Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Journalist of Being Hamas Operative
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The Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday accused a prominent journalist– who in recent months has reported regularly for Al Jazeera from Gaza – of moonlighting as a senior Hamas commander.
The Israeli Defense Forces have published photos they say were discovered on a laptop in Gaza that show Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Washah engaged in Hamas terrorist activities.
Neither Al Jazeera nor the Qatari government have responded to the Sun’s request for comment.
Because everything is about American politics, especially what happens when Israel accuses an Al Jazeera journalist of being a Hamas operative. That's 100% about America.
Nope.
It's about Hamas using journalists, an impartial personnel, as war militants.
Now the IDF is going to target Indiana...
Hamas war strategy is to disguise themselves as civilians, impartial personnel, doctors, etc. and blend in these civilian areas.
So statistically, yes, you can probably be a Hamas operative. In your case, I hope, is a low chance.
Yep. I'm one of those American Jews who secretly works for Hamas. How did you find out?
How sarcastic
Yeah, weird that I would have a sarcastic response to someone who said there's a chance I'm a member of Hamas. 🙄
So you're saying you know someone is Hamas because they don't seem like Hamas?
This feels like good ol' fashioned paranoia
Do you think it may possibly be true that some people are Hamas operatives, but not every single person that Israel claims is a Hamas operative is actually a Hamas operative?
Really? Every single attack? So Israel hasn't attacked any Hamas fighters? Wow, they really suck at this. No wonder they've killed over 10,000 children.
If you're not with us ... you're against us
This is how to describe our current period in history
No, they "found" a laptop. If I were guessing, if it exists at all, it was planted by the IDF or Mossad. More likely, the Israeli government are lying through their teeth.
Terrorist use the media as a military tool, so they the do take pictures of their activities. Not all of them, but they do.
Show proof, otherwise false.
Just because you're one doesn't mean all are.
Most white people are OK, but 10-20% are idiot racists. Most black people are OK, but 10-20% of them are idiot racists. Most Palestinians are OK, but 10-20% of the are idiot racists. Most Jews are OK, but 10-20% of them are idiot racists.
See how it doesn't matter what the color of your skin, or what the name or your God is? You might just be a fucking idiotic racist because it's pretty consistent that they exist in all cultures and racists will try to paint entire ethncitys as completely homogeneous with everyone thinking the exact same thoughts.
Lump yourself with idiot racists, not your ethnicity, because you belong with one much more than the other.
supposing a modern nation state with a capable intelligence and military apparatus is capable of and motivated to lie isn't an antisemetic trope.
Conservatives will only see articles critical of conservatives as being evidence that the author is their enemy. The author's laptop would be used in this way.
A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. Every word. When a conservative accuses a journalist of a crime, they are lying. Every time.
I assume the fact that he was a Hamas militant was a secret intelligent peace of information.
Same shit, different day in the States:
In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as "anti-Israel", adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations "hate groups".
So the Anti-Defamation League defames U.S.-based Jewish peace organizations. Let that sink in for a moment.
That's because the ADL has not been a group against antisemitism for a very long time now. They are now a group against anti-Israeli sentiment.
Sort of like how the NRA was originally a gun safety and advocacy organization and it is now a branch of the Republican Party.
The ADL was a very good organization once. But not in quite some time.
Perhaps the ADL can follow in their footsteps.
Not quickly enough. For either.
EDIT: Duh, I wrote slowly.
The articles produced by the IDF do not withstand scrutiny as they are. That is before they tick the bingo box checklist stock phrases including allegations about Arab forces, jihad, enemy fighters hiding behind civilians, etc.
I don't agree in this case.
Killing journalists is only self defense if you've got war crimes to hide, and Israel's main purpose is to obfuscate war crimes.
Hamas militants disguising themselves as impartial journalists IS a war crime, and put all impartial individuals in danger.
Still not as bad as what Israel has done
What an unfortunate reality. Hamas has no limits.
Update: Israel just bombed this journalist and his cameraman while they were reporting in Rafah-North
He's a Hamas militant
You got proof? Or is it just because you want it to be true?
