Can any journalists enlighten me? When you write headlines with these super passive terms for the worst atrocity of our generation, do you genuinely think those are the most appropriate and good faith words to describe what's happening or does your boss make you do this?

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think you are completely off base

"reportedly" refers to

On Tuesday, Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that Netanyahu is expected to propose the plan to his cabinet soon.

emphasizing it is not from an Israeli government source, but from a newspaper (something that has been reported on, thus using the word reportedly)

"planning to annex" refers to the official act of annexation which is different than the status quo, even though status is genocide, a formal annexation is meaningfully different than what has been going on and this is explained in the article itself.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How is this meaningfully different from a formal annexation? For all intents and purposes Gaza has been annexed.

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Israeli military would first annex parts of the “buffer zone,” an area spanning all of Gaza’s border created by the military amid its genocide. The zone encompasses over half of Gaza’s land area, and Israeli forces have bulldozed everything inside it, including homes, schools, farming sites, and more.

The military would then move to annex parts of northern Gaza, which Israel has worked diligently to isolate from the rest of Gaza, and move gradually until Israel has annexed the entirety of the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reports.

this is quite clearly different then what is has been going on, there is a difference between just bombing a place and annexing it, and this might lead to even more ethnic cleansing whether that is through murder or implementing forced population transfers to other countries like they have been discussing for months