Why the quotation marks? It is a war crime.
Because it's actually a quotation.
I know this is the internet, but quotation marks weren't always just meant to denote insincerity...
Nobody ever likes this answer, but it’s the truth.
Really makes you think.
Quotation marks denote a quotation.
Quotation marks denote a "quotation"
But what do they connotate?
Often news sources make sure anything that could make their news source look bad, like controversial topics, are someone else's exact words that they quote so you can't be mad at them for calling it a “war crime”...
Gaza throws a rock at Israel. Israel kills millions in fair retribution!
I’m curious how this will play out in the future. Will Israel ever be sentenced for these atrocities, and will these atrocities create a huge wave of terrorists/freedom-fighters that’ll kill thousands of Israelis?
History tells us probably not. Did the US pay anything for the extermination of native americans? Or for the generations of people who lived in slavery? Did Turkey pay for the Armenian genocide? Did Russia pay for the millions of people killed in gulags and the Holodomor?
Did the US pay anything for the extermination of native americans? Or for the generations of people who lived in slavery
Yes and yes, just an fyi. Though, literal, monetary payment. And to not many of them.
why are "war crime" and "executed" in quotes here? I guess I just don't understand journalism
If they do not use quote marks MBFC gets big mad for quoting Gazans and not mainstream news outlets which are not allowed into Gaza.
It can be deflective, or a foreign news style of having quotes around exact language. I noticed it with the BBC World News.
It's still deflective. Saying someone else called these events a war crime is distancing their news agency from calling it that even as they spell out details of an event that's a war crime
You just don't know how quotes work. If they wanted to ve deflective, they would not quote at all.They are at freedpm with the title. They choose executed and they display it is more than just their own opinion.
'Israel' has no problem doing war crimes or any kind of crimes, really.
Israel is a terrorist state and the United States is a state-sponsored of terrorism.
There are no occupying non-combatants in occupied territories.
False. Children are non combatants.
Not how theyve been treated though.
By whom?
Israel, numbnuts..
Touché
With the help of your government
We do not forgive, we will not forget. It may take a while but Israeli war criminals WILL pay for their crimes.
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