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2014-07-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 In Viet Nam the press never caught on to the fact that the VC did not wear uniforms and would scream bloody murder over every civilian death.
They whined and sniveled over every woman killed when women would carry grenades into our positions and walk the battlefields shooting our wounded...when the NVA wasn't bayonetting them and children would throw grenades at soldiers or carry landmines out into roads for our troops to run over.

The same in the Middle East. The media just doesn't want to understand that in an asymmetrical environment (who the hell came up with that? Its a freaking GUERRILLA war!!!) most of the combatants are not wearing uniforms. Women and children are active combatants in guerrilla warfare...going back to Mao who sorta wrote the book on how to conduct a guerrilla war.
AND finally the media always takes the bait on the false information, PSYOPS, and blatant propaganda about civilian casualties.

If you every have seen video footage of a Hamas parade in Gaze, you will see thousands of women and children brandishing weapons.

The press coverage of the current events is too heavily tilted toward Hamas. They conveniently NEVER mention the fact that the IDF bombs these civilian targets because Hamas deliberately stores their weapons there...daring the IDF to come get them and bait them into another misinformed PR victory for Hamas.

BAH HUMBUG on the press coverage.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-29 11:07|| 2014-07-29 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 High time for an old favorite:

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-29 11:14|| 2014-07-29 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 I have been say for a week now that the actual number of civilian dead is half what Hamas is claiming. For the 21 days, the total is less than 400 civilian dead, with 750 terrorists dead.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-07-29 11:16|| 2014-07-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 It calls into question the very legitimacy of Israel's actions, of its right to defend itself in the manner it has chosen.

No, it doesn't. Not to sensible people, anyway.

Want numbers? Current score is roughly 1200 Paleo deaders vs 50 Israelis - a better than 20:1 ratio. With the population of Israel around 8 million, to kill all the Juices you are going to need a whole lot more Paleostinians.

Posted by SteveS 2014-07-29 16:55|| 2014-07-29 16:55|| Front Page Top

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