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[Ogre Moran]

Are you suggesting that they are trying to marginalise Israel becuase it is a Jewish state? Do you think that a country that is committing atrocity after atrocity doesn't deserve to be marginalised?

Journalists are killed in conflicts worldwide. Why is Israel picked out by RTE? And why should supposedly impartial, public service journalists be campaigning on any political issue? But that's RTE News and Current Affairs and that's how it has been with many years.

 

[leesider]

Journalists are killed in conflicts worldwide. Why is Israel picked out by RTE? And why should supposedly impartial, public service journalists be campaigning on any political issue? But that's RTE News and Current Affairs and that's how it has been with many years.

So Russia should still be in the Eurovision too?

 

[DeepThroat]

So Russia should still be in the Eurovision too?

They should be made suffer through it like the rest of us

 

[leesider]

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

www.theguardian.com

 

[fed up]

Journalists are killed in conflicts worldwide. Why is Israel picked out by RTE? And why should supposedly impartial, public service journalists be campaigning on any political issue? But that's RTE News and Current Affairs and that's how it has been with many years.

There is no place for impartiality when it comes to genocide..

I've been saying that now with many years.

 

[DeepThroat]

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

www.theguardian.com

'Largest Ethnic Cleansing since WW2'

The world is a shitty place and at a guess I'd say there has been a larger Ethnic Cleansing for every year since 1945....

Just a sample

Yugoslavia
Sadaam did a few
Africa- where would you even start
Russia
Pol Phot
North Korea
Syria
China


But this is the hill we will die on


AND I'd be fairly sure none of the above started with the 'Innocent Party' killing 1200 people in one day

 

[Dr. Aaoouh]

'Largest Ethnic Cleansing since WW2'

The world is a shitty place and at a guess I'd say there has been a larger Ethnic Cleansing for every year since 1945....

Just a sample

Yugoslavia
Sadaam did a few
Africa- where would you even start
Russia
Pol Phot
North Korea
Syria
China


But this is the hill we will die on


AND I'd be fairly sure none of the above started with the 'Innocent Party' killing 1200 people in one day

You seem to think that massacre and genocide are synonyms. Are they?

 

[an liathroid beag]

There is no place for impartiality when it comes to genocide..

I've been saying that now with many years.

Ironic that a war crime by Hamas is keeping another war criminal out of jail and facilitating his efforts towards a genocide!

 

[leesider]

'Largest Ethnic Cleansing since WW2'

The world is a shitty place and at a guess I'd say there has been a larger Ethnic Cleansing for every year since 1945....

Just a sample

Yugoslavia
Sadaam did a few
Africa- where would you even start
Russia
Pol Phot
North Korea
Syria
China


But this is the hill we will die on


AND I'd be fairly sure none of the above started with the 'Innocent Party' killing 1200 people in one day

A few points on the above:

• All of them happened within internal borders except a couple of the African ones I would guess
• The Israeli Palestinian conflict has been in the news regularly since at least the 60's
• The West is responsible for the modern day creation of the Israeli state - this isn't like in Africa where it was France or Britain or the Netherlands, this was the victors agreeing after WWII what should happen with the Jewish people and giving them a homeland
• Israel positions itself as part of the West and has been supported by the West for decades, especially the US, and therefore having one of "our own" commit the atrocities they are committing is a stain on how the "civilised" West sees itself
• To be doing this so visibly in front of the whole world without anyone acting to stop them shows a taboo has been broken and if so why can't another Western country go down a similar route in the future.

Maybe more should have been done to stop the other conflicts you mention but that doesn't mean a blatant act of genocide such as this shouldn't be called out at every opportunity.

To add I don't think anyone is calling Hamas an innocent party but this has gone well beyond being about Hamas, this is about genocide, land grabs, and collective punishment of 2.3 million people............why would what is simultaneously happening in the West Bank be happening if this was still about Hamas??

 

[DeepThroat]

You seem to think that massacre and genocide are synonyms. Are they?

The article said 'Ethnic Cleansing' and that the situation in Palestine is the 'Largest' since WW2


I just pointed out that this is not true