A healthy democracy for sure.
Only the best democracies ban journalists. Ask anybody!
Hmmm, this smells of orange filth.
I’ve had a conspiracy theory about Netanyahu and why he’s been pushing into Gaza so hard. He and his party know that what they’re doing is unpalatable for most western liberal and left-wing voters, meaning liberals and left-wing politicians are more likely to be(come) critical and cut off aid to Israel than their right-wing counterparts. Biden, as infuriatingly slow as he is, seems to be gradually becoming less and less supportive of Israel, while iirc Trump (or at least his allies) has talked about going all-in on Gaza.
If you’re Netanyahu, the idea of your largest ally potentially dropping support and cutting off aid is a scary thing, especially when you’re surrounded by countries that want you dead. Wouldn’t you try to influence the politics of your allies to swing in your favor?
As such, I have a suspicion that Netanyahu and his party are not only using the genocide to stay in power, but also as a poison pill for western liberal and left-wing politicial allies. The intent being to make liberal allies like Biden unpalatable to their voter base so that there is a decreased liberal voter turnout to tip the scales in favor of politicians like Trump.
Or more simply, I think it’s possible Netanyahu is using Gaza to stab foreign liberal politicians in the back and skew voter turnout in favor of politicians who are less likely to grow a conscience. I think that’s why it is that every time Biden “draws a line”, Netanyahu puts his toe over it and says, “nyah, nyah, nyahnyah nyah, I’m not liisteeeeniiiiing.” It’s not just to keep himself in power, it’s also a way of influencing his allies’ elections.
This is what fascist dictatorships do. Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.
You know you are on the right side of history when you censor Journalism.
Don’t you see, this is just woke fake news journalism!! (meaning, journalism I disagree with)
To be fair both the US and the EU did ban Russian journalists, so it seems hypocritical to judge Israel here.
To be fair, the US is a piece of shit country.
I think you took the wrong lesson from that lol
“They” censor “our” view: BAD! “We” censor “their” view: sure, thats fine?
You know propaganda works both ways right? It’s maybe different extends, but i still believe dude is right and censorship is not the right way to go.
Somehow ensuring factual news would be amazing, but that would need to count for fucking everyonem…oh well one can dream…
Try reading what I said again because you clearly misunderstood it.
I’m against censorship in any ways, just seems hypocritical to judge Israel here when everyone does it.
The US and EU have no room to judge Israel, that’s true.
I sure as fuck can judge them, though, and I do and so should you.
Two years after israel closed the Aljazeera offices in Gaza
What was the prompt?
Netanyahu is Hitler
Israel has lost all of my respect in the last year
They should never have had your respect in the first place…
When people recognize they were wrong about something, as smugly satisfying as it may be it’s not actually helpful to tell them that they should have been correct sooner.
I don’t think it’s about being smug. It’s about pointing out the important fact that none of this is new except the scale. Divide by 100-1000 and this is just daily life in Palestine.
So Israel’s been shutting down other newspapers before?
Is that the line? Everything before was fine, but this is what caused them to lose your respect?
Just give it a break for fuck’s sake jesus christ
And just like with Russia, my soul bleeds for the people who have nothing to do with this…
At least in Russia the elections were fake
