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| NEWS MEDIA IGNORE ISRAELI TERRORISM |
| 2004-02-04 |
| Hartford Courant On Jan. 28, Israeli occupation forces killed eight (some reports said 13) Palestinians in an assault on a neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. Among those killed were three teenagers: Sami Badawi, 16; Akram AbuAjami, 17; and Sameh Toteh, 16. Like many other such assaults, the mainstream media in the United States ignored this event or made cursory mention of it. No mainstream newspaper mentioned names of those killed, let alone described the Israeli assault as terrorism. The next day, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 10 Israelis. These and other attacks inside Israel have been described in detail in major newspapers. The media have never shied from allowing the use of such labels as "terrorism" in those instances. The net result is that Israeli lives and deaths become valued while Palestinian lives and deaths are diminished or erased from our conscience. According to human rights organizations, four times more Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli forces as Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian forces. These same organizations (including Amnesty International, B’tselem, and Human Rights Watch) have clearly showed in past reports that Israeli forces do target civilians. State-sponsored terror is an organic part of colonization of native lands. The Israeli colonization program, over five decades, has left 5 million Palestinians as refugees or displaced people and cornered those remaining into ghettos surrounded by high walls and watchtowers. There are individual acts of Palestinian terrorism, but the news media do not report on the more systematic Israeli terrorism or the reasons for all this violence. More than 530 Palestinian towns and villages have been erased completely in the last 60 years. Residents have been driven out by careful use of massacres (33 between 1947 and 1949 and dozens more since then), intimidation, deprivation, land confiscation and outright expulsions... |
| Posted by:Rob Ramage |
| #27 Rob Ramage......YOU COCK-SUCKING LIAR! Everyone here knows I'M THE ILLEGITIMATE SON OF THE DEVIL! (BTW - My mom was an M-16) Get your facts straight maggot. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-2-4 11:08:13 PM |
| #26 ... am I gunna be as vicious as you fellas when I'm yer age ? heh funny stuff though.. |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-2-4 10:56:17 PM |
| #25 At least while Rob is at the keyboard we know that there is one less serial dog raper loose on the streets - longingly staring mesmorized at the gait of a poodle or on the corner stalking that beagle thang he has been after. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-4 7:25:19 PM |
| #24 They make up less than 10% of liberals today according to the most recent poll results. Yep, that's the right kind, Sarge. I've also read they provide 90% of the spittle and 0.000002% of the intelligence. One wonders how they continue to reproduce, unless it's the spittle that does it... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-4 6:12:08 PM |
| #23 Rex I believe the latin name for this one is: "Trollios Smallpenious Stupidious Headuprectumious" A very unique species indeed. They make up less than 10% of liberals today according to the most recent poll results. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-2-4 5:37:57 PM |
| #22 Rob! Nuss Ratchett sez we're having popcorn with special salt again tonight! |
| Posted by: Napoleon VII 2004-2-4 5:20:44 PM |
| #21 Yeehaa, reel'em in slow Rex! You snagged a big one this time. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-4 5:19:51 PM |
| #20 Rex: "Bush/Sharon = Hitler". I beg to differ, Bush is the illegitimate child of the devil. |
| Posted by: Rob Ramage 2004-2-4 5:08:53 PM |
| #19 Interesting, notice the typical Troll behavior: the stomping about, the usual Bush/Sharon = Hitler, a complete and utter lack of argumentative logic / critical thinking. Also, take note of the tell-tale spittle which gathers at the corners of the oral cavity, suggesting that this is one of the more primitive species of Troll. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-2-4 4:19:46 PM |
| #18 Furthermore, Hitlers grandson Sharon is now following his grandfathers steps and massacring Paleos. |
| Posted by: Rob Ramage 2004-2-4 4:00:29 PM |
| #17 Old Patriot - What about the Holocaust - Hitler was a Jew, who hated his own kind. |
| Posted by: Rob Ramage 2004-2-4 3:58:04 PM |
| #16 The difference is the Paleos blow up people minding their own business, while the Israelis kill murdering terrorist pieces of shiite. P.S. - Rob Ramage was a pretty good hockey player once. Too bad he's turned into a troll. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-2-4 3:45:38 PM |
