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The Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday accused a prominent journalist– who in recent months has reported regularly for Al Jazeera from Gaza – of moonlighting as a senior Hamas commander.

The Israeli Defense Forces have published photos they say were discovered on a laptop in Gaza that show Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Washah engaged in Hamas terrorist activities.

Neither Al Jazeera nor the Qatari government have responded to the Sun’s request for comment.

  • Flying Squid
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    510 months ago

    No that’s my inference based on the lack of evidence.

    You made absolutely no indication that it was an inference. It was just a statement, as if it were fact.

    The claim and the evidence is that Hamas hardly ever admits to casualties.

    You have provided no evidence.

    The evidence is the lack of evidence

    What the fuck does this even mean?

      • Flying Squid
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        410 months ago

        Since I’m not very well educated or experienced, please explain how the lack of something can be the same as the presence of something.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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          -410 months ago

          If your neighbor claimed that teenagers were racing their cars outside of his house, the absence of teenagers, cars, and tire marks, on the street would be negative evidence against his claim.

          This is honestly not that complicated.

          • Flying Squid
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            210 months ago

            Well, I may be uneducated and inexperienced, but it seems to me that those teenagers could have just driven away and not left any tire marks. So stupid me doesn’t understand how that explains how the absence of evidence is the same as the presence of evidence.

              • Flying Squid
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                310 months ago

                I’m sorry, I don’t understand how accusing me of conspiratorial thinking explains how the absence of evidence is the same as the presence of evidence either. Perhaps you could illuminate me.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    310 months ago

                    Well I say that I’m not a troll or stupid and the absence of evidence that I am not a troll or stupid is the same as evidence that I am a troll or stupid.