Comment on What's the difference between a hostage and a prisoner?
superkret@feddit.org 6 days ago
People imprisoned by legitimate, lawful governments are prisoners, never hostages, because the government wouldn’t arrest people without legal basis.
Terrorist groups can never take prisoners, only hostages, because they have no legal basis and no legitimacy.
That’s the framing this headline is going for.
yesman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Just a reminder that Hamas is the recognized government in Gaza. Israel reminds us of this fact constantly in it’s attempts to justify their collective punishment. But I see now that Hamas have Schrodinger’s legitimacy.
The framing their going for is worthy victims vs. unworthy. It’s a pillar in the project of acceptable mass murder.