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I'm not seeing any shortage of pictures from the ground. I mean, I agree that targeting news agencies would be a step you would take if you wanted to prevent im

I'm not seeing any shortage of pictures from the ground. I mean, I agree that targeting news agencies would be a step you would take if you wanted to prevent images from the ground but you would have to be far more sweeping in your approach. If the goal is to prevent news images from making their way out of Palestine this may be the most abject policy failure the world has ever witnessed.

jussij 5y ago
The facts remain; Israel did bomb the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press. That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented action by Israel.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
  > That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented action by Israel. They might be targeting those news agencies, but not for the purpose of suppressing images on the ground, which is what we were talking about. It's just implausible given the totality of evidence that that is the main concern. You can't just look at that one action to draw a conclusion when there is a massive amount of other contravening evidence.
  - mslm 5y ago
    There is such a thing as being too haughty and thinking, "why not?". Given the impunity with which they're currently carrying out their massacres, it wouldn't have seemed to them that blowing up a media building would be problematic. Now they're getting railed even by people who would normally not care otherwise.
- ridiculous_lol 5y ago
  More like they bombed a building which has offices of Al Jazeera and the AP among other things.
guerrilla 5y ago
> you would have to be far more sweeping in your approach Would you or could it be seen as deterrence? > this may be the most abject policy failure the world has ever witnesse I mean there are a lot of opeds in Hebrew (some lamenting this supposed failure) and Arabic press right now saying exactly that, so I wouldn't rule it out entirely.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
  > Would you or could it be seen as deterrence? Given we are still seeing plenty of images out of Palestine and Gaza, even from news orgs, the current approach is plainly and objectively insufficient to the purported goal.

jussij 5y ago

The facts remain; Israel did bomb the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press. That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented action by Israel.

asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
> That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented action by Israel. They might be targeting those news agencies, but not for the purpose of suppressing images on the ground, which is what we were talking about. It's just implausible given the totality of evidence that that is the main concern. You can't just look at that one action to draw a conclusion when there is a massive amount of other contravening evidence.
- mslm 5y ago
  There is such a thing as being too haughty and thinking, "why not?". Given the impunity with which they're currently carrying out their massacres, it wouldn't have seemed to them that blowing up a media building would be problematic. Now they're getting railed even by people who would normally not care otherwise.
ridiculous_lol 5y ago
More like they bombed a building which has offices of Al Jazeera and the AP among other things.

guerrilla 5y ago

> you would have to be far more sweeping in your approach Would you or could it be seen as deterrence? > this may be the most abject policy failure the world has ever witnesse I mean there are a lot of opeds in Hebrew (some lamenting this supposed failure) and Arabic press right now saying exactly that, so I wouldn't rule it out entirely.

asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
> Would you or could it be seen as deterrence? Given we are still seeing plenty of images out of Palestine and Gaza, even from news orgs, the current approach is plainly and objectively insufficient to the purported goal.