Not true. Oh and reported.
If you haven't been accused by Israel of being a Hamas operative, do you even have a life?
It's not an accusation, it's a fact based on concrete evidences.
IDF goal is to take down Hamas, hence kill or capture its militants.
IDF goal is to ensure white supremacy using a faulty religious account of a kingdom that fell over 2500 years ago. Absolutely ludicrous.
Hard to admit the sad truth.
I don't agree with this meme.
I mean I think Israel is a terrorist state, but this is pretty damning. Doesn't give them the right to take over land that isn't theirs of course.
Here it comes to the "land" argument again.
That's the true face of the Palestinians.
The Palestinia Arabs opened an existence war against Israel in it's independence day, they lost, BIG TIME, then they blame Israel for winning, for 75 years now.
This is why there will never be piece. This is why Israel has no other option than to use force. This is why there are so many casualties. The ridiculous land.
I think you're a little confused about who violently took land from whom
thank you
Even declassified Israeli documents disagree with that Statement. Transfer has been the intent from the start. Hamas wouldn't exist if there was no occupation
British Mandate Period:
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948
Palestinian Arab Congress advocating for Unified State 1928
1929 Riots from Forward and 972Mag
Peel Commission Report and Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee 1937
1936-1939 Revolt from JVL, Britannica, MEE
What Hitler and the Grand Mufti Really Said: Time, Haaretz, WaPo
1948 to 1967:
Plan Dalet and Declassified Massacres
Additional context of what was detailed in Plan C (May 1946) and Plan D (March 1948)
Arab League advocating for unified state 1948
1967 war Declassified
Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations practiced in the occupied territories after 1967
How the US became the ally of Israel
Occupation:
Occupation and 50 years of dispossession
Arab Israelis are not equal including Education (2001 report)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel and Military Court
Child abuse of Palestinian prisoners
Human Shields including Children (2013 Report)
Settler Violence, Torture and Abuse in Interrogations, No freedom of movement, and also Water control
Palestinians lack civil rights
Hamas founding charter and Revised charter 2017
History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012
PCPSR Public Opinion Poll Dec 2023
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs archived here
I mean, they released the evidence. It's pretty impossible to deny he's a terrorist unless you're sticking your head in the sand.
What evidence, a few pictures they claim are from 2022 that might just as well be the Journalist reporting on subjects in Gaza or even be literal deepfakes?
” Then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Israeli military blamed Abu Akleh’s death on Palestinians, distributing unrelated video of Palestinian gunfire during the invasion as supposed proof. However, multiple independent investigations, including by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, and CNN, as well as by human rights groups like Amnesty International, and the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, all concluded that Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier. The Israeli military itself later backtracked, stating that Abu Akleh may have been killed by one of its soldiers.
False unless there will be a proof for this case.
I agree, using journalists as war militants is a war crime that I don't think have never happen.
they did? so we have full footage of the laptop being found and verifiable chain of custody?
You would need to verify or the IDF and Israeli intelligence would need to verify?
You can look at the photo yourself and see it's the same guy and what he's holding. There are like 16 total photos. It's clearly the same guy. So, we can dispense with your wild conspiracy theories.
Can you think of another reason he's holding an Iranian made rocket? Can you think of another reason he's photographed on different days and times with uniformed members of Hamas while holding weapons used by Hamas and wearing fatigues?
If he was on assignment writing about Hamas and posing for photos, where is the story with the photos?
IIDF literally raided Hammas server farm which was in a tunnel directly under Unrwa command center with all the electricity and optical cables coming from Unrwa itself. Thats probably gonna produce terabytes of intelligence for the next few years.
Guy above me is already tagged as zionist in my app, so don't even bother.
That said, we're definitely gonna need context because the pics alone don't look great. Plus since when does Israel accuse someone of being hamas before killing them?
IDF had intelligence information about him before
Because loading shells, operating terror equipment and commanding soldiers how to shoot RPG is part of casual journalism.
Right?
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