Comment by verisimi

2 years ago

In war, the first casualty is the truth.

We have no idea whether this story itself is relaying anything of value. For all we know, stories like this could be a part of the war effort.

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ahmadss  2 years ago

What does that even mean? 972 is a local Israeli outfit, with contributors from Israel and Palestine. They have sources within the IDF, sources who may be center-left leaning and are "done" with how the far-right coalition is running this war and they are blowing the whistle on this practice.

  • edanm  2 years ago

    972 is very far left, at least compared to the standard Israeli position, I believe. I'm happy they're reporting, but they have a very obvious bias, and I'd take anything they say with a huge amount of caution.

    • FireBeyond  2 years ago

      > 972 is very far left, at least compared to the standard Israeli position, I believe.

      Netanyahu, who has been PM of Israel on 3 occasions, for 16 years, and was one of the people responsible for a policy of funding and arming Hamas (so Israel didn't have to answer awkward questions like "Arafat and the PLO are willing to come to the peace table and make a two state solution work, why aren't you?"), figuring it better to have an extremist opponent than a moderating one is categorized as being from very right wing to extreme right wing.

      So I would say that the very vast majority of reporting is probably left to far left of Netanyahu and his party position. That doesn't obviously discount their remarks, let alone your implication that by default, we should assume their words might not be accurate.

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    • whearyou  2 years ago

      Given what you’re saying is recognized throughout the Jewish world, your downvotes indicate a serious predispositions for the visitors of this forum