• ynthrepic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    She’s Greta. She would show her bruises to make the case against Israel. She’d never be silent if it was as bad as the article claims.

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      2 days ago

      Have you considered that maybe she’s very traumatised both physically and mentally at the moment and is recovering first before she steps out into the public eye again?

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        Sure, but she provided enough testimony for this niche news website to publish this story? Occam’s Razor holds for now.

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          Where in the article does it say she gave testimony herself? Also it isn’t that much of a niche news site, it’s one of the biggest left wing news outlets in the UK, probably the second biggest after Novara

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              I’m not a chatbot, you can read the article yourself and find out these things. I haven’t insisted the article is credible. Go back and read what I wrote and you’ll see that

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                  If you can’t understand why someone wouldn’t go out in front of the world and make big statements in line with these claims, or any statement at all, immediately after a very traumatising experience then you really need to work on your empathy and understanding of basic human emotion. I understand your skepticism, to a point. I just gave a very obvious reason why she hasn’t talked about the harrowing things she went through in detail to the public straight away, whether they are as is said in this article or not. Even thinking about them is going to be very difficult for her, nevermind doing what you’re expecting

                  Edit: Taken out a sentence that isn’t relevant, as I thought you were the OP of this comment thread before

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                    I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all, I just think when you report news like this, you do it responsibly. One of the reasons we’re in the situation that we’re in with massive distrust of institutions on the one hand, but widespread believe in conspiracy theories on the other is because fact checking has fled a lot of buildings, and depending on your biases people either doubt everything or believe everything dogmatically. There are other reasons of course, and root causes. But it sucks and is tearing us apart.

                    The Guardian article is worded much more equivocally. “Another detainee” claims she had to kiss the flag. She has given statements herself, but hasn’t corroborated the other claims including of her own having been forced to do so. Heresay in general and limited sources.

                    All I’m asking is that articles make this obvious and don’t sensationalize, like the article posted by OP. Whatever the case, the abuses by Israel we have solid evidence for are bad enough.