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because israel is just on its face so much more evil. like, ukraine is very bad, but they aren't run by azov guys openly talking about how it's good to kill children for fun every single day at every single level. zelensky isn't going on talk shows saying "please let me slaughter children in the streets :((((" he's managing to convincingly act the victim. and russia is just on its face much less of a victim than palestine. russia has a military, and isn't being invaded and having all its infrastructure destroyed and children murdered in the streets on the scale that it's happening in palestine. they managed to keep donbass completely out of the limelight
yo that reminds me, yesterday Al Jazeera did a piece on older Ukrainians who are signing up to the military to help with the war. They interviewed an older bloke at a military recruitment centre, and after that interviewed one of the soldiers at the centre who was STANDING IN FRONT OF A GIANT FUCK-OFF AZOV BATTALION BANNER AND NOBODY MENTIONED IT. Not a single word. Normally photos/video of Ukranian soldiers is like Where's Waldo for Nazi symbols but this one was on extra easy mode.
I was expecting the journalist to say something like "Hey what a cool banner you're standing in front of what does it mean?" but no. Crickets. I wish I had grabbed a screen capture because I couldn't believe my eyes, and I spend like half an hour last night looking for the video but it wasn't anywhere on Al Jazeera's website or youtube page.