Isn't Weiss from Ashkenazi origin lol
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I'm sure this was an "accident" and that the IDF isn't targeting journalists.
Odd how many journalists, journalist families, aid workers, and medical personnel have died in this conflict, though.
Germans aren't clueless, they're complicit.
Over the however many years of the Donbass conflicts and the Russia-Ukraine war, less children died than in a few weeks of bombings by Israel. Russia has oriented their invasion primarily towards regions that are ethnically Russian. Israel has oriented their invasion primarily towards regions that are ethnically Palestinian Arabs. Today, the civilian death toll in Gaza (~7000) after less than three weeks of fighting is approaching that in the Russian War in Ukraine (~9500) after almost two years and already exceeds that of the Ukrainian War in Donbass (~3500) after 7 years of fighting.
The Russia-Ukraine war is a war, and it reflects in how it's been conducted. No single strike throughout either war caused 500+ civilian casualties. Neither side has tried to level the others' cities entirely (though both sides have struck civilian targets and used disproportionate force). Neither side has sought the eradication of the others' peoples. Both sides are, to a significant degree, similarly equipped and armed. Both sides could enter into peace negotiations at any time and those peace negotiations won't involve the complete removal of either people from their country. The closest comparable is maybe Ukraine on Donbass, but the same still holds: neither side came even close to the level of disregard for human life that the IDF is exhibiting.
Israel isn't Russia-lite, Israel is worse. They're not even close to comparable.
The result of this (as we see in Europe) is that Europe would rather block Chinese EVs than properly invest in domestic EV production. What makes you think it'll be different here?
Sure, but that's with absolutely gigantic government subsidies even as the prices of EVs are plateauing.
Israel's clamped down on more legitimate sources and is even trying to kick of Al Jazeera (which has consistently led in terms of accuracy in journalism).
American news isn't a good source for unbiased news either, but people still post it.
99% conviction rate
Given the reports from Western journalists, this is closest to the truth (though we don't know if there was an actual threat or if the gunshots around the area were enough threat on its own). China basically treats 6/4 like the Israeli hospital bombing "it wasn't us, but if it was then we didn't actually cause it, and if we did then people didn't actually die, and if people died it was only a few people."
This is, of course, in the context of growing corruption in government and increasing influence of American intelligence in the Chinese mainland. We know that some of the pro-democracy activists were funded and supported by American interests and that, at least according to American propaganda, that American psyops divisions were operating in China to orchestrate and escalate the event. 6/4 is a failed coup. American interests wanted to see further Chinese liberalization and tried to apply the same playbook that they had applied before in South America and the Middle East (and later in Ukraine, Pakistan) to China.
Further economic liberalization was not in the best interests of the people. While Deng's economic reforms had helped to grow China's economy in the globalizing economy at the end of the Cold War, it also created a new bourgeois and petite-bourgeois class that China is still grappling with today.
Oh no! Not investing in clean energy! Everyone else has been sitting on their ass while China actually tries to do something and that's seen as a bad thing?
China is under no obligation to invest in clean energy: as a developing nation, the costs of climate change are going to be offset by the benefits of electrification and industralization pulling people out of poverty. The opposite is true in developed countries: it's increasingly difficult to improve the lives of people in developed countries, so the marginal benefit of more fossil fuels consumption is offset by the costs of climate change. Given that that's true, what the fuck is the developed Western world doing?
Do you understand the sheer scale of a million refugees? That these refugees will never be allowed back?
We don't know definitively, but the IDF has been the one spreading FUD and repeatedly lying about the incident, so...
Hamas has been remarkably consistent in their claims and recent OSINT analysis is overwhelmingly in support of an Israeli strike.