Bilal went out to harvest his olives, an Israeli settler shot him
Bilal went out to harvest his olives, an Israeli settler shot him
An Israeli settler shot Palestinian Bilal Saleh in the chest as he and his family were harvesting their olives.
Palestinian Bilal Saleh was shot in the chest by an Israeli settler as he was harvesting his olive trees in al-Sawiya, occupied West Bank.
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Al Jazeera is an awful source. They're owned by Qatar politicians, the same who send money and house Hamas leaders. The same that met with media mongrels during Fifa.
Anything that comes out from Qatar should be taken with a grain of salt.
I mean true enough but are you really surprised Israeli settlers are shooting innocent Palestinians? This has been the case for more than 40 years.
I mean, it almost certainly happened.
But if I posted an article from Russia Today about how smoking's bad for you, that wouldn't make Russia Today a reliable source.
Good propaganda mixes truths with lies.
nah, im not surprised. just think should be using better sources
Al Jazeera are a rather quality news source, up there with some of the best for sure.
And they’re no more biased towards their owner’s interests than any other source.
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Al Jazeera are a rather quality news source, up there with some of the best for sure.
You didn't read the their mediabiascheck profile then. They're decently reputable when it's something that's unrelated to Qatar, but once as something is Qatar, all their quality goes out the window.
That's far from what you said in your first comment. Also, just because the source has a bias doesn't mean that everything it says is a lie. In particular, this article includes video of Palestinian farmers being chased out of their fields by settlers.
So use an unbiased source that's reporting on it and encourage neutrality with media consumption.
an unbiased source
I don't think that the extraterrestrials are sharing news with humans.
And if they WERE reporting on us, every other article would start with a paragraph explaining how stupid we are as a species in spite of having so many excellent individuals amongst us 🤷
Apes together dumb.
Absolutely.
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Both Russia Today and Reuters are biased. Only someone who's being disingenious or an idiot, would claim that means they're equally biased or that it's somehow close.
Same thing for Al-Jazeera. Posting an Al-Jazeera link and/or defending their journalistic integrity, undermines any argument you then proceed to make.
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Al-Jazeera isn't anti-Israel. It's pro-Islamist/Hamas. Even the Palestinian authority in the West Bank has complained about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
Oh, and before you continue to make excuses for Hamas and pro-Hamas media like Al-Jazeera:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
Hamas is arguably an Israeli creation, something Al-Jazeera won't mention. Netenyahu and others helped them grow strong, so they could divide the Palestinian cause, and had an excuse not to negotiate.
So for years Al-Jazeera was effectively helping Israel's far right. People who aren't entirely unhappy with the Hamas attacks, as it gave them an excuse to start a full blown war and probable annexation.
It's ok. You wouldn't be the first to fall into that trap. It happened to plenty of people after Iraq, where they grew critical of western media, but then uncritically fell for Russia Today's narrative.
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Al-Jazeera has a pro-Islamist/pro-Hamas bias, not just according to what you would likely call pro-Israeli media, but according to Arab governments and the Palestinian Authority.
The articles I cited, simply point out that Hamas is an Israeli creation. Something Al-Jazeera is unlikely to mention, because they're biased. You claim to be against genocide, but you're defending Al-Jazeera, often pro-Hamas and pro-Qatar media that have directly furthered the agenda of the Israeli far right. An agenda which resulted in the continued opression of the Palestinian people.
But I suppose if Netenyahu were to read your comments, and those of others, he would thank you. You agree with him that the part the Israeli right played in the rise of Hamas isn't relevant. Because to admit that, would be to admit you were wrong about Al-Jazeera being biased in favour of Qatar/Hamas rather than actually being pro-Palestinian.
Netenyahu would also secretely applaud all the people posting these biased sources or defending them. If they actually cared about Palestinians, they'd use more reputable sources, so that they would convince more people of their argument. Instead they use biased sources that are undermine the argument they're making.
You didn't even read my comment.
Literally said that in the second sentence of two sentences.
hey now you edited your comment, don't play that game
I’m pretty sure I didn’t?
You didn't. Your post was edited, 4 hours ago. Their response was 2 hours ago, so they should have seen that edit before they posted. They might be on mobile and only see the "edited" indicator, not the "how long ago" note?
wouldn't surprise me if it was instance buggery
So their edit was made on kbim but not picked up by sh.itjust.works until after you made your comment? Maybe. I dunno. Lemmy is a bit of a black box to me sometimes.
Al Jazeera are a rather quality news source, up there with some of the best for sure.
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
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No, you also actually need to read the article.
Now compare that to say the BBC.
Anything that comes out from Qatar should be taken with a grain of salt.
And anything that you say should be taken with a shipping container's worth of it.
whoa that's a lot!
The network’s anchors and reporters have hewn closely to Hamas’s preferred vocabulary for the conflict, speaking about “resistance fighters” battling against an “occupation army.” One of Al Jazeera’s most prominent journalists, Majed Abdulhadi, celebrated Hamas’s attack as it happened by reciting a kind of prose poem: after rhapsodizing at length about the astonished surprise of an Israeli soldier who was captured in his tank, Abdulhadi concluded that, “in one fell swoop,” the assault had “wiped away dark layers of despair.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-hamas-propaganda-war
Read that and then read some of the comments here.
Edit: man, people really don’t like hearing the truth hu?