I'm listening to Unholy and they're talking about the deaths of the six hostages.
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I'm listening to Unholy and they're talking about the deaths of the six hostages.
I'm having trouble keeping it together.
What I think has been lost in the English speaking media is that these were not hostages that died in captivity; they were hostages that, when Hamas realized there was a rescue mission for them, killed them just before they were to be rescued.
They would rather the hostages, who had been tortured for 11 months, be killed, than let them go.
And we hear virtually nothing about it in the English speaking non-Jewish media, virtually nothing.
What I see on here, on Mastodon, is apathy or even glee at their deaths.
I have no words; I'm just sick of it.
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@serge Looking at the #CBC coverage, they focused on how the release of hostages is supposed to be part of a ceasefire, but ceasefire negotiations don't seem to be progressing. For instance, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-hostages-killed-1.7310758
There was a piece on the hostages' murder on CBC Radio in the morning as well, I think with similar framing about the lack of a ceasefire agreement.
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I don't know how far up it goes, but the CBC's antisemitism is so well documented at this point that it's blatantly ridiculous.
I think the CBC needs a non-political oversight committee
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@serge Do you get the feeling that many Israelis believe their government should push harder for a ceasefire/hostage release agreement? Apparently there was a (brief) general strike.
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Based on the media coverage, there's a huge swell of people who believe rightly that Netanyahu is unreasonable in his continued pushback against a ceasefire.
This is also because Israel, unlike may other countries, *does* negotiate with hostages. Israel has given up high ranking Hamas and large number of other military prisoners in exchange for hostages in the past.
So there's a large segment of Israeli society that knows that by not pushing hard for a ceasefire with hostages that Bibi is at the very least partially complicit in the hostage deaths.