Scooper Di Pooper

Male/27/MD USA Hater of corporations and lover of gardening. Beating it crazy style 24/7. 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺

[goodluckbrian-reactivated]

[narcissistcookbook]

i love my YouTube watch later list - got some time to kill? pick something that caught my eye months or years ago

but occasionally this happens

it evokes a timbre of loss i don't think i've felt anywhere else. something i know for sure i wanted is gone forever, but i can't even remember what it was.

[scooperdipoop]

YES.

Every lost video is like a little library of Alexandria burning

[parakeet]

You gotta feel for the guy that made his egg college style (in the microwave) and posted it on fb but didn’t realize you could see the reflection of his sausage and beans. If that happened to me I would simply pass away. I could take a picture of the sky and triple check it just to make sure my tits aren’t somehow in the shot before I post it online. It is a real fear. The guys follow up remains one of my all time favorites though.

Like I am so sorry that happened to him but he truly could not have addressed it in a funnier way

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The Yugioh world championships are in France this year and apparently Macron appeared on the official live stream to wish the players good luck which is insane in and of itself but it also resulted in one of the craziest unedited pictures of a politician in history:

[gowhiteboy-go]

[scooperdipoop]

The most Yu-Gi-Oh shit ever

[maus-fischer-montgomery]

Israel: simultaneously killing all journalists in Gaza so the truth about what’s happening in Palestine cannot come out, yet completely incapable of stopping random American teenagers on social media from apparently being omniscient about the conflict

Would be nice if any antisemite’s brain worked even remotely close to at all

[scooperdipoop]

This hits hard if you’re stupid

[cavalierzee]

"Better Late Than Never"

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli has praised Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists in a “double-tap” attack on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News was speaking during a broadcast on Monday, which was later shared by the channel on the social media platform X.

“These are Nukhba men in every way,” Yehezkeli said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit.

Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, said that the journalists had helped to damage Israel’s reputation by sharing images of starvation the state has imposed on Palestinians in the besieged territory.

“They continued the legacy of Yahya Sinwar by so-called journalism,” he added, in reference to Hamas’ slain leader.

“Just think about how much damage these journalists…you call them Nukhba journalists, how much damage they have done to Israel.

“If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.”

The Israeli military killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz in the double-tap strike on Monday.

At least three other journalists were among the 20 Palestinians killed in the attack.

Israel’s English language communications have claimed the killings were a “mistake” but the state’s Channel 14 news channel has reported that the attack was approved by and coordinated with senior military commanders.

At least 245 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Credit: Middle East Eye

MEE/Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

It's fascinating how brazen the lying is, here. Now, Yehezkeli claims that these slain journalists were members of an elite Hamas military unit, Nukhba. That could certainly be a lie, or even just a mistake. I wouldn't trust Yehezkeli's unsubstantiated word on the claim. What he doesn't say, what the MEE is explicitly lying about, is that he '...backs the killing of Palestinian journalists'. Maybe he does in his secret heart, or behind closed doors. But that's not what he said. It's almost like MEE is simply propaganda, not any kind of credible journalism.

[scooperdipoop]

“Maybe he meant to kill them all but because he didn’t explicitly say so the journalists reporting deserve to die”

[jraker4]

You get it! It really is easy to just make up shit and put those words in someone else's mouth and attack them for it. Thank you for demonstrating your understanding of a concept you've long had mastery in:)

[scooperdipoop]

I get what needs to be gotten. I hope you do too.

[jraker4]

I know you do. You're stupid, but not so stupid to fail to recognize 'hey, this article is inaccurately reporting what this Israeli journalist said', because to you lying about Je-excuse me, Israelis-is fine and dandy. You could say simply 'this reporting is a lie, but I believe Yehezkeli really does support the murder of Palestinian journalists-he's using coded language, or his politics make that clear, etc.' The irony here is that I might even agree with you there, if you said that-because I'm not sure he doesn't. Hamas absolutely, as a matter of factual record, infiltrates legitimate civilian roles such as journalism with-but at the same time, not an ethical stance to say 'ALL Palestinian journalists are Hamas'. But because this is really just an exercise in justifying bigotry for you, while also virtue-signalling, you'll just pretend this 'reporting' by MEE isn't lying. It doesn't matter if Yehezkeli actually does endorse the murder of all Palestinian journalists, MEE didn't say that. They said that he said he supports that, and that's a lie.

