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Israel's justification is that, strictly speaking, you can't commit an "unlawful rise" against an *unlawful combatant*. If the enemy isn't abiding by laws of war, they're not **protected** by laws of war, either. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I have seen countless people claiming that Hamas hasn’t used civilian shields or civilian locations and saying that it just Israel saying these things to make Hamas look bad and justify the killing of Palestinian civilians.
That may not be what YOU believe, but that is a very widely held belief | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The hostages don’t secure anything. If the IDF is coming they’re gonna kill any hamas they see whether the hostage is alive or not. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I’m not surprised. Fuck Hamas. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That has always been their orders. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The US failure to eradicate the Taliban was greatly impacted by
\* Distance. Having to maintain a logistics train from half the world away is incredibly difficult and expensive
\* Culture differences. The vast majority of Americans involved from the leadership to the boots on the ground had literally zero understanding of the cultures they were dealing with at the start of the effort, and many still had almost zero understanding by the end.
\* Area of Operations. The Taliban soldiers and their leadership were dispersed over a wide geographic area
None of those three points are true with Israel dealing with neighbors who almost exclusively occupy a single strip of land and who have a very close culture to many people from Israel because a decent chunk of Israeli citizens literally come from Arabic countries themselves within the last few generations. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
And school textbooks glorifying the murder of Jews and death as a martyr. And the paycheck of people who ended up keeping hostages. And funding for buildings that were used as Hamas command centers. And cement for their tunnels. And food rations for Hamas. And I suppose *some* food that was sold to civilians despite being supposed to be distributed for free, which in turn funds their weapons, but we are supposed to act like there is no alternative besides knowingly arming a terrorist organization. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Inhumane beasts with a death wish. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Don't worry, the warnings are not ignored. Hamas uses them to know where to put their women, children, and camera teams. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
COMMUNICADO OFFICAL: TERRORISTAS | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
COMMUNICADO OFFICAL: TERRORISTAS | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
the PR aspect of this has been amazing to analyze and will provide studies for generations (if we’re still around and studying that long)
the internet information war is wild. some people have no ability to discern anything for themselves now and it’s obvious. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I'm not saying that there arent anyone who claims stuff like that. I'm just saying that those people are used to discredit everyone who are just looking out for innocent civilians. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Well, forced guests. I don't know about you but when I have guests over they are free to leave whenever they'd like. Also, I don't SA guests who don't explicitly request it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
It’s not a question of whether it’s easier. It’s a question of expense. Hamas needs weapons, weapons, and more weapons. They’re converting sewer pipes into rockets. They need all of their resources committed to killing. Uniforms and patches aren’t important to them. They probably also don’t *care* if they’re treated in accord with the GC. Anybody who imagines that Hamas might possibly expect to be treated in accordance with the GC has a total misunderstanding about Hamas. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Write to Aja court?
https://www.icj-cij.org/home
Maybe like this Aha remember to be over the two/three side. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
This story comes to you according to Israel lol | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Yes, that's how hostages work. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Yep, and it just keeps spiraling down until you get to the part where you ask, "What is Israel supposed to do?", and their inevitable answer is blank stare or "stop existing". | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Unfortunately for them, their "supporters" are poor college kids and useful idiots with no money while conservatives and pro-Israel Democrats do. Biden's Whitehouse is only paying lip service to his base because it's election year. We all know a ceasefire isn't going to happen until one side can't fire anymore. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
And shot them onsite
to keep the journalist and doctor from killing the hostages. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
i hope there were also braindead college kids protesting with the same line. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
done | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Apparently he wrote an op Ed for them but was not a regular paid contributor or staffer. He did write for other publications | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I understand the people who the hostages captive at gunpoint are being paid by hamas who get their funding from their supporters. Is there a lump sum payment for murdering the hostages. If the IDF approaches? A thousand shekels each maybe? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
rofl, sure. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Perfidy. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Because the facts don't matter when one side is only cherry picking the parts that support the bias and propaganda narrative to get empathetic and uninformed people to support Hamas | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Welcome to war, unless Hamas should have announced their intentions in October. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Maybe a diet devils advocate take here. But your surrender has to actually be accepted at the “on the ground level”. Killing the hostages is immoral and strategically stupid. However, no guarantee those operators breaching the building let you live anyway. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
There's no way you actually believe the IDF would Allow hamas to live if they surendered.
