A healthy democracy for sure.
Only the best democracies ban journalists. Ask anybody!
Hmmm, this smells of orange filth.
I’ve had a conspiracy theory about Netanyahu and why he’s been pushing into Gaza so hard. He and his party know that what they’re doing is unpalatable for most western liberal and left-wing voters, meaning liberals and left-wing politicians are more likely to be(come) critical and cut off aid to Israel than their right-wing counterparts. Biden, as infuriatingly slow as he is, seems to be gradually becoming less and less supportive of Israel, while iirc Trump (or at least his allies) has talked about going all-in on Gaza.
If you’re Netanyahu, the idea of your largest ally potentially dropping support and cutting off aid is a scary thing, especially when you’re surrounded by countries that want you dead. Wouldn’t you try to influence the politics of your allies to swing in your favor?
As such, I have a suspicion that Netanyahu and his party are not only using the genocide to stay in power, but also as a poison pill for western liberal and left-wing politicial allies. The intent being to make liberal allies like Biden unpalatable to their voter base so that there is a decreased liberal voter turnout to tip the scales in favor of politicians like Trump.
Or more simply, I think it’s possible Netanyahu is using Gaza to stab foreign liberal politicians in the back and skew voter turnout in favor of politicians who are less likely to grow a conscience. I think that’s why it is that every time Biden “draws a line”, Netanyahu puts his toe over it and says, “nyah, nyah, nyahnyah nyah, I’m not liisteeeeniiiiing.” It’s not just to keep himself in power, it’s also a way of influencing his allies’ elections.
Biden, as infuriatingly slow as he is, seems to be gradually becoming less and less supportive of Israel
I wonder if political reflexes go as a person ages. 🤔
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Is this a set forward or backward from their previous stance of just kill them?
You know you are on the right side of history when you censor Journalism.
Don’t you see, this is just woke fake news journalism!! (meaning, journalism I disagree with)
About as good as any other definition of the word. I feel we are a term or two away from Idiocracy .
We disagree in that I feel we’ve been there for a couple or few decades.
We’ve been there at least since Reagan.
To be fair both the US and the EU did ban Russian journalists, so it seems hypocritical to judge Israel here.
I think you took the wrong lesson from that lol
I’m against censorship in any ways, just seems hypocritical to judge Israel here when everyone does it.
The US and EU have no room to judge Israel, that’s true.
I sure as fuck can judge them, though, and I do and so should you.
“They” censor “our” view: BAD! “We” censor “their” view: sure, thats fine?
You know propaganda works both ways right? It’s maybe different extends, but i still believe dude is right and censorship is not the right way to go.
Somehow ensuring factual news would be amazing, but that would need to count for fucking everyonem…oh well one can dream…
Try reading what I said again because you clearly misunderstood it.
To be fair, the US is a piece of shit country.
State sponsored and journalist that are admired by their peers is completely different.
Can’t have them recording information about their genocide.
What was the prompt?
Netanyahu is Hitler
A sign of weakness for sure
Well this inspires confidence in the Netanyahu Administration.
Unfortunately it’s nothing new. They’ve already banned journalists in any place they could get anything revealing human rights abuses. If anything it’s a portent of further Likud-led fascism cracking down hard within the borders of Israel itself.
This is what fascist dictatorships do. Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.
Only wants to hear how great israel is
“But I did not do anything, because I am not a journalist, and neither are they, really, and the thing they wear on their head is really dumb, unlike the thing we wear on our heads.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An Al Jazeera correspondent on its Arabic service said the order would affect the broadcaster’s operations in Israel and in east Jerusalem, where it has been doing live shots for months since the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
The decision threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza, along with Egypt and the United States.
Relations took a major downturn nearly two years ago when Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout the war, broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and accusing Israel of massacres.
While Al Jazeera’s English operation often resembles the programming found on other major broadcast networks, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.
Sunday’s development immediately recalled Egypt’s shutdown of Al Jazeera after the country’s 2013 military takeover following mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group.
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