Comment by notaustinpowers
2 years ago
The free flow of information and lack of government control over access to that information. Much of the early Iraq war and even, to an extent, conflicts with ISIS and Yemen had the benefit of those citizens not having access to the internet. So any information many American citizens were getting was filtered through what the military allowed to be known, then further filtered by the news.
With Palestine and Israel, we were able to see it with our own eyes. I remember specifically watching TikToks of a teenage girl in Gaza posting about the evacuations, hearing the bombs in the background, etc. It felt "real" to us, which is a terrible way to put it, but I believe that is why the protests are much larger than other conflicts.
I remember quite a lot of footage from ISIS around the internet. The difference was that mainstream media didn’t pick them up. Nor there was a widespread support to ISIS. Even though both ISIS was similar to Hamas and dealing with ISIS was as brutal as Gaza invasion with many collaterals.
There were lots of videos from ISIS, but there wasn't much, if any, coming from the citizens of Iraq or Syria. But we're seeing a lot of videos, photos, messages, etc coming from the citizens of Gaza.
We, as a world, are seeing civilian life and casualties during a war in near real-time. This is something that many of us have never experienced before.
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