If Hamas don't threaten to kill the Hostages, they're basically just waiting to be found and killed. The threat of killing the hotages is an attempt to disuade Israel from engaging in rescue operations and negociate.
But it wont work because Israel would rather kill the Hostages while the REAL goal is to get rid of the palestinan population to capture and settle the Gaza strip. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That is how hostage taking traditionally works. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
My remark was cynical. Terrorists, by definition, don't pay attention to law and order. ICC or UN.
As seen on Oct 07. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
What part of "war" are people choosing not to understand? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
”Hamas can’t read so you can’t expect them to adhere to the Geneva conventions.” It’s weird how they seem intimately familiar with international law whenever it can be used to point a finger at Israel and the IDF. Pretty good work from people who apparently can’t read. Also, calling Gazans illiterate seems more insulting. Their literacy rate is in the 97-98% range btw, but keep batting for terrorists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Taking or holding hostages is not something *civilians* do, and you can't unfuck that goat.
Call them what they are, terrorists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Or if they’re in the mood, because they’re terrorists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The ones “acting as human shields” aren’t doing so by choice. There’s not really anywhere safe in Gaza to flee to, but if they try Hamas stops them. If they try to flee Gaza altogether the IDF stops them. They’re pretty much have to stay where they are and hope they don’t get hit. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
what, don't you remember all those cheers when Han Solo raped captured Imperials? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
It does not absolve them of responsibility. Plus hamas leadership is not illiterate and you don't need to be literate to be able to listen to your superior ordering you to add a bunch of green tape you your clothes. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
How are you confusing Sky News with BBC? It's written *twice* there on the screen in very clear text. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
They didn’t start the war. Hamas did, and they’ve been held captive by their will ever since they made the mistake of voting them into power. Tell me exactly how easy it is to just up and leave the only home you know? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I’d rely on Biden’s brain over Trumps brain any day.
Biden’s decades in dealing with 9/11 terrorism, war, world leaders, and US global policy is serving us much better than Trump’s dumpster fire of Diet Coke, hambudglers and cofeve. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Families who got paid by Hamas. They got what was coming to them.0 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That BBC journalist's career should end with that interview. Absolutely ridiculous. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
‘They didn’t start the war. Hamas did,’
Gazan civilians also poured across the border attacking civilians in Israel by the thousands on October 7th not just Hamas to commit atrocities.
‘They’ve been held captive by their will ever since they made the mistake of voting them into power.’
Generally shouldn’t vote in fanatical Islamists then. But what you’re saying is just straight up bullshit. Hamas were still popular in the Palestinian Territories.
‘Tell me exactly how easy it is to just up and leave the only home you know?’
Pretty fucking simple actually. Ask anyone who’s moved country. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
>The idea that it’s against the rules of war to dress as a civillian to rescue kidnapped civillains is just insane.
No. It isn't.
Do you know why?
Read the title of this post.
The concept of a "War crime" isn't the same as a normal crime.
War crimes are called that because if you do it you fuck things up for everyone.
War crimes are when one side does an underhanded tactic for a minor victory that endangers their own people and soldiers because from them on, the other side will either do the same or act knowing you are willing to stoop to that level.
The US is floating deals around to get its own hostages back without israel because by using aid trucks, and disguises, Israel made it so that if an aid truck is seen within 5 miles of a hostage, that hostage might get a gun pointed down Their throat until it leaves, in the BEST case scenario. Worst case scenario, people panic and shoot hostages whenever aid trucks appear.
If you're busy looking at the war like some kind of action movie where anything goes as long as the good guys win, you will not understand why the rules of war exist.
They're not there as suggestions or regulations.
They're red lines of "If you do this everyone will pay for it"
A soldier faking a surrender to perform a surprise rescue later on is good television.
But in real life that soldier makes it clear that the opposing side should never take prisoners and kill everyone trying to surrender.
You fuck things up for everyone.
It's a huge reason why people are criticizing Bibi for his actions and members of parliament are resigning.
Because they can see he's actively working against a resolution, making it harder for everyone in return for a few small victories when he needs it, he benefits from the occupation being longer, messier, and more complicated. They don't want to be part of the team that's fucking it up for everyone. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
No, use of the term is part of the antisemitism. The Hamasniks don't realize the jargon they are gobbling up is why they are painted as antisemitic. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You can start to understand why Israel is always hesitant to “negotiate” with Hamas.
