As I read through the article it seemed more and more as I read like this issue has actually very little to do with gambling or the gamblers on polymarket.
The issue at hand is that Israel has made itself one of the most hated countries in its region and in the world.
Trying to be an honest fact-based journalist for Times of Israel is like trying to be an honest journalist for Fox News. Even if you have the best intentions, don’t be surprised when nobody believes you or respects you.
In my opinion, Israel has largely made its own bed due to their own actions against their neighbors. If I were an Israeli citizen I would be rip-roaring mad at my government for endangering me by being positively moronic for the last half century.
Netanyahu’s extremist rule has been normalized so much. It wasn’t that long ago that, like Trump, he was seen as a dangerous threat to the region if he won election. Now that those men are in power the situation has been massively sanewashed.
We in the West have spent decades dehumanizing innocent civilians on the other side of our resource wars as “insurgents” and “terrorist affiliates” and yet here we are with a journalist “affiliated” with the obvious terrorist aggressor in the last two conflicts being upset that people on the Internet are doing just that. A trained, educated journalist should understand exactly what’s going on. Like, hello, wake up, look up satellite/drone photos/videos of Gaza. Your country did that!
Can I really get mad if someone on the internet is upset with me as an American for my country’s sins? They may send me empty death threats but my country bombed an elementary school just this year, as a part of an illegal unauthorized war that my country’s leaders can’t even explain coherently.
Downvoters of my comment seem like they’re ready and suited up to fight the AIPAC War and Operation Epstein Fury! I’m doing my part!
I think you need a break from the internet.
Excellent job criticizing the content of my comment.
I see you’ve decided to use the strategy of an ad hominem attack. This is a really great classic one! I applaud your efforts. Since it’s too hard to refute the substance of my comment you can just point out how I’m some crazy person.
If you’re open to it I invite you to pick just one point I made and see if you can find some kind of logical flaw in my reasoning.
Can you name anything about this news story that couldn't have happened in a non-Israeli context? Or does the Israel angle just draw you in like a moth to a flame, until it's the only word in the whole article you can really read?
And to GP's point: Can you point to one paragraph in your original post that does not cry out that you need to log off? I sure can't.