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Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary (reutersconnect.com)
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FWIW, Naza appears to be a fairly in depth documentary where Israeli soldiers give detailed accounts on how the Gaza war worked from the inside, including expansive targets, and well known high civilian death toll.

The immediate response to the 10/7 infiltration attack was extremely lethal to Israelis as well, something not well covered outside of Israeli media.

28 helicopters emptied their internal stores of 30mm autocannon and Hellfires that day, with many RTB to rearm/refuel, all of them at dense Israeli territory. Seven of them dumped their entire stores into Moshav Tkuma. To this day all deaths there are tallied to the infiltrators, with the exception of Efrat Katz. Rapid bulldozer burial of damaged vehicles and buildings was also performed, as the damage from those weapons is very distinctive. Not a gesture of honesty, that.

Tanks were also instructed to fire their main armament into houses known to have civilians inside. Israeli corpses were, again, tallied to infiltrators; any non-Israeli corpses tallied as hostile.

Pilots, soldiers, tankists, and UAS operators all asked over the radio for targets that day, but were simply directed to apply maximal fires to anything that moved in a Palestinian-like way. Hannibal was cited as justification. The Israeli Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was apparently being cited over the air to justify the deaths of civilians. An extreme distortion, but one which Israelis are increasingly making their peace with, alongside many others.


This is a conspiracy that has next to no evidence to support its claims. Judging by your usage of extremely lethal im going to guess you think a significant % of the deaths that day were friendly fire. IDF have addressed both the friendly fire instances and the deaths were 14

This is the type of slop that these people like. It’s a good argument for dealing with these filmmakers harshly given the kinds of fanatical hatred and nonsense that Israel deals with at the PR level. It doesn’t need its own citizens to be fueling this type of stuff.

Who do they think they are? The United States?


Yes - this is a very important story, but the "Reuters Connect" page is completely awful.

Hey, let's present our story as a series of soundbites over emotive imagery and ominous music, that definitely evokes serious journalism.


I know it looks like an effort to deliberately fragment the narrative

Sounds very democratic...

The classic "democracy" and "freedoms" paradox.

Iran for example is accused of silencing critics, when everyone else does so as a "normal thing" but Iran is the boogeyman.

I can only imagine the level of propaganda by Israel in trying to downplay their heinous crimes....


I'm not defending Israel as the minister is clearly wrong here, but surely silencing critics by killing them (what Iran is accused of) is quite a bit more severe than removing citizenship?


How many Journalists were killed by Israel in Gaza in the last years?

Funniest comment I’ve read all day, thanks. Never seen someone make light of a government rendering someone stateless. Especially rich in the context of an apartheid state.

Are you saying your own comment is funniest your read all day? If not then I am quite confused because I never made light of anything and made it clear that it was the wrong thing to do. I just think comparing murder and removing citizenship is not a great comparison.

If anybody made light of anything it was the person I was responding to.

Israel has murdered journalists in Gaza. That would be the better comparison to Iran's actions. I don't think Israel removing citizenship has an equal comparison with anything Iran has done.



Of course this was flagged to death by hasbara.

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This site is not limited to "tech news." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Though to be fair I think this article still might not qualify.


Actually it is:

>Named for the Hebrew military acronym for collateral damage, the film speaks to 24 unidentified Israeli military and intelligence officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used by the Israeli army to bombard Gaza in the war triggered by the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vgy8d8256go


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Sounds a little fashy.

Is it not possible to want to improve one's country?


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If you have members of your country that think the country is in the wrong and you tell them “then leave the country”… it should be pretty obvious.

It should be pretty obvious what?

It’s generally a fascist viewpoint to say that dissenters should consider leaving the country.

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You've just changed your argument?

This was always my argument. They’re very obviously lying but I should have stated that in my original comment. It’s so obvious that they are lying that I forgot to state that was my position.

Thanks for owning up to being unclear about what you meant. Other people can't read your mind :)

> Can you explain to me how that’s fascism?

"We have lots of babies so it can't be fascism" is a really out-there argument I'm having trouble following. It's like posting "Turtle is purple ice cream 203-B"; I don't follow.


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> you live in a society which is non-viable

I'm not certain "start a war with half the region that gets the other friendlier half of the region's entire economic engine blown up by Iran" counts as viable in the long run.


You live in stolen land, surrounded by people that hate you (the number which is growing daily), run by genocidal thugs who are on a fascist death drive. That is non viable, pal.

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The cope is thinking Israel would survive without the fanatical material support the west gives it now.

Anyway, have fun going on about your Lebensborn. We all know how well that worked out for your predecessors.


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Tell that to the many jewish cultures that were eradicated by the Nazis in Europe.

The Holocaust only happened after there was a viable functional Jewish settlement in Israel. Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 just to give you a sense of the infrastructure that existed.

Jews are not meant to live out their lives in exile


Most Jews who died in the Holocaust were unable to go to Israel. It sounds like you are blaming people who died for being in Europe.

Our societies are both committing suicide by fascism. Do you think any country in the world will tolerate the existence of "Israel" in the wake of this genocide? I expect every single Israeli citizen who ever served in the IDF (most Israeli people) to have to face trial for conspiracy to genocide and crimes against humanity at The Hague. Participating in Israel's military apparatus has been clearly and openly genocidal since the Nakhba at least.

