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Israeli police attack journalists in Jerusalem, fracturing wrist of CNN producer | CNN

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Much_Guest_7195 Mar 21, 2026 +1330
Lmao my city's police chief is catching flak for going to Israel a few weeks ago and learning their police tactics... https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/03/19/edmonton-police-chief-blasted-police-commission-meeting-israel-trip/
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LostBoysTilDeath Mar 21, 2026 +429
So disheartening to see another story where the people are just like, ‘Oh well I did it but I’m not going to resign and I know I’ll face no consequences so good luck with being upset with me.’
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baz8771 Mar 21, 2026 +125
Trump laid out the playbook. Get into power and then absolutely flip the bird to 60% of people. It’s not enough to tip the scales towards losing a 2 party election. I’m sure in Canada it’s a little different, but it doesn’t seem to be that much different in Alberta. PP tried it but the Quebecois are just a little too intelligent for that.
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EjaculatedTobasco Mar 21, 2026 +54
Alberta politics are *very* Americanized due to the oil and gas industry.
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NorthernerWuwu Mar 22, 2026 +15
True, although I would note that Edmonton is much more like the normal parts of our country.
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NorthernerWuwu Mar 22, 2026 +6
Well, depends on what you mean by normal I guess. Edmonton is far more left-wing in general but has more blue-collar oil and gas workers. Calgary is much more similar to Edmonton than the rest of the province but is still the most right-wing large city in Canada I suppose.
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PKnecron Mar 22, 2026 +2
And the fact that Dani's a c\*\*\*.
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QueequegTheater Mar 22, 2026 +2
The Quebecois also viciously hate their own government going back like 200 years, to be fair
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camshun7 Mar 21, 2026 +65
In a weird sorta way im a bit pleased with this story. It means theyre suffering.
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DisillusionedPatriot Mar 22, 2026 +10
There's a [long standing arrangement](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control) between Israel and US law enforcement, for just that. They've been training our cops for a while now, which when you think about it, explains a bunch, tbh.
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Ok_Boysenberry5849 Mar 21, 2026 +64
How is "lmao" an appropriate response to this? It IS a problem when your police chief is trained by a genocidal regime
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billy_a_books Mar 21, 2026 +90
The “lmao” was for the flak their chief is getting, not that the chief went to israel. Good to see that’s looked down on now by a lot more of the public. Wasn’t long ago that it was nothing but praised.
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Swankyyyy Mar 21, 2026 +30
Respectfully there may be an age/generational gap here in the language. That person definitely meant it in “this is all so comically evil you wouldn’t believe it on paper” kind of way
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ailish Mar 21, 2026 +41
I don't think it's a haha laugh, it seems more like a jfc laugh.
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Much_Guest_7195 Mar 21, 2026 +16
It definitely is a problem and he's getting raked over the coals. "Lmao" is an appropriate response because he's still very much in the woods for this and now there's recent concrete evidence of Israeli cops being full mask-off fascists.
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Nom_de_guerre_25 Mar 21, 2026 +4
Israel trains police all over the United States and all over the planet. India is one big spot. So much for equal protection.
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r0botdevil Mar 21, 2026 +1928
Worth a reminder here that targeting journalists is one of the clearest hallmarks of a fascist regime.
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Alt_Restorer Mar 21, 2026 +253
Never forget that Reuters had to stop giving their coordinates to the IDF in Gaza because they decided they were safer that way. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/news-group-stopped-sharing-gaza-locations-israel-many-journalists-kill-rcna227687
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Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Mar 21, 2026 +248
Israel accounted for [2/3 of journalist deaths](https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129-press-members-killed-in-2025-israel-responsible-for-2-of-3-of-deaths/) *worldwide* in 2025. **58 journalists** dwarf's 2nd place's (Sudan's) 9 journalists, or Russia (4th place) at 4 deaths.
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HerbaciousTea Mar 22, 2026 +46
I did the math a while ago during the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and they were killing civilians and journalists at a rate tens of times higher than Russia in Ukraine. I don't recall off the top of my head but I believe it was about 30-40x more civilian casualties : combatants than Russia, which was and still is *deliberately* striking civilian buildings with glide bombs. Looked them up again, and yup, Russia is killing about 1 civilian per 10 combatants. Israel is killing, depending on the insane range of figures, anywhere from 2-10 civilians per *1* combatant. And that's using Israel's figure of who's a "combatant," so that's already being generous towards them.
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kagethemage Mar 22, 2026 +32
Israel’s war on Gaza has been [the deadliest war for journalists](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/press-briefing-irene-khan-15sep25/) ever. According to the UN, “More journalists have been killed in Gaza than both world wars, the Vietnam War, wars in Yugoslavia, and the war in Afghanistan combined.”
