Good question. It’s unfortunately difficult because it requires some knowledge of history and since there’s a cycle of back and forth violence (which most media only reports the latest episode and not what prompted it), it’s hard to follow the big picture.
This sort of depends on what you're looking for.
Do you just want a listing of facts with no analysis? Probably Reuters or Associated Press (AP).
Do you want facts and context and minor analysis (like historical comparisons, etc.)? That's gonna be BBC and NPR/PBS. Maybe The Economist.
If you want deeper analysis or opinion... That's gonna be tricky. Probably Al Jazeera, The Guardian (maybe), ... I dunno if it's possible to find one balanced need source that will have in depth analysis or opinion. Probably best to pick two that are about the same distance from "neutral" in either direction.
I do like Al Jazeera for an alternate perspective from the Western media taking points, but I wouldn't necessarily call them unbiased particularly when it comes to this conflict.
That being said, I highly recommend their documentary series Al Nakba which is a documentary series about the founding of Israel from the Palestinian perspective.
I've found ground.news' layout quite useful in sutuations like this.
Seems like a neat website
Just read the news from both sides and ask yourself what's the most logical explanation when you combine those two sources.
It's the closest you'll get to an objective truth as there is one in a conflict older that any other conflict I am currently aware of.
Nowhere.
There's definitely places to get unbiased news, but each side is likely to hide information.
In general, there are a couple good resources that show bias in different news sources, you can check those out.
Neutrality isn't a thing. Everything written about something as contentious as this is propaganda.
For attempts to be neutral, try Western mainstream media or Wikipedia (which mostly just summarizes Western mainstream media anyway).
For one sided propaganda for Israel, try https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/
For one sided propaganda for Palestine, try https://mondoweiss.net/
Read all those and choose for yourself what parts of which sides you want to believe. Or don't. You can also live in peace and happiness knowing that the conflict exists without thinking about it too much because in the end it doesn't really matter what you think about it anyway.
I've been a cord cutter for a long time and I enjoyed watching world news on Al Jazeera for a long time. While I definitely enjoyed their content as an alternative to the celebrity fluff filled US cable news, it's definitely biased against Israel when it comes to this conflict. However, I would still recommend everyone watch Al Nakba which is streaming for free with no ads on their website. It's a four episode documentary series about the founding of Israel with primary accounts of what happened in the ground there from Arabs, Israelis, and British officers.
It's probably very biased and one-sided, but the rest of the media is very biased and one-sided in the other direction.
For example, Wikipedia says that the 1948 war was started by the Arabs once Israel declared a state. In Al Nakba, they challenge that narrative with first-hand accounts from Arabs and British officers who say that it was the Israelis who started the war through ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages, in some cases before the British even left.
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