This is one particular instance where I’d be okay with a politician going back on his word/ folding from a threat. Gaza already has Biden in hot water, and getting our troops involved in a direct conflict with Iran, after FINALLY getting out of Afghanistan, is just gonna make things worse, dammit. Put more money into green energy so we can finally stop getting involved in the middle east, PLEASE.
Over the last eight months, Israel has killed at least 37,765 people and injured another 86,429, according to the ministry’s latest figures. These numbers are likely an undercount due to the decimated medical infrastructure, killed medical workers, and thousands feared trapped under the rubble in Gaza.
Was there a debate in Congress? Did they reason their vote?
The closing paragraphs in the article paint a bleak light. None of reason or arguments. Only denial and dismissal of opposition/different views without any reasoning.
How are they concealing it? I have heard news reports citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s claims of tens of thousands of casualties since the war began. I believe they are correct (how many are non-combatants is debatable).
Anyone who is paying even a little bit of attention knows that many civilians are getting killed. Only a small minority seem to care.
" On Thursday, lawmakers voted 269-144 on an amendment to prohibit the State Department from citing statistics from the Gaza Health Ministry. "
Their death toll numbers have been very accurate in the past. The Defense department has also cited them.
No other group is allowed to enter Gaza (by Israel) to independently verify the death toll. Gaza Health Ministry is the only reliable source. This bill effectively censors the Gaza death toll.
Indeed, the only thing WhatsApp-specific in this story is that WhatsApp engineers are the ones pointing out this attack vector and saying someone should maybe do something about it. A lot of the replies here don’t seem to understand that this vulnerability applies equally to almost all messaging apps - hardly any of them even pad their messages to a fixed size, much less send cover traffic and/or delay messages. 😦
Younger viewers attend to social media, which amplifies outrage and doesn’t have the benefit of an editor or trained journalist staff doing fact checking; only fringe TV outlets run with the loaded/emotional slant that is seen in typical short-form social media content.
Additionally, social media is chock full of (and, in TikTok’s case, controlled by) propaganda actors - usually operating on behalf of regimes such as the CCP and Russian government, who field well-known efforts to tarnish the reputation of the US and its allies.
For example, here on Lemmy, posters like Linkerbaan submit sometimes 20 or more anti-US and anti-Israel articles a week from anywhere they can find them - often comprising their sole activity on the network. There is little balance there.
Another thing - cable TV news viewership is dominated by Fox News, with almost double the ratings of MSNBC and triple the ratings of CNN. Any analysis that lumps all cable viewers together will be describing mostly Fox News viewers.
They’re seemingly a far lot more trustworthy than the bullshit you post. I mean… is there anyone on lemmy that gets banned for misinformation more than you?
You consider anything that supports genocide to be trustworthy.
And isn’t your whole thing attacking the mods because they don’t immediately censor anything that disagrees with your singular devotion to the support of genocide? Why are mod actions suddenly trustworthy to you?
I consider anything that acknowledges nuance to be at least worthy of some trust. Unlike people like you, I don’t blindly buy into outrage just because the other kids in school do. Then again, I’ve been through this shit before so I get how it works.
As I’ve said. I know this has been explained to you before. I’ve seen it done. Many times. So I’m not going to waste my time repeating it here so that you can just continue on with your bullshit false accusations as if I never set you straight on it. It’s just not worth the effort. You’ll never admit you are wrong.
It’s easier just to call you out for what you’re doing.
Nice try kiddo. We’re done here. Be sure to award yourself the “w” because I refuse to waste my time educating you as others have tried and failed in the past.
Because that’s how internet rules of debate work- until you grow up.
Okay, I’m going to give you the opportunity to have the last word because frankly, you’re boring the shit out of me. You’re clearly a troll, and while knowing this from the start, I thought I’d entertain your nonsense for a bit and see what you’re about. Turns out…. You’re about nothing at all.
So here’s the deal. You go ahead and give it your best shot. Try your little heart out to say something that demands a response, and we’ll see if it works.
The bill also contains a long-standing provision that would limit aid to the Palestinian Authority, which governs the occupied West Bank, if “the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court (ICC) judicially authorized investigation, or actively supports such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.”
What the fuck… this is coercion. Banning a certain category of people from access to courts does have a precedent though, in 1930s Germany.
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