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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by cs702 on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:04AM (#40274159)
Wow, I did not know until now that 90% (!!!) of Palestinians "believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians during its October the 7th offensive," and "only one in five Palestinians has seen videos showing atrocities committed by Hamas." Are they really so misinformed?

If that's true, it makes sense to ask whether Al Jazeera has been purposely feeding misinformation to the Palestinian population during the war. And it makes sense to ask if that is in any way related by Al Jazeera's funding by Qatar, where the leaders of Hamas live: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/qatar-hamas-israel-1.699941...

Thank you for sharing this here.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by kjkjadksj on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:27PM (#40276436)
Hamas has been in power since 2006 and had reeducated the youth akin to what the hitler youth did. Its no surprise many tow the company line. Majority of people in gaza are under 18 where all they know is that sort of indoctrination.
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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by cs702 on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:20PM (#40276985)
The grandparent comment and my comment are about Palestinians, not Hamas.
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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by cutemonster on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:47AM (#40284830)
> did not know until now that 90% (!!!) of Palestinians "believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians

I know some Palestinians, and yes, they seem extremely misinformed, clueless about what Hamas did.

I was surprised after October 7 when they seemed to have had no idea about what had happened. They apparently only knew that IDF had started bombing. I might even guessed 95% instead of 90% "believe that Hams did not ...".

Al Jazeera lies by omission -- by not mentioning what Hamas did, and, if it does, then downplaying the numbers.

The Israeli newspapers lie by omission, too: they don't let their readers know how many civilians Netanyahu and IDF has killed in Gaza. Al Jazeera and right wing Israeli newspapers manipulate the Palestinians and Israelis, respectively.

> ask whether Al Jazeera has been purposely feeding misinformation to the Palestinian population during the war

Of course they do

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