The Middle East Conflict Thread

Eish Hamas bedfellows the liberal media shoot themselves in the foot again :o

PARIS: France’s public broadcaster was forced to apologise to viewers yesterday after it mistakenly used amateur footage shot in 2005 to illustrate a report on the current Gaza conflict.
France 2 television on Monday broadcast part of an amateur video presented in a voiceover commentary as showing the fallout from an Israeli air strike on a civilian area in Gaza on January 1.
Dating from September 2005, the video, which has been widely circulated on the Internet, actually shows civilians wounded in the accidental explosion of a pick-up truck loaded with Hamas rockets at a rally in Jabaliya refugee camp.
Alerted by the French website LePost.fr, France 2 admitted its mistake yesterday and made a formal apology to viewers in its midday news broadcast.
“It is an error on our behalf. There was an internal malfunction in the checking of information,” a France 2 executive told AFP.
France 2’s head of news reporting, Etienne Leenhardt, told LePost.fr that the sequence was “intended to illustrate the war of images on the Internet. The people who put it together worked too fast”.
Israel unleashed its “Operation Cast Lead” on Hamas on December 27 with a massive air bombardment of Gaza, and poured in thousands of ground troops a week later.
Since then, at least 580 Palestinians have been killed, nearly 100 of them children, and more than 2,700 wounded, according to Gaza medics. – AFP
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haha, isn't Austria a sovereign state?

Anyways, good luck with your ethnic bias, see where it gets you in life and don't whine too much when similar things happen elsewhere in the world.

p.s. stop whining about bee + aa + zimbabwe as its about as legal as Israel.
 
JHatman said:
Its the same rule of thumb today as in WW2, if you remain, then you are a supporter and are free game for any nasty piece of equipment that falls out of the sky onto your head ;)
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By that argument Hamas could surely make the same claim.

Why don't the Israelis move out of range of the rockets as the palestinians are supposed to do. They have a lot more options to go to than the palestinians.

I also don't recall Israel actually declaring a war on the palestinians unlike the WW2 examples quoted.
 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3652275,00.html

Killing of civilians in Gaza a terrible disaster and should be acknowledged as such.
Uri Misgav

The mass killing at the Gaza school Tuesday and the civilian deaths at the Zaiton neighborhood are a terrible disaster, period. Not a public relations disaster, as opposed to the dominant tone that took over public discourse yesterday. It was also not a diplomatic disaster, the kind that would boost international pressure exerted on Israel to end its Gaza operation, even if this will very likely happen.

The bombing of the school will be the equivalent of the Kfar Qana bombing in the Lebanon war. It is a dramatic event any way you look at it.

UNRA is an agency designated by the United Nations to take care of Palestinian refugees; it is not a terror group. Those who stayed at the school Tuesday took cover there from the bombings and raging battles. By doing so, they fully followed the instructions of the IDF, which for a week now has been urging citizens – via leaflets, text messages, and public announcements – to evacuate their homes located in trouble-prone areas.

Meanwhile, the bottom floor of the building in the Zaiton neighborhood was occupied by frightened families who left the top floors for fear of Air Force attacks. The killing of the people at the school and in Zaiton is intolerable.

We cannot just shrug it off and say that this was an “operational mishap,” or automatically resort to a plethora of self-righteous explanations. The talkback scene in Israel is apparently a lost cause when it comes to exaggerated passion and indifference. Yet the minimum that we could ask of the official, sane Israel was an expression of deep regret over the death of innocents.

Instead, we received a statement by the IDF spokesman claiming that this was a case of “firing in response to an attack,” as “the school was apparently used as a launching site for mortar shells at IDF troops.” Woe on us if the level of certainty required for razing a school is “apparently.”

Israel justifiably embarked on the retaliation and deterrence operation in Gaza. Yet the principles of justice, morality, and proportionality now require it to quickly aspire to end the fighting. The civilian population in the Gaza Strip is not the enemy, and the terrible suffering caused to it does not serve any Israeli interest.
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This from an Israeli journalist - good to see some humanity still exists there.
 
I check my sources before I post - cos I know they will be queried.... :p

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Seem legit enough ?
 
marine1 said:
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2449866,00.html
Truce plan not accepted yet thank goodness. Got to clean out the trash first.
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And it will never be accepted. The israelies have massacared before (shabra and Shatilla) and they will again and again.

Trust me the propaganda machine you speak of is running full swind in Israel.

Tell me why the Israelies refuse to have UN peacekeepers in Palestine (might get in the way of there dodgy activities me thinks).
 
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