What's the significance of calling it "Israel-Hamas War" vs "Israel-Gaza War"?

yool_ooloo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 88 points –

I'm in the US.

I haven't discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I've seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven't determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

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Who is they? Hamas didn't win a majority in the 2006 election. Then they fought a civil war and took autocratic control in 2007. So what are you talking about when you say they? It certainly isn't all Gazans or Palestinians.

You're championing genocide and the wholesale slaughter of civilians. Do you honestly believe that a terrorist attack allows the unrestrained murder of civilians?

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