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Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel following rising tensions (apnews.com)

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[+] lemmus@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago

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[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Only the best democracies ban journalists. Ask anybody!

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Is this a set forward or backward from their previous stance of just kill them?

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, this smells of orange filth.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've had a conspiracy theory about Netanyahu and why he's been pushing into Gaza so hard. He and his party know that what they're doing is unpalatable for most western liberal and left-wing voters, meaning liberals and left-wing politicians are more likely to be(come) critical and cut off aid to Israel than their right-wing counterparts. Biden, as infuriatingly slow as he is, seems to be gradually becoming less and less supportive of Israel, while iirc Trump (or at least his allies) has talked about going all-in on Gaza.

If you're Netanyahu, the idea of your largest ally potentially dropping support and cutting off aid is a scary thing, especially when you're surrounded by countries that want you dead. Wouldn't you try to influence the politics of your allies to swing in your favor?

As such, I have a suspicion that Netanyahu and his party are not only using the genocide to stay in power, but also as a poison pill for western liberal and left-wing politicial allies. The intent being to make liberal allies like Biden unpalatable to their voter base so that there is a decreased liberal voter turnout to tip the scales in favor of politicians like Trump.

Or more simply, I think it's possible Netanyahu is using Gaza to stab foreign liberal politicians in the back and skew voter turnout in favor of politicians who are less likely to grow a conscience. I think that's why it is that every time Biden "draws a line", Netanyahu puts his toe over it and says, "nyah, nyah, nyahnyah nyah, I'm not liisteeeeniiiiing." It's not just to keep himself in power, it's also a way of influencing his allies' elections.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The conspiracy is a lot simpler. Bibi is in serious, serious shit with many Israeli voters except for, Right-Wing, Zionist, many religious and some moderate Jews. He is looking at possible removal and even jail time for corruption and blatant abuse of power. Not the first time. He tried to weaken their Judicial Branch, too, by removing some of their powers last year. Gee... I wonder why? There were protests Re: that in Israel that did not get a lot of airtime in the West but you can find lots of footage if you look for it. At this point both the Biden admin and the GOP speak a lot of different BS but in the end they both are folding like a house of cards to their masters, I mean moneyed interests and lobbyists. Just look at what they are both doing, laws they are passing or gave just passed, and what they are 'not' stopping. Both DNC and GOP are also voting to send even more money to Israel. BLM protests? Let entire city blocks run to the groundfor months. Looting weekend in and weekend out for months . Cops take a knee on command. Pro-Palestinian protests? Sent snipers to rooftoops, send swat teams right always, and try to shut down TikTok. Also, what is with trying to manipulate pro-Palestian sentiment into anti-zionism? Not the same thing. Reasonable people can see this.

This is what they say: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/antisemitism-conspiracy-theories-tiktok/678088/

This is what they actually push for: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/185blg7/its_time_to_ban_tik_tok/

https://forward.com/fast-forward/590156/tiktok-ban-congress-antisemitism/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/major-us-jewish-group-backs-bipartisan-bill-that-could-see-tiktok-banned/

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-773817

Removing the Palestinians from Gaza would be a major victory for him and this party and in some circles Bibi would go into the history books for 'bringing all of Israel back,' he is hoping this will safeguard him from any Legal Liabilities. In fact he is aiming for the opposite. We know he wants the Palestinians/Gaza shipped elsewhere, anywhere. Biden and some other leaders are already looking into taking some. The West Bank will be next. He will claim that there are terrorists there or Hama's and will try to push for more subjugation or worse, removal.

At this point, both the DNC and GOP will do Israel's bidding. The DNC will just be more careful to not be as blatantly obvious. I really do not think they care who wins. Albeit granted Trump is more obvious with his support on the surface.

The big end game is for Bibi's party to stay in power and Bibi thinks this move will keep in jail and likely the opposite, be remembered as a Hero for the cause if he removes the Gazans and takes over the land. Which he likely or at least partly get if he succeeds.

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[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 104 points 1 year ago

You know you are on the right side of history when you censor Journalism.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago

Don't you see, this is just woke fake news journalism!! (meaning, journalism I disagree with)

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

About as good as any other definition of the word. I feel we are a term or two away from Idiocracy .

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

We disagree in that I feel we've been there for a couple or few decades.

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We've been there at least since Reagan.

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In the U.K. we have declared ourselves tired of experts.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago

Israel has lost all of my respect in the last year

[-] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

They should never have had your respect in the first place....

[-] bear@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 year ago

When people recognize they were wrong about something, as smugly satisfying as it may be it's not actually helpful to tell them that they should have been correct sooner.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's about being smug. It's about pointing out the important fact that none of this is new except the scale. Divide by 100-1000 and this is just daily life in Palestine.

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[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago

And just like with Russia, my soul bleeds for the people who have nothing to do with this...

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

At least in Russia the elections were fake

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Kung-Fu is strong

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Two years after israel closed the Aljazeera offices in Gaza

[-] card797@champserver.net 53 points 1 year ago

Can't have them recording information about their genocide.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What was the prompt?

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu is Hitler

[-] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

A sign of weakness for sure

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Well this inspires confidence in the Netanyahu Administration.

Unfortunately it's nothing new. They've already banned journalists in any place they could get anything revealing human rights abuses. If anything it's a portent of further Likud-led fascism cracking down hard within the borders of Israel itself.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

This is what fascist dictatorships do. Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Only wants to hear how great israel is

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

"But I did not do anything, because I am not a journalist, and neither are they, really, and the thing they wear on their head is really dumb, unlike the thing we wear on our heads."

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

An Al Jazeera correspondent on its Arabic service said the order would affect the broadcaster’s operations in Israel and in east Jerusalem, where it has been doing live shots for months since the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war in Gaza.

The decision threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza, along with Egypt and the United States.

Relations took a major downturn nearly two years ago when Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.

Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout the war, broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and accusing Israel of massacres.

While Al Jazeera’s English operation often resembles the programming found on other major broadcast networks, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.

Sunday’s development immediately recalled Egypt’s shutdown of Al Jazeera after the country’s 2013 military takeover following mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group.

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