Israel bombing shit..
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- georgesIII3
not mine, but I thought it was interesting,
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There was a massacre in Jerusalem on Tuesday in which five Israelis were killed. There was a war in Gaza over the summer in which 2,200 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians. A massacre shocks us; a war, less so. Massacres have culprits; wars don’t. Murder by ax is more appalling than murder by rifle, and far more horrendous than bombing helpless people trying to take shelter.
Terror is always Palestinian, even when hundreds of Palestinian civilians are killed. The name and face of Daniel Tragerman, the Israeli boy killed by mortar fire during Operation Protective Edge, were known throughout the world; even U.S. President Barack Obama knew his name. Can anyone name one child from Gaza among the hundreds killed?
A few hours after the attack in Jerusalem, journalist Emily Amrousi said at a conference in Eilat that the life of a single Jewish child was more important to her than the lives of thousands of Palestinian children. The audience’s response was clearly favorable; I think there was even some applause.
Afterward Amrousi tried to explain that she was referring to the way the Israeli media should cover events, which is only slightly less serious. This was during a discussion on the ridiculous question: “Is the Israeli media leftist?” Almost no one protested Amrousi’s remarks and the session continued as if nothing had happened. Amrousi’s words reflect Israel’s mood in 2014: Only Jewish blood elicits shock.
Israeli deaths touch Israeli hearts more than the deaths of others. That’s natural human solidarity. The bloody images from Jerusalem stunned every Israeli, probably every person.
But this is a society that sanctifies its dead to the point of death-worship, that wears thin the stories of the victims’ lives and deaths, whether it be in a synagogue attack or a Nepal avalanche. It’s a society preoccupied with endless commemorations in the land of monuments, services and anniversary ceremonies; a society that demands shock and condemnation after every attack, when it blames the entire world.
Precisely from such a society is one permitted to demand some attention to the Palestinian blood that is also spilled in vain; some understanding of the other side’s pain, or even a measure of empathy, which in Israel is considered treason.
But this doesn’t happen. Aside from exceptional murders and hate crimes by individuals, there is total apathy — and the obtuseness is frightening. Killings (we dare not say murders) by soldiers and policemen will never shock Israel. The propaganda machine will whitewash everything, and the media will be its mouthpiece. No one will demand condemnations. No one will express shock. Few will even consider that the pain is the same pain, that murder is murder.
How many Israelis are willing to give a thought to the parents of Yousef Shawamreh, the boy who went out to pick wild greens and was killed by an army sniper? Why is it exaggerating to be upset by, or at least give some attention to, the killing of Khalil Anati, a 10-year-old boy from the Al-Fawar refugee camp?
Why can’t we identify with the pain of bereaved father Abd al-Wahab Hammad, whose son was killed in Silwad, or with the Al-Qatari family from the Al-Amari refugee camp, two members of which were killed by soldiers within a month? Why do we reserve our horror for the synagogue and not consider these killings disturbing?
Yes, there is the test of intent. The typical Israeli argument is that soldiers, unlike terrorists, do not intend to kill. If so, then what exactly is the intent of the sniper who fires live bullets at the head or chest of a demonstrator a distance away who poses no threat? Or when he shoots a child in the back as he’s running for his life? Didn’t he intend to kill him?
The attack in Jerusalem was a horrendous crime; nothing can justify it. But the blood that flowed there is not the only blood being spilled here murderously. The degree to which it is forbidden to say that is incredible.
- benfal990
Crimes against humanity ??????
- lowimpakt0
it is pure fantasy to say that people that are concerned about what is happening in Gaza are not concerned about what is happening in Iraq or elsewhere.
ISIS overrunning Iraq is directly related to the failed war waged by the UK and US in Iraq and these were subject to some of the largest protests in history.
ISIS don't have embassies, don't receive billions in western aid, don't have public support from western governments. ISIS don't claim to be a functioning democracy and don't demand to be treated as such.
Many of the same people protesting agains the illegal blockade and invasion of gaza were protesting against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- yurimon1
November Surprise! I Am always skeptical when war breaks on the people involved behind the escalations. But its pretty sad never the less.
- teh0
seems like Israel and China need a good water-boarding from the UN, We have launched wars on countries for far less.
- utopian1
Which God will win? This shit will never end, period!
- I guess that's what they mean when they say god is infinite?zarkonite
- < lolMaaku
- hahaKrassy
- whose prophet?monospaced
- ukit20
Pretty disgusting to read the comments
- ukit20
An even weirder aspect of this are the evangelical U.S. Christians who support Israel because they need it as the staging ground for the End Tines. So they support the Jews' right to exterminate Palestinians, but only because they believe Israel will need to be around to be invaded and destroyed (and the remaining Jews converted to Christianity), before the world ends. Great group of friends there.
- pr21
imagineallthepeople, you hide behind legal definitions just like the guys here:
who have one set of laws for one group of people and totally different set for another.
- http://www.youtube.c…pr2
- Interesting, only a thousand views tho.ApeRobot
- interestingRavdyk
- ohhhhhsnap0
TL in another thread (the Useful Thread)
but... http://buycott.com
- i_was0
I hope Israël will bomb them again, it's the only way those muslims idiots can understand.
- Soon if all Muslims are idiots what are all Jews? Since we're playing the 'generalisation' gamebabaganush
- http://scanfree.org/…
kill 'em alli_was
- GeorgesII0
<troll> off</troll>
If the US of A wants to go to war with anyone else, they should look at their economy carefully, the ship is trawling a 16 trillion debt and an over expended army all over the world.
maybe this time they should just pass this one
<troll>on</troll>
- imagineallthepeople-1
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"This conflict will only increase the hatred of many Arab groups to the West ..."hm, that's a bold theory right there, interesting point.
- IRNlun60
imagineallthepeople, my take is how visible this is to everyone. Unless someone has vilified their enemy so deeply that they can't even relate to them on a human level, everyone is going to have a visceral reaction to the sight of a dead child. I can only see this from an American perspective, but it's the main reason why the media was practically silenced during the Iraq war. A lesson the American military learned during the Vietnam war. Limit media coverage. Having said that, I feel it's a awful strategy because it makes the public blind to how dehumanizing war is, never learning the consequences, making it all the more easy to support war in the future.
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.