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January 12th, 2009 by eyal | Filed under Links. |
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Damn, even though I knew they use kids I wasn't aware of how integrated they are into the fighting forces in the way shown from 5:10m onwards.
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"The strategy is as simple as it is cynical: provoke Israel by playing Russian roulette with its children, firing rockets at kindergartens, playgrounds and hospitals; hide behind its own civilians when firing at Israeli civilians; refuse to build bunkers for its own civilians; have the TV cameras ready to transmit every image of dead Palestinians, especially children; exaggerate the number of civilians killed by including as "children" Hamas fighters who are 16 or 17 years old and as "women," female terrorists.
Hamas itself has a name for this. They call it "the CNN strategy" (this is not to criticize CNN or any other objective news source for doing its job; it is to criticize Hamas for exploiting the freedom of press which it forbids in Gaza). The CNN strategy is working because decent people all over the world are naturally sickened by images of dead and injured children. When they see such images repeatedly flashed across TV screens, they tend to react emotionally."
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I know you are understandably biased Eyal (and I don’t mean that badly) but I fond this site quite helpful to get another independent viewpoints since most news sources even the BBC tend to be quite one-sided in all issues….
When Brezhnev was visiting the USA I think during the Cold War it was reported that the Russian news journalists asked their western counterparts how everyone in the USA seemed to follow the ‘official line’ almost uniformly peddled by the media without much question whereas in Russia despite the gulags and the killings nearly half the population distrusted anything reported in the media ;)
It is easier to see things in black and white but in truth there are hundreds of shades of grey at least and I find that if one party has an almost overwhelming military superiority it is more difficult for it politically to compromise and resist the inclination to impose its own conditions on the far far weaker and desperate party. At least that is my experience.
The link you provided has been removed. It is clearly biased and makes use of propaganda and claims completely out of touch with reality. You’re welcome to post such stuff on your own blog instead.
If you’re suggesting that I see things in black and white or that I don’t question the media and ‘official line’ then you’re mistaken.