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No, it would ruin the facade, as brittle as it is.

Yeah, that's the sad reality without regulation...

Largely because it makes bank thanks to the fact that controversy and conflict and, well, generally negative stuff makes bank when it comes to the news business (which shouldn't be a business). No one wants to hear how Israel goes out and tells Palestinians to go home/stay away from the AO and...

Yeah, its not as simple as that... ... and ninja'd.

It's called putting guns to one's head and controlling the avenues of communication. Before the Internet, the Palestinian groups had a stranglehold of the avenues of communication. You can't go anywhere without their permission, you can't communicate without their permission, so on and so forth...

Actually, the funny thing is that the progressives backing the Palestinians have been waning for some time, the real problem is the Palestinian control of the narrative.

... and this sort of thing doesn't go to the papers, so to speak, due to how iron-fisted Palestinian media controls and Israeli operational security are...

That is not the case. The USSR only backed the creation of Israel just so they can literally dump all their jews into the new state. Nothing more, nothing less. Israel didn't have any real support until Suez was disrupted when Egypt and Israel went to blows for the final time (and the US...

The entire Middle East is so fluid that there are barely any real set borders. Oh, and war is so commonplace that it's routine... and that is before we get into some genocide implications. Remember, in Gundam 00, Setsuna is implied to be a Kurd, and given the pure disdain he gets while walking...

Two words: makes what happens in Gundam 00 look like a picnic. We're probably talking genocides everywhere. More or less. Yeah, we're still dealing with the bullshit that the British and French pulled all these decades later.

That is largely because the various oil sheiks hold a lot of power due to the fact that they have a lot of easily accessible oil. Since they want Israel dead...

Largely because that's been the previous talking point in negotiations with the addition of 'defensive-minded land swaps'...

It happens, especially when you're dealing with biases getting in the way. I should know, I used to think that FOX News was good until my gut basically kept punching me in the face for the fact that they're various levels of wrong. Then again, this was about the same time that the GOP left me...

Not really, but then again FOX and friends were created to ensure that sort of mentality would happen, but we're getting off-topic.

Actually, even in US politics FOX News and friends are at the bottom of the pile. Something that most people here like to ignore for their own biases.

Given the data I've seen? You're better off going by your gut than watching FOX News, even MSNBC is better than FOX in the truth department, which tells you something.

I would take anything from FOX News and friends with three lake-draining mines of salt at the minimum, given their track record of basically making opinion fact and fact opinion (alongside numerous edits to make things fit their 'interpretation' of events).

However, that hold has been breaking down since the Associate Press has been using the internet as a bypass for this sort of information control.

More like that the ignorant westerners that don't have the time or money to go through the entire canon of the Rules of War because there are a lot of fucking rules to go over with an order of magnitude of precedent to go with it. I only know of certain bylaws of those rules because I had to...

If I remember right, the various Rules of War do have the 'if the enemy is blatantly ignoring/abusing the Rules of War, then raise the red flag' consequence in some pretty diplomatic language. Problem is, that is only useful if the PR war wasn't so dominated by the Palestinians.