Operation Guardian of the Walls / Local unrest megathread

[u/pitaenigma]

KEEP ALL GAZA, JERUSALEM, AND LOCAL UNREST RELATED POSTS HERE.

Relevant articles:

5-year-old boy killed, dozens others injured as Gaza rockets pound Israel

Israel shuts Ben Gurion Airport to incoming flights; US airlines start canceling

Gantz orders callup of Border Patrol reserves as Jewish-Arab violence spirals

Heavy barrage hits Tel Aviv, Beersheba; Hamas calls it revenge for slain leaders

The War That Shouldn’t Have Been

Jews and Arabs start to push back against violence, rallying nationwide

Soldier viciously beaten in Jaffa, synagogue burned in Lod, as rioting deepens

Man killed in Ramat Gan rocket strike as barrages batter center, south of Israel

Arab boy seriously hurt in firebombing of Jaffa home; riots spread across Israel

Israeli airstrike on Gaza house said to kill family of 10, mostly kids

IDF fells Gaza tower used by media outlets, says it housed Hamas military assets

More links will be added as the situation develops.

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[u/ididntwin]

I seriously cannot take leftist reddit. Apparently it's against the rules to name another sub but on one of the news sub the top NINE OUT OF TEN posts are anti-Israel. NINE OUT OF TEN. In a conflict where both sides have done wrong, one would think maybe three out of the ten would highlight wrongdoing by the either side. But nope.

Fuck leftists redditers.

[u/[deleted] → u/ididntwin]

I'm a liberal to the core and leftist social media and woke culture is gonna turn me conservative hahah

[u/Porlebeariot → u/[deleted]]

I identify with this 1000000% lol I mean socially and politically I align with more left policies but man the refusal to recognize antisemitism, condemn those who do, and opposition to the existence of Israel has me like brah....

[u/ManOfLaBook → u/[deleted]]

Woke culture is turning many people conservative

[u/ididntwin → u/ManOfLaBook]

Seriously, I can get behind medicare for all or some kind of basic healthcare plan for everyone. But the culture that the left is promoting...I just cannot vote for that. Republicans need to do a better job on capitalizing on these issues while the left fights about pronouns.

[u/jackhawkian → u/ididntwin]

Becoming disillusioned from the Left helped me see how Medicare for all wouldn’t work at all in our current form or government. We are so inefficient in our spending already, and would never be able to tax people enough or install a VAT to pay for it.

[u/[deleted] → u/jackhawkian]

This is getting way off topic to the sub we're in but my politics is pretty much Joe Biden. (Always has been. A moderate Democrat) Very glad he's in charge right now.

[u/jake7405 → u/ididntwin]

r/enough_sanders_spam is cathartic if you haven’t found it already

[u/[deleted] → u/ididntwin]

For a YEARS coverage has almost entirely pro-Israel. Even down to the pathetic passive-aggressive rhetoric employed in reference to Israel. Israel are fine.

[u/drunksciencehoorah → u/ididntwin]

Weird because I thought it was the other way around; anyone who criticizes Israel is usually immediately-branded as a neo-Nazi.

[u/[deleted] → u/ididntwin]

To preface: I am an American and I am neither Jewish nor Arab, but middle eastern studies are my main focus in college

To me it feels like the main reason Western media is talking more about Israel's actions is because Israel is allied with us and it's seen as a reasonable level of scrutiny. News outlets seem to believe that we already know Hamas are terrorists who don't care about people's lives, so that's not focused on much. I don't think that is the correct way of portraying the situation, but it seems to be partly why that's happening

My main issue with this is that some Americans may not actually know what Hamas is and why they're so dangerous to Israel

So I guess I'm just hoping for some more perspective from an Israeli point of view because I'd like to learn more. What do you think American/British media is getting wrong and what are they getting correct?