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Western leaders accused of hypocrisy over response to Palestine, Ukraine

www.aljazeera.com West accused of ‘double standard’ over responses to Palestine, Ukraine

Social media users, including journalists and observers, are calling out what they call a sense of hypocrisy.

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World News @lemmy.world Western leaders accused of hypocrisy over response to Palestine, Ukraine

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No one should care what the government of Qatar thinks is hypocrisy.

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- Dismiss the entire idea because of the publication it comes from (which has been know for posting things that other news outlets won’t cover). Smart.
  
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  A false equivalence? Sure, I'll always dismiss that.
  
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- ok, I could look this up, but I’m asking you instead. Why is Israel’s behaviour over the last 10 years in Gaza more justified than Russia’s?
  
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  Because Ukraine isn't run by a government composed of people dedicated to eliminating Russia as a nation? Because Ukraine doesn't attack Russian civilians? Because Ukraine isn't a terrorist organization bent on literal genocide? Because Israel hasn't occupied any portion of Gazan territory since 2005?
  
  FAFO is what's going on here for the Gazans. They fucked around, now they're finding out. I have many criticisms of Israeli policy, but Hamas are uncivilized barbarians, murderous thugs it's impossible to negotiate with.
  
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- No one should care what the government of USA thinks is hypocrisy.
  
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- The differences in support between Ukraine and Palestine really demonstrates how geopolitical actors act purely in self interest. They may talk about oppressed peoples and freedom and autonomy and all that, but when it comes to choosing sides it’s always about self interest.
  
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  Yes, yes, let's all have sympathy for the genocidal terrorists in Gaza! If we only let all of them into Israel and allow them to murder or ethnically cleanse every single Jew in Israel and Palestine, there'll be peace.
  
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Aljazeera is not a legitimate source, specifically regarding this conflict and the Israeli Palestinian problem. If you intentionally are choosing this source aware of that you're being intellectually disingenuous.

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- What makes them illegitimate? That they express a viewpoint that is opposed to the American-Israeli one?
  
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  They are state owned by Qatar and have an agenda that clearly and demonstrably biases their coverage. It exists explicitly to further the interest of Qatar.
  
  If you're unclear why that makes it an illegitimate news source on the Israeli Palestian conflict, then I'm not sure how to help you.
  
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  Generally they are a pretty good news source for anything not Middle East related.
  
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Europe and US like to accuse others of everything. But they, strangely, don't like to be accused themselves in anything

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