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The team’s interrogation lasted more than two hours, during which all our phones and laptops were examined, and many photos - including personal ones - were deleted. The officer threatened us with worse consequences if we approached the frontier from the Syrian side again, and said that they know everything about us and would track us down if any hidden or un-deleted photo was ever published.
Someone needs to start giving these journalists guns so they can defend themselves.
How about someone needs to stop giving these bullies guns so that they can stop attacking others.
No
Journalists are not fighters, it’s kind of the point. They are (or are supposed to be) neutral observers that can semi freely walk around on the lines without being shot so that they can give an honest account of the events as they unfold.
Israel and states alike it aren’t very interested in the truth as the truth is that they are committing genocide, hence them not just banning journalists, and outright murdering them whenever they can get away with it.
I’m thinking that literally the only reason that these journalists are still alive is that they were more trouble dead than alive and that threat of murdering them or their families if they dare to publish anything of the deleted pictures is to be taken highly serious as Israeli security services have no problem at all (and usually gets away) with extrajudicial executions on foreign soil.
The one thing that just outrages me right now is Europe’s stance on this. The US I understand; they gave their own dictatorial regime and they have enough propaganda channels to keep the populace mostly unaware of any of this, or just feed them enough lies that they think the genocide is just normal warfare and a normal reaction to the evil Arabs or something.
Europe, however, doesn’t have this and should fucking know better. Fucking Germany should fucking know better than this, they should recognize a fascist state, yet somehow they are almost afraid of Israel, afraid of being painted as fascists again.
Stop being cowards, stand up for what’s right, stand at the right side of history, if just for once!