• TheMechanic@lemmy.ca
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      Russia and Iran stirred some shit up in Israel knowing how predictable the global response would be. Suddenly out of ‘nowhere’ Hamas has North Korean weapons and state level intelligence information.

      Elon Musk is a pro-Russian muppet.

      100% Everything going on right now is to diminish focus and support for Ukraine.

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      The war has slowed down too. It’s doesn’t need some kind of conspiracy for the media to jump on the next exiting event when the previous one grows stale.

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
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      Very possible this is it although I feel like that isn’t too far off the agenda.

      No doubt though that Putin is benefiting from the current Gaza situation.

  • guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works
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    You know, I appreciate Chomsky, but his work is mainly intended to get you reading and thinking more on your own than to give you all the answers. Not everything that happens in the news media is a distraction from something else just because he broke down that one propaganda trick really well. Sometimes, events stay glued to our screens because they really are the main propaganda event of the day, and they really do want you to spend all day and all night thinking about it.

    In this case, Israel needs tons and tons of people frothing at the mouth supporting genocide, and Palestinians are needing just as many, if not more, to consider that genocide may be wrong, and they’re playing tug-of-war in the media. That’s all I’m seeing.

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    Yes, the antisemitism is being focused on to manufacture consent for Israel. It’s not (and can’t be) deep. Liberals equate supporting Israel as supporting the Jewish people, so criticizing Israel is antisemitism. And then they point out all the antisemitism like that supports their argument.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    I can think Elon Musk is a shitter, more racist version of Lex Luthor at the same time I think Israel is run by bloodthirsty monsters.

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
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    My opinion. The Israel situation is being popularized because they want to divide and distract the people from the issues in their own countries caused by unregulated capitalism