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    19 hours ago

    NRC is not Partisan? LOL.

    Dutch media copies US media to the tee.
    The difference is that it only follows US democrat media,
    until far-right movements popped up and one of them
    created a ‘US republican outlet’ show.

    There’s currently a wave of articles in the NRC going on about feminism,
    for the millionth time, about violence against women,
    because one teenage girl had been killed.
    Meanwhile, in Palestine we have hundreds of thousands of women and children dying of a genocide
    and it’s being completedly ignored.
    And that’s deliberate to pull wool over your eyes from the genocide our country is complicit in.

    If NRC condemned Israel like it does Russia, we’d have articles like these:
    “Name of person is resisting Israel for its human rights violations”
    “Israel keeps repeating it’s imperialistic tricks”
    “Netanyahu’s borders doesn’t stop at NATO’s borders”
    “The Liberal Party manoeuvres into the heart of a pro-Israeli network”
    etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

    And if NRC would be writing about Russia if it were Israel we’d have articles like these:
    “Greater-Russia has deep historical roots”
    “Russian parlement votes against the establishment of a Ukrainian state”
    “Why did Russia attack Ukraine and twelve other question.”
    “The Netherlands wants Russia to deliver proof that the murdered journalists were Azov nazis”
    “Russia air strikes Lithuanian military targets”
    “Putin’s long cherished air strike attack on Poland is also a welcoming diversion” “UK, France and Canada warn Russia that they will take concrete measures if Russia continues this war”

    And the problem here is that Russia actually has a legitimate reason for their invasion where Israel does not.

    When Ukraine got independent, pieces of Russia that the Soviet Union gave to Ukraine for administrative purposes came with it. It was accepted as Ukraine was thought to be a “sister nation” like Belgium to the Netherlands. Today Ukraine can no longer be trusted to safeguard its Russian population as it tries to join NATO and NATO is anti-Russia. Ukraine has been actively been suppressing its Russian population,
    including but not limited to machine gunning civilians trying to enter voting booths for the demand of independence from Ukraine.
    Russia’s response to that was demilitarization of Ukraine,
    targeting military only, with a record low amount of civilians killed per soldier.

    That’s very different from Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” plan that tries to simply conquer 9 nations, most of them tacit allies, with zero historical roots to them, apart from parts of Palestine, but that already pales in comparison to the area south of Beersheba Israel already occupies that never were historically Israeli.
    Hamas did a desperate attack on Israel as Netanyahu publicly displayed part of his Greater Israel plan at the UN.

    Israel’s response to that is genocing, targeting civilians first and foremost.
    Women, children and hospitals first.