• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    That doesn’t really make sense. This is a silly ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ thing and it has a very good chance of blowing back in their faces.

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      To be fair the US is usually the one making questionable alliances with nongovernment actors in the region.

      US once these governments lose any perceived control: “first time?”

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      Calling them the Waffen-IDF would imply that they are indeed fighting a war and not just kicking down and committing genocide. Allgemeine-IDF fits better.

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    Anadolu Agency – Bias and Credibility

    Overall, we rate Anadolu Agency Right Biased editorially and Mixed factually due to poor sourcing. Further, this is an agency controlled by the right-wing ruling party and has a very strong pro-government state bias.

    Detailed Report

    Bias Rating: RIGHT Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: Turkey MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: LIMITED FREEDOM Media Type: News Agency Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Nobody cares about the credibility rating this isn’t a speculation article. It’s 100% factual.

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    4 months ago

    Good. They’re only terrorists to the genocidal Zionist regime and their Western funders.

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      Depends how you define terrorism, I guess. Bombing a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires would be terrorist to most, but I suppose a die-hard Jew hater would consider all Jewish people as complicit in Israel’s occupation of Southern Lebanon.

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          So do you stand by Hezbollah are not terrorists? Is it for the reason I gave or some other one?

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          There’s a difference between terrorism and war, even if it’s equally despicable. For example, the Nazis were too big to be called terrorists.

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            Whom does the IDF wage war against? Their own population. That’s terrorism.

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            To whatever extent that terrorism and war are separate, it’s only a way for those in power to tell uninformed people which violence to support or who to hate. “We’re going to war to bring freedom” vs “Those terrorists are attacking the [colonial] government!”