West accused of ‘double standard’ over responses to Palestine, Ukraine
www.aljazeera.com
Social media users, including journalists and observers, are calling out what they call a sense of hypocrisy.
    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      The differences in support between Ukraine and Palestine really demonstrates how geopolitical actors act purely in self interest. They may talk about oppressed peoples and freedom and autonomy and all that, but when it comes to choosing sides it’s always about self interest.

      • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
        48·
        1 year ago

        Yes, yes, let’s all have sympathy for the genocidal terrorists in Gaza! If we only let all of them into Israel and allow them to murder or ethnically cleanse every single Jew in Israel and Palestine, there’ll be peace.

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      68·
      1 year ago

      What makes them illegitimate? That they express a viewpoint that is opposed to the American-Israeli one?

        • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          411·
          1 year ago

          The same could be said for any source. No news agency is truly independent. Every news agency is beholden to the government where it operates, its owners if it is privately owned, its advertisers if it advertises, and its subscribers if it has paid subscriptions. I’m not gonna try and argue that the Qatari government is better than any other entity to be beholden to, but there’s nothing unusually wrong about their perspective or bias either. On Middle East matters, I think it’s especially important to have a Middle East voice expressing their viewpoint.

  • salvador@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    Europe and US like to accuse others of everything. But they, strangely, don’t like to be accused themselves in anything