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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 3551867" data-attributes="member: 44954"><a href="https://splinternews.com/theres-been-some-dreadful-coverage-of-the-israeli-massa-1826010048" target="_blank">Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza</a>They all serve to obscure what is actually going on in Gaza right now, which is that <a href="https://splinternews.com/u-s-throws-a-party-in-jerusalem-as-israel-massacres-pa-1826005025#_ga=2.183325286.1550945759.1526309778-877279707.1505752904" target="_blank">Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian protesters.</a>“Setting off clashes from outraged Palestinians,” Washington Post? Wouldn’t a more accurate version be “setting off the widespread killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli soldiers”?“43 were killed today in Gaza clashes,” CNN? You would not know from this headline that it is only Palestinians who have died today, or even that labelling such an asymmetric situation—protesters, the vast majority of whom are peaceful and unarmed, facing off against one of the world’s most advanced armies—as a “clash” between equal sides is an obfuscation.The same goes for the BBC. “Die in clashes with Israel” is an interesting euphemism for “killed by Israeli soldiers.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 3551867, member: 44954"] [URL='https://splinternews.com/theres-been-some-dreadful-coverage-of-the-israeli-massa-1826010048'][B][SIZE=5]Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza[/SIZE][/B][/URL] They all serve to obscure what is actually going on in Gaza right now, which is that [URL='https://splinternews.com/u-s-throws-a-party-in-jerusalem-as-israel-massacres-pa-1826005025#_ga=2.183325286.1550945759.1526309778-877279707.1505752904']Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian protesters.[/URL] “Setting off clashes from outraged Palestinians,” [I]Washington Post? [/I]Wouldn’t a more accurate version be “setting off the widespread killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli soldiers”? “43 were killed today in Gaza clashes,” CNN? You would not know from this headline that it is only Palestinians who have died today, or even that labelling such an asymmetric situation—protesters, the vast majority of whom are peaceful and unarmed, facing off against one of the world’s most advanced armies—as a “clash” between equal sides is an obfuscation. The same goes for the BBC. “Die in clashes with Israel” is an interesting euphemism for “killed by Israeli soldiers.” [/QUOTE]

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