[scooperdipoop]

So this isn’t him?

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023:

Or this?

September 2018:

[jraker4]

That has...what to do with the MEE's reporting, exactly? Or is it meant to argue that Yehezkeli is a bad person? He sounds pretty bad, by my lights, but then I never said or suggested* he was good. Though I will say from these quotes here, his badness is completely within the range of ordinary human awfulness in bitterly divisive conflicts throughout history. You pick a war, and there will be hundreds of not thousands people saying things just like 'kill `em all right away'. *Though on the basis of someone else, I communicated my meaning badly there, so the 'suggested' gets an asterisk.

[scooperdipoop]

His badness indicates a larger pattern of dehumanization. His platforms allows the spread of dehumanizing ideas and culture.

That is how genocide begins.

[jraker4]

So, two things there: one, according to you, Israel has been perpetuating a genocide against Palestinians for over seventy years so...'begins'? So I guess now the started with this man's career? Second: none of that has anything to do with whether it's a good idea, or good journalistic practice, for MEE to be misleading about what he claimed. Good or even decent journalism would have been to report 'here is what this Israeli journalist said, and here's why that's bullshit', instead of headlining with him listing one attribute of people good for the Israeli military to kill when there were two. It could've been a look into how prone to abuse such claims are, and why people everywhere should look at them and demand verification (they weren't just journalists, they were undeclared militants). Not that I would ever expect that of MEE, either.

[scooperdipoop]

Do you believe then that the solution to the question of what’s really going on is to let independent journalists investigate?

[jraker4]

It’s so cute the way you cherry pick so reliably:) But sure! I do, in fact. And I say that being aware of Israel’s policy of who is allowed where in Gaza. A policy I somewhat understand given the givens, even as I still disagree with.

What you’re probably not aware of, or are just pretending is irrelevant if you are, is that ‘governments controlling access of journalists in a war zone’ is basically the default worldwide, not some dastardly Israeli exception. Which doesn’t make the policy good, it makes the policy not unusual.

Still waiting to hear your evidence on your claims for the origins of Israeli Jews, btw:) On the edge of my seat.

[scooperdipoop]

You seem to disagree with the Israeli government a lot on many issues. Why do you continue to support them?

[jraker4]

Still waiting to hear your evidence on your claims for the origins of Israeli Jews, btw:) On the edge of my seat.

Which is an answer to your ‘clever’ question, btw: particularly of this Israeli government, I wouldn’t consider myself a supporter at all, unless I’m talking to a bigot who explicitly wants most of the world’s Jews, period, and all of Israeli Jews dead. The difference between ‘bad’ and ‘worse’ tends to be considerably more important than that between ‘good’ and ‘better’.

[scooperdipoop]

Why do you think I want to kill Jews?

[carlosmarcosapproved]

Israel bombed Gaza hospital a second time, killing rescuers, say health officials

At least 20 people, including five journalists, died as they rushed to help those wounded in the first strike

Two of the victims were journalists—one from Reuters and another from the Associated Press.

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 hey dude you never answered me. Is this a war crime?

[jraker4]

Oh, I know I didn't, because you didn't live up to the bare-fuckin'-minimum you yourself agreed to. You know, actually engaging with a direct factual challenge to one of your claims that I've made a dozen or so times? Don't get me wrong, I never thought you would, I just didn't imagine you'd fail to do so quite this transparently. It's about your only (accidentally) redeeming quality: it's unpredictable and interesting how lazy and stupid you'll be. Or did a single-sentence 'nuh-uh!' on the challenge 'defend your claim that Jewish Israelis aren't native to the Levant' get you all tuckered out? See, here's the thing: you know I'll engage with your question, even though you're worthless in terms of intelligent conversation, if you engage with just one of mine. You'll make grandiose claims about a 'campaign' against me, you'll switch it up to jokes about wasting time, you'll start begging me for replies in private messages when I explain to you that I never even see most of your gotchas because of how Tumblr works, but for some strange reason you just won't do that one other thing. Pretty mysterious, it doesn't seem!:)

[scooperdipoop]

Okay but was Israel double tapping a hospital a war crime?

