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geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Qatar's gift to Trump is unsold plane it's been trying to dump for yearsEnglish151·3 days agoTo meet Air Force One standards, the plane would need extensive modifications, including secure communications, nuclear blast shielding and missile defense systems.
Nuclear blast shielding?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto Technology@lemmy.ml•British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen after Trump sanctions on top court14·3 days agoTurns out that the CCP isn’t the only one who has full control over tech companies based in their country.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English22·4 days agoOf course, Hamas also took non-combatants hostage
Which is why the non combatants can reasonably called hostages. But not the armed IDF soldiers.
Israel is kidnapping Palestinians to surpress them and steal their houses. They are they peak of taking hostages.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English43·4 days agoHamas captures these people because they are soldiers. Working in the division which is responsible for the starvation of Gaza. That is an entirely different reason.
In virtually every conflict soldiers are captured and traded for soldiers of the other party or other diplomatic goals. Using this term for soldiers would make it so every PoW becomes a hostage and the term loses all meaning.
Next thing you know people are getting “kidnapped from tanks”
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English53·4 days agoIt has a lot of relevance to it because it is what defines whether they are hostages or PoW’s.
A hostage is when someone is taken captive without valid reason. Which is what Israel does.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English92·4 days agoUkraine and Russia are both trading PoW’s so you would say they are taking hostages instead of prisoners?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”English124·4 days agoYou would argue that children kidnapped by Israel should be called prisoners and active duty soldiers guarding a concentration camp should be called hostages?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto World News@lemmy.world•Israel bombs two Gaza hospitals, killing at least 18 PalestiniansEnglish41·5 days agoThey are sad that Agent Orange is doing it now.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Taiwan test fires new U.S.-supplied rocket system for first timeEnglish21·5 days agoI thought Radio Free Asia’s USAID funding dried up.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Gaza journalist Hassan Aslih killed in Israeli strike on hospitalEnglish51·5 days agoBombing a journalist patient inside a hospital these IDF pigs are a whole new level of evil.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Looking for more communities about privacy that are less psychotic than Privacy Guides3·7 days agoAint nobody drawing up a diagram before they ask for privacy advice
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrestedEnglish32·8 days agoTank the universities rating and cost it financially.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Overwhelming Majority - Norway's Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of IsraelEnglish164·9 days agoGermany is the ultimate example. They will directly take action against anything pro-Palestinian. A group waves a Palestinian flag and the Gestapo mashes in the skulls of all their members,brands them a terrorist group and tries to deport them.
But when it comes to the AfD which is actively doing Nazi salutes suddenly it’s all about debating free speech and ‘democracy’. And banning groups is suddenly scary and undemocratic.
The double standards and hypocrisy are getting beyond comical.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•'No option left other than full blown war', says Pakistan's Khawaja Asif amid escalating tensions with IndiaEnglish72·9 days agoThe current Pakistani government is a illegitimate Junta looking for any distraction from their low popularity. Of course they are delighted that India starts a war with them so they can do the rallly around the flag. Free Imran Khan.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Pakistan used unsuspecting civilian planes as shield to launch failed drone attackEnglish42·9 days agoEven the reasoning in the article makes no sense. Does America have to close its airspace anytime it launches an attack on a foreign country from an American base too?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Overwhelming Majority - Norway's Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of IsraelEnglish353·9 days agoIt’s crazy how much more the Western world cares about words than actions. The only reason they start doing something is because Israel is loudly announcing how evil they are every single day.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•India-Pakistan jets clash in one of the largest dogfights in recent historyEnglish11·9 days agoDo a flip!
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrestedEnglish31·9 days agoThey should start doing minor acts of vandalism in places where there are no cameras like emptying all the toilet rolls all the time. But not too obviously and consistently. Just occasionally when they enter a toilet.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrestedEnglish114·9 days agoPeople will forget about it all 2 months after it ends. They have the memory of a potato. Americans still praise NYT after the WMD lies.
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