tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post2458288911526261968..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: On the Other Hand ...David Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-38002734346405059392011-03-24T13:05:41.020-07:002011-03-24T13:05:41.020-07:00One big problem: the world doesn't examine the...One big problem: the world doesn't examine the actual views of the parties. News items more reflect the views of the reporter.<br /><br />Take the Itamar massacre. The BBC, now being trashed - correctly - by a British MP, downplayed it, ignoring that a child's head was literally cut off; instead, it focused on "context." Context here, however, means the BBC agenda. To Israelis, the severed head is one message; but the world is fed a different message: the "occupation." Palestinians can count on the press to play it that way, thus making such attacks doubly effective.<br /><br />As you know, I reject the PC view of the dispute. The Palestinian Arabs intend genocide - not all of them, for sure, but enough that, given the chance, such would be the result. I reject the view that Israelis who settle on captured land - land won at the cost of many lives in a war of self-defense, commit a moral wrong settling the captured territory. I think the world has this exactly backward - effectively encouraging war, there being no real cost to losing. (Note: settling such land may not be a wise policy.)N. Friedmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-30679188444713522472011-03-24T12:57:53.284-07:002011-03-24T12:57:53.284-07:00David - I agree with you absolutely. Regardless of...David - I agree with you absolutely. Regardless of what one thinks of Israeli government policy towards the Palestinians, setting a bomb next to a crowded bus stop and killing a woman (a British student at the Hebrew University, as it happens) and injuring scores of others is certainly an act of terrorism, full stop.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-2131095848925327422011-03-24T11:45:36.084-07:002011-03-24T11:45:36.084-07:00Terrorism is also terrorism when it is enshrined i...Terrorism is also terrorism when it is enshrined in Israeli government policy, such as government ministers demanding "real hooliganism" of the IDF.<br /><br />Of course, that kind of observation rarely seems to make it onto the radar of the kind of people who fall in love with Jeffrey Goldberg, but wevs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com