• nicolairathjen@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      But it does appear that way. And they probably didn’t get any “real” confirmation that the video is real.

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        11 months ago

        I get it, I just think it’s a bit weasel-y when people describe video footage that way. Like were they provoked? Did they kill one? It’s not that complicated.

        Israel said they were “kneeling to light a Molotov cocktail” and so it wasn’t unprovoked. Problems are a) no Molotov cocktail in the clip and b) they shot someone else first, not the person kneeling. So let’s put on our fucking Sherlock hats and solve this mystery oh wow I wonder whatever could have happened

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          11 months ago

          a careful cut or edit, could make all the difference.

          given that the video is specifically presented as ‘unprovoked’ i’m going to guess it wasn’t.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah in that case I’m going to guess Israel was torturing innocents just out of shot. Since we can just ignore the video and believe what we want

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            11 months ago

            Given that the video is specifically presented as ‘unprovoked’ i’m going to guess it wasn’t.

            Yeah, because your aversion to declarative headlines changes the fact that IDF does that all the fucking time 🙄

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            11 months ago

            Looks like the soldier was far away from them, and they weren’t even looking in his direction. What could they have done to provoke him? And why did he shoot the person who came back to help later?

            Let your imagination run wild and lets see what you can come up with.