LOL oops, I think they've made a rather silly PR mistake targeting a building hosting journalists!
Lots of the rest of this stuff is fairly standard, even the kids being killed sadly - I mean it's not something the UK would necessarily knowingly do (the RAF tends to be rather keen to avoid civilian casualties) but the US certainly have targeted terrorists in the past knowing there are civilians (family members of the terrorist) present and if it is a high-value target then sometimes they'll accept the "collateral damage" so to speak, ergo the clip of the Palestinian paramedic crying and the reports of some kids being killed, though tragic, is not exactly uncommon in an armed conflict. Main difference perhaps is that you don't get loads of footage uploaded onto social media after incidents in say Northern Pakistan or Yemen etc... that sort of event will blow over though and become one of the many clips activists can point to etc..
Targeting the building with journalists in though - that could cause some rather negative effects for Israel in terms of future coverage, lots of new organisations reliant on AP and lots of other journalists perhaps not too happy about colleagues being given short notice to get out of a building and perhaps almost being killed etc...
I didn't really pay much attention to social media etc.. in previous Israeli/Palestinian spats so I'm not sure how much things have changed but I do wonder if the US used to have as much vocal pro-Palestinian support in previous hostilities? Presumably, it wasn't so prominent in the years following "9/11" etc..?
Now, especially after the mass virtue signaling last summer and the rise of "wokeness", there seem to be infographic posts on Instagram going on about "genocide", "settler colonialism" etc... Historically both major US political parties have been pro-zionist, Trump and Biden certainly both are, though some rank and file Democrats are rather pro-Palestinian and some MAGA types aren't exactly fond of jews!
Also, the various large media organisations, though they have rather a lot of Jewish people in senior management/executive positions, have seemingly fully embraced wokeness, especially after last summer - it would be interesting to see how they're trying to balance that. The woke viewpoint is typically simplistic and binary, the Palestinians are the oppressed and Israel as the oppressors ergo be hypercritical of Israel and justify almost anything the Palestinian side does (even launching crude, unguided rockets into civilian areas).
We did briefly see, last summer, "jewish privilege" trending on twitter, I've not yet seen any "Jewish silence is Jewish violence" slogans yet but it would seem to be an internally consistent/logical step for the woke.
I wonder, if wokeness carries on becoming popular, if this will force a change in US foreign policy, will the US become more critical of Israel? Or is the zionist lobby too powerful? Is wokeness just something Biden can pander to/use for a bit of virtue signalling when convenient (maybe throw some women athletes under the bus, allow for a bit of "positive discrimination") but when it comes to substantial policy change then perhaps it becomes a case of "woah there, let's not get too carried away now".
