Israel bombing shit..
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"Random question, are they televising whats happening in Gaza on Israeli media? Is there a left-wing media that's opposed to this? I've read that there's somewhere around 90% support from the Israeli public. I have a hard time believing that number would be so large if people were seeing the death."sorry, don't know much about israeli media, i'm not an israeli, can't read hebrew. what I do know is that there is left-wing media in israel that don't go along with the pack. check out haaretz for example. their coverage is contrary to the official line, I would definitely call their reporting anti-israeli biased. can't tell how widespread their views are though.
they do seem to have somewhat of a public opposition, conscientious objectors, people that are vehemently opposed to the uglyness of occupation and military engagements. pacifists. also a small number of members of parliament that are vocally anti-war/pro palestinian, I guess mostly arab MPs. I don't know for sure, but I would expect that these are only fringe groups, would be very suprised if not at least 75% of israelis wouldn't stand behind their gov and army during this time.
I do think that pal civilian casualties are reported in israeli media, but perhaps not as much as in western media or arab media. however I doubt that anybody in israel doesn't know about the shredded children, but I guess they accept it as a consequence of hamas strategy and as the price that israel has to pay for defending itself.
they also seem to be well aware about the international view on israel, but again, from their perspective it's unfair and doesn't make sense, so they can only shrug it off.
maybe someone from israel can chip in to provide some real insight. I think addedvalium is listed with a tel-aviv location in his profile.