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dotcubed Mar 21, 2026 +22
I’m seeing some surprising parallels between them and some other countries….
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WinterSector8317 Mar 21, 2026 +816
I mean, yeah But the targeting women, children and doctors thing is a bit clearer 
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PickleMortyCoDm Mar 21, 2026 +698
It goes beyond that... Luring out emergency workers, killing them, burying their bodies and then blaming hamas is the definite more than just a hallmark.
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Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa Mar 21, 2026 +83
And in some cases, burying the actual ambulance the workers arrived in. 
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Canuck-overseas Mar 21, 2026 +115
I think they specialize in babies.
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Sacaron_R3 Mar 21, 2026 +39
Those babies were Hamas.
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After-Autumn Mar 21, 2026 +15
Do you have a source for this? I can't find anything online. Edit: nvm found it!
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IdRatherNotBeDoxxed Mar 21, 2026 +78
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_paramedic_massacre
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After-Autumn Mar 21, 2026 +8
Thank you!
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Consistent-Throat130 Mar 21, 2026 +70
Don't take that as an event that occurred in isolation. It's a pattern of behavior. I'd say a quick Google search for "double tap air strike" should yield yet more samples of deliberate targeting paramedics. 
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goddamnitwhalen Mar 21, 2026 +3
[Watch this.](https://youtu.be/hrssPpqv6vc?si=hIadRX61Pv5SJEq_)
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Alittlespill Mar 22, 2026 +3
This is very hunger games: mockingjay of them. Explosion -> lure out emergency workers -> bomb emergency workers -> pure chaos. It’s an evil plan.
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CallRespiratory Mar 21, 2026 +93
Women, children, and doctors are Hamas! Journalists are Hamas! Everybody is Hamas!
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KahuTheKiwi Mar 21, 2026 +12
The guy who cut you off on the drive to work? Hamas.
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bizarro_kvothe Mar 21, 2026 +44
Not if it was in self defense! THEY’RE COMING RIGHT FOR US
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yamirzmmdx Mar 21, 2026 +19
They were definitely running towards us with their backs menacingly facing us!
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Reasonable_Claim_603 Mar 21, 2026 +2
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Reasonable_Claim_603 Mar 21, 2026 +5
They removed my comment. It was a reference to South Park and they thought I was making threats...
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Mobile_Ask2480 Mar 21, 2026 +34
That and raping them to death or starving them or the checkpoints or the night raids damn there are alot of them huh
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vincentdima Mar 21, 2026 +29
Letting soldiers snipe innocent children for fun might be number one then...
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DownhillUphill Mar 21, 2026 +74
Israel is run by an evil regime
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antinomya Mar 21, 2026 +63
Voted democratically by the people
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Dragull Mar 21, 2026 +17
People that are indoctrinated since little.
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StillWastingAway Mar 22, 2026 +33
So were the Nazis, what's your point? When people bring up that Israelis LOVE war crimes, it's not because they want the civilians murdered, but to make sure that it's clear, that once bibi is gone, nothing will change, what is required is re-education that won't happen without sanctions.
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kagethemage Mar 22, 2026 +10
Remember when we arrested Don Lemon for reporting on ICE?
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r0botdevil Mar 22, 2026 +4
Oh yeah, we're absolutely in the early stages of becoming a fascist regime as well.
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Sad_Minute_3989 Mar 22, 2026 +9
"Late stages" you guys aren't coming back from it either.
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Rich_Sheepherder646 Mar 21, 2026 +19
Over 270 journalists have been murdered in Gaza. And almost all of them were targeted killings.
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GetsBetterAfterAFew Mar 22, 2026 +6
Wait I was told Isreal is the most moral country in the world with the most moral military ever in history lol
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Conscious-Okra9046 Mar 21, 2026 +22
Being an obviously fascist regime is also a clear hallmark of being a fascist regime.
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macramillion Mar 22, 2026 +6
The genocidal colonisation is somewhat of an indicator as well.
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CircumcisedSpine Mar 21, 2026 +12
But I thought Israel was the only beacon of democracy in the Middle East? /s
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Permanenceisall Mar 21, 2026 +13
No one needs any reminders, everyone’s basically chosen their sides.
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Due-Significance-711 Mar 21, 2026 +324
Wow, with that kind of violence its a wonder the USA doesn't bomb the place and try to take out the leaders given the excuses we keep hearing.
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universalhat Mar 21, 2026 +30
we can always hope.
