Ok. China would do this. France would do this. Ukraine would do this. Russia would do this. Any country with a military in wartime would absolutely, no question, arrest people filming a military base on sight. The beatings are a bad thing, detention without charges is bad. Still, this is entirely predictable and I am not sure what he thought he was accomplishing. It was a miscalculation on his part.
You can see it as miscalculation for sure, I think it’s bravery on his part because this is a case similar to Julian Assange where a citizen of a different country is arrested and tried for releasing documents inconvenient to (insert empire/elites here).
And that precedent is a problem the world over especially when it’s coming from supposed democracies. I understand the need to protect state secrets but in the case of Assange , freedom of speech is enshrined in the constitution to protect from government tyranny. But we can agree to disagree.
Assange published wikileaks, which actually had useful, non-public information. Assange commit espionage for a purpose and that’s far more practical than doing it for no clear purpose. This guy both didn’t release anything meaningful or new and has now created a distinct and non-useful media cycle.
Literally, his conclusion is that Iran hit Israeli airfields, which is self-evident because he drove to the airfields to get footage in the first place. I.e. we already could reach this conclusion without this footage, which doesn’t show anything.
It’s a distracting issue and miscalculation on his part because it pulls attention away from Gaza and Lebanon (where there are far more important stories currently, like IOF attacking UN peacekeepers).
I appreciate your perspective for sure and can see where you’re coming from but I think his bravery and putting himself in this position as a Jewish American journalist getting beaten and arrested is another blow to the image of the Israeli states’ purported freedoms and function as a state for the protection of the Jewish people . And of course everyone here is aware of the lies of those claims , but if there’s one person out there that will read this story and start questioning the bs of the narrative then that in itself is a huge help to the Palestinian cause and for every person who believes in truth and justice . Sorry for waxing poetic lol but I feel very inspired by the solidarity that has come from this collective awakening that’s occurring from this horrific genocide, especially as a Palestinian and on this sub in particular, and it gives me hope.
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u/Gotcha2500 Palestinian Oct 10 '24
Iran is an authoritarian regime so what Iran would do isn’t on the “what Israel should be allowed to do“ bingo card .