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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.
Originally posted by t0ken
Originally posted by Djarums
Maj,
I believe the answer to that is because there are over a billion Muslims and a whole heck of a lot less Jews.
Exactly, there are are about 1.5Bil muslims and probably about 5% of them are extremists.
And if you look at jews, there are not many of them, but about 70% of them are extremist zionists.
Now just imagine if there were 1.5Bil jews..
Originally posted by dangleb3rry
reply to post by masonwatcher
Ref my last post.... See what i mean?
So when you hear a contrarian voice, you are horrified like some great coquettish aunt with the vapours.
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.
Oh right, because only if you are anti zionist are you allowed to have an opinion in this thread?
Originally posted by masonwatcher
reply to post by justamomma
Oh right, because only if you are anti zionist are you allowed to have an opinion in this thread?
I never said such a thing, only you did in the construction of your straw-man argument.
I am merely saying that Americans are shocked by the position of anti-Zionists because they are not accustomed to it.
Originally posted by masonwatcher
You see Jews recognise killing someone with out just cause or alerting them to the act, is sinful.
Originally posted by TARBOX
Originally posted by masonwatcher
You see Jews recognise killing someone with out just cause or alerting them to the act, is sinful.
masonwatcher:
Just a question for you.....
Why do you hate the Jews so much? Did they have a family member killed, hurt or something? Any chance you get, you have to post about Israel or the Jews in a negative way.
Your hatred goes so deep and I would like to understand why.
By the way....I am not a Zionist or anything of the sort. I'm just curious why you hate them so much.
Edit to correct english.
[edit on 2-1-2009 by TARBOX]
Originally posted by masonwatcher
Originally posted by TARBOX
Originally posted by masonwatcher
You see Jews recognise killing someone with out just cause or alerting them to the act, is sinful.
masonwatcher:
Just a question for you.....
Why do you hate the Jews so much? Did they have a family member killed, hurt or something? Any chance you get, you have to post about Israel or the Jews in a negative way.
Your hatred goes so deep and I would like to understand why.
By the way....I am not a Zionist or anything of the sort. I'm just curious why you hate them so much.
Edit to correct english.
[edit on 2-1-2009 by TARBOX]
Who said anything about Jews? The discussion is about zionism and the current killings of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.
Why don't you ask the zionists why they hate the Palestinians?
Originally posted by masonwatcher
You see Jews recognise killing someone with out just cause or alerting them to the act, is sinful.
Originally posted by masonwatcher
Who said anything about Jews? The discussion is about zionism and the current killings of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.
Why don't you ask the zionists why they hate the Palestinians?
Originally posted by Harlequin
the zionists in Israel allready said they would never forgive the Persian JEWS so ask yourself why not? why do 1 group who follow Torah want to never forgive another group who follow Torah
look in ynet news for september when they say ` we must never for the iranian president , we must never forgive the iranian jews`
Originally posted by masonwatcher
reply to post by TARBOX
You need to attend to your reading comprehension skills. I did not write the article. The article itself refers to Israeli rabbis sanctifying the slaughter of Palestinians. Not all Jews are zionists and not all zionists are Jews. The fact these particular zionists are rabbis does not exempt them from their complicity with war crimes.
Your allegations that I am anti Jew on the strength that I criticize Israel and zionism is a cheap shot. You are the anti-Semite due to your apparent indifference dying Gazans right now and your mindless allegations.
[edit on 053131p://pm3123 by masonwatcher]
Originally posted by scottsquared
JewHater(whoops!) I meant Masonwatcher, is a confirmed anti-Semite. I could give dozens of examples of his vitriolic hate speech. Why bother? This troglