From what I can gather this conflict as been going on a long time and the Hamas group has existed for a while too. Why are all the news cycles suddenly focusing on this the past few weeks?

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    I posted this question too and got called a racist. I was just curious where all the Ukraine stuff went. Sounds like a planned distraction to me. And since Hamas announced it loves Russia…

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      There’s no doubt that Russia are backing Hamas and doing so mainly to divert resources and attention away from Ukraine.

      At the same time, the war in Ukraine is slowing down while the situation in Israel/Palestine has rapidly escalated.

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        Nothing is slowing down. But yes, it’s ramping up elsewhere as a distraction

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      The war in Ukraine was already dropping off the news cycle before the Hamas attack on Israel.

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      News tends to be a zero sum game. There are a finite number of reporters that fit into a news budget, and they usually have a fixed number of stories they need to submit. News publications are usually measured in words or minutes, after which the publication stops for the current news cycle.

      So yeah, this topic will prevent coverage of other topics.

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      I feel like that’s a rather typical response when people question the attention level of current events. Things grab attention for a bit before something else comes along and takes a chunk of the spotlight.

      Every so often I still see the occasional sun bleached anti-China poster from a few years ago