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Does taking prisoners of war really count as arresting them?

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If you want to be pedantic: Hamas is not a state actor and its fighters usually don’t wear uniforms. They are thus not considered combattants, which in turn means they can’t be prisoners of war.

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aljazeera.com - Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: Qatar
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: LIMITED FREEDOM
Media Type: TV Station
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

Source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/

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Ah yes, there is nothing more credible than mediabiasfactcheck.com, the be-all end-all judge of what is and isn’t trustworthy.

Times of Israel - Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER

Factual Reporting: HIGH

Country: Israel

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MODERATE FREEDOM

Media Type: Website

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

You’re kidding, right?

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I am not kidding. Answering to your comment a bit lower as well:

There is no need to explain the methodology as it is very well explained on their website https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/

Everyone is throwing propaganda at each other in these times, there is a lot of false information floating around. This website tries to structure the chaos a bit. It won’t be always right and can’t deliver truth, but it does a very important job - assessing the credibility of media sources.

You might not be satisfied with their assessment, and that’s okay. A look into your profile let it seem you might be subject to your own bias too. Maybe you could consider consuming some news sources additionally to Al Jazeera, just to get a more complete picture of reality - and no, it doesn’t have to be the times of israel.

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Times of israel is straight up IDF propaganda. Get out of here with your “fact check” bullshit. israelis truly have no limit to their shamelessness.

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In this case I think they’re not wrong. Israel does fucked up things wrt arrests and Palestinians.

Exhibit A: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ahed-tamimi-latest-palestinian-girl-14-years-prison-kicking-spitting-israeli-soldiers-protest-family-a8149411.html

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I did not want to say they are wrong, just give an objective estimate about bias and origin of Al Jazeera.

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Media Bias Fact Check is less reputable than pretty much every site they report on.

They have no credentials to establish their credibility. Seriously, try to find any anything about the people running the site.

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Have you? Seems to be founded by a guy called Dave Van Zandt. There is a pretty extensive wikipedia article about the site. It does not seem to be the mighty tool for everything, but there are even scientific studies using that tool.

I mean seriously, why are you doing this?

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What credentials does this “Dave Van Zandt” have. What evidence is there that support his credibility?

Scientific studies use it because it’s a dataset. Do you want me to point you to the hundreds of shitty datasets that people have used in the past for machine learning work?

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