• Senior Hamas official Ali Barakeh says the group did not anticipate the scale of U.S. involvement in support of Israel.
  • The U.S. moved a carrier strike group closer to Israel and considered sending a second aircraft carrier, fighter jets, and munitions.
  • U.S. Lt.-Gen. James Glynn was sent to help Israel plan its ground offensive into Gaza.
  • Iran-backed militias have targeted U.S. forces in the region in response to U.S. support for Israel.

Media Bias Fact Check (Jerusalem Post):

Overall, we rate The Jerusalem Post Right-Center biased based on editorial positions that favor the right-leaning government. We also rate them Mostly Factual for reporting, rather than High due to two failed fact checks.

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      I would expected at least one person, somewhere down the line, who read international news once in a blue moon. Guess my standards were too high.

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      I expect they saw themselves as resistance fighters and saw their attack as resisting.

      The problem is that they picked really bad targets that made it easy to portray them as a terrorist group intentionally. Hell, a lot of the protests against Israel is that the attack shouldn’t give Israel the freedom to do a genocide, not that Hamas is innocent.

      The discussion would be wildly different if Hamas was based in the West Bank and had kidnapped/killed Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

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      They’re a terror organisation in the West. They’re a national liberation movement in the rest of the world.

      Edit: they are literally called the Islamic resistance movement.

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        Yes. They murdered children, burning babies and slitting their throats. What heroes.

        Idiot.

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          Reminds me of all those babies thrown out of incubators by Iraqi forces. (in case anyone wonders about that it turned out to be false) Whether or not you agree with their actions the comment you are replying to is correct, Hamas is only designated a terror group by the minority of nations, although since it includes the US and the EU they have a lot of sway with their designation.