News reporting about Israel.
Is there some kind of reporting ban in Israel ? Nobody ever seems to report on the horrific assaults on children. I'm in UK and the BBC never report on what is going on there.
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Northwest · M
In a war zone, people die. This includes children. I know what I'm going to say is harsh, but the responsibility for this, falls on both sides, and they both have their heels well dug in.
The reason why the family house was blown up? Because someone in that household, was a suicide bomber. Israel has a deterrence policy (that does not work), consisting of blowing up the house of anyone who committed a suicide bombing, or deadly attack.
That unleashes a nasty chain of events:
- The family is not allowed to get a permit to rebuild the house.
- The family is forced to join one or more slum.
- The kids grow up hating, seeing only one side of it, repeating the cycle.
- The PA pays the family something to help them sustain themselves.
- The Right wing Israeli groups, and their supporters in the US, advertise it as: the PA is paying suicide bombers, which is a gross subversion of what actually happened.
- The Islamists spread the word that Israel is randomly destroying homes, which is a gross subversion fo what actually happened.
In the meanwhile, in Western Europe, and the new fascist regimes of Eastern Europe, and in TrumpLand, refugees, Palestinians, etc, are all the same: freeloaders, who are out to invade and spread Islam.
As a humanity, we need to stop, think and do something, but I guess that's too much to ask.
Starting with the post that started this thread. I can assure you there's no shortage of coverage, certainly not from the BBC.
I would not advise Al Jazeera either. They have their own agenda, and they are two-faced.
The reason why the family house was blown up? Because someone in that household, was a suicide bomber. Israel has a deterrence policy (that does not work), consisting of blowing up the house of anyone who committed a suicide bombing, or deadly attack.
That unleashes a nasty chain of events:
- The family is not allowed to get a permit to rebuild the house.
- The family is forced to join one or more slum.
- The kids grow up hating, seeing only one side of it, repeating the cycle.
- The PA pays the family something to help them sustain themselves.
- The Right wing Israeli groups, and their supporters in the US, advertise it as: the PA is paying suicide bombers, which is a gross subversion of what actually happened.
- The Islamists spread the word that Israel is randomly destroying homes, which is a gross subversion fo what actually happened.
In the meanwhile, in Western Europe, and the new fascist regimes of Eastern Europe, and in TrumpLand, refugees, Palestinians, etc, are all the same: freeloaders, who are out to invade and spread Islam.
As a humanity, we need to stop, think and do something, but I guess that's too much to ask.
Starting with the post that started this thread. I can assure you there's no shortage of coverage, certainly not from the BBC.
I would not advise Al Jazeera either. They have their own agenda, and they are two-faced.
SW-User
@Northwest I am 64. When I was a teenager I met a lovely young Israeli couple going back to do their National Service. So for about 50 Years Israel has been fighting Palestine. Time they packed it in.
I'd say: Look at the nations that created the state of Israel. Look at the plight of the Palestinian people who IMO are and have been looked on as pariahs by Arab nations. The continuing cycle of violence is on both sides, and until both cease their hostile responses to each other, no change will occur. Why not much reporting? Agendas, IMO.
Northwest · M
@SW-User They have been fighting longer than that. At various times, the Israelis offered acceptable peace terms, that the corrupt Arab leaderships refused. I say Arab, because the Palestinians were not allowed to have their "national" identity, and were used as cannon fodder by all sides.
Arafat is the worse thing that happened to Palestinians. I don't rejoice in others' demise, but I had a couple of extra beers, when I learned Arafat had kicked the bucket.
Today, the problem is not Israel or the Palestinians, it's the Evangelicals, who want to hasten Armageddon, by emptying out the West Bank and giving it to the Orthodox Jews, to fulfill the prophecies of the Book of Revelation, and hasten the Second Coming of Christ.
If it sounds crazy, it's because it is, but yet, here we are. These people voted for Trump, not just to stop abortions, but because he promised them he would support this, and he is. Full steam ahead.
The Saudis are on board, specifically MBS. The latter thinks this is his shot at leading the Sunni world, by dominating Iran. Netanyahu does not give a shit, because he gets to re-create Judea and Samarea.
Kushner believes he can unveil this plan in a couple of months. It will flop big time.
In the meanwhile, and yet again, the Palestinians have no say.
Let me remind you, that during the last major Israeli assault on Gaza, the first order of business for Hamas, was to round up all the PLO activists, and mass murder of them, because they did not want the secular ideas of the new PLO, to invade their religiously controlled society.
Arafat is the worse thing that happened to Palestinians. I don't rejoice in others' demise, but I had a couple of extra beers, when I learned Arafat had kicked the bucket.
Today, the problem is not Israel or the Palestinians, it's the Evangelicals, who want to hasten Armageddon, by emptying out the West Bank and giving it to the Orthodox Jews, to fulfill the prophecies of the Book of Revelation, and hasten the Second Coming of Christ.
If it sounds crazy, it's because it is, but yet, here we are. These people voted for Trump, not just to stop abortions, but because he promised them he would support this, and he is. Full steam ahead.
The Saudis are on board, specifically MBS. The latter thinks this is his shot at leading the Sunni world, by dominating Iran. Netanyahu does not give a shit, because he gets to re-create Judea and Samarea.
Kushner believes he can unveil this plan in a couple of months. It will flop big time.
In the meanwhile, and yet again, the Palestinians have no say.
Let me remind you, that during the last major Israeli assault on Gaza, the first order of business for Hamas, was to round up all the PLO activists, and mass murder of them, because they did not want the secular ideas of the new PLO, to invade their religiously controlled society.