[jraker4]

OK, but do you actually want an answer to that question, or do you just want to ask the question and think you've made a point? Because you know how to get an answer to that question. And frankly, you know what my answer is likely to be-deep down, I mean, not the bullshit you'd say. But hey, keep repeating yourself, bud. I'm sure it'll work this time;)

[scooperdipoop]

At this point your lack of an answer has answered more. I am certain you do not care about the lives of Palestinians.

[jraker4]

Sure thing, bud:) I mean, you yourself offered to engage with just one of the direct challenges to your bullshit to get engagement with this question of yours, and you couldn't even manage that. Even by the standards of a keyboard warrior such as yourself, that's impressive laziness. Why'd you even agree, anyway? Did you seriously think 'no yeah I'll just say they're from the Bronx, that proves it' and that would be that? I guess that level of thinking works in your circles?

[scooperdipoop]

>I guess that level of thinking works in your circles?

Yeah pretty much. If you’re born to parents of European descent you aren’t native to the levant. It’s simple really.

[jraker4]

So when exactly does indigenousness 'expire', in this worldview? Setting aside the absurdity of 'European descent', and I'd love to talk about the unconscious racism you're displaying with that little classification, for some weird reason Jews tend to have problems with regarding themselves as native to Europe. Another question: what portion of Israeli Jews do you believe are born of parents of 'European descent'? This is a knowable question with a specific answer.

[scooperdipoop]

The portion that makes all the decisions is of European descent. I welcome you to prove me wrong.

[jraker4]

Sweetie, that's not how this works. You made the claim, you need to provide evidence for it. Hell, I'd be interested even in what you'd call evidence at this point, not just your bare unsubstantiated word. Further, even if I accepted your word (and I wouldn't accept such a claim from someone I respected and agreed with), you've moved the goalposts. Your stance wasn't 'the powers that be in Israel are Jews of European descent' (which you haven't provided evidence for), your stance was 'Israeli Jews are of European descent' (which you also haven't provided evidence for.) Other things you haven't provided evidence for: what exactly is 'European descent', how long does indigenousness last, even if Israeli Jews are of European descent does that mean they're native to Europe, and all of that is after we get back to the central question of your providing evidence for your claim that Israeli Jews are from Europe. (or the Bronx.) On more than one occasion I've provided data pointing out that's bullshit, and I know you've at least seen it because you're pretty far up my ass:) Thus far you haven't provided even bad evidence for any of your claims here. Why did you say you would if this was what you were gonna do? Did you just get frustrated and say so so I'd stop flinging it in your face? You can just go back to refusing, you know. Dress it up with some pretext, say throw in some buzzwords and you're back on familiar ground.

[scooperdipoop]

+3

[muslims-matters]

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

Hey, I wonder what else Michael Walsh has to say about Je-, Israelis.

[scooperdipoop]

Now you’re getting it :)

[cavalierzee]

"Better Late Than Never"

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli has praised Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists in a “double-tap” attack on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News was speaking during a broadcast on Monday, which was later shared by the channel on the social media platform X.

“These are Nukhba men in every way,” Yehezkeli said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit.

Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, said that the journalists had helped to damage Israel’s reputation by sharing images of starvation the state has imposed on Palestinians in the besieged territory.

“They continued the legacy of Yahya Sinwar by so-called journalism,” he added, in reference to Hamas’ slain leader.

“Just think about how much damage these journalists…you call them Nukhba journalists, how much damage they have done to Israel.

“If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.”

The Israeli military killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz in the double-tap strike on Monday.

At least three other journalists were among the 20 Palestinians killed in the attack.

Israel’s English language communications have claimed the killings were a “mistake” but the state’s Channel 14 news channel has reported that the attack was approved by and coordinated with senior military commanders.

