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I'm in the US.

I haven't discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I've seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven't determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hamas is elected via a minority of Gaza as a result Hamas doesn't act with the will of the majority and calling this the Israeli-Gaza war is disingenuous to the people of Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hamas were elected in January 2006 and have refused new elections since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The average person in Gaza was somewhere between "way too young to vote" and "didn't exist yet" the last time an election was held

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And as half the population of Gaza is under 18, they for sure didn't vote for them.

On top of that, Nethanyahu has greatly supported Hamas and sabotaged moderate political alternatives

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't Gaza losing more people to this so called war than either Hamas or Israel?

This feels like saying there was a fight between two people and not mentioning that the biggest fighter only seemed to really be attacking a third smaller, less-aged person for some odd reason.