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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
In realpolitik, dictionary meanings are unimportant. The label "terrorist" is more often applied to a most-disliked enemy, rather than to one who use terror tactics the most.
The key enemy ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
First of all, I think "taken without a grain of salt" is exaggerating the confidence with which those numbers are reported. Usually, reliable media seems to point out that the numbers have ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
While Hamas may or may not be exaggerating, news agencies like the BBC and organizations like the UN also report on casualties affecting their personnel and affiliates, as well as those people's ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
I think the odd one here is actually the BBC (or actually the UK government) and not VOA. Both the US and the UK have very high standards of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Both the ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
The answer to the second part of the question "why is it apparently not getting the same level of flak as the BBC?" is not fully answered without acknowledging the vastly different roles the ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
Maybe VOA refers to the group as militant because, technically speaking, the militant affiliate has not been itself designated by the US State Department as terrorist as of now. Only the Al Aqsa ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
Why news media report the numbers
The Washington Post has an article explaining why they - and others - rely on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health numbers[*].
Their main points are:
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Is access to Russian open sources blocked from the West?
Which sites are blocked? Here are the screenshots of the top Russian sites that are available as of today (TASS, RIA Novosti and Moskovkiy Komsomolets). I also can read these and other Russian news on ...
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What is Antisemitism?
Like most words, "Semitic" is a word that has more than one sense. One sense of the word is broader and means speakers of the Semitic languages, which includes both Arabic and Hebrew (which ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
This is not an exhaustive search I've done, but VoA appears to "forget" to mention that Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade is a designated terrorist organization in some other stories that mention the ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
The Ministry of Health has historically be reasonably accurate with its figures. And when they are backup up by UN figures or those from other NGOs, the burden shifts to demonstrating why they shouldn'...
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Is access to Russian open sources blocked from the West?
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No, they are not and cannot be blocked. Any attempt to block them would be likely illegal.
It is fairly common for "right-wing" personalities to quote Russian "Telegram&...
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Is access to Russian open sources blocked from the West?
First, they are not necessarily blocked, unlike your claims.
Russian Actress Killed While Performing in Occupied Donetsk - The Moscow Times
The death of Polina Menshikh, 40, was confirmed to the ...
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What is Antisemitism?
There's a bit of history to consider about the relationships between Europeans, Jews, and Arabs. After the first century CE, A large number of Jews emigrated out through the Roman territory and ...
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Is there bias against Israel at the UN?
It is enlightening to understand the two opposite views on this topic:
On the one hand, there is evidence that the UN spends a lot of time and energy focusing on Israel/Palestine, with many reports ...
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Is there bias against Israel at the UN?
One possible reason is that Israel think of itself and other countries recognize it as liberal democracy and civilized country. All other listed countries are not (and not even try to pretend they are ...
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