Holy hell that second article.
His comment about the Islamic State’s apology was made as part of a broader point about Israel’s policy for Syria, which is largely non-interventionist.
Ya’alon was explaining that Israel carries out strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in retaliation when spillover fire hits the Israeli Golan Heights.
Golan Heights is as israeli as the pacific ocean is Martian. The claim that fighting in Syria spilling over to another part in Syria gives Israel the right to shell Damascus alongside the notion that they’re non-interventionist shows how well they’ve learned imperialism from the US.
I don’t trust their figures, and I’m not just talking about them arbitrarily picking the last 3 years. I don’t see a damn way in hell they’d so much as mention the Gates foundation if they received under 1% of their revenue from them. That would mean at their publishing speed the donation from Gates foundation wouldn’t cover a single video, defeating the purpose of the sponsorship.
Their only good videos are the ones explaining facts of the universe anyway. Their philosophical videos are riddled with idealistic nonsense, their technology videos feed into the “futuristic bs will save us” movement that lulls people to ignore the present and their practical/political videos are just factually shit, they haven’t improved on that regard since their Syrian refugees video.