Q: do you ever feel like you could be seen as an actual target?
A: Thank you for this question, which of course brings to mind the horrifying killing of our colleague Issam Abdallah by an Israeli tank shell
immediate comment: Almost every single response references Israel even when they aren't mentioned in the initial comment. Biased as all heck.
How fucking heartless. There is tone-deaf and then there's this.
Also a lot of countries pulled their UNRWA funding over it too. That is a lot of credible people in agreement that the accusations do stand up.
I should just stop reading reddit. Not good for me.
“There is no evidence Israel did that thing they bragged about doing”
“How dare you ask for proof. You must believe state propagandists at face value.”
famously unbiased web zone: reddit comments
Especially in current worldnews
Also, like... Israel is mentioned in that question, albiet not directly. Who but Israel might suddenly see this reporter as a target?
Guy, did you know that Hamas is EVIL INCARNATE!? Istg redditors are the most braindead motherfuckers on the planet. Assuming they aren't bots or hasbara ofc
Israel-Hamas War
Immediate red flag right here. Anyone not calling this the "ongoing Gazan genocide" or similar needs to be redacted.
edit: despite the reporter being really lib, god damn the people asking questions in the thread are so, so much worse.
The reporter is literally some libbed up "ask both sides!" even when one side is actively doing a clear genocide "neutral" reporter. If you give Israel a chance to have "their side" then you are by definition slanted towards pro-Israeli. Although this is better than the active Israeli state sexual orgy of propaganda you see on the 24/7 CNN and Fox coverage.
There are apparent neo-Nazis in there spouting lines about Hamas being evil, Hamas killing journalists, Hezbollah doing the same, etc.
I don't even need to bother "defending" Hamas or their allies. I can just say Israel has been objectively shown, uncountable times, to be targeting any journalists who don't submit to full censorship from the IDF. That means submitting to their "protection" within Gaza, their line of questioning, etc. It means the IDF can say what to film or not. It's full propaganda-mode censorship.
The difference is, for one, I haven't heard of a single instance (and there may be some, I don't know) of Hamas officials or militants or anyone censoring footage coming out from Gaza on the Palestinian side. I would say they're probably welcoming any such footage since it's almost always going to expose Israeli lies or Israeli cruelty more than anything Hamas or Palestinians are doing. Btw, under international law, Hamas and Palestinians broadly are permitted to do whatever it takes to resist and throw off the illegal occupation by Israel. So all those rockets that Herr Redditor complains about are permitted. The "TURRUH TUN NAHLS" are permitted. And what isn't permitted, ever, is a siege and blockade before Oct 7 and a now total one since then by Israel upon lands it illegally occupies still.
And two, stating the obvious, Israel has the full backing of the world military superpower and has all kinds of modern tools to enforce their propaganda machine. From spying/doxxing simple dissenters all the way to direct assassination of individuals and their fucking families. Even if Hamas was engaging in some sort of censorship or slanting of news via journalist manipulation, they lack the reach and devastation that Israel has. As soon as Hamas is leveling the homes of pro-Israeli journalists while their families are sleeping, then I'll take this ridiculous shit seriously.
The whole concept of unbiased reporting in this conflict is ridiculous. It's like being a reporter in Nazi Germany and reporting that the allies killed some villagers in an offensive, You'd literally be reporting a viewpoint to be "balanced" towards the Nazis, for literally evil.
Well at least there's one good take in this fucking cesspool, maybe things ...
Hamas is evil.
Well, guess I should have seen that one coming
Reuters is the most US intelligence-friendly rag, lol
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