Ya ever notice?
How violence in the Middle East is usually covered in the back section of the newspapers or on the sidebars of major media websites until Israel starts shooting back?
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
This phenomenon is caused by the endless hope of the viewing public that this time, unlike last time, and the time before, and the time before, Israel will prosecute their offensive with only one goal – victory.
I remember the 1973 Sinai war, which ended only when the Israelis held Egyptian territory and had (nearly) defeated the Egyptian army. Only Russian threats stopped the Israelis toppling the Egyptian government. How long has it been now since Egypt attacked Israel?
December 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Yup. I hadn’t heard that Israel was taking rockets from the Palestinians until they started shooting back, and then all the reporting I’ve heard is a long the lines of “Israel continues assaulting Gaza strip”.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Yes, and then the headline always reads “Israel attacks Gaza, civilians dead.” until you find buried a sentence ten paragraphs down that the attack was in response to Hamas firing rockets into Israel first. But only after you’ve had your heartstrings plucked by the evil of those terrible, evil, baby-killing Jews.
Makes my blood boil every time.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
It’s almost like the newspapers consider it natural for Philistines to make attacks on Israeli civilians – except, when you call them on that, they act horrified.
Hell, if Israel did one-quarter of what they were accused of doing, there probably wouldn’t be any problems of civilians dying.
Heh. An “oppressed” people. When in modern times have such an oppressed people have had such a population increase as the Arab non-citizens within Israel’s borders?
December 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Yep. too true. And its always up to Israel to cease fire first on the poor innocent Palestinians.
Never a big mention of the Hamas rockets fired during cease fires.
I hope Israel does a good job this time and can withstand the left leaning pressure long enough to ring Hamas’s bell.
December 30th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Turds over on Huffpo are blaming the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel for not giving in to all of the Palestinian demands during ‘peace talks’.
Obviously none of them have read the Hamas charter stating that talks are useless and peace can only be achieved through Jihad and Sharia enforced law.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Jesus this pisses me off to no end.
There was a truce, yes, Israel kept its borders tight, there were ground incursions, and there were also rockets landing on Israeli land, but there was a general peace.
Now, Hamas announces that they break the treaty, they announce they’ll resume sedning rockets. Israel warns that they’ll a hundred fold, Hamas starts shooting rockets, and Israel retaliates, a hundred fold.
Their retaliation targets uniquely Hamas buildings, personel and smuggling routes. Civillian casualties are numerous -unfortunately- but not intended.
And … people are complaining about Israel?
Hamas started this, let them end it!
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll go listen to “counterstrike” by sabaton now … six days of fire, one day of rest, biblical!
December 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
We are just cleaning up the mess we made back in 2005 when we left Hamas in charge of Gaza.
And yet some people have the ignorance to do this
How can we let this pass?
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December 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
More often it doesn’t get covered at all until Israel shoots back, at which time Israel’s behavior is questioned or outright condemned. They’ve been taking rocket attacks almost daily for years now, and that has not been considered news.
And where in the media have they told you that the Israelis have been calling people’s cell phones in Gaza, warning them of these attacks in advance so people can get out of the way? As of 06:00 today the number of cell phones called had reached 90,000. Where’s that little expose’ on 60 Munites?
January 1st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I agree that the coverage of the issue is pretty silly all around, but Uncle, if you think making jokes at the pope’s expense or pontificating on chili and tequila will get people riled up, you haven’t seen nuttin yet*: how many people have the Hamas attacks killed?
*I’m sure just asking that question means I’m a raging Jew hating anti-Semite who wants Israel destroyed and also hates America and kills puppies for fun. I’m sure pointing out that I’m hardly excusing Hamas’s behavior or policy position craziness nor suggesting that Israel shouldn’t defend themselves is going to be lost on some folks.