Impossible to negotiate with a group that is so dishonourable, dishonest, immoral, and two faced.
It’s like negotiating with Putin, you know they won’t ever keep their end of the bargain and they will always always always blame you for every single thing they don’t like.
“Ceasefire” will only ever apply to one side. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The initial entry into the area they apparently were. https://abcnews.go.com/International/israeli-special-forces-dressed-palestinian-refugees-hostage-rescue/story?id=110995204#:\~:text=Israeli%20special%20forces%20were%20disguised,security%20sources%20told%20ABC%20News. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Wonder if thats what they mean by “hostages killed by IDF” | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Those are the same kids that declare everybody else a racist. So they are not naive, they are racists themselves. Ironic isn't it. They hear "dog whistles" of racism yet spewing vile anti Semitism they just can't seem to recognize it. Many are at colleges too, the young who should be smarter than that. As a Harvard alum, what I saw going on at Harvard and with faculty, staff and students passing around a blatantly anti semitic cartoon of a Jew with a noose around an Arab's neck with a star of David with a dollar sign in it, and a "hook nosed" Jew. That faculty, staff, and students? Still at Harvard. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Yes but against civillians is the war crime. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Wait, what do you mean giving a shit about Israeli hostages being killed? I'm trying to find out how to work for the people paying people like you to defend war crimes and senseless killing to punish civilians for a terrorist attack.
I just wanna get paid like you do, morals be damned. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Woah woah woah hol up there buddy. The journalist had no connection to Al-Jazeera they said so themselves. I mean yeah they changed their statement to say that they paid the guy for multiple articles but I mean cooooomeeee oooonnn. The journalist was simply a contributor to Al-Jazeera! Just because he was paid for work by then doesn't mean he worked for them!
/s for those who think in any universe it matters that the terrorist was only a contractor and not an employee. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
"famine" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Right, why give them a public platform? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Did you forget about the videos of thousands of Palestinians celebrating in the streets and calling for 1000 more oct7? What about the one where they were hitting the women with the bleeding pelvis with a 2x4 in the back of the truck and celebrating? Hamas is made up of Palestinian. No that does not mean every Palestinian supports Hamas. It does mean that not every Palestinian is some innocent civilian held captive by Hamas. They voted Hamas in. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
The interesting thing is, if this really was just a random guy and al jazeera wasn't trying to recruit a hamas guy, then being a terrorist must be really common in gaza. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
It’s not like Israel never tried, they do and Hamas leaders promised in video that attacks would happen again. You don’t negotiate with terrorists. Hamas has to go. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
I mean, refugee camps in gaza don't exactly consist of tents, so that's not necessarily a refutation. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
I know its been pointed out before, but this list is becoming even more of a joke.
Dina Abdullah Al-Batniji, a journalist at Al-Thuraya Media Foundation. If you go to their [website](https://althurayamedia.com/en/),
# ALTHURAYA MEDIA
THURAYA MEDIA COMPANY THURAYA MEDIA FOR MEDIA AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION, IMAGE AND SOUND, LIGHTING, THEATER INSTALLATION
This really broadens the pool of journalists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
It doesn't *feel* right, does it? But it's not an error.
The Gaza Strip's death rate is 2.9 per *thousand*, not per hundred, with the [CIA World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/) ranking it as 225th among 229 states and state-like jurisdictions. By contrast, its birth rate is 26.8 live births per 1000 population. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
I think the BBC just wanted to clarify that the IDF had definitely abandoned their pretence about avoiding civilian casualties and war crimes. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Most of the world understands that Hamas are the bad guys, it's disappointing that the IDF and their supporters see them as role-models. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Everyone knows that Hamas are bad guys, if our governments were offering them moral and financial report we'd be down on that too.
It's a different in ethical positions - most people think that the actions of Hamas and the IDF are bad because killing innocent civilians, children and babies is a bad thing. You seem to think whether or not it's bad depends on the social group the civilians, children and babies belong to. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Haven't you been watching the news? "The oppressed" are the Palestinian civilians having their homes destroyed and their families slaughtered. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
They'd probably demand their government stops sending billions in military aid to Hamas as they should with all war criminals.
