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I'm not sure what your point is, are we still comparing to zimbabwe, or nazis, or what?

You've made your views pretty clear so far, I think it'd be a mistake for me to pander to that by engaging at all tbh.
mojo pixy, FWIW, I find your posts interesting, even when I don't agree with you. And you can, of course, reply/not reply to what you want but pretending not to understand kabbes' point and saying that engaging with him would be 'pandering' is really not a good look.
 
He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out. He's not a stupid man. All together, this is a combination I'm less interested in wrestling with, than I am in my own mental health.

Plenty of other anti-racists here, they can do it :thumbs:
 

Jeremy Bowen looks at one incident in North Gaza. No video in the article. But it's a gruelling read.

Attack on school where refugees were living.

A paramedic took phone footage of aftermath. Bowen tracked her down and she went through the footage

International reporter's like him , as he explains, haven't been allowed into Gaza. So all reporting is second hand.

Given that as he says:
The evidence is piling up that Israel has done things in Gaza that it does not want journalists to see, which is why they will not let us cross into the territory, except on rare and highly controlled visits with the army
 
He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out. He's not a stupid man. All together, this is a combination I'm less interested in wrestling with, than I am in my own mental health.

Plenty of other anti-racists here, they can do it :thumbs:
You repeatedly defend the indefensible and lash out with accusations of antisemitism when israel's criminal actions are contested.

Perhaps you could be more interested in the deaths of tens of thousands of complete innocents rayher than 'wrestling or your own mental health'.

I have Jewish blood relatives so don't you fucking dare try the antisemitism accusation ever again, you dissembling manipulative tosser.
 
He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out. He's not a stupid man. All together, this is a combination I'm less interested in wrestling with, than I am in my own mental health.

Plenty of other anti-racists here, they can do it :thumbs:
Help me out here. I'm not seeing the 'well-known antisemitic trope'?
 
well nkomo, mugabe and smith.
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I imagined that your third party was the UK, which was the colonial power against which the government of Rhodesia had rebelled. Those of a certain age will remember well the term “UDI” (Unilateral Declaration of Independence).

The military wings of ZANU and ZAPU were on the same side. They jointly negotiated the Lancaster House Agreement with the Smith regime.

Are the PFLP, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian militant groups on different sides?

Those who claim that events leading to the formation of the State of Israel were an act of national liberation may wish to ponder the following question: Was the rebellion against the UK by the White minority government in Rhodesia an act of "national liberation"?
 
Another Israeli serviceman kills himself. Why didn't he resign his commission before have the deaths of many Palestinians on his hands? I guess we will never know:

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I imagined that your third party was the UK, which was the colonial power against which the government of Rhodesia had rebelled. Those of a certain age will remember well the term “UDI” (Unilateral Declaration of Independence).

The military wings of ZANU and ZAPU were on the same side. They jointly negotiated the Lancaster House Agreement with the Smith regime.

Are the PFLP, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian militant groups on different sides?

Those who claim that events leading to the formation of the State of Israel were an act of national liberation may wish to ponder the following question: Was the rebellion against the UK by the White minority government in Rhodesia an act of "national liberation"?
They jointly negotiated but fought separately and against each other. Those of a certain age, able to recall the events of 1965 from lived experience, are significantly aulder than me
 

Jeremy Bowen looks at one incident in North Gaza. No video in the article. But it's a gruelling read.

Attack on school where refugees were living.

A paramedic took phone footage of aftermath. Bowen tracked her down and she went through the footage

International reporter's like him , as he explains, haven't been allowed into Gaza. So all reporting is second hand.

Given that as he says:
We're beginning to see more and more journalists like Bowen actively calling Israel out for what it's doing which can only be a good thing.
 
They jointly negotiated but fought separately and against each other. Those of a certain age, able to recall the events of 1965 from lived experience, are significantly aulder than me
Can you quote an example of when ZiPRA and ZANLA fought each other prior to independance?