At least 245 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Credit: Middle East Eye

MEE/Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

It's fascinating how brazen the lying is, here. Now, Yehezkeli claims that these slain journalists were members of an elite Hamas military unit, Nukhba. That could certainly be a lie, or even just a mistake. I wouldn't trust Yehezkeli's unsubstantiated word on the claim. What he doesn't say, what the MEE is explicitly lying about, is that he '...backs the killing of Palestinian journalists'. Maybe he does in his secret heart, or behind closed doors. But that's not what he said. It's almost like MEE is simply propaganda, not any kind of credible journalism.

[scooperdipoop]

“Maybe he meant to kill them all but because he didn’t explicitly say so the journalists reporting deserve to die”

[jraker4]

You get it! It really is easy to just make up shit and put those words in someone else's mouth and attack them for it. Thank you for demonstrating your understanding of a concept you've long had mastery in:)

[scooperdipoop]

I get what needs to be gotten. I hope you do too.

[jraker4]

So, to clarify on the basis of input from a serious person worthy of respect (ironically a Zionist Jew): I think Yehezkeli's remarks as reported by MEE are probably, at best, bullshit: while according to my reading what he's saying is 'these journalists were also Hamas militants, therefore the sooner they're killed the better' rather than 'all Palestinian journalists should be killed', it's worth remembering that he's a journalist himself. And even a partisan journalist ought to know just how dangerous that line is to cross, and how easy it is for any military to use that sort of justification to kill with impunity, and how often militaries in wartime do exactly that. Reading his remarks as reported in the MEE, I'm very skeptical he has much basis for his claim that they were all Nukbha fighters as well as journalists, especially when even fucking Bibi expresses regrets. At the same time, after re-reading the report from MEE a couple more times, I still think that headline is misleading, and deliberately so. It downplays the justification he used, and that's a shame because it's worth examining, because it's very likely bullshit, and dangerous bullshit at that. I certainly won't name-drop my acquaintance for getting in my ear about this in this circle, but they know who they are. Thanks for the callout:)

[scooperdipoop]

So if I’m understanding you correctly you believe that he believes the life of an Israeli army journalist is worth more than the life of Hamas journalist because their propaganda is bad.

It’s bad why?

[jraker4]

Than a Hamas journalist? That's a fair assumption to make, that he believes that-though it's not contained in the brief report referenced here. He makes two claims there: one, propaganda; two, membership in a Hamas militant unit. I'm not sure if you're just choosing to ignore that, or if reading a few paragraphs is too much trouble. Now, as a journalist I don't think it's unfair to hold Yehezkeli to a high standard on the dangers of granting permission to militaries to kill anyone who isn't a uniformed soldier in a declared war. That's a line and dangers we cross pretty freely all over the world, but it's dangerous. I also don't think it's unfair to insist Yehezkeli provide evidence of his claim that those journalists were members of a Hamas military unit, and that that evidence be credible in proportion to the seriousness of the charge. If he believes-which wouldn't surprise me-that those journalists deserved to be killed just for their non-violent work for Hamas, then yes, that's reprehensible. But, that's not the only claim he makes according to that article.

[scooperdipoop]

You need to make a lot of assumptions to get to that conclusion though. You have to assume he has the best intentions for his nation and people.

Facts are facts. “If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never” is a call to action. He is overtly giving his approval with this sentence alone. This man is okay with the assassination of journalists if he or his government believes they are terrorists. Which he wasn’t as has been proven since.

Of course this has to ignore a much broader issue which is Reuters gave Israel real time updates on their journalists location, thus proving the attack was purposeful.

So I ask again. Was the double tapping of a hospital a war crime,

[jraker4]

What conclusion, exactly, am I getting to? It's clear to me you either don't get it or are choosing not to. That sentence is a call to action, but what action? Per the reporting given by MEE, it's a call to action to eliminate journalists who propagandize against Israel and are members of the Nukbha. Even if the second part of that sentence is true, Yehezkeli is a journalist and can be expected to know just how dangerous it is and thus how high the standard of evidence should be to wield it. That's the best case scenario, on the 'is Yehezkeli a decent person' question here'. If as I suspect he's offered no evidence for that claim, it's very fair to take it as uncredible and since he knows better, to consider it an awful thing for him to have said and to advocate. You can keep asking, but you've completely failed to live up to or even try to live up to the standard you accepted: to engage with one of the many challenges I've made of you. This isn't that, not that you're really engaging with this one either since you continue to argue against a defense of Yehezkeli's character I'm not and have never made.

