The move escalates a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.
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.
Israel has lost all of my respect in the last year
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
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