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Meron Mendel says[1] that German reporting on Israel is more sensitive compared to the USA. Criticism of the government is clearly expressed, but he thinks it's _very unlikely that images of killed children from Gaza are printed_.

Axel Springer has a guideline document that demands pro-israel stance and fired journalists[2] who question that or tells pro-Palestinian staff to quit[3]

Axel Springer SE is a leading digital publishing company based in Berlin. Axel Springer SE, is well known for publishing numerous successful newspapers and magazines, including "Bild," one of Europe's most popular daily tabloids, and "Die Welt," a leading daily newspaper.

Journalists associated with Axel Springer have on many occasions mocked the victims of Israeli bombardement, comparing the destruction in Gaza to Dresden, questioning Geneva Conventions (civilians are protected; withholding water, food, medicins is prohibited), questioning the number of killed in Gaza, citing "experts" who argue that it's legal to bomb hospitals.

Germany declares all pro palestinian protests as illegal (long before 10/7), criminalises the protestors, scares them with raids, police brutality, with press, that smears them (Greta Thunberg and others speaking for the Palestinian cause).

[1] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/staatsraeson-in-den-med...

[2] [Axel Springer Fires Lebanese Employee Who Questioned Pro-Israel Stance - The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/2023/10/26/axel-springer-fires-empl...)

[3] [Axel Springer: German publisher tells pro-Palestinian staff to quit | Middle East Eye](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-axel-spr...)

so what is your opinion, it is not legal to attack a hospital if someone is holding captured hostages in it, shoots at you from it, and uses it as an entry to command centres? sorry to say, only human monsters use hospitals, schools and children infrastructure for military purposes, and you are saying that fighting them should not be legal.

or are you simply saying all of that evidence is fake?

what is "pro-palestinian" to you, saying that "Israel is bombing innocent people" that is pro-palestinian? You think that Gaza ruled by Hamas is pro-palestinian?

When bad people use innocent people as human shields, you don't kill the innocent. This "by any means necessary" attitude is inching toward genocide, which is something you'd assume Israel would empathize with. As someone with Jewish blood and, technically, Jewish by rules of the faith (follows the mother, etc), I'm fucking appalled by this.

when the bad people are killing innocent people, then you sure as hell dont keep letting them do it

interesting you are not appaled by the killing of 1200 jews on one day, the highest number since holocaust, strange you are not appaled by thoudands of rocket launches and by thousands of terrorist attacks

ah! you want images of dead children! something that israel refuses to weaponise an and hamas rather enjoy doing. They have martyrdom cult. Thanks German media for not inciting hardcore reactions in a public that is not directly affected.

I'm sorry but... WTF? Are you saying that Israel has streets lined with dead and hospitals filled with rotting babies in the NICU and they not sharing that? If that's not what you're claiming, then you're making a false and shameful comparison. What's being done to Palestine is indefensible. I don't see that as weaponization as much as a people begging for their survival. Palestinians seem to be at risk of being wiped out because of a terrorist faction that lives near them.

and it is done by hamas, yes.

not “near” them, under them, between them, in their schools, attraction parks, hospitals.

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