[scooperdipoop]

He is a man advocating genocide. Every word he says is poison. Don’t drink poison friend.

[muslims-matters]

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

Oh and hey I'm curious: Israelis are cowards for using air power. Hamas is...heroic freedom fighters when they launch rockets and commit massacres at music festivals, though? Help it make sense here. How is a rocket brave heroism, and a drone cowardly bloodthirst?

[scooperdipoop]

Starving kids sure is brave

[byjove]

Something that gets left out of discussions about the US’s history with Israel and support for Zionism is that the US supported Israel because they didn’t want Jewish people in the US. That is a fundamental thing at the center of the US’s historical support for establishment of the state of Israel. There was a huge wave of Jewish immigrants from Europe to America during the late 19th and early 20th century because of the political unrest and rising antisemitism in Europe. This caused a rise in antisemitism in the US with prominent figures like Henry Ford spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. The US restricted policies that would allow Jewish refugees to relocate to the US to escape Hitler’s regime between 1938 and 1941. The US support of Israel was because the US was antisemitic and not because they had so much sympathy for the persecution of Jewish people that they wanted to create a ‘safe homeland’ for them. They wanted them to go anywhere BUT the US.

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆 👆 👆

[jraker4]

It gets left out of your circles, bud. Whereas I’ve been familiar with this history for many years.

But hey, since you apparently think this is news…if Jews are native to Europe, as you claim, what’s with this huge emigration of Jews from Europe before Israel’s modern foundation?

[scooperdipoop]

‘Jews are native to Europe’ is a hell of a claim. One I of course never made because it’s, frankly, ridiculous.

Again. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. Racist Europeans colonized Palestine using Judaism as a tool of legitimacy.

[cavalierzee]

"Better Late Than Never"

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli has praised Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists in a “double-tap” attack on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News was speaking during a broadcast on Monday, which was later shared by the channel on the social media platform X.

“These are Nukhba men in every way,” Yehezkeli said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit.

Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, said that the journalists had helped to damage Israel’s reputation by sharing images of starvation the state has imposed on Palestinians in the besieged territory.

“They continued the legacy of Yahya Sinwar by so-called journalism,” he added, in reference to Hamas’ slain leader.

“Just think about how much damage these journalists…you call them Nukhba journalists, how much damage they have done to Israel.

“If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.”

The Israeli military killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz in the double-tap strike on Monday.

At least three other journalists were among the 20 Palestinians killed in the attack.

Israel’s English language communications have claimed the killings were a “mistake” but the state’s Channel 14 news channel has reported that the attack was approved by and coordinated with senior military commanders.

At least 245 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Credit: Middle East Eye

MEE/Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

It's fascinating how brazen the lying is, here. Now, Yehezkeli claims that these slain journalists were members of an elite Hamas military unit, Nukhba. That could certainly be a lie, or even just a mistake. I wouldn't trust Yehezkeli's unsubstantiated word on the claim. What he doesn't say, what the MEE is explicitly lying about, is that he '...backs the killing of Palestinian journalists'. Maybe he does in his secret heart, or behind closed doors. But that's not what he said. It's almost like MEE is simply propaganda, not any kind of credible journalism.

[scooperdipoop]

“Maybe he meant to kill them all but because he didn’t explicitly say so the journalists reporting deserve to die”

[jraker4]

You get it! It really is easy to just make up shit and put those words in someone else's mouth and attack them for it. Thank you for demonstrating your understanding of a concept you've long had mastery in:)

[scooperdipoop]

I get what needs to be gotten. I hope you do too.

[jraker4]

I know you do. You're stupid, but not so stupid to fail to recognize 'hey, this article is inaccurately reporting what this Israeli journalist said', because to you lying about Je-excuse me, Israelis-is fine and dandy. You could say simply 'this reporting is a lie, but I believe Yehezkeli really does support the murder of Palestinian journalists-he's using coded language, or his politics make that clear, etc.' The irony here is that I might even agree with you there, if you said that-because I'm not sure he doesn't. Hamas absolutely, as a matter of factual record, infiltrates legitimate civilian roles such as journalism with-but at the same time, not an ethical stance to say 'ALL Palestinian journalists are Hamas'. But because this is really just an exercise in justifying bigotry for you, while also virtue-signalling, you'll just pretend this 'reporting' by MEE isn't lying. It doesn't matter if Yehezkeli actually does endorse the murder of all Palestinian journalists, MEE didn't say that. They said that he said he supports that, and that's a lie.