I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term "UDI" was a familiar term on the television news.
 
You've made your views pretty clear so far, I think it'd be a mistake for me to pander to that by engaging at all tbh.
I’ve not made any of my personal views clear at all, other than the fact that I find the genocide horrific and unsupportable. Don’t confuse my analysis of how other people present their understanding of the situation with my own personal understanding of that situation.
 
He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out.
I think you’re very confused between “defending the use of” and “analysing how and why some people are using it”. You’re also begging the question of it being antisemitic. In the true, technical sense of “begging the question”. You’ve started from the assumption that the use of it is necessarily antisemitic — regardless of context, individual knowledge or anything else — and used that assumption to draw the conclusion that the people using it are therefore antisemitic.
He's not a stupid man.
Then maybe you should consider that I’m not just saying stupid things. Maybe I’m not saying the things that you are assuming I am, for example?
 
We're beginning to see more and more journalists like Bowen actively calling Israel out for what it's doing which can only be a good thing.
Finally a hard hitting article from the BBC or rather Jeremy Bowen. Bowen, IIRC from his Jesus TV programmes, is probably quite a 'committed Christian' and may have had enough with having to stay silent regarding the crimes against humanity. Time to speak up and denounce the war criminals.
 
Finally a hard hitting article from the BBC or rather Jeremy Bowen. Bowen, IIRC from his Jesus TV programmes, is probably quite a 'committed Christian' and may have had enough with having to stay silent regarding the crimes against humanity. Time to speak up and denounce the war criminals.
I suspect it's also the targetting of journalists that is making them have a rethink on the way they report things. If it can happen to the ones I mentioned earlier then it could happen to Bowen and others just as easily.

Israel can''t control the media in Lebanon in the same way they can in Gaza so they have to resort to killing them.
 
I suspect it's also the targetting of journalists that is making them have a rethink on the way they report things. If it can happen to the ones I mentioned earlier then it could happen to Bowen and others just as easily.

Israel can''t control the media in Lebanon in the same way they can in Gaza so they have to resort to killing them.
they are quite happy killing journalists in gaza too
 
I suspect it's also the targetting of journalists that is making them have a rethink on the way they report things. If it can happen to the ones I mentioned earlier then it could happen to Bowen and others just as easily.

Israel can''t control the media in Lebanon in the same way they can in Gaza so they have to resort to killing them.
To date the IDF have killed 128 journalists in Gaza which is pretty much how they have attempted to go about controlling the media. in Gaza. In Lebanon it looks to be business as usual, but of course foreign journalists are at a great deal more risk as Israel cannot prohibit entry:

 
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I suspect it's also the targetting of journalists that is making them have a rethink on the way they report things. If it can happen to the ones I mentioned earlier then it could happen to Bowen and others just as easily.

Israel can''t control the media in Lebanon in the same way they can in Gaza so they have to resort to killing them.

It has already happened to Bowen, FWIW.

His local fixer was killed around 2000 by an Israeli tank firing at the car he, Bowen and his cameraman were traveling around South Lebanon in. Fortunately for Bowen and the cameraman they were a bit away filming a piece, but they couldn’t rescue the fixer (who was in the car on the phone) because the tank was firing machine guns at it.
 
It has already happened to Bowen, FWIW.

His local fixer was killed around 2000 by an Israeli tank firing at the car he, Bowen and his cameraman were traveling around South Lebanon in. Fortunately for Bowen and the cameraman they were a bit away filming a piece, but they couldn’t rescue the fixer (who was in the car on the phone) because the tank was firing machine guns at it.
Probably explains why he is generally more forthright in calling stuff out.
 
Probably explains why he is generally more forthright in calling stuff out.

Indeed. There is more info about that incident here, if anyone is interested:

 
Indeed. There is more info about that incident here, if anyone is interested:

I vaguely remember hearing about it at the time now I think about it.
 
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