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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This morning I could hardly find a headline to confirm Israel invaded Lebanon. Everything was about how scary Iran is.

What the fucking fuckery fuck media? How is Iran's response to Israel's invasion more important than Israel invading? I shouldn't have to dig for 20 minutes to confirm something like that.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saw plenty of headlines about the invasion of Lebanon. It just happened first, so the newer headlines would be about the thing that just happened

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These things happened hours apart. And many of the stubs behind the Iran headlines made no mention of why they would fire missiles at Israel. After today I won't be surprised when we start getting people in here who think Iran fired for no reason and Israel hasn't invaded Lebanon. It was an absolute failure of news media.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm not defending the media by any stretch, just that both events got some coverage.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah I'm just mad because they know the timing matters. They know the words they use matter. We've heard them talk about this exact kind of failing in the Iraq war and covering Trump. And now we're right back there again, breathlessly repeating the administration and their ally. Calling it a "limited ground operation". They know that first impression matters and there's a whole group of people who now think Israel got rocketed for terrorist hunting.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No invasion from any media I saw.

Just an incursion

[–] Blackmist 8 points 1 month ago

Read better media. And it's not like the BBC is particularly progressive on this.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago

Sounds like something an antisemite would say! Why do you hate jews instead of the barbarian brown people, antisemite?

/s

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[–] twinnie 48 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I don’t know if things are different in the US but I haven’t seen much indifference to the bombing of Palestine. I’ve seen an awful lot of mention of children killed, etc.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The republican party is pushing bills through the lower branch that enshrine real antisemitism through Zionism. That's where US media and politics are at regarding the genocide.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

They're somewhat different. Our news media doesn't properly question our security agencies (they basically stopped doing this after 9/11), and Israel is our strongest Middle East alley, so they tend to present the Israeli narrative of the war with little or no scrutiny. That being said, given the sheer amount of destruction and death caused by the Israeli bombings, our media really can't ignore the suffering of the Palestinians this time. They're still far too deferential to Israel's justification for the suffering, but they're not ignoring.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Have you heard about them bombing Lebanon yesterday though, or even for the last few months? It got a passing mention and only in the context of "this might cause Iran to respond". And there's a few more flags on that picture.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

This depends a lot on where you are. This is a heavily partisan issue so you'll likely find rural Republicans who haven't seen many people IRL who have issues with the bombing of Palestine.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because the entire western world seemingly has to tip toe around Israel and let them get away with whatever they want because of some collective shame and empathy Europe and America still feel for something that happened before most people in Israel today were ever born...

The holocaust was bad...yeah. But the fact that that tragedy somehow gives the state of Israel an unlimited pass in perpetuity to be assholes is just wrong.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The holocaust was used as something with which it was somehow immoral to compare other genocides in the 00s. Thus as a tool to make those more acceptable, cause no ongoing genocide can be as bad as the holocaust, or so pro-Israeli organizations say.

That was its only role.

While the David&Goliath narrative in the 70s and 80s was used to make Israel infallible in public opinion, paving the path for Israeli intelligence widely penetrating western governments and structures.

But even this wouldn't be critical, if not for the West becoming more authoritarian gradually. Notice how the ruling structures in the West have been becoming less and less mobile, the key figures fewer and fewer, less and less transparent, and also older and older, and the concepts of right, law, constitutional law, common sense and natural right fuzzier and weaker, surrendering the reality to fallback mechanisms - as in raw power.

The less transparent a structure is, the easier it can be controlled by blackmail, personal interests and deals that the public wouldn't want if it knew about them.

Say, about USSR in the 80s - the stereotypic picture of it being some geriatric non-transparent bureacratic warmongering state with fascist policies and degrading society, - it's correct. The problem is - it just aged faster. The West was simply late by a couple decades. Those components of USSR's collapse were not conditioned by totalitarian communism in any way. Just in the West late boomers are in power, while USSR was ruled by the last pre-war generation.

Israel is just one symptom.

So this can't be solved by any conformism, arguing by the rules, proving things in courts, voting in elections. Only by bravery, strength and taking responsibility backed only by what you want and your own decision, no law, rule or vote.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago

"Erm akshurally, did those civilians condemn Hummus" ☝️🤓

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

“waaa the consequences of my actions!”

