• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t use disrespectful terms either, when you have a perfectly good neutral one right there: “leader”.

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      10 months ago

      Or, alternatively, whatever their actual role in the organisation is. In this case, no current formal role, but he is the ex-chairman of Hamas.

      Of course, the article would like to pretend he’s still a key figure so it can imply that he speaks for Hamas, but in reality he retired over a decade ago.

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        10 months ago

        “Retired leader”. Yeah, the Times of Israel has always had an agenda, but they seemed to stick to an appearance of seriousness. It’s a bit disappointing to see them fall into silly name calling.