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10 months agoThey were invaded on day one of their state’s existence. This kind of thing tends to throw a wrench into things.
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Would you use respectful terms for the leaders of a terrorist group?
Fascinating and insightful episode. Thank you so much!
I wouldn’t call it freedom. If she’s treated like other “security threats” within China, then she does not have freedom to travel. She’s likely limited to her city at most, perhaps even just a small area within and has to regularly report to local police. Think of it like probation for people convicted of actual crimes in the West, except without court order, for an unlimited amount of time and with the constant threat of being tortured/disappeared looming over her head. If Xi ever feels like tightening the thumb screws on the Chinese people even further, she’d probably feel the effects before many others. All of this comes with social consequences, as many friends and business partners will be scared away.
To touch on one point mentioned in the article, I think the release of the tax revenue should come with clear conditions. The PA has a massive martyr’s fund that they are using to pay out the relatives of those killed, injured or imprisoned in the conflict, primarily terrorists. They are paying out hundreds of millions each year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund
The withheld amount is much smaller than this fund. It would make no sense to allow this to continue, since the very same PA that wants to administer Gaza after this war is over is also heavily financially supporting and incentivizing continued violence.
Germany already agreed to paying over a billion in 2021:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this nonsense from the Namibian government will achieve absolutely nothing, except for driving the two countries apart again and setting back reconciliation by a considerable amount. Namibia doesn’t have anything to bargain with, which means they need the goodwill of Germany if they want more money - which they won’t get by being mock outraged over core German foreign policy principles.
The trouble is that they only have to succeed once.
DW (Deutsche Welle) is pretty good. It’s funded by the German government, but I haven’t found any faults with the reporting yet. Unlike with Qatar’s state media, there is a law preventing the German government from directly influencing the reporting. At worst, their English voice overs can be a bit clumsy at times and some of their English language stories are of relatively little relevance to an international audience.
It is worth noting that their Arabic-language team has come under fire for antisemitism in the past (similar to a recent scandal at the BBC), so even they are unfortunately not perfect.
As for Al-Jazeera (edit: and sorry for writing such a long comment, this wasn’t originally planned), there have been a number of occasions of their journalists cutting off citizens in Gaza the moment they started to criticize Hamas and/or Qatar. Two examples:
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1724696674763719162
https://www.memri.org/tv/jazeera-reporter-gaza-prevents-criticism-of-qatar-turkey
Earlier in this war, when a rocket from a Hamas-aligned group struck the parking lot of a hospital, Al-Jazeera spread the lie that it was an Israeli air strike, even though the breakup of the rocket launched from Gaza could be seen on their live stream. They later switched to a questionable analysis that claimed the Iron Dome had intercepted the rocket over Gaza, even though that’s impossible, since the Iron Dome neither extends over the strip nor intercepts rockets during their boost phase.
Analysis:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/21/gaza-hospital-explosion-00122889
This kind of reporting has consequences. Al-Jazeera’s Arabic language content in particular - which is far different in tone compared to the more moderate English-language edition - has an enormous reach in the Middle East. In this case, the misleading at best reporting resulted in riots and antisemitic pogroms in several Middle Eastern and North African countries, including the torching of a synagogue.
Israel has also accused several of their journalists of working directly for Hamas. While they have presented evidence, these accusations have been met with heavy criticism, although notably primarily by people and organizations already critical of the Israeli government.
IDF claim:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-781666
Counter reaction:
The fact that at the funeral of this journalist, Saleh Aljafarawi, a man known for his many roles and clear connection with Hamas was front and center does support the IDF claim though (first from the left kneeling down):
In case you are not familiar with him, here he is singing a Hamas propaganda song in uniform:
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1723492449157288062
I’m not saying that every journalist killed by the IDF is automatically a terrorist or that the company any of them keep, in life and death, is evidence of wrongdoing, but the whole thing is definitely odd.
Al Jazeera though has been dubious at best for decades already. I recall that even all the way back in the early 2000s, they were being regularly criticized for uncritically broadcasting terrorist propaganda.
Can we please stop posting a propaganda outlet that is financed and controlled by the same government that is also sponsoring Hamas?
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I went through the trouble of tracking the publication down:
https://i.imgur.com/xvTBSm3.png
In more readable form:
J-10A: 220 J-10B: 55 J-10C: 220 J-10S: 70 Total: 565According to the source used by both lists, the numbers in the second list are complete nonsense. It’s not just limited to this plane and its variants though. J-11 numbers are also wrong, even though they also cite this source. I corrected these two and might go over the rest of the list later.
No. I’m honestly trying to educate, even though I’m absolutely disgusted by your comments. None of what I wrote is inaccurate and by my own standards, this is not a very long comment either. If that’s too much reading for you to the point that you feel overwhelmed, then that’s your problem and I hope that at least someone else can get some use out of it.
Do you have any actual arguments or are you just going to hide behind this platitude? Imagine having the audacity to tell Jews that the hatred, discrimination and violence they are experience isn’t real. Would you do the same with POC or LGBTQ+ people? Deny their suffering outright, because it doesn’t fit into your narrative?
They desperately want to stage their own Pearl Harbor, don’t they? I doubt it’ll go any better for them.
They have over 3500 aircraft, although a large percentage of them are outdated and almost all of the types used, except for a relatively small number of Russian imports, are untested in combat. Their operational history is universally one of accidents and/or dangerous provocations. Expect even the latest types, which appear modern on paper, to lag at least a generation or more behind any current Western designs in actual capabilities.
It also doesn’t help that there is no institutional knowledge due to a complete lack of combat experience anywhere in the PLAAF, that Chinese military pilots are poorly trained and that China appears to have no ability to deal with American countermeasures and tactics, as evidenced for example by their chaotic and unsuccessful attempt at intercepting Nancy Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan.
What’s this then?
And this?
And this?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_23_5527
Did some PR firm buy all of these different independent organizations and journalists - or are you just using a variety of the old antisemitic accusation of a Jewish controlled press and institutions?
Are you going to deny all of this evidence? Don’t you think that many so-called “pro-Palestinian” protests just happen to be staged in Jewish quarters by coincidence?
https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/10/pro-palestinian-march-faces-backlash-route-amsterdam-jewish-quarter
Do you think there’s nothing to the fact that Jews are routinely harassed at these protests?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67328715
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/antisemitism-unstable-world-analysis/index.html
Tell me what a Jewish restaurant has to do with the state of Israel:
These people heard rumors of Jews on a plane and wanted to kill them:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67258332
The first “pro-Palestine” protests were on October 7, before even the first Israeli bomb had been bombed in response, as terrorists were still busy slaughtering civilians in Israel:
The BDS movement put out a statement that celebrated the murder of Israeli civilians:
https://i.imgur.com/pXwABqt.jpg
And so on and so forth.
Explain to me why you are denying the rise in global antisemitism. Why are you denying facts?
This isn’t Israeli propaganda, it’s just journalism. Times of Israel isn’t a government outlet and the rise in global antisemitism and violence against Jews is undeniable.
The only thing that’s threatened by US military bases are their imperial ambitions in the region. There’s a reason why even Vietnam is seeking US protection. You know that the US isn’t going to attack China first.
eighty kids per actual Hamas
Are you for real?
No, Taiwan is not a producer of lithium. It does however host the leading and most important semiconductor fabs in the world. A war would have catastrophic consequences, given that everyone depends on chips from the island nation.
Stop would be ordering Israel to not continue their war. This is more of a “feel free to continue, but behave yourself” order.