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Due-Significance-711 Mar 21, 2026 +26
You know, it really would do wonders to clear up the conspiracy that Israel is secretly running the United States.
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Consistent-Throat130 Mar 21, 2026 +18
But it quit being a theory with the Epstein-Mossad ties. Oh well.
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Eddiebaby7 Mar 21, 2026 +54
The country is depraved. I’m over sending these assholes billions of our tax dollars.
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Jehooveremover Mar 21, 2026 +53
Terrorist Israeli and US religious nationalist regimes are both allergic to the truth.
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chatoka1 Mar 21, 2026 +226
I’m sure CNN will call this out for what it is…..
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DeliriousHippie Mar 21, 2026 +97
I predict that no US media will condemn this. Additional prediction is that most medias in USA wont even report this.
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malianx Mar 21, 2026 +14
It's a CNN article...
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diefreetimedie Mar 21, 2026 +85
CNN was promised to the Ellison's 3000 years ago
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WafflesTrufflez Mar 21, 2026 +16
Suprise they even reported this, I swear if this was a year ago. They'll use the most passive voice to describe the situation
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Malaix Mar 21, 2026 +23
Lol I'll be shocked if they don't fire the reporter for antisemitism or something.
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Ancient_Sun_2061 Mar 22, 2026 +3
With CNN going to Paramount, this might soon be thing of the past.
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McCree114 Mar 21, 2026 +7
CNN when Israeli police thugs break the wrists of their journalists: I sleep. CNN when Chinese police are slightly pushy: Help! I'm being oppressed!
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Makachai Mar 21, 2026 +8
CNN? They'll likely spin it that their own guy deserved it, and that saying Israeli police did it is somehow antisemitism.
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juanddd_wingman Mar 21, 2026 +27
Israel doing Israel things
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universalhat Mar 21, 2026 +208
hamas tunnels under the reporters
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Im_better_than__u Mar 21, 2026 +73
Journalist are a designated terror group according to Israel.
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Rabbit-Hole-Quest Mar 21, 2026 +45
Israel killed at least 84 media workers and journalists in 2025, far more than any other country in what was the deadliest year on record for the news media. International journalist watchdog groups use to have special spotlights on countries that harm journalists, but because Israel would be the undisputed w***** in 2025, they have chosen not to do that.
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Cold-Point-3051 Mar 21, 2026 +9
Hamas carpal tunnels
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B-Z_B-S Mar 21, 2026 +187
Well, Netanyahu *is* a rightwing wannabe dictator.
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Indercarnive Mar 21, 2026 +88
Nothing wannabe about it.
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plippityploppitypoop Mar 22, 2026 +3
Wait what?
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toawl Mar 21, 2026 +17
Yeah put on Netanyahu, the other Israeli leaders were peace pigeons
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DownhillUphill Mar 21, 2026 +2
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Turtleshellfarms Mar 21, 2026 +100
Israel has killed and unfathomable number of journalist while the American Media remains silent.
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KahuTheKiwi Mar 21, 2026 +26
58. That is only a bit more than 6 times as many as the second place, Sudan with 9.
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Positive-Media423 Mar 21, 2026 +86
This shit is a dictatorship.
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StillWastingAway Mar 22, 2026 +42
Nope. It's just a fascist ethno supremacist society. I can bring my Israeli polls if you want, but largely, Israelis love this shit, some dislike bibi, but mostly for corruption, not for his war crimes or fascism
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Yakassa Mar 22, 2026 +24
Israel is not a dictatorship, the majority of the people of Israel are between fine and getting a kick from having jackbooted psychopaths run around and brutalizing, murdering, raping anyone they dislike even slightly, and especially anyone that is witness to their inhumanity. Again, the people of israel, in the majority are perfectly fine with this. Unlike the germans during Hitlers reign, they cant feign ignorance and their democracy is still intact and could get rid of bibi in Snap, but they apparently like this stuff, otherwise we would see far more demonstrations, desertions, fraggings etc. They are not happening, which means the population is content and satisfied with how things are being handled.
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Voodoocookie Mar 22, 2026 +15
Just want to remind everyone that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted(aka deliberate) killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129-press-members-killed-in-2025-israel-responsible-for-2-of-3-of-deaths/
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Gamer_Grease Mar 21, 2026 +14
Journalist mistreated in journalist-killing country, more news at 10:00.
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Ok-Description7073 Mar 21, 2026 +83
They can call it a democracy all they want, but they rank low in terms of judicial independence, freedoms of election and the press, and due process protections for a reason.