[scooperdipoop]

So this isn’t him?

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023:

Or this?

September 2018:

[jraker4]

That has...what to do with the MEE's reporting, exactly? Or is it meant to argue that Yehezkeli is a bad person? He sounds pretty bad, by my lights, but then I never said or suggested* he was good. Though I will say from these quotes here, his badness is completely within the range of ordinary human awfulness in bitterly divisive conflicts throughout history. You pick a war, and there will be hundreds of not thousands people saying things just like 'kill `em all right away'. *Though on the basis of someone else, I communicated my meaning badly there, so the 'suggested' gets an asterisk.

[scooperdipoop]

His badness indicates a larger pattern of dehumanization. His platforms allows the spread of dehumanizing ideas and culture.

That is how genocide begins.

[jraker4]

So, two things there: one, according to you, Israel has been perpetuating a genocide against Palestinians for over seventy years so...'begins'? So I guess now the started with this man's career? Second: none of that has anything to do with whether it's a good idea, or good journalistic practice, for MEE to be misleading about what he claimed. Good or even decent journalism would have been to report 'here is what this Israeli journalist said, and here's why that's bullshit', instead of headlining with him listing one attribute of people good for the Israeli military to kill when there were two. It could've been a look into how prone to abuse such claims are, and why people everywhere should look at them and demand verification (they weren't just journalists, they were undeclared militants). Not that I would ever expect that of MEE, either.

[scooperdipoop]

Do you believe then that the solution to the question of what’s really going on is to let independent journalists investigate?

[jraker4]

It’s so cute the way you cherry pick so reliably:) But sure! I do, in fact. And I say that being aware of Israel’s policy of who is allowed where in Gaza. A policy I somewhat understand given the givens, even as I still disagree with.

What you’re probably not aware of, or are just pretending is irrelevant if you are, is that ‘governments controlling access of journalists in a war zone’ is basically the default worldwide, not some dastardly Israeli exception. Which doesn’t make the policy good, it makes the policy not unusual.

Still waiting to hear your evidence on your claims for the origins of Israeli Jews, btw:) On the edge of my seat.

[scooperdipoop]

You seem to disagree with the Israeli government a lot on many issues. Why do you continue to support them?

[cavalierzee]

"Better Late Than Never"

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli has praised Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists in a “double-tap” attack on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News was speaking during a broadcast on Monday, which was later shared by the channel on the social media platform X.

“These are Nukhba men in every way,” Yehezkeli said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit.

Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, said that the journalists had helped to damage Israel’s reputation by sharing images of starvation the state has imposed on Palestinians in the besieged territory.

“They continued the legacy of Yahya Sinwar by so-called journalism,” he added, in reference to Hamas’ slain leader.

“Just think about how much damage these journalists…you call them Nukhba journalists, how much damage they have done to Israel.

“If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.”

The Israeli military killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz in the double-tap strike on Monday.

At least three other journalists were among the 20 Palestinians killed in the attack.

Israel’s English language communications have claimed the killings were a “mistake” but the state’s Channel 14 news channel has reported that the attack was approved by and coordinated with senior military commanders.

At least 245 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Credit: Middle East Eye

MEE/Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[jraker4]

It's fascinating how brazen the lying is, here. Now, Yehezkeli claims that these slain journalists were members of an elite Hamas military unit, Nukhba. That could certainly be a lie, or even just a mistake. I wouldn't trust Yehezkeli's unsubstantiated word on the claim. What he doesn't say, what the MEE is explicitly lying about, is that he '...backs the killing of Palestinian journalists'. Maybe he does in his secret heart, or behind closed doors. But that's not what he said. It's almost like MEE is simply propaganda, not any kind of credible journalism.

