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magic_hamsterlast Thursday at 9:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th. Israel is not a weak country but it has definitely been tested in the amount of pain it suffered.


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dragonwriterlast Thursday at 9:53 PM

> Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th.

It's pretty clear that a substantial number of them were killed by the Israeli military in the course of its deliberate war crime of indiscriminate attack with civilians in the line of fire under the "Hannibal Directive". Investigations by Israeli and Western media and numerous Israeli (both military sources and civilian witnesses) accounts support this.

Its gotten relatively little play in US media specifically, but US media acts as a propaganda arm of the IDF and the Israeli government as much (even more, arguably) than it does for the domestic military and police forces, ignoring damaging stories, and when it can't completely ignore them using exonerative and passive voice framing to avoid attributing effects to the actors and actions causing them.

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