It appals me the way the crisis in the middle east has gone on for 60 years and the most annoying thing is the media reporting of it and the language used. When hamas fire a rocket its reported as " a rocket" but when the other side reply it referred to as a "strike" no mention that it is a usa top of the range jet, usa bombs etc. Then ABC NEWS will report " a rocket killed one Israeli citizen" but then it will go on say " under the the right to defend itself Israel bombed gazza" but conveniently omits the number of casualties.
What I am trying to get over is Who do they think they are fooling? usa/israel want a platform in the middle east and the article today by robert fisk sums it up nicely. I just wish they would accept in this day and age that the people can live together and create a state israel/palestine and then they could call it a real democracy.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...ars-of-other-middle-east-cliches-3297149.html
It appals me the way the crisis in the middle east has gone on for 60 years and the most annoying thing is the media reporting of it and the language used. When hamas fire a rocket its reported as " a rocket" but when the other side reply it referred to as a "strike" no mention that it is a usa top of the range jet, usa bombs etc. Then ABC NEWS will report " a rocket killed one Israeli citizen" but then it will go on say " under the the right to defend itself Israel bombed gazza" but conveniently omits the number of casualties.
What I am trying to get over is Who do they think they are fooling? usa/israel want a platform in the middle east and the article today by robert fisk sums it up nicely. I just wish they would accept in this day and age that the people can live together and create a state israel/palestine and then they could call it a real democracy.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...ars-of-other-middle-east-cliches-3297149.html
thanks both. I reckon israel are signing their own death warrant, those pictures last night were pretty appalling. And I dont think they are doing themselves any favours by showing those video shots knocking out ..... a radio station aerial. No defences to contend with, how brave. And yes its more and more obvious USA are pampering for votes as the phrase " USA supports israel" leaves out the palestinians deliberately.
I'd say the internet and the media will finally get a result, ala apartheid, keep the pressure on.
What amazes me is israel has all this technology drones etc and they still cant isolate a rocket launcher!!!! pull the other one. They want gaza and this is a sure way of getting it quickly, ie bomb them out of existence. It may end up a Pyrrhic victory.
I am a supporter of Israel. I find the anti-Israeli bias in some of the Irish media (some RET people and the Irish Times as a whole) to be appalling and sometimes verges into downright anti-Semitism.
Agree completely,if you even voice an opinion in support of Israel stance you are looked at in askance by liberal "right on" types who make me sick at the best of times but when they start running their traps on this subject it just makes me see red.
Most of them are antisemitic but are too PC to even contemplate the fact they harbour such prejudices or that such prejudices inform where they stand on the issue.
It wasn't in the media but Senator Terry Leyden (FF) said that Alan Shatter held undue influence over the government and it's policy on Israel because he is Jewish.Give me an example of where, in the media, one commentator who has criticised Israel has made an anti-semitic statement. Noting that it would have to demonstrate a hatred of the Jewish religion and Jewish culture and not just the state of Israel.
It wasn't in the media but Senator Terry Leyden (FF) said that Alan Shatter held undue influence over the government and it's policy on Israel because he is Jewish.
But I wouldn't say that is anti-semitism, if untrue, just stupidity. He's not denying the Holocaust, he's calling for the extinction of the Jewish race.
I find the support for Hamas by the liberal left in Ireland very ironic. I remember the Labour Party’s lesbian, gay, bi and transgender group marching in support of the flotilla seeking to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. The marchers were holding Hamas flags. It didn’t seem to occur to them that every one of them would be murdered by Hamas if they got the chance.
That's not what anti-Semitism is.
Ok, let's use a more generic prejudice against the Jewish faith. Israel isn't totally Jewish, so criticising Israel isn't anti-Semitic.
The comment you referenced does not speak negatively of Judasim, it doesn't provide any negative Jewish stereotypes, it just says (whether with knowledge or not) that he was applying influence based on his religion.
If I were to criticise Gay Mitchell for previously having undue influence on policy because of his Catholic faith, that doesn't mean I'm anti Catholic or prejudicing catholics.
If he was the only Catholic in the government it might.
"Jewish" is a faith and a ethnicity.
I agree with all of that, I just don't think it is anti-semitism.
Don't forget the value of jewish voters in the U.S.
Obama doesn't get the vast majority of the Jewish vote in America.
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