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NYT puts all the Hasbara disclaimers in (lemmy.ml)

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[–] starik@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The NYT isn’t saying that Palestinian civilians are considered combatants. They’re saying that the 70,000 number comes from a source (the Gaza Health Ministry) that doesn’t keep separate counts of civilian and soldier deaths.

[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Agreed. This is made to invoke anger for a journalist clarifying numbers. Many reputable news houses do this to avoid people cheaply discrediting an article/point by claiming numbers are not comparable.

[–] j5906@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Disagreed, this makes it sound like 70000 of them are possible combatants. They could have easily cited a source clarifying that 2/3 of them are women and children or so.

Also military service is obligatory in Israel with few exceptions, so you could argue that most of the people killed at an 18+ festival were also likely (unmarked) combatants.

The typical reader will skim the article and read "Hamas killed 1000 civilians, Israel killed 70000 combatants." and it is intentionally worded that way.