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soybean_lawyer69 Mar 21, 2026 +34
Also Naftali Bennett, the guy most likely to defeat Netanyahu, is in many ways to the \*right\* of Netanyahu. There is essentially no “moderate” or “left wing“ force that can take power in Israel outside of a heavily compromised coalition government with some right parties.
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TheRealK95 Mar 22, 2026 +15
The only prime minister who tried to broker a peace deal was assassinated and the current prime minister protested his deal by parading a mock coffin of him. Tells you all you need to know about how extreme their leadership is.
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Ok-Description7073 Mar 21, 2026 +44
Fascist ethno-state in the making dressed and advertised as a democracy.
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N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 Mar 21, 2026 +6
Sounds a lot like the US.
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Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Mar 21, 2026 +39
It's an apartheid ethnostate. Palestinians cannot vote and are subject to a different set of courts and laws. There's no way you can possibly call this setup "democratic"
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geekraver Mar 21, 2026 +12
Meanwhile US President Bibi calls for Iranians to revolt against their government
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Begum65 Mar 21, 2026 +8
He's supposed to say 'Thank you sir may I have another', not make a report on it.
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heemster Mar 21, 2026 +10
In this thread: calling out the Israeli atrocities that our own media is trying to suppress. If you can’t handle that truth, this thread isn’t for you.
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YodaForceGhost Mar 21, 2026 +27
What sucks is his employer will still blame Palestinians for this
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surfnfish1972 Mar 21, 2026 +9
They must have been Anti Semites!
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Smedley_Beamish Mar 21, 2026 +10
Netanyahu's own Gestapo.
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LorderNile Mar 21, 2026 +17
Now that is a ceo who knows how to make his jaw sore
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jesuisapprenant Mar 21, 2026 +16
There is Hamas inside the producer's wrist
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PossibilityFew5967 Mar 21, 2026 +21
And you'll still defend them CNN 
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mido_sama Mar 21, 2026 +66
The only democracy in Middle East.
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Permanenceisall Mar 21, 2026 +23
Then what the hell was Iraq all about? Didn’t we give them “fair and free elections?”
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PossibilityFew5967 Mar 21, 2026 +14
According to the mossad bots here it is a democracy that's why the Iraq war was a success and that it'll be the same in Iran 
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Sacaron_R3 Mar 21, 2026 +2
Well, from their perspective the islamic state certainly was a success.
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chiefmackdaddypuff Mar 21, 2026 +4
Something something “Arab spring”. 
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Chimvape Mar 21, 2026 +11
Israel is just a trailer park of zealots.
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RostyC Mar 21, 2026 +8
Of course. They suffer no consequences so they just don't care. "They were not journalists! THey were working with terrorists!"
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boston_homo Mar 21, 2026 +6
I wonder when CNN will start to bury stories like this?
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Admirable-Nobody219 Mar 21, 2026 +5
what blows my mind is the amount of money they invest for propaganda in all media and yet they can't help it, showing their true colors
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TheSpark7 Mar 22, 2026 +7
Israelis are the worst of the worst. A nation built on savagery, racism, and fanaticism.
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QIMF Mar 21, 2026 +20
Can we ciritize Israel for this clear wrongdoing or will we still be labeled anti semetic?
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secretqwerty10 Mar 21, 2026 +8
sorry even suggesting the idea is antisemitic according to some idiots
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SolowDolow Mar 21, 2026 +25
Hurting their own propagandists??
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Wtopp3 Mar 21, 2026 +8
Par for the course. They have become what they ran from.
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sonicneedslovetoo Mar 21, 2026 +11
The US really needs some kind of lasting grassroots movement to primary senators so we can dump Israel until they clean up their shit. Ideally it should be something actually progressive that can start pushing out incumbent democrats so we stop having Chuck Shcumers and Diane Fergusons.
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chiefmackdaddypuff Mar 21, 2026 +17
Let’s see. More American soldiers killed for Israel in the Iran war than Israeli soldiers.  Israeli has a history of killing journalists. Current count is: 125 for 2025.  They literally tried to kill a RT journalist just a day ago. Regardless of what you think of RT, the person targeted is still a journalist.  And now, they specifically targeted journalists again.  On brand for a genocidal ethnostate I’d say. What’s infuriating is my taxes is going to this shit. 
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Wise-Promise-4158 Mar 22, 2026 +6
Surprised cnn isn’t calling the producer antisemitic for making the cops do that
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-SineNomine- Mar 21, 2026 +13
How on earth can we still stand by this regime. I am ashamed - reagrds from Germany. I didn't think the fascists of old would back the fascists of the next generation, but Merz we are. India and Brazil were soooo right: We obviously don't back Ukraine because of morals, principles or law. We are just following geostrategic interests. Israel attacking Iran with verbal support from many western countries is more than proof.
