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.

  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
    101·
    8 months ago

    Israel is definitely attacking Gaza, but Gaza isn’t an entity with the ability to fight back. Thus ‘Israel–Gaza war’ is a false equivalence.

    Similarly, ‘Israel–Hamas war’ is troublesome because both are also attacking people not part of the conflict.

    Maybe it’s ‘a series of Israel & Hamas terrorist attacks in the region of Gaza’ 🤷