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Alan Ireland's avatar

Brings the widespread attitude to the pager attacks in Lebanon to mind. If pagers exploded in the pockets of doctors, that was okay because, well, the doctors were working in "Hezbollah hospitals".

Triple Cheddar's avatar

“CNN has established that, before the war in Gaza, Al-Sharif worked for a Hamas media team in the strip.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/middleeast/anas-al-sharif-al-jazeera-reporter-intl

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World Central Kitchen (WCK) condemns Hamas terrorists for posing as WCK employees:

“WCK was contacted by Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), and confirmed the vehicle and persons of interest were not affiliated with WCK. We strongly condemn anyone posing as WCK or other humanitarians as this endangers civilians and aid workers. The safety and security of our teams are our top priority.”

https://x.com/WCKitchen/status/1955316399846437138

Donald Biden's avatar

The reason why Israel makes these claims that Palestinian journalists work for Hamas etc, and that why the western journalists accept such claims without any question is because almost all western and Israeli journalists are working for the M0ssad / C1A / M16. They cannot imagine any Palestinian journalists honestly doing their work.

Poshlost's avatar

"Our government" is not running "our" country. Our political system has been corporately-captured and does not operate with the interests of its citizens as its primary concern. This being the case, what good is just creating another impotent party in a system in which its influence is minimal? This would simply contribute to a continuation of the status quo? Israel is just a tip of a corporate iceberg. Many governments are corporately-captured and many of those corporations have boards of directors and senior management peopled by Zionists and Zionist sympathisers. Israel is simply a manifestation of how the power of the corporations is operating in the global community. The confluence of interests is obvious? Their goals are power and control. Palestinians are simply standing in the way of their corrupt and venal enterprise and this is why governments, regardless of what their citizens are demanding, are continuing to support, facilitate and finance the genocidal ethnic cleansing that is being clearly observed by the whole global community.

Davina's avatar

Doesn't Israhell claim Palestinian babies, even newborns are Hamas? If not, give them a second or two and they will.

Miriam Beethoven's avatar

“Middle East” is a colonial term. It’s in fact West Asia.

Daemon74's avatar

It’s the end of Britain as we knew it . We’ve arrived at 1984 - finally we are here in the GuLag years of British life. A declining empire declining into grotesque autocratic rule internally and externally.

Elizabeth Chandler's avatar

Thank you so much for this post 🙏 . Here in Australia the Prime Minister has once again been dragged kicking and screaming to show some shred of humanity to Palestine and the Palestinians, by declaring that he has finally decided to recognise a Palestinian State . Again , just WORDS . No condemnation of the carefully targeted slaughter of Palestinian journalists , doctors , health workers , academics , judges , babies and children by the Zionist barbarians . As usual , the very least he can do , just in case he might offend his “valued friends “ the Zionist Israeli government . Utterly sickening and unforgivable abandonment of leadership and humanity .

Judy Bancroft's avatar

True, but imagine if we had a Coalition Government right now …we’d be helping the slaughter….

Elizabeth Chandler's avatar

Entirely correct , I agree . But Palestine , and the basic human rights of Palestinians

deserve an Australian government that has a spine , a shred of acceptable

Leadership , rather than one that goes out of its way to please America and Israel ,

merely relying on hollow platitudes , like a sock puppet .

ardy doublebee's avatar

So well written. YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT PROTECTING JOURNALISTS, reporting the facts. Trump did not protect American journalists! And he has stopped funding of public television .... As well as USAID. Not on his humanitarian list of concerns because he has no such list and neither does the Heritage Foundation. Facists don't do any "pillars on democracy actions".

Journalism is a pillar in democracy. As over 200 journalists have been killed while reporting on and in Gaza means they are reporting on extremely important events and consequences. People not wanting facts out who are killing journalists or ignoring their reports or deaths are very serious to investigate. Those who don't protect journalists are "in on it".

Check out the "Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Gaza" at:

permanentpeoplestribunal.org search : "GAZA"

They had public hearings and judges findings are telling.

U.S.A.'s President and Congresspeople are found responsible for funding genocide along with Netanyahu and Israel.

Case to go to ICJ.

Miss Tess tickle's avatar

Well, I hope israel is future ready for their new-normalised, murder is ok attitude. And that their in school self-taught “we are superior to everyone” belief holds them in good stead. Thanks Israel for being the self-professed leaders of mankind … lesson received.

Kojo's avatar

The BBC is disgusting on this in the way they frame all this, but so is Reuters, AP and many more. People in the so called west STILL do not understand that no correspondent operating inside Israel can ever tell the truth about anything the israeli govt doesnt want said. They operate under draconian censorship regulations there - and every single word and video that they send out to be published by their parent CNN, BBC, etc is pre censored by the genocidal Israeli regime. If anything at all is deemed to be a violation of the Israei regime's regulations, well that correspondent is in a gulag getting beaten or worse. So they just dont.

Any news organization reporting from inside Israel is sending you only lies and deliberate half truths. As for the ones in Gaza not under direct censorship of the genocidal regime, well as this article points out, for telling the truth they get executed.

These are the closest allies of the west. As the old saying goes show me a person's friends and I can tell you who they are. That is the real face of your governments: the israeli regime.