Looking at the two big news publishers in my country. One isn’t reporting about the current bombings at all, while the other one is phrasing their words mostly anti-Palestinian.

Is there some neutral coverage I can keep up to? Where do you guys get your info from?

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    Neutrality isn’t necessarily the right word and you’re catching flak for it, but I get what you mean. Staying neutral in the face of injustice is just another form of injustice and part of the disinformation problem. Telling us what what Hamas or Israeli liars have to say isn’t responsible reporting if they report the lies without challenging them.

    But finding honest news is difficult. Reuters and AP are your gold standards. BBC is often well regarded but not for this issue, they definitely have a pro Isreal spin to their coverage.

    People saying conflict is endemic to the region are themselves victims of bad news. Modern conflict in Asia/Middle East, like Latin America and Africa, is largely upheld by western activity. Coups, colonies, redrawn maps-- keeping people poor and infighting under despots where natural resources exist ensures the wealth flows into the pockets of the rich and powerful in other countries and provides a cheap labour source to do your harvesting where it matters. This arrangement is literally what keeps our economy churning. The US just did it again in Bolivia a few years ago for Lithium. The same people who benefit from this arrangement also own most of the news and social media. This isn’t shadowy secret world council tinfoil hat stuff, this is public record.

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      BBC is often well regarded but not for this issue, they definitely have a pro Isreal spin to their coverage.

      And yet they find themselves being accused of “blood libel” by the government of Israel.

      I’m with OP, I don’t know where to find facts that I can be assured are being related without (conscious) bias.

      I just wish people of either side and outside could stop being shitty to each other for five goddam minutes.

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      Modern conflict in Asia/Middle East, (…) is largely upheld by western activity

      That’s a funny way to spell Iran

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        Iran is a big one, but Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, they’ve all suffered western destabilization efforts. They aren’t in the news as much, so most people don’t even know about it, but that’s exactly my point.