Originally posted by Djarums
Actually there's a heck of a lot of coverage of what goes on in Israel, and there's been no shortage of coverage of the hardships that the Palestinian civillians in Gaza have been going through.
As far as government policies go, I certainly wouldn't say that I agree much with what the Israeli government does, but then I don't think that I can find a government out there that I can truly say does "the right thing" for their people.
When it comes to media coverage, each side will always have a complaint. The same way that during our recent election season each party constantly bored the public with cries of bias aimed at each of the major networks. Most media sources are not impartial. But again, that's on both sides. Show me some stories on Al Arabiya or Ramattan that portray positive sides of America. No media outlets that I know of are "fair" and that again is nothing new.
This particular thread though shows a far deeper problem than media though because attacks and intentional misdirection regarding religion typically ends up doing nothing but causing more hatred.
When you have a thread like this in which people are going out of their way to portray the views of 4 people as the views of an entire religion you end up with more people hating each other.
Think of it this way... someone reads this story and says "so that's how those Jews really feel huh? Bastards..." Why? Because of the attempts of certain members to show this as reflecting the belief of all Jews. That is a travesty. By that same reasoning I would be disgusted if someone printed the views of Al Zawahiri, or Rahman, or bin Laden for that matter and some reader said "wow, look at what those Muslims think of the rest of the world... kill the infidels huh? Bastards..."
It's sick. Those who post it and intentionally try to mislead people are doing wrong. Those who blindly follow them are tragic.
I think the people spreading hate are ones currently crucifying the people of Gaza. Those Jews in the article are zionists and religious leaders of other zionists.
While I applaud you for you high ethical standard on being watchful of those whom you feel have a transparent agenda to spread hatred, might I humbly suggest that your emerging good conscience is bit late in the day.
There are currently two threads in progress on ATS of which one OP is working on the thesis that Allah is in fact Satan and Muslims are satanists. On another thread the OP reports of a Muslim family being kicked off a US flight for being suspicious to a fellow passenger, then investigated by the FBI and subsequently banned by the airlines when the have been guilty of no crime. The links are below;
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
This kind of hate peddling did not emerge overnight but seems to have escaped your moral vigilance. More pertinently, the most vociferous anti Islam hate purveyors on ATS are our Israeli and US zionists detachment who regularly debase people's religions, customs and political views.
The only reason you feel as you do is because you are unaccustomed to a commentary that upsets standard memes and taboos. Israel is a country at war with a hostage population, yet the full story is not transmitted on MSM. So when you hear a contrarian voice, you are horrified like some great coquettish aunt with the vapours.
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