Unless their government isn't sending military aid to Hamas, in that case I'm not sure what you would expect them to protest. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
She starts off with a loaded question asking him how he feels about the news of four hostages being **released**. Implying Hamas let them go, rather than that Hamas was continuing to hold them hostage and would have kept doing so if the idf had not rescued them. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
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Gonna need a montage of driving over bridges.... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The Torys conned enough Brits, and this is what they got. Let's not be like the Brits, America. Let's send OUR Torys home this November! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
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The center left and the left working together is good. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
OP’s point still stands though. People should consider the Communist party and the Bloc far-left because that is what they are, that is what their European Political Groups are and it is what their policy proposals demonstrate.
But no one in Portugal’s political debate even entertain that notion. It is considered totally appropriate for a center-left party like PS (socialist) to make agreements with those parties but completely anti-democratic if the center-right party even entertains that idea.
If you listened to yesterday’s speeches, every single left party spent some of their time hitting on the far-right. The truth is that it’s as far-right in terms of ideology as some of the left parties are far-left. But because Portugal has lacked a true right-wing party for the longest time (PSD being a lot more center leaning), the political speech in Portugal is highly skewed. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
In Germany everybody's calling them out.
Didn't help. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Maybe you are lost in the last decade.
Portugal does not mince its words because it still remembers living under a right wing dictatorship that only ended on April 25, 1974.
As for being poor, lot of that was the huge amount of wealth destroyed by the Estado novo and the attempt to keep colonial holdings in Africa.
But, as of 2024 - Portugal is one of the fastest growing economies in the Euro zone. So they have been making the right investments and working towards a strong and vibrant economy since the global recession of the 2010s. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Good news. Keep at it Europeans. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I remember in 2015 that the refugees didn't go to Portugal. It was so little that the government asked people to come over. But the refugees wanted better benefits so they went to other countries | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I remember in 2015 that the refugees didn't go to Portugal. It was so little that the government asked people to come over. But the refugees wanted better benefits so they went to other countries | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Here in Portugal you also have far left with parties that even support Putin and are against NATO or EU.
So you end up with all kinds of speach. Its not even a far right thing.
The only thing that really matters at the end of the day is that people want less corruption in the government and more reforms and those havent happen yet. If they dont happen than it is only a matter of time for far right to keep up growing. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
What about Portugal, the Man? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You're not from Western Europe, are you? It's not uncommon at all.
Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(Portugal)
Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_Party
France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France)
Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(Belgium)
All of those are the main social-democratic parties of the respective country. Socialism has a very positive connotation in Europe, so these parties kept the name even though they steered away from pure socialist ideas. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
What do you mean then dont even entertain? everyone knows they are far left. That is why they have been and keep going on a decline.
The thing is people are more scared of far right than far left because that is the one that can grow.
It is as you say, its like a circle, both far right and far left end up in the same shit place. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The Socialist Party is center left (on a good day) but the liberals are right wing | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Longing for the good old fascist dictatorship times, are you? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Nah, ppl vote the right because they’re brainwashed, dumb or straight up evil. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The left ain't doing anything. The far left has, thankfully, been loosing relevance after supporting a socialist party that focused on developing our economy solely on tourism (and our economy didn't develop nearly as much as it should have) on collapsing our public health and educacional systems and on creating the biggest immigration crisis Im the history of our country.
The socialist party also Lost quite a lot of support but unfortunetly they have a very local following despite having had 10 ministers who quit after being involved in scandals or being suspects In corruption cases, including our prime minister. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Not in Portugal they ain't, that's Pure propaganda | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The Portuguese Commie Party isn't far left. It's radical extremist left. They literally defend and promote Leninism.
The Left Bloc is globalist social liberalism disguised as leftwing. They'd fit right in with the Democrats in the USA, for example. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The term "socialism" among European political parties is used to promote social democratic ideals, not actuall socialist ideals on the road to communism. In Europe, those just cal themselves communists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You mean far-right? Because there's no problem with voting for the right or the left. It's voting for far-right or far-left parties that is a problem. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
What about Portugal, the man? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Adding also to the context that AD contains the social democrats, which are considered right wing in Portugal (unlike in other countries). This to say that even the right-center still falls under the US “progressive” kind of classification. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I am honestly relieved at this. Hopefully America defeats our far-right too. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Meh, the title is writen for clicks.
Yea, these loonies got less that what was feared they would get, but they still went up from nothing to 2.
Only good news is that these seats come from the far left loonies who lost half of their mandates.
All in all we still send 4 loonies to brussels... could be worse i guess? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Ask locals in Lisbon or Porto how great it is for them there. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Portugal is good at being poor. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
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