An actual human — OK, more like “Atlantic staff writer”— wrote the following paragraph to justify Israel barring Western journalists from going into Gaza.
I love your style of writing and I love that you're writing about this, but I'm very torn when you write about shitty stuff happening¹ and I click the like button. NOOOOO! I don't like that this is happening. But so much better that someone shines a light on it. OK, I've said it once and I don't have to say it again.
I hate this weird dynamic where if you're pro-Israel you _must_ omit Israel's cruelties and if you're pro-Palestinian, you _must_ omit Hamas' cruelties. How 'bout we can be pro-the-people-on-both-sides-who-want-to-live-peaceably and anti-the-people-on-both-sides-that-just-want-to-kill-kill-kill?
Btw, I just posted this link on Bluesky and got a few reposts! Since there was some discussion of Wood's article there. Good of you to make the connection between this screed and his distortion of the captive soldier video.
There are Hard Choices to make. Just ask someone who works at the Atlantic. I think international law is worth doing, but the most hideous things in the world are legal things - which testicles we can crush, and when; does age matter? Who has Standing to appeal? Hard to not be skeptical about the Law, particularly Anglo-US.
Points well made toward objectivity, thank you for your impassioned post.
This "Kill children legally" and the IO(Offensive NOT Defensive)F propaganda to bestialize the Palestinians is thankfully being countered by many like yourself.
By the way, the “RAPE!” allegations against Hamas have been thoroughly, and I consider objectively, disproven and clearly are part of the IOF propaganda campaign.
I suggest, if you have not already, you watch Ryan Cristian on The Last American Vagabond expose this Graeme Wood Atlantic article as well as much more here
ISRAEL DELIBERATELY BOMBS AREA IN RAFAH WHERE IDF TOLD CIVILIANS THEY'D BE SAFE FROM RAFAH OPERATION The Last American Vagabond, May 28, 2024 4:46:05
2:08:12 “IT IS POSSIBLE TO KILL CHILDREN LEGALLY” Writers Against the War on Gaza, May 26
'MANUFACTURING CONSENT FOR ZIONISM': ATLANTIC SLAMMED FOR 'LEGALLY KILLED GAZA CHILD' ARTICLE Unmid, May 28, 2024
A huge outrage has erupted after US English daily Atlantic in an opinion piece while justifying the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinians went on to justify the killing of children in Gaza at the hands of the Occupation forces
THE ATLANTIC FACES BACKLASH FOR SAYING ‘IT IS POSSIBLE TO KILL CHILDREN LEGALLY’ IN GAZA Middle East Monitor, May 27, 2024
In a recent article by The Atlantic has faced a backlash online after questioning the massive civilian death toll as a result of the US-backed, Israeli war on Gaza, and going as far as to suggest that “it is possible to kill children legally.”
In his opinion piece for the outlet earlier this month entitled, “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense”, staff writer Graeme Wood expressed scepticism in the UN’s figures on the death toll in Gaza, stating: “The UN numbers changed because the UN has little idea how many children have been killed in Gaza, beyond ‘a lot.’ It gets its statistics from Hamas.”
Pretty good for a non-lawyer.
I love your style of writing and I love that you're writing about this, but I'm very torn when you write about shitty stuff happening¹ and I click the like button. NOOOOO! I don't like that this is happening. But so much better that someone shines a light on it. OK, I've said it once and I don't have to say it again.
I hate this weird dynamic where if you're pro-Israel you _must_ omit Israel's cruelties and if you're pro-Palestinian, you _must_ omit Hamas' cruelties. How 'bout we can be pro-the-people-on-both-sides-who-want-to-live-peaceably and anti-the-people-on-both-sides-that-just-want-to-kill-kill-kill?
The Unpopulist just ran a pair of pieces from open-eyed, non-militant people of both sides of this: https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/total-ideologies-are-preventing-palestinians https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ending-the-conflict-in-israel-will (I'm sure people will find things to object to, but those pieces seem like a step in the right direction to me)
¹which is often - it's a big part of your beat, although certainly not the only thing you write about
Btw, I just posted this link on Bluesky and got a few reposts! Since there was some discussion of Wood's article there. Good of you to make the connection between this screed and his distortion of the captive soldier video.
There are Hard Choices to make. Just ask someone who works at the Atlantic. I think international law is worth doing, but the most hideous things in the world are legal things - which testicles we can crush, and when; does age matter? Who has Standing to appeal? Hard to not be skeptical about the Law, particularly Anglo-US.
Is starving children legal too?
I mean, I'm no lawyer, to my mother's disappointment, but I'd guess .... no?
By the way, I was a lawyer and my mom was still disappointed in me.
How did I end up on this pro-terrorist site?
I'm sorry, do you deny that children have been killed?
They just assume google and all the language software doesn’t work?
Points well made toward objectivity, thank you for your impassioned post.
This "Kill children legally" and the IO(Offensive NOT Defensive)F propaganda to bestialize the Palestinians is thankfully being countered by many like yourself.
By the way, the “RAPE!” allegations against Hamas have been thoroughly, and I consider objectively, disproven and clearly are part of the IOF propaganda campaign.
I suggest, if you have not already, you watch Ryan Cristian on The Last American Vagabond expose this Graeme Wood Atlantic article as well as much more here
ISRAEL DELIBERATELY BOMBS AREA IN RAFAH WHERE IDF TOLD CIVILIANS THEY'D BE SAFE FROM RAFAH OPERATION The Last American Vagabond, May 28, 2024 4:46:05
2:08:12 “IT IS POSSIBLE TO KILL CHILDREN LEGALLY” Writers Against the War on Gaza, May 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBW_KH6ILI
Here is the Graeme Wood full article accessible on the Wayback
THE UN’S GAZA STATISTICS MAKE NO SENSE The Atlantic By Graeme Wood, May 17, 2024
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526172808/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/gaza-death-count/678400/
Here are articles on his article
THE ATLANTIC: US PUBLICATION CALLED OUT FOR 'JUSTIFYING MURDER OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN' The National Scot, May 27, 2024
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24347462.atlantic-us-publication-called-justifying-murder/
'MANUFACTURING CONSENT FOR ZIONISM': ATLANTIC SLAMMED FOR 'LEGALLY KILLED GAZA CHILD' ARTICLE Unmid, May 28, 2024
A huge outrage has erupted after US English daily Atlantic in an opinion piece while justifying the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinians went on to justify the killing of children in Gaza at the hands of the Occupation forces
https://ummid.com/news/2024/may/28-05-2024/manufacturing-consent-for-zionism-atlantic-slammed-for-legally-killed-gaza-child-article.html
THE ATLANTIC FACES BACKLASH FOR SAYING ‘IT IS POSSIBLE TO KILL CHILDREN LEGALLY’ IN GAZA Middle East Monitor, May 27, 2024
In a recent article by The Atlantic has faced a backlash online after questioning the massive civilian death toll as a result of the US-backed, Israeli war on Gaza, and going as far as to suggest that “it is possible to kill children legally.”
In his opinion piece for the outlet earlier this month entitled, “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense”, staff writer Graeme Wood expressed scepticism in the UN’s figures on the death toll in Gaza, stating: “The UN numbers changed because the UN has little idea how many children have been killed in Gaza, beyond ‘a lot.’ It gets its statistics from Hamas.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-the-atlantic-faces-backlash-for-saying-it-is-possible-to-kill-children-legally-in-gaza/
Get free, stay free.
This is a subject matter that needed to be interrogated long ago, but I am glad to see it here in print now. Well done!