[scooperdipoop]

“Maybe he meant to kill them all but because he didn’t explicitly say so the journalists reporting deserve to die”

[jraker4]

You get it! It really is easy to just make up shit and put those words in someone else's mouth and attack them for it. Thank you for demonstrating your understanding of a concept you've long had mastery in:)

[scooperdipoop]

I get what needs to be gotten. I hope you do too.

[jraker4]

I know you do. You're stupid, but not so stupid to fail to recognize 'hey, this article is inaccurately reporting what this Israeli journalist said', because to you lying about Je-excuse me, Israelis-is fine and dandy. You could say simply 'this reporting is a lie, but I believe Yehezkeli really does support the murder of Palestinian journalists-he's using coded language, or his politics make that clear, etc.' The irony here is that I might even agree with you there, if you said that-because I'm not sure he doesn't. Hamas absolutely, as a matter of factual record, infiltrates legitimate civilian roles such as journalism with-but at the same time, not an ethical stance to say 'ALL Palestinian journalists are Hamas'. But because this is really just an exercise in justifying bigotry for you, while also virtue-signalling, you'll just pretend this 'reporting' by MEE isn't lying. It doesn't matter if Yehezkeli actually does endorse the murder of all Palestinian journalists, MEE didn't say that. They said that he said he supports that, and that's a lie.

[scooperdipoop]

So this isn’t him?

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023:

Or this?

September 2018:

[jraker4]

That has...what to do with the MEE's reporting, exactly? Or is it meant to argue that Yehezkeli is a bad person? He sounds pretty bad, by my lights, but then I never said or suggested* he was good. Though I will say from these quotes here, his badness is completely within the range of ordinary human awfulness in bitterly divisive conflicts throughout history. You pick a war, and there will be hundreds of not thousands people saying things just like 'kill `em all right away'. *Though on the basis of someone else, I communicated my meaning badly there, so the 'suggested' gets an asterisk.

[scooperdipoop]

His badness indicates a larger pattern of dehumanization. His platforms allows the spread of dehumanizing ideas and culture.

That is how genocide begins.

[jraker4]

So, two things there: one, according to you, Israel has been perpetuating a genocide against Palestinians for over seventy years so...'begins'? So I guess now the started with this man's career? Second: none of that has anything to do with whether it's a good idea, or good journalistic practice, for MEE to be misleading about what he claimed. Good or even decent journalism would have been to report 'here is what this Israeli journalist said, and here's why that's bullshit', instead of headlining with him listing one attribute of people good for the Israeli military to kill when there were two. It could've been a look into how prone to abuse such claims are, and why people everywhere should look at them and demand verification (they weren't just journalists, they were undeclared militants). Not that I would ever expect that of MEE, either.

[scooperdipoop]

Do you believe then that the solution to the question of what’s really going on is to let independent journalists investigate?

[byjove]

Something that gets left out of discussions about the US’s history with Israel and support for Zionism is that the US supported Israel because they didn’t want Jewish people in the US. That is a fundamental thing at the center of the US’s historical support for establishment of the state of Israel. There was a huge wave of Jewish immigrants from Europe to America during the late 19th and early 20th century because of the political unrest and rising antisemitism in Europe. This caused a rise in antisemitism in the US with prominent figures like Henry Ford spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. The US restricted policies that would allow Jewish refugees to relocate to the US to escape Hitler’s regime between 1938 and 1941. The US support of Israel was because the US was antisemitic and not because they had so much sympathy for the persecution of Jewish people that they wanted to create a ‘safe homeland’ for them. They wanted them to go anywhere BUT the US.

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆 👆 👆

[nourasbasha]

Christian Priests and Nuns Refuse To Leave Gaza City Despite Apartheid israel’s Planned Offensive, during the US-backed genocide

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[shimaa206]

Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people

Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people Stop STARVING PALESTINIAN people

[scooperdipoop]

@jraker4 👆

[scarz-xo]

It kills me how everyday the posts and content about Palestine decrease because of how many people are getting killed everyday.

It also kills me how many stopped boycotting or has never even tried to boycott.

Somethings are so small to do and easy yet people don't even bother when it's a genocide that has been going and going and going not since October 7th but for decades.