Isn’t the criticism directed at the headline?
magnet
4522
Yes, which makes the criticism dumb. Headlines are not meant to be a complete report. They often rely on common knowledge, eg “Brangelina” refers to two people and missile attacks on Gaza are regularly launched by Israel.
There are various articles these days with unremarkable headlines like “Fighting escalates in Eastern Ukraine”. If for some reason you don’t already know who the belligerents there are, you can read the article to find out.
In fact, here is another headline from today:
“Rockets target Tel Aviv after Gaza tower destroyed”? Huh, I wonder who could have launched those rockets? Was it North Korea??
Finally, insinuating that Reuters is afraid that people might read their own article is ridiculous.
Now that’s smart. You’re guaranteed a bunch of credulous condemnation of your enemies from people that didn’t bother to look at the details (see basically all of Twitter).
So Israel knew Hamas was in there? Why not just go in and get them? Why bomb the whole building down?
According to a spokes person, they had research and development in that building and planning.
According to the President of the AP, they had no way to confirm that was the case and despite being in the building for several years, never made any connection that the building was being used that way.
They did note that it would hinder reporting in the region though.
Seems like a win win for the Israeli military, no matter what.
You’ve never heard of the passive voice criticism ? Normally it’s how people just happen to die after with cops.
“Man dies after encounter with police”
The cruelty and ethnic cleansing is the point.
While much of the US is distracted by anti-lockdown, this is the first time I’ve seen a majority of Democrats truly feel like Israel are the bad guys.
We’ll never convince the Republicans to turn on Israel, but if we get the Dems to do it, Israel’s in trouble- they’ll lose their support eventually. This is the only thing that I can see stopping the Israelis from eventually doing forced deportations and quasi-genocidal actions whenever they want more land.
magnet
4528
Ok, but this isn’t an example of that. The cause of destruction is explicit: a missile strike. The origin of the missiles striking Gaza is absent because it’s common knowledge.
Just like the origin of the rockets targeting Israel in the BBC headline, or in this one:
Does it make any sense at all to criticize the Times of Israel for “not even daring to say the name” of Hamas?
Did anyone ever consider that Israel got its intelligence wrong or is flat out lying?
Not sure if that was a rhetorical question, but yes. It will be interesting to see what, if any, evidence is produced.
Timex
4531
What would the motivation for that be?
To sit down the press coverage? That’s clearly not going to result from this, and no reasonable person would expect it to.
So why would Israel lie about this? Because they enjoy having a bunch of additional international condemnation? That doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Noman
4532
For Netanyahu, anything would make sense, if it helps him and his band of thugs form a government finally.
Timex
4533
Did bombing the press office somehow help that? I don’t think it does.
jostly
4534
Why did the Trump administration lie about almost everything? That didn’t make a lot of sense either.
While I agree that it does not seem rational that they would lie about it, I also think it’s a huge mistake to expect people to behave rationally in matters where the stakes are so high. That’s just not how most people work.
Noman
4535
Bombing the shit out of Gaza in any way possible and murdering people (correction - defending Israel’s sovereign rights and hitting back smartly) does help.
I don’t know. Destroying all the equipment and resources of those who are reporting on Israeli bombings would make it a lot easier for Israel to do more heinous things and get away with it. Even people on this forum don’t give credence to Palestinian and cell phone coverage unless the AP reports it.
I’m not sure that, in practice, pissing off the press is actually in anyone’s best interest. However, I can certainly see it looking good on paper to an authoritarian.
I had no idea which side you were talking about until I read further.
Oh, I’m sure the GOP and alt-righties are cheering over it.
Absolutely no doubt. They’d be perfectly happy to blow up the press for its own sake, after all. I don’t think they’d give them an hour’s warning, either.
Timex
4540
Because trump was grossly incompetent at every level. I don’t think this is the case with the IDF.
But the IDF didn’t destroy all their equipment. The IDF warned them, and they moved a bunch of their equipment out.
The AP has, obviously, not stopped reporting on Gaza.
