Evilsandwichman

~~This content is paywalled and I'm not linking the archive link to the site; Haaretz is one of the few news organizations (if not the only one) willing to talk about what's being done in a critical manner. Any support you can provide, you should.~~

I didn't know much about Haaretz but some posters have explained that they're just zionists as well, just liberal ones; it's already stickied as the top comment, but here's the archive link in case you don't browse comments: https://archive.is/ilyEU

One of the things I WILL mention however is that the article talks about the aid centers and their murky sources. Apparently they're run by an evangelical who is close to Trump and the Israeli government, which is not boding well at all (and would explain the constant stories recently of people seeking aid who are being shot in high numbers). These aid centers are basically being run by people who most likely don't see the Palestinians as human beings either.

The man is in a HOSPITAL, and he's being accused of being drunk because he's out of it; the man says he's been in a car accident and has a concussion and would like to be treated for it. These three people around him are treating him like he's a liar and a drunk; the nurse insults him as well with a childish insult of 'drunky mcdrunkpants' and the moment he responds with a similar retort the two cops act as though he was way out of line! He's refusing a breathalyzer because of course he is; it's insulting! When the breathalyzer is fully charged (which I didn't even know was a thing), he finally consents to being checked, they check and guess what? Not drunk! And they're all shocked and the nurse even thinks it must still need to be switched on! And then they accuse him that he could still have different drugs in his system! Even the other cop immediately realizes they messed up and drags his partner, who still wants to disbelieve the guy, out.

You know where I've seen this similar level of people mistreating another and not brooking any kind of response? With Asian people; I've seen videos of Asian people who get attacked, and then the moment they fight back the white people interject themselves to stop him! I've seen a video of an Asian person who was having motorcycle stolen, who tried to stop the guy before he could drive off and the white people around him immediately grabbed him!

I hate these kinds of people so damn much! I am so grateful for China's rise and Western powers being left in the dirt!

EDIT: Sorry folks, I forgot the alt link:

https://xcancel.com/NikkiThaGodB1/status/1938064634616918078

"Why did the hostage crisis happen?"

"Because radical Islam!"

God the propagandists aren't even investing any effort any more, and the average idiot will just swallow this nonsense. 100% the average person who watched this will have just mentally tuned out when Joy Reid got more than eight to ten words in without giving a dumbed down answer.

Why is Russia attacking Ukraine? Cause Russians are inherently violent.

How is the Chinese government running their country? They're an autocratic surveillance state.

Why are Chinese people putting up with that? They have a submissive culture.

Why do countries in the Middle East hate us? They hate our freedoms.

Why do countries in South America hate us? Their governments are communist.

Why can't African countries advance as well as us? They're corrupt and crime is rampant.

Genuinely speaking it's time to just stick a giant dome over Western countries; it's for the greater good.

I ask because on basically every post of a video where no Chinese person is doing something bad, people immediately rush to calling it staged; Chinese person provides a needy person a meal? Staged. Chinese person offers meals for free to earthquake rescue workers? Staged. Chinese person helps someone across a road? Staged. Uyghur just operating a stand being asked by an American tourist if they're living peacefully (to which they laugh and say yes)? Staged, or even saying yes because their lives depend on it.

Chinese person being racist however? Real. Chinese person yelling at someone and being rude? Real.

You know that racist trope people have of folks in Africa all believing in different superstitions or something? That's the average American; the bizarre folklore we've created of people around the world would make Tolkien's work seem like low fantasy.

Is it perhaps that white savior movies have rotted people's brains, and they're all imagining their normalcy would make them superior beings in foreign countries?

Bruh, where do I start with this.

So first he talks about the Taliban having kidnapped several tourists based on US news, and while on the face of it it's all definitely stuff that's been reported.....but it's like, okay, what did the Taliban say about why they imprisoned those people? Did they have reason to potentially believe they were spies? Did they ACTUALLY take those people hostage or were they temporarily in prison for breaking a law?

Additionally....WE kidnap people; there's literally civilians in Guantanamo who'll never see their families again (AND they're horrifically tortured); and there's people in border camps, entire families which includes children.

The guy finally at some point has an encounter with the Taliban aaaaand....they check his permits, see everything's okay, and then just leave, politely saying goodbye.

He says there's only two things illegal to film in Afghanistan: military stuff and women; he admittedly says the military stuff is reasonable but doesn't sound convinced in regards to women. Bruh, I'm working in Qatar and the women here don't want to be filmed, and they're protected by law from it (in one case a woman I work with went to the cops about it, and in another case a different woman I know literally yanked a phone from a Norwegian's hand to personally delete a video he'd taken of her (he thought she hadn't noticed)); the law reflects the culture just like it does back home.

He meets two Afghan Americans (they were born and raised in the states and went back to live in Afghanistan instead) and they were saying that it's nothing like they've seen on the news and the guy has to basically pause and say it must be at least partly according to the news. BRO, YOU'RE SEEING WITH YOUR OWN EYES, EXPERIENCING IT YOURSELF THAT IT'S NOT LIKE THE NEWS HAS BEEN TELLING EVERYONE! HOW ARE YOU DENYING YOUR OWN EYES AND YOUR OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE THAT MATCHES THEIR DESCRIPTION!

He also says towards the end that yes, he's had a good experience with the Taliban but that all it takes is 'one a-hole to f' it all up'; Bro, YOU'RE being that a-hole! You think back home it's just that one a-hole cop to f' everything up for you? A cop could mistake the phone in your hand for a gun and shoot you and he'd most likely get away with it.

How is this guy insisting on disbelieving his own eyes, that instead the news HAS to be correct? Why are people like this?

This country is something else

Dot in the center of the image, lots of them flying overhead

Very close and very loud, staying indoors for now; dot in the center

WOO, first person giving on the ground news!

Spoilers (watch the clip; experience it yourselves first, lol)

Been learning Arabic and it was hilarious to find out hummus starts with the same letter as Hamas

Of course only one will be pronounced in the scary way, because propagandists treat their audience like idiots (which, fair play, is usually correct; we're talking about the same people easily played by 'journalists' calling five year old Hind Rajab a 'young lady', or who use passive language to refer to Israel murdering people as having died when they were struck by gunfire)

I learned some Arabic but the accent here is way too strong for me to catch anything. Regardless I'm glad the people in the West Bank are getting a good laugh, I just wish the girl had hidden her face; Israelis will absolutely be bloodthirsty enough to possibly try going after her.

An Arab nurse was turned out of a shelter by people he'd treated. Not surprising; it's a story of racism I hear from the UK as well; of patients who refuse care by non-white doctors, or take the help but treat them in racist fashion.

Alt link: https://xcancel.com/Ahmad_tibi/status/1935635944536772818

Also another case of people being turned away including Druze and a woman wearing a hijab:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/comments/1lg1h8k/multiple_accounts_emerging_of_israelis_preventing/