Readers of this @AP article on Pompeo's arrival in Israel are not fully informed about the situation in Gaza:
1. Incendiary balloons are not simply a bid to pressure Israel to ease the blockade but also part of a longstanding campaign of attacks on Israeli civilian and property.
2. The blockade is maintained by Israel and Egypt together. This should be made clear to readers. While Israel controls land access from two sides and sea access from a third, any blockade depends on all four sides being tightly controlled.
3. If the issue really was purely the blockade, then Egypt would come under attack too. That Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza are targeting Israel alone gives the lie to that theory.
Readers deserve to know.
4. Possibly most important of all, saying that Hamas "took control" of Gaza in 2007 whitewashes what actually happened: It staged a bloody coup, throwing Fatah members of buildings to their death, and with both sides killing innocents and combatants alike until Hamas prevailed.
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Just who are some of the "UN experts" quoted by international media claiming famine has spread throughout Gaza?
They may use the imprimatur of the UN but, in reality, they aren't the credible, impartial sources you or the media may think. 🧵
◾️ Francesca Albanese has previously apologized after antisemitic posts on her personal social media profile were uncovered and has likened the Jewish state to Nazism.
More on Albanese's deeply compromised background from @UNWatch's @HillelNeuer. ⬇️
Is Israel really using LGBTQ+ rights to hide its policies towards Palestinians? 🧵
First published: September 28, 2023
BDS activists claim Israel uses LGBTQ+ rights as a distraction. But what's the real story behind these accusations?
Israel has been a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ rights for 3 decades! Discrimination banned since 1992, and military open to all in 1993 – nearly 20 years before the US. 🏳️🌈
Claiming to be a “report on eight months of claim & counter-claim” about the sexual violence against Israelis on Oct 7, @thetimes foreign correspondent @scribblercat & @gabrielle_siviais' story is nothing more than a muddle of victim-blaming & bias. 🧵 thetimes.com/magazines/the-…
The piece claims the atrocities, specifically the sexual assaults & rapes, are Israel’s most “contentious” assertion of what occurred on Oct 7.
The writers evidently don’t believe sexual violence occurred & they'll try their hardest to convince readers not to believe it either.
Much of the piece discusses the UN report by Pramila Patten, which we are told came during a “furious row” in which they suggest allegations of antisemitism were weaponized — and not the fact that it seemed that Jewish women were the only group not believed about sexual assault.