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In reply to the discussion: No longer defending Israel [View all]Beastly Boy
(9,652 posts)They are no more journalists than Tokyo Rose or Alex Jones or James O'Keefe. How many North Koreans would you consider legitimate journalists? Or Russians working for the Kremlin news agency? They delegitimized themselves precisely by the virtue of their affiliation with illegitimate employers they worked for. And it has to do with THEIR choice, which was not subject to IDF restrictions.
So why pretend that the 48 insiders listed in your source who, by choice, generated propaganda for terrorist groups while employed by these same terrorist groups whose often articulated war strategy was to generate and spread propaganda as a weapon of war, are legitimate journalists? Why pretend that who they work for doesn't matter? Why pretend that them delegitimizing their status is equivalent to me delegitimizing their deaths?
Because unless you pretend, your premise of "Since Israel has managed to kill almost 100 journalists in Gaza getting accurate news is a bit of a problem" comes apart. And then, their illegitimacy as journalists "just because who they work for" becomes obvious. And then your challenge to me "to look more carefully at the reasons why the IDF is so intent on restricting news coverage in Gaza" becomes contrived. And lumping those propagandist insiders chosen for their biases with "outside sources reporting what is going on" becomes laughable. And conflating the employees of Hamas, the terrorist group that started the war in the first place and who claimed the suffering of Gazan civilians to be their objective with "the people suffering from the war" becomes obscene. And pretending that IDF declaring a war zone in a war zone just so they could restrict the news coverage in a war zone and not because there was fighting going on in the war zone, becomes conspicuously resembling a conspiracy theory.
And then, unless you pretend, the whole contraption of an argument you are proposing falls down to the ground.