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Constant_Flamingo828 Mar 22, 2026 +6
I used to be 100% on Israel’s side but they gave become a rogue nation. We should start treating them like Yemen or Syria.
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GimmickNG Mar 22, 2026 +3
Syria has a better future ahead now than these barbarians. I would say more like Somalia or Sudan.
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CalCurves Mar 22, 2026 +7
Not surprising when Israel is the#1 killer of journalists worldwide, with a body count of 40% of all journalists killed in 2025
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FavRootWorker Mar 22, 2026 +9
This will continue to happen till we stop electing leaders beholden to AIPAC.
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apoca1ypse12 Mar 21, 2026 +3
Israel will be left behind once all of this is said and done
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Snick13fritz Mar 21, 2026 +3
And the Israeli police are the victims in this story like always and for ever
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CrankyVince2 Mar 22, 2026 +3
They don't even care how much water you carry for them, they just can't help themselves
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fcatw Mar 22, 2026 +3
I mean they’ve been doing this for decades
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viera_enjoyer Mar 22, 2026 +3
Fascism. Zionism. Same coin, different face. 
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2wcp Mar 22, 2026 +3
The bigger question is. Will the CNN do anything besides lip service? Do they have the balls to sue?
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4RCH43ON Mar 21, 2026 +9
If this is the fascism we are at war to defend, I fail to see the point in it.
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PurpleCoat6656 Mar 21, 2026 +7
Nazis gonna Nazi. How have you not figured this out?
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Icy_Lawfulness_2111 Mar 21, 2026 +7
Killing journalists and children must be a sport over there.
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Trekker6167 Mar 21, 2026 +6
Not the first time they have targeted journalists, and it won't be the last because they keep getting away with it.
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Sufficient-Food-3281 Mar 21, 2026 +7
Of course, this is what terrorists do
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Mac62961 Mar 21, 2026 +3
Down with ALL fascists and ALL dictators.
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Connect_Relation1007 Mar 22, 2026 +3
Wait I thought Israel was our best friend??? Pull out and let it burn
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Pale_Sell1122 Mar 21, 2026 +2
They are murdering people on the streets in the West Bank right now.
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Aggressive-Cut5836 Mar 22, 2026 +2
Oh no I thought America’s whole reason for nonstop economy and military support of Israel is that it’s the only western democracy in the Middle East
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RobutNotRobot Mar 22, 2026 +2
If history is any guide the US companies that employ these journalists will not even mention it.
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nowimnihil13 Mar 22, 2026 +2
Israelis are more violent than Americans
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naththegrath10 Mar 22, 2026 +2
Will CNN cover this? Probably not
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Herkfixer Mar 22, 2026 +2
They were hiding Hamas generals in their underpants.
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Decent-Ganache7647 Mar 21, 2026 +4
I just saw a YouTube video from a journalist who said they were targeted in Lebanon. A rocket exploded behind him, which was caught on video. They had to get treated for shrapnel wounds. 
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TheWolfbytez Mar 22, 2026 +4
I didn't read the article, but I'm curious to see how CNN spins this one to defend Israel. "The reporter stated it was actually their bad, no cap. That the police are bussin and have mad rizz. Now we go live to Jake Tapper for some more pro-Israel sentiment...Jake..."
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mathiustus Mar 22, 2026 +2
Journalists in Israel need to start using military tactics and cover each other in team while covering stories. One team to watch the story, one team to watch the watchers. If the one team gets accosted, the other can cover it from a safe distance and get the story out before they are in turn assaulted.
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GimmickNG Mar 22, 2026 +2
Obviously it's because CNN is Hamas.
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Gunnerldn Mar 22, 2026 +2
If you think the IDF was wrong you are HAMAS
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mefall99 Mar 21, 2026 +1
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puterijessica Mar 22, 2026 +1
And when they speak out against or retaliate against the 2 bullies (usual suspects), they are labeled terr0r1sts instead. Bullies then whine about getting their feelings hurt. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Shahariar_909 Mar 22, 2026 +1
Israel defenders are in shambles recently
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Successful-Topic8874 Mar 22, 2026 +1
Y'all don't understand. I heard that journalist was developing nukes.
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Priorsteve Mar 22, 2026 +1
Yep the US government puts their needs above those of its own citizens
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NCGamerBro Mar 22, 2026 +1
You’d be safer in Jerusalem wearing the uniform of an enemy combatant than you would be wearing a press vest
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Jeanclaudegahdam Mar 22, 2026 +1
Israel has the right to defend itself from journalists
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