Israel isn’t at war in the West Bank. They are at war with Hamas, in Gaza. So ‘full annexation’ is not possible in this current war. Although I do think there is the possibility of Israel expelling Palestinians in Gaza and taking the entire territory for themselves.
Well… not lemmy.world/c/world that is for sure. I’d check the mod logs for any community you find to see how bias they are about reporting the news and which comments they allow and dont allow.
Stumbled across that post and went to the mod log and saw everyone banned for 338 years and all of the mod logs show the comments as edited instead of deleted. Kind of stinks of mod abuse. But there is no way to tell because the comments weren’t delete they were modified which completely defeats the purpose of the mod log.
I don’t think that’s what happened, my browser’s language is in Italian and I don’t see “deleted by mod”, but the Italian for it. Though I still can’t find them in the modlog so I’m still confused.
If you look at the mod log for that community ( lemmy.world/modlog/2840 ) they appear. They just dont appear in the lemmy.world mod log. So it’s significantly less suspicious… but its also obvious that c/world has an anti Israel bias. The one guy got banned for 338 years for posting facts that are not necessarily pro-Israel. I can even understand deleting all the comments since pal-israel is such of hot button topic. But the 338 year bans seem like a ridiculous overstep.
Ah well, I blocked the community. If they cant provide unbiased news I’ve got no room for them.
Oh there’s a community-specific log, I didn’t know, that makes things much easier.
Anyway, they only banned two users and it doesn’t seem they were posting “facts”, one of them commented something that, googling a bit, seems disputed by various sources, and I’m not sure about the other one because they made three comments in the thread but only one shows in the community modlog.
In any case yeah, not really a good sign to ban two people for 338 years without explicit reasons given.
What do you mean anti-semitism? Some comments were talking about both current crimes of the Israeli state against Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that was committed at the birth of Israel as a contemporary state, and other comments were defending Israel. You can still see them in the moderation log. When you claim that denouncing ethnic cleasing is anti-semitism you’re spitting on the victims of the Holocaust.
denouncing ethnic cleansing is fine, it’s just that there is no ethnic cleansing in israel to denounce ffs, just now there was a huge operation against terrorists in jenin in which not a single civilian died! when you denounce a non-existent ethnic cleansing… that’s anti-semitism
edit: PS notice how the only ones banned were the ones defending israel
Being against violent, racist, and fascist israeli action is not anti-semitic. When a white christian stands up and says they want a pure christian nation we all talk about how absurd it is. But when someone jewish says the same thing anyone who questions that obviously flawed statement is suddenly an antisemite. I get it Israel has a long and violent history and much of that was perpetrated by their neighbors that does not in any way excuse their behaviour.
Some of the comments were going too far down the flamewar route, but a bunch of comments that were neutral were also deleted. I wish we could get a reason from the mods on this.
By the looks of things, one or more mods decided to delete all comments in the thread. I don’t think that’s something that should never be done, but it should require enough transparency to disclosing the reasons.
You should be able to view source to see the comment that was deleted but the mods actually edited the comments to read “deleted by mod” in order to hide the reason for deleting the comments. That to me seems like an abuse of the mod log system.
Actually no. Indian democracy has a clear division of power as per the constitution divided between the state and central government, which is followed very religiously. The ruling party is actually quite popular among the people when it comes to national election, but the same party gets proper ass whopping in a lot of state assembly elections. Indian democracy crumbling is a false narrative that is peddled by a lot of western media, but the reality is there is no strong opposition to the ruling party at national level, but at state level a lot of regional parties decimate the central ruling party.
The prime minister’s anti-democratic behavior has accelerated over time. In the past year alone, Modi’s government has:
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<span style="color:#323232;">Expelled the leader of the opposition party, Rahul Gandhi, from parliament after he was sentenced to two years of prison for allegedly defaming the prime minister with a joke.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Taken over one of the few remaining independent television stations through a crooked billionaire ally.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Created an official panel empowered to take down social media posts critical of the government.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sent tax officials to raid the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, a move widely seen as retaliation for a documentary critical of Modi.
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I don’t have a lot of knowledge on Indian political system but this seems like a pretty clear indication of them trying to make the country less democratic. The West doesn’t have any grudges towards India and I certainly don’t benefit one bit from badmouthing India but this does seem like control is being taken away from Indian citizens
Don’t like Modi one bit but it’s far from death of democracy. BJP is getting their ass kicked in many state elections. It’s just that the opposition parties are incompetent af even with their marketing. People haven’t forgotten Congress’s corruption that happened over the years and Modi knows how to maintain a persona.
@WithoutReason the Middle East is a disaster. Each country is choosing a flavor of religious ethno-fascism and going with it. The Palestinians deserve better. Honestly, the people of Israel deserve better too.
Really wondering what's the plan to get Russia out of Ukraine AND stop them from continuing. Someone is benefiting from the war continuing (military industrial companies obvious), otherwise Putin would have been binladen'd already
Same here, Russia has been digging in for months now. This war is starting to resemble WW1 in a lot of ways where offensives are almost prohibitively expensive in lives and equipment.
We are a bit beyond the earth’s carrying capacity for generating this type of energy. I don’t know how you balance industry with a need for such rapid change.
It's a huge problem, there's so much more economic and political inertia behind fossil fuels than most people thought existed. Looks like the only way to really balance industry with rapid change is for governments to intervene and to incrementally make fossil fuels unprofitable and then to allow the market to adjust on its own.
Problem is, that adjustment will take time - and we are quickly running out of time.
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