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let's not get bog down with semantics, the point is that Israel has mass detained Palestinian citizens and now it's trying to mass execute them all. they are already in the concentration camps and want to upgrade to deaths camps.
they must be stopped.
I agree with your points, but Susan(original pic) didn't help at all with her statement. They are prisoners even if illegally so, falsely accused, or locked up for no reason. It would have been much more constructive for her to mention that they have no reason to be imprisoned, rather than make her statement that they're not prisoners.
Sure, everyone imprisoned is a prisoner under international law, but I assume Susan is aiming her comment at an america-centric audience.
I think large enough parts of Lemmy get the disproportionate news titling from "credible" news orgs such as NYT reading along the lines of "30 dead in Gaza building collapse" vs. "2 mothers brutally murdered in Tel Aviv during new wave of terror bombing"
Are we really going to knitpick on Susan for calling them "not prisoners" because they're not imprisoned like the average peacetime prisoner: with at least a resemblance of a due process?
she was just clarifying they they were innocent. because "prisoner" has negative connotations
It looks to me like she did both. Which is exactly what she should have done.
The whole point of the reply to that post was to argue semantics.