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works
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              447 months ago

              My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy,” he said. “Expressions of joy are equivalent to backing terrorism"

              Wow. That is cartoonishly dystopian.

              • @Sparlock@lemmy.world
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                157 months ago

                Totally not channeling his inner Nazi… Yet there are still shitbags here twisting themselves in knots to defend everything Israel does.

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                167 months ago

                Ben Gvir is a special kind of evil, but unfortunately not so uncommon in the Israeli government.

        • @orrk@lemmy.world
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          27 months ago

          they only influence the elections in Israel, mainly because that is where they are a political block

          • @Hamartia@lemmy.world
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            37 months ago

            I wouldn’t be sure of that. Nor would I have any truck with the old puppet-master/squid trope. A lot of countries will budget for influencing various political spheres beyond their borders. Israel shouldn’t get singled out for special criticism in that particular field. Not because what they have been caught doing isn’t reprehensible but because that field of manure is busy with as bad or worse actors such as Russia, China, or the cough USA cough.

      • @SpezBroughtMeHere@lemmy.world
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        57 months ago

        What makes any news showing Israel in a positive light propaganda and any news showing hamas in a positive light credible? Each side is saying the exact same thing about each other yet you chose to believe only one side as believable.

        • What a simplistic interpretation of reporting during war times. Reductively representing all Palestinians as Hamas is willfully ignorant. The vast majority of people here are for the people under siege.

        • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          They give sources and show evidence. That makes them credible.

          Also Aljazeera shows first hand accounts of Palestinian hostages telling their stories of torture in Israeli prison while all the israeli side gives us is “a hostages aunt said this definitely happened” while prohibiting the israeli hostages to speak to the media.

          Just because israel lies about everything you can’t go “well then surely the other side does too”.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          77 months ago

          Only one side can end this simply by going home. Hamas and Hezbollah have both publicly stated their only demand to end hostilities is that Israel stops it’s occupation.

            • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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              37 months ago

              Sorry but no. The rest of the world agreed that conquering land and calling it your own went out of style in May of 1945. You don’t get to put your own pictures on the wall and pretend you didn’t steal the house.

    • @thesilverpig@lemmy.world
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      227 months ago

      I didn’t but I guess thanks for keeping me informed. Also distracts me from my problems which are minor in comparison.