https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/27/israel-defence-forces-most-moral-soldiers-in-the-world/

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn’t seem any more spiteful and misleading – the slippage into the mainstream of slurs like “genocide” and “famine”, for instance, neither of which are remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza – a story breaks that destroys all my remaining confidence that such outlets will cover the war impartially.

  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    6 months ago

    And it’s not just theoretical: the IDF’s morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other “aid” funds. Hamas operates via an outstandingly well-constructed tunnel network bigger than the whole London Underground.

    God that first sentence. What an unserious person.

    Hamas’s whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields and as many brutal tricks as possible, such as those that have resulted in IDF soldiers firing on their own and on aid workers.

    No, she doesn’t explain how they were tricked into shooting aid workers or themselves.

    But according to one analysis earlier this year, even if we accept the terror group’s statistics, for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed.

    She doesn’t even bother linking the analysis. Is this a poorly thought out reddit comment that got too big for the character count?

    • nightshade [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      6 months ago

      for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed

      They’re claiming that a full 40% of the 40,000+ deaths so far were combatants. What a coincidence that it’s almost exactly the percentage you’d get if you counted every “military aged male” as a combatant.

    • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money

      NETANYAHU’S GOVERNMENT LITERALLY FUNDED HAMAS FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS projection

      YOU FUCKJING FUCK!!!1