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Following Israeli rebuke, Palestinian Authority foreign ministry deletes claim from social media that the Oct. 7 rave massacre was committed by the IDF
  • The Palestinian Authority somehow took a more extreme position than both Hamas and the Israeli police.

    The facts are that helicopters were used to indiscriminately target people in the kill zone and likely killed Israeli civilians, but the helicopters were by no means the only cause of casualties in Re'im. To claim that helicopters killed all 364 people doesn't pass the sniff test.

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    Israel says 55-metre fortified tunnel found under Gaza's Shifa hospital
  • MBFC, well-known in journalism circles for being an "armchair academic" and for reliance on the very subjective assessments they're trying to suss out.

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    Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital
  • MBFC doesn't even have a methodology for scoring. There's no formula and it's entirely a subjective grading.

    Their scores are worse than useless

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    Heavy fighting breaks out around another Gaza hospital after babies evacuated from Shifa
  • Do we know anything about the founder of MBFC, Dave Van Zandt, other than what he's claimed? No, not really. Why, then, are we trusting his word on everything?

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    Israel's lack of a strategy is the strategy
  • MBFC again and again. Do we know anything about MBFC that isn't published on the MBFC site? Nobody knows who Dave Van Zandt is. His only credentials are: he's registered as non-affiliated, he's interested in politics, he has a physiology degree and works in healthcare, he has a "keen eye," he's been "doing this for a long time," and he has a website.

    His methodology is entirely subjective and his primary source of credibility is that people like you use his site.

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    Middle East In Beijing, Arab and Muslim ministers urge end to Gaza war
  • Their methodology is arbitrary to the point of being incoherent.

    Now, maybe if you could find this guy's credentials it might give him a bit more credence. Oh, that's right. You can't.

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    Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale
  • I mean, it's a bit of both. At the end of the day, the idea of democracy isn't to flip flop between fascist regimes that imprison each other, right?

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    Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7
  • It's really not. MBFC is run by a single guy. It's methodology is basically worthless. It's basically one dude's opinion on what news sources he likes to read.

    What do we know about that guy? Not much. He happens to share the same name as a very prominent lawyer/professor, which makes finding details about him very challenging.

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