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not true. In my country they reported on all of it. I've been reading and watching along.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you like not read the news ever?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The funny thing is AP is actually also a primary source distributor, so they actually provide their reporting to thousands of media outlets so they can report the details. Unfortunately, because news outlets these days are focused on profits, we get stuff like this:

Kinda stupid when you consider more people probably read NYT than AP and Reuters combined, despite it being a secondary source. Or they go watch/read even more biased things on stuff like Fox.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All but one of those articles are a decade old, and they’re all op-eds, not news articles per se.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Don't be mad when opinion articles express peoples opinions. All the other shown articles are a decade old and/or opinion articles. There is room to complain, so why not do it accurately?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Israel and Iran going for a real war, would make the currently bad situation even worse. However it does come with the advantage that both countries might get rid of their shitty leaders.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

I don't think that's true. Because Biden won't be able to resist. We'll have US troops on the ground and he'll still be saying Hamas is blocking the peace process.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Israel and Iran going for a real war, would make the currently bad situation even worse.

For who? It'll create more bad situations, but the currently bad situation in Palestine will get better, if anything. I know everyone is afraid of an all out war in the Middle East but in the long term it's one possible way to collapse the status quo and make way for a more sustainable future for the region. War is bad, but it's not worse than a warmonger getting to steamroll everyone else and Israel needs to regain the fear of God (and their neighbors) before there's ever a chance for peace. Egypt and Syria proved it in opposite directions in 1973.

Edit: A weaker Iran would also help countries like Lebanon and Iran gain some real independence (and turn the tide against Assad); they're definitely not sinless here.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are anti war protests in Israel against Netanyahu since Hamas attack on the October 7th. As soon as the fighting ends an new election will be called and Netanyahu is probably going to loose that one. That would mean a more moderate government for Israel and the chance for a deal with the PLO. However a war with Iran delays this and we know what is going on in Palestine right now.

A weaker Iran might help, but the way of getting rid of Iran as a problem is a revolution within Iran. I doubt a war against Israel would help with that.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

There are anti war protests in Israel against Netanyahu since Hamas attack on the October 7th.

Yes, but not for the reasons you think. The overwhelming majority of Israelis have absolutely no issue with the violence being inflicted upon Palestinians (I can link a source). The right wing keeps growing in Israel, and was even before the war. The protests are happening because even as a genocidal fascist Netanyahu is failing in the Israeli goal of destroying Hamas's ability to wage war (surprise surprise) and bringing the hostages home (more surprise). The government that comes after this won't have Likud, but it'll still be a far right one. Settlements will keep getting built, we'll still have people like "I consider my life's mission to be preventing the creation of a Palestinian state" Smotrich, Gazans will still be forced to live in an open air concentration camp, etc etc. A deal with the PLO is fucking impossible, both because Israel won't get a more moderate government and because the PLO is dead. Mahmoud Abbas is a corrupt Israeli puppet and everyone knows it; even Biden admits the PLO will need to be reformed before they can be trusted to run anything.

TL;DR: Even after the next election, don't expect any good faith peace action from Israel. It won't happen; we've seen this movie before.

A weaker Iran might help, but the way of getting rid of Iran as a problem is a revolution within Iran. I doubt a war against Israel would help with that.

I mean if they're weakened by the war they won't be able to give as much Hezbollah and Syria weapons. That has to count for something.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they able to delay elections based on the status of their military engagements? That’s seems like a big problem with their democracy…

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

No elections are scheduled to be held in October 2026, but the coaltion is very likely going to break as soon as the war ends.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly, can’t have and lose a new election if the warring never ends.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Replace the Israeli flag on top with an American flag and t this is more accurate. Americans moralizing about invasions and unjust wars lol

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

because when it is done against white people, fear mongering works better in western countries. also lobbies

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[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 month ago

I beg to differ. Channel 4 News is one of the media outlets that is more critical of Israel then any other media I know of while still beeing focused on facts. I can only recommend it though if you are prepared to see dead bodies and utterly despaired people who just lost family members.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hate agreeing with a troll, but here we are stomping through a field of broken clocks.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Ozma is anything but a troll. They're highly consistent in their political beliefs, and generally knows the topics they post about. Not everyone you disagree with is a troll or a foreign agent.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
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