ralphio

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[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Asked about those findings on Monday, Miller noted that Israel said there were no tanks in the area, and that the State Department couldn’t attest to any particularities because it is only conveying what Israel has said.

The Washington Post previously confirmed there were armed military vehicles in the vicinity, as did Al Jazeera’s analysis of satellite imagery.

Most expansive intelligence apparatus on the globe, but they just can't figure out what's going on in Gaza.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Good for a dem primary, literal cancer for a general. That said I think this is safe district.

What's really gonna sink Bowman in this primary is all that AIPAC money.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. And the subheading I really have a problem with.

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it.

The implication being that it's low stakes to make this accusation without solid evidence. In reality the whole justification from the West for the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine is that Arabs are a bunch of backwards savages, and this extends to the way the West has acted throughout the Middle East.