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CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand ⋆ The Breach (breachmedia.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't have a dog in this fight. I see wrongs being done by both sides in this decades-old war. The self-censorship I am seeing taking place at all kinds of institutions and organizations in the richest democracies is quite alarming. This is the kind of atmosphere people under authoritarian rules live in - speaking as someone who's lived in those types of places. Not a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And comments like this show the damage done by such whitewashed reporting. The most documented genocide in history is happening before our eyes and Canadians "don't have a dog in this fight."

Note that 'authoritarian' tendencies only need to become visible when the people broadly turn against the ruling class. It's like Ford's "any colour you want, as long as it's black." Sounds like freedom until you start demanding a red one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Exactly this, Canadians have been shown whitewashed news for so long, to the point where we are witnessing the destruction of Gaza but care not to even lift a finger, I'm ashamed to be Canadian.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lol, "most documented genocide" where the civilian:combatant death ratio is on the low end compared to other wars and the population supposedly being genocided for the last 50-60 years has more than doubled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Since the start of the Israeli operation, more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, including over 15,000 children and 10,000 women. Over 10,000 others are missing and presumed trapped under rubble. Nearly all of the strip's 2.3 million Palestinian population has been forcibly displaced, and a lesser number of Israelis internally displaced. Israel's tightened blockade cut off basic necessities and its attacks on infrastructure have led to a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, including a collapse of the healthcare system and an impending famine. By early 2024, Israeli forces had damaged or destroyed more than half of Gaza's houses, at least a third of its tree cover and farmland, most of its schools and universities, hundreds of cultural landmarks, and dozens of cemeteries.

We don’t know how many of the Palestinians killed were part of Hamas.

[–] zaph 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is like seeing a kid take another kid's pencil and the other kid shoots the thief and you say "both did wrong here." Sure, technically. But one did way more wrong, no?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

And then you remember that the pen was actually the former's and the latter stole it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

Try millennia-old war, the last 50-60 years is only the most recent flare-up