It's All Just Zionist Propaganda
I'm sorry to spend so much time on the Israel-Hamas conflict, but it is one of the most persistent sources of misinformation in the world today, and much of that misinformation is being swallowed whole by the sort of person who might read this blog, i.e. left wingers, who seem to be ready at a moment's notice to take Hamas' side in its war against Israel.
This post concerns the long-time claims that Hamas (and before them, the PLO) made a consistent practice of firing on Israel from the middle of civilian areas- even hospitals, schools and religious structures- leaving the Israelis no choice but to risk the death of civilians when they fight back, or invite the death of their own people in an unending campaign of terror.
Unfortunately, as far as I have heard, these Israeli claims are routinely dismissed as nothing but lies and racist propaganda. Even people who should know better, like Thom Hartmann and Amy Goodman seem ready at the drop of a hat to deny that Hamas would sacrifice their own people in such a way.
Well, here are three short excerpts from news broadcasts, from three countries, India, France, and Finland, that prove differently:
It should be noted that the networks had to remove their reporters from Gaza before daring to show this footage, as they claim their reporters would be killed if Hamas could get their hands on them.
But of course, as we see so often in this country, people believe whatever they feel like believing, and even this material, which emanates from three countries not know for their partiality toward Israel, won't make a dent in the opinions of those who have already licensed themselves to support genocidal terrorists.
This post concerns the long-time claims that Hamas (and before them, the PLO) made a consistent practice of firing on Israel from the middle of civilian areas- even hospitals, schools and religious structures- leaving the Israelis no choice but to risk the death of civilians when they fight back, or invite the death of their own people in an unending campaign of terror.
Unfortunately, as far as I have heard, these Israeli claims are routinely dismissed as nothing but lies and racist propaganda. Even people who should know better, like Thom Hartmann and Amy Goodman seem ready at the drop of a hat to deny that Hamas would sacrifice their own people in such a way.
Well, here are three short excerpts from news broadcasts, from three countries, India, France, and Finland, that prove differently:
It should be noted that the networks had to remove their reporters from Gaza before daring to show this footage, as they claim their reporters would be killed if Hamas could get their hands on them.
But of course, as we see so often in this country, people believe whatever they feel like believing, and even this material, which emanates from three countries not know for their partiality toward Israel, won't make a dent in the opinions of those who have already licensed themselves to support genocidal terrorists.
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And don't get me wrong- I'm not making some moral point about those World War II targets. When their government starts a war, people suffer. And that is exactly what is happening in Gaza. If you shoot at me I have a right to shoot back. And if you stand by your mother and sister when you shoot, and they get killed, it's your fault, not mine.
How can anyone be so determined to hate Jews that they condemn them for doing what anyone else would do without a second thought?
Meir Kahane was right! Green Eagle, thank you for being one of the leftists to support the truth!
We must kill the Palestinians!
Remember -- Genocide is great because the Torah says so!
TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!
Not on the subject of any US politician, all the times you have slapped the Tea Party, mentioned gun violence or climate change...never was the bile from the hostile comments brigade like this.
And I think that sort of illustrates your point, GE.
Lev, I can't figure out what the hell you mean. Care to enlighten us?
And Magpie, remember that most of the people that read this blog are pretty left wing. If more right wingers read what I have to say, I'm sure their trolls would greatly outnumber the left wing ones.
Not that you don't have a legitimate point- the re-emergence of virulent anti-semitism in the last couple of years is a frightening reminder of how many truly horrible people there are in the world, although no more so that the race hatred in this country since Obama was elected.
Now we have a conservative government, there was a move to water down laws against racial vilification in the name of “free speech” - till it was realised that it would alienate the very communities whose cooperation is essential combat extremism. And for no gain other than the appeasement of some Right wing shock jock ideologues.
But back to the subject, it does not follow, Anon, that to accuse Hamas (correctly) of using civilian shields for both propaganda and tactical value is to say “Israel can do no wrong”. That’s not what the man said.
There have been repeated attempts at ceasefire… and it always Hamas-aligned militants that violate them. If you don’t want to be shot at – don’t shoot. Once you do stop, don’t start again.
There is no way on Earth that you would tolerate rocket attacks on downtown L.A. - unless you’re a traitorous dog or a lunatic. One of the most basic expectations that a people can have of their country is that it will act to protect them.
Maybe you've never been there. As long as they keep away from Little Tokyo, I think a few rockets might help.
Anyway, it is interesting that the people who want to abuse me have absolutely nothing to say about the point I was making in this post: that it is absolutely positive that Hamas is using civilians not really as shields, but for propaganda value, with the cynical attitude that the deaths of their own people only work to their advantage.
I never said Hamas was anything else.
I guess you forgot the Jews used the same terrorist tactics to get England out of the area, you know bombing hotels with innocent people inside.In fact Arab insurgents have said that's where they got their tactics from, they learned from the Jews.
The Torah says that Israel belongs to us. It says we have to exterminate the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. It's a good thing the Palestinians say they're descended from the Canaanites! The Torah says that it's morally right to kill them all!
We have to be genocidal terrorists because the evil Canaanites and evil Jebusites and evil Palestinians are. They all see child-killing human sacrifice as right, therefore they are evil. Being the genocidal terrorists makes us the good guys. Or would you rather act like Christians, turn the other cheek, and let the Palestinians come to America to exterminate everybody?
" Hamas is a terrorist organization very much like ISIS." - Green Eagle.
NO! NO! NO! ISIS doesn't commit human sacrifice! Hamas kills its children! HAMAS KILLS ITS CHILDREN!
Meir Kahane was right! We must kill them!
TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!