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Ah, Ukraine! turns out the Russians don't know the first thing about attacking civilian populations and yet Putin is wanted by the ICC and Netanyahu walks amongst us. The vast majority of the world has had enough of western duplicity. They no longer listen or care about whatever lines you're trying to push.

I've called them and they say all Palestinian deaths of whatever type are martyrs in the cause of highlighting to the world the continuation of illegal occupation and the onslaught of Israeli aggression against legitimate acts of self-defence by a sovereign people. They will all die fighting for that cause without hesitation. God is Great !

And what is "posted a yesterday", is that when your troubles seemed so far away ....

Like New York, New York - so good they named it twice. Start spreading the news ...Plus your for 'you're'. Where I come from, Grammar Nazis matter.

I laughed but not in a good way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce48wpd08pgo Foreign Minister Martin "Ireland will be intervening. “It is for the court to determine whether genocide is being committed. "But I want to be clear in reiterating what I have said many times in the last few months; what we saw on 7 October in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale. "It has to stop. The view of the international community is clear. Enough is enough."

Please Great Britain we are for the time being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is the sovereign legal country not England. UK for short.

You assume the Israeli government would care about the few posters here to pay money for it. Whatever else they are, they are not stupid ! One of the processes is called shadowbanning - so the user can still post, but their posts do not appear in feeds and the only way to see them is to go directly to the feed concerned. Other power users can pay for the blue tick and then boost their posts. Israel is undoubtedly doing that. What I will say is that pro Russia accounts are being boosted and pro Ukraine ones less so - Musk is pro Russia of that I have no doubt, and pro Trump as well and wants him to win. Indeed, a lot of Ukrainian power users complain bitterly about the imbalance on the platform. Ukrainian users on X (Twitter) and Meta-owned Instagram have also complained of “shadow bans,” where a platform limits engagement with a user’s content by tweaking the platform’s algorithm. According to Joris, shadow bans are far from a conspiracy theory but rather a common tool used by social media platforms to influence what users see. Shadow bans are particularly problematic because users are not notified, says Joris. They are punished without knowing that they did anything wrong and have no opportunity to appeal. In its report on social media in wartime Ukraine, CEDEM recommends a whitelist system that gives media organizations additional protections in conflict settings, which would go a long way to fighting back against disinformation. https://kyivindependent.com/social-media-giants-unbalanced-fight-with-disinformation-in-ukraine/

One is the Algerian War of Independence, where France killed a million Algerians. Way to go, Israel !

Err yes.I mean, I actually have to seek out Jackson Hinckle now or I don't see his posts (that's a joke btw save your synthetic outrage for somebody else). https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-social-media-opinion-hamas-war/

Or my take on the truth based on observation. That's how the Buddha figured out the truth, by staring at the jungle for 6 years and figuring how it all worked. We can't see the wind, but we can see how it waves the leaves of the tree.

As my late grandma used to say, you can't uncurdle milk. I'll keep my outrage powder dry for fresh horrors, if you don't mind.

or it's all on Hamas anyway, with a Pontius Pilotian washing of hands.

Hasbara talking points for today. As a frequent user of X I noticed at the beginning of the war the feeds were much more balanced. After Musk visited Auschwitz and got a tour of the kibbutzes my feeds have been full of pro-Israeli propaganda. Probably the algo has been tweaked and Israel are paying royally for the privilege.

BTW you have just shared the unedited photo as well. Maybe follow your own advice and respect the family by not sharing the image ? Just a thought.

Honest Reporting - a pro-Israeli pressure group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HonestReporting Following a 2004 article published in the British Medical Journal which criticised Israel for a high level of Palestinian civilian casualties and claimed that the pattern of injuries suggested routine targeting of children in situations of minimal or no threat, the journal received over 500 responses to its website and nearly 1,000 sent directly to its editor. In an analysis of the responses published in the journal, Karl Sabbagh concluded that the correspondence was orchestrated by Honest Reporting and aimed at silencing legitimate criticism of Israel. In his analysis Sabbagh pointed to evidence that the correspondents had not read the article. Sabbagh also documented a significant proportion of offensive, abusive and racist insults among the correspondence. An editorial by the BMJ referred to the campaign as bullying and said that the best way to counter such behaviour was to expose it to public scrutiny

Israel deliberately bombed AP's office in Gaza btw. They did give a warning, but that's who Israel are they don't want journalist covering their crimes. https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7

Every time you see an image or video of the Twin Towers coming down you are watching the violent immolation of 3000 souls with many 10s of thousands of people who lost their loved ones who must find those images too cruel to bear. When 'history' happens to you, your image belongs to history. Sad to say, but true nevertheless. Strange that you pearl clutch over this, but have nothing to say about the thousands of twisted corpses of Palestinians. There is an iconic image of half a child hanging from a fence that has been widely shared on social media. I won't share it here, but it is truly shocking and stands as a bloody testament as to what happens when you drop a megatonnage of high explosive bombs on some of the most crowded places on earth. There are no good guys any more in this war. Just millions that are suffering seemingly without end. The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience. Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable. When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them. Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions: Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness. Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence. Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.

You didn't answer my question ? And haven't you paused to reflect that the image evokes sympathy in the viewer, not celebration, or are you incapable of universal, unconditional empathy ?

Here are all the photos - including one's showing Israel suffering and designed to invoke sympathy in the viewer not celebrating the act. They are amazing photos that give an insight into the fractured human condition. Who could forget the poor girl injured by a napalm attack in the Vietnam War, one of the great iconic photos of the 20th Century. Israeli media widely shared that image at the time, did you criticise that at the time ? https://apnews.com/article/photos-2023-yearend-photography-ap-0a62ee84672da7a03685c5f5f64f2c47

They were there in the 80s selling crack in front of the station, if anything the situation is better these days than then. But please stay on topic !

Western governments are not supporting and aiding the parties in that conflict which isn't on topic. I'm surprised thread master Brian hasn't popped along to tell you stay on topic !

This thread is called Israel is at war. The Daily Mail, probably the most right wing pro-Israel newspaper in the UK (and the most popular news website in the world) shows the horrors unfolding at a Palestinian hospital - those hospitals that Israel have been mercilessly bombing for months. I get it Palestinians lives don't matter, and we are all anti-Semitic. Just say that and we're all straight. Amelek does as Amelek is. It was stated quite explicitly at the outset. Netanyahu is bringing down the whole house on himself and the state. [2] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. [3] Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

The evil that men do. Quite horrific and if papers like the Daily Mail are printing this just how bad is the situation. Pariah state indeed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13248883/Just-skin-bone-starving-Gaza-toddlers-kept-incubators-human-rights-chief-warns-Israel-guilty-war-crime-cut-food-aid.html

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