why does everyone call it the israel hamas war when the PFLP and DFLP and PLF etc are fighting as well? (hexbear.net)

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Title. it makes no sense, but i assume it's a subtle way to paint the war as a religion thing as Hamas is islamic to distract the focus from colonialism and apartheid.

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[-] magi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easier to use a boogieman to scare people with. Also makes it easy to obfuscate what's happening, especially when people don't think critically and just get spoonfed whatever the press tells them.