Interviewer:
Many people are asking: Since you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels, why haven’t you built bomb shelters, where civilians can hide during bombardment?
Mousa Abu Marzouk:
We have built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed. These tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes. We are fighting from inside the tunnels. Everybody knows that 75% of the people in the Gaza Strip are refugees, and it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them. According to the Geneva Convention, it is the responsibility of the occupation to provide them with all the services as long as they are under occupation.
This is a shit source.
Well, the original source is Russia Today, which is arguably worse. Reuters and BBC didn’t happen to take an interview with this person during his Moscow visit.
There’s another run with Al-Arabiya, Saudi iirc, where the interviewer grills the Hamas rep for doing a shit ton to hurt the cause of the Palestinian people.
People think Hamas takes interviews with western independent journalists? Maybe their propaganda arm which knows how to play down their crimes and keep the narrative going. These guys are the real ones.
Want me to share a video of this interview?
Actually yes please do.
Your link not working 😬
Might be something similar to what they were linking to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute#Reception
oops. fixed it
Not that I in any way disagree with you on that, but this made me laugh:
Guess they have a bit of pro-establishment bias themselves…
what do you mean?
I mean that their press freedom rating for the US is far too generous…
it’s mainly because the us government has a hands-off approach to reporting… unless it’s the CIA or other intelligence firms.
Except for the fact that every time there’s a Republican president (and sometimes even when there’s a Democrat one), the media have to self-censor true and important stories or risk losing access.
And of course there’s the fact that all of the biggest media outlets are pretty much on one or two political teams, which also restricts the editorial largesse.
And that’s not even counting all the CORPORATE interests making the press less free.
I maintain that"mostly free" is ridiculously generous compared to reality.
You are correct, but despite all of that, it still remains freer than most of the world. What a sick joke.
You really shouldn’t be grading something as fundamental as press freedom on a curve, though. Nobody ever became freer by pointing out that others are less free. Least of all the land of the incarcerated!
I’m not. It’s a fact that the US is freer than most of the world.