The birth rates in Spain actually went up briefly under fascism (Franco).

Below replacement birth rates has more to do with this sort of feminine energy that the men in western countries put out i.e. declaring things like “our societies are committing suicide by fascism”, also like “I expect [other people to take retribution for me]”. This is very feminine


“Social conditioning” does not strictly determine the birth rate of developed nations. For that you must look at economic policy making it financially untenable to build a family. What you conveniently ignore here is Israel’s own economic policy of subsidizing orthodox jewish families, which is the main source of that growth.

You've gotta be trolling I mean come on man

What has the birth rate to do with viable moral sensibility?

If you have below replacement birth rate it means that more people die than are born, meaning that eventually your society will die out. By definition this means that your system of morality is non viable, it cannot produce a society that can perpetuate itself.

> meaning that eventually your society will die out.

Because birth rates never change.

You could also say a constantly growing population isn’t viable because resources are limited and at some point overpopulation leads to a collapse.

But usually people adjust


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Because historically low birth rates were the result of diseases, famines or wars but since the birth control pill it’s a decision.

Totally different scenario.


This may have less to do with morals and more with populations adjusting their growth as needed naturally.

The population of world Jews has still not recovered from the Holocaust, and needs exponential growth to catch up.

Most other developed countries have saturated populations due to advances in medicine and life expectancy, and a downward adjustment wouldn’t hurt them, and is likely to lower the price of housing and food etc with lower demand.

As soon as those populations go below a certain point, growth will kick back in - if only because the minority of the population who do want more kids will grow faster, and it will be easier for them as resources will have become cheaper.


So Israel is a "developed world democracy", but criticism shouldn't be allowed and dissenters should be considered enemies?

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Got it, I was unsure whether you were aligned with the "Israel is a democracy" discourse coming from US senators, Netanyahu, the EU and the like (https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spokestart030717, https://euobserver.com/29231/israel-is-still-functioning-dem...) or if you had fully embraced the de-facto militaristic ethnic supremacist ideology of the state.

Your comments on "birth rates" and how western liberalism is decadent (or dare I say, "degenerate"?) make it very clear though.


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They actually do. They mean you think there's a "chosen people" that's so special that it is morally correct to exterminate other peoples through military means so that yours may thrive. The terms just express this in a condensed form.

Should zionists leave new york because they don't like the mayor?

If you are Zionist Jew then you should move to Israel, otherwise you’re not actually Zionist.

Now we're advocating ethnic cleansing of Zionist Jews from New York City?

By definition if you are a Zionist Jew you would not be living in New York or anywhere outside of Israel, if you had the means to do so which nearly all Jews do given the support from the Israeli government, they will even pay for your flight.

There are plenty of Jews that support Zionism and consider themselves Zionists that live in NY. You’re speaking from ignorance.

A definition of "zionist" that excludes Chuck Schumer is a bit odd.

Can you link a commonly accepted definition - encyclopedia, dictionary, what have you - saying that it requires immediate migration?


Chuck Schumer supported sanctions against Ben Gvir and Smotrich and various other hostile actions during the Biden administration.

That's the "Turtle is purple ice cream 203-B" thing again. It's flatly non-responsive to the question.

No, that's not the "definition".

Zionist isn't an ethnicity, similar to how Nazi isn't an ethnicity.

> similar to how Nazi isn't an ethnicity

The people super-focused on "Aryan heritage" didn't have an ethnic bent?

Huh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_racial_theories


Aryan would be a distinctly different category than Nazi. Similar to how Jew is a distinctly different category than Zionist. Please try to keep up.

What would you say the average ethnicity of a Nazi typically was?

You could also be "volksdeutsch". Like slavik people from former German territory or at least German influenced. They could be proper Nazis but with for instance polish background. Don't ask me how it actually works out but you asked...

Some would have been Aryan, but you'd be naive to assume Nazism has exclusively white Aryan followers. And anyway, It doesn't matter. Ethnicity and political beliefs are categorically different things. You're engaging in an antisemitic trope by conflating Israeli and Jewish values.

Oh, come on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

> Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating in the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah.

If the US forcibly kicked Jews out of NYC, it'd be ethnic cleansing. No one would contest that description.


Was it ethnic cleansing the way we persecuted and prosecuted Nazis post WW2? Despite them mostly making up and representing the Aryan ethnic group? Zionism is a political position distinctly different to Judaism.

Let me ask you a question - Can we ascribe blame to all Jews if the state of Israel were to do something bad?


> Was it ethnic cleansing the way we persecuted and prosecuted Nazis post WW2?

No, just as it wouldn't be ethnic cleansing to evict one Jewish person. We convicted a relatively tiny handful of Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger eventually served as chancellor of West Germany!

> Can we ascribe blame to all Jews if the state of Israel were to do something bad?

Certainly not. But kicking them all out of NYC would still be ethnic cleansing!


They're both Israeli. Why should they leave their country? The right move is to expose the evils and try to improve it.

You are confusing the current government with Israel.

It’s the same as with the USA, the current government isn’t the USA.


You will find that 95% of Israelis support the actions of the IDF in this war regardless of how they feel about Netanyahu or his coalition.

its a bit above 80% really.



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