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Ok can you understand how words like "slaughter" and "massacre" may more aptly apply to the October 7th attack than to the subsequent invasion?
On one side we have a mass terror attack involving 1000+ deaths. These were often done individually, with a single terrorist targeting and shooting a person in their home. Often these were accompanied by acts of torture, rape, mutilation, and desecration of corpses. In many cases children were shot in front of their parents. Oh and several hundred people were kidnapped. This invokes words like "slaughter", "massacre", "brutal", "inhuman", "sickening", etc.
On the other side we have a large scale counterattack with huge amounts of bombing, refugee camps, and urban warfare. This invokes words like "destruction", "uninhabitable", "aggressive", "excessive", etc.
It's completely unfair to call someone biased for using different diction to describe these events.
The point your making is at best that journalists aren't biased in favor of Israel as a country, they are biased in favor of nation-state sanctioned slaughter. When a "terrorist" attacks people in their homes, that is horrific. When a nation-state levels an entire neighborhood, that's a "counterattack." The most charitable version of your argument is that these publications don't just devalue Palestinian lives, they simply devalue all civilian lives when a nation state uses indescriminate force. So long as the people doing the killing are flying a internationally recognized flag and doing that killing in an impersonal way, it is not "tragic" or "horrific" or a "slaughter." The fact that the human suffering that results is on a far greater scale is of no consequence, if a nation state does it it's fine. Your argument is arguably far worse.
But that's not what is happening here. If Russia or China had clustered two million minorities in a small walled area, and then bombed the ever living shit out of them, killing at least 10,000 women and children, displacing 90 percent of the population, cutting off food, water, and power for months at a time, do you think the NYT or WaPo would refrain from calling that a "massacre" or "slaughter" or "horrific"? Of course not, the bad guys killing civilians gets emotionally charged language. The "good guys" killing civilians is just the unavoidable consequence of a "counterattack" after a "horrific slaughter", proportionality be damned.
This article actually does a great job of quantitfying this bias, I encourage you to actually read it.
In conclusion, take your head out of your ass.
No bombing little kids with amputated legs inside a hospital is far worse. Hamas didn't shoot a single child.
What israel does is indiscriminate slaughter and Genocide.
You seem to still be repeating false propaganda from said outlets. The rape was a made up lie that has been debunked already.
October 7 was not an indiscriminate slaughter whatsoever. 1/3 of the casualties were military and that's including a huge part of the civilians were killed by the IDF, who killed them to prevent hostages being taken.
Ok mate you do you.
Crazy statement isn't it. Goes to show how much brainwashing the media has done that you find it strange.
Only 35 deaths on Oct 7 were children. And we have zero evidence of Hamas killing any of them. Much evidence of israel killing them by shelling the Kibbutzes though. And not to forget lying about it afterwards that Hamas did it.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-child-burned-completely-israeli-tank-fire-kibbutz/41706
We have plenty of evidence of Hamas gunmen sparing children too. https://youtu.be/mc5iG3DX7ho
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Ah yes, electronicintifada.net, well known for fact-based unbiased reporting. I think your tinfoil hat may be on a bit too tight, but again, you do you.
I'm sorry they're not making up rape fictions about Hamas. You're going to have to do with an article that actually has verifiable sources and evidence inside of it.
I salute your patience.
Thanks. It's the least we can do. Palestinians are being Genocided while our "reputable media" manufactures consent with articles like this
Well shit this article says some of the freedom fighters were actually raped by the festival goers, so I take that back.