• Snurge@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Journalism is when you leave a few dots unconnected for the reader as a fun little puzzle.

    Netanyahu didn’t just let the attacks happen, we also know he funded Hamas, and has wanted the attack to use as casus belli so he could do some fucked up war crimes of his own. Netanyahu is a far right extremists who has been paying some fucked up laws, like using live ammo on protestors. He’s a fascist, plain and simple.

    Edit: I’m gonna leave these typos in place, just let it be known I wrote this with sleep still in my eyes.

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      7 months ago

      The few dots you refer to sound like the “speculation part” which I am very thankful is not included in the article. The news itself is disturbing, but your theory sounds very much like conspiracy theory. However I am open to be proved wrong, as I am not that much into israeli politics.

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        The “funding” was confirmed by him from a past speech. Funding is in quotes because it wasn’t all direct funding, and that particular speech was about him signing off on a transfer of funds from someone else to Hamas. But the underlying motivation is still accurate because… that’s what he said the reason was. He said he wanted Hamas to have more funding so they would rise in power and keep the people divided.

        The rest of it is stuff that can never be proved in favor or against unless you can read minds. However, it seems more than likely if you take into account the wider history of him, his party, and the region.

        On the other side of this you have years of massive protests within Israel by Israeli citizens, and ongoing criminal and corruption charges against him and his associates within Israel.

        A violent war would help him, and that’s not a conspiracy

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      7 months ago

      Journalism is when you leave a few dots unconnected for the reader as a fun little puzzle.

      I just wanna say, no. Journalism is presenting the objective facts and letting the audience decide for themselves how to react.

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        7 months ago

        It’s it really that hard to believe that members of the ruling class would conspire to enact their own will and interest?

        History is spotted with blood spilled by consequence of rulers doing exactly this.

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      7 months ago

      I guess there is the old “never assign to malice what can be adequately be explained by stupidity” to consider.

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          7 months ago

          I’d say never rule out just stupid. Even when you try and make something idiot proof, nature just invents a better idiot. Conspiracies are hard to hold together as people are leaky. I find easier to believe in mass stupidity than mass conspiracies.

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            7 months ago

            I believe in mass stupidity, but also specific evil. People like Netanyahu don’t need to plan everything out, they just react very consistently to opportunities to be cruel, which incidentally creates more opportunities to react.