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Ten days after that Facebook message, he was fired from his teaching job in Petach Tikvah municipality. Less than a month later he was in a high-security jail, detained to give police more time to investigate critical views he had never tried to hide.

Inside Israel, veteran journalists, intellectuals and rights activists say, there is little public space for dissent about the war in Gaza, even three months into an offensive that has killed 23,000 Palestinians and has no end in sight. “Make no mistake: Baruchin was used as a political tool to send a political message. The motive for his arrest was deterrence – silencing any criticism or any hint of protest against Israeli policy,” the long-established Haaretz newspaper said in an editorial.

I see no word to describe this other than fascism. Trump would love to have the ability to do this (and seems like he plans to with his "one day dictator" claim).

? The video is right in the middle of the article.

We all know that tanks have a will of their own. We in the US are very familiar with "The gun/bullet killed him".

And this was a drone strike, meaning it was targeted and controlled on what was being hit.

So the bullshit from the IDF at the end of the article is just that, bullshit.

They actively claim all Palestinians are Hamas because they refuse to acknowledge that they're supporting active ethnic cleansing.

It's kind of like how conservative voters pretend they aren't supporting very open and blatant bigots.

So...that's just the definition of ethnic cleansing and they're treating it as a funny haha joke. Disgusting.

Now, for my speculation: the Party sabotaged the Iowa caucus to stop an outsider from getting momentum in Iowa.

That is, at least, a conspiracy. Not one that stands up to scrutiny though. Shadow Inc did screw up. Unfortunately, if you look at state level things in many, many prior elections, that's not uncommon. State level voting systems are tacked together, poorly funded crapshoots.

And your claims about Obama doesn't have anything to do with the voters. If the people who supported those candidates supported Bernie as a replacement, then that's how they would have voted. But they didn't. He in fact lost worse than in the previous election.

The fact that the earliest states in the primary have long been those that don't represent the general Democrat voting public has been a complaint for years, if not decades. So changing what states are at the beginning has been something pushed for for years as well.

What even is the conspiracy there? Buttigieg won. Narrowly, but he won. And both he and Sanders demanded recounts for several of the counties, which was done. Incompetent county level people, often because they have no experience and are even volunteers for much of the vote counting, is fairly common. The complicatedness of Iowa's procedure, where non-viable candidate voters get to re-vote for the viable ones makes errors even more likely.

And errors were made in favor of both Buttigieg and Sanders, which were later corrected.

Not the best comparative argument, since the voting public was quite clear in that regard and the conspiracies claimed were debunked pretty easily.

I, for example, was someone who voted against him because of his long-standing anti-science stances and his promotion of pseudoscience (such as him personally using his Senate position to host an "alternative medicine" conference).

I wonder how ad view counts are affected when you actively drive away your hard core content posting audience? Hmm...

Sure. Lemmy does have such a presence though.

The existence and usage of bulldozers at the location was already confirmed and well known even during that time period. We just had no idea what the point of driving them there was. Since they wouldn't exactly be useful for digging up claimed tunnels that were several dozen feet underground.

I suppose now we know what the actual purpose of them was.