| #15 I'd like Rob the Troll to provide what proof he has of even ONE Jewish massacre of Palestinians or anyone else. This sh$$ keeps getting posted, but nobody will EVER give even a single link, a single reference, to the supporting material. Guess that's because there isn't any, eh? Kinda like the Deir Yassin massacre that supposedly happened April 9, 1948. Here is a different account, with some telling "evidence tampering" by people with a mission other than truth. I've read over 20 other accounts, all of which indicate Deir Yassin wasn't so much a massacre as a typical use of civilians by Arab armies to gain a political victory to offset the military defeat. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-4 12:20:50 PM |
| #14 Hey troll! Look what I'm about to shine on you! *activates sunlamp* |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-2-4 11:52:10 AM |
| #13 Yo Rob - Troll Boy, we don't do Op pieces. Now, get back under that bridge. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-2-4 11:41:51 AM |
| #12 This total bozo should have posted this days earlier to celebrate Ground Hog days. This is assinine story that keeps on giving as new and different morons repost it. I wish Rob Ramage had provided an address for the use of serial assaulters and rapists. To follow Rob's thinking down the toilet to its logical end, the response of a homeowner to being violently perpetrated upon should be to hold the door for the villian and provide him with a tooth-pick, mint and a hearty "good night, sir" as the guy leaves. Note - I just read the title and inferred the rest. Did I nail the main theme of this journalistic master-piece of @#$%. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-4 11:23:34 AM |
| #11 It is like a bubble moving around under linoleum..... Somebody get a pin. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-2-4 11:23:20 AM |
| #10 It's a zero-sum game. The Deanies gotta go somewhere. It is like a bubble moving around under linoleum..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-2-4 11:07:14 AM |
| #9 I only clicked on this because the title made it sound like a Scrappleface posting. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-2-4 10:55:54 AM |
| #8 Hey Rob Ramage the Liar: ,,|,, |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-2-4 9:43:17 AM |
| #7 If a troll comes out on Feb 4 and see his shadow, does that mean there are four more years of Bush? Any comment refuting this idiocy is futile to the troll. DON'T FEED THE TROLL! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-2-4 9:40:48 AM |
| #6 What's with kids these days? When I was in college I wouldn't even be getting out of bed yet because it snowed every day and I had to walk 12 miles to get there after milking the cows.....oh excuse me, I just starting talking Old Fartian. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-4 9:27:39 AM |
| #5 Dean was supported largely by whiny college kids with too much time on their hands and massive chips on their shoulders. When Dean gets his butt whipped, those brats take it personally and take it out on the "evil Zionist oppressors who keep Howard out of power". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-4 9:22:20 AM |
| #4 What is the correlation between Dean getting his ass handed to him and trollage 12 hours later? Is it some Vast Left Wing Conspiracy?. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-4 9:14:22 AM |
| #3 And the troll-fest starts! |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-4 9:09:17 AM |
| #2 That's because the Israeli casualties are generally riding the bus, and eating lunch. The Palestinian "casualties" are usually armed, and firing at checkpoints and civilians. Small distinction I know, but it's the crux of the issue. I'd say self defense doesn't necessarily equate to terrorism. But it's only my opinion. Feel free to remain deluded. |
| Posted by: Brainiac 2004-2-4 9:05:04 AM |
| #1 I was struck by an article by the Nobel Peace laureate and Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble who called such human rights organisations as Amnesty International, B’tselem, and Human Rights Watch a "great curse" yesterday and accused them of complicity in terrorist killings. "One of the great curses of this world is the human rights industry,.........................They justify terrorist acts and end up being complicit in the murder of innocent victims." I agree with him that its about time that we stand for the defence of human rights, to make a commitment to defend victims of terrorism and to identify terrorist acts for what they are murder, without trying to make this illogical conparsion between victims and executioners as this fruit cake above does. |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2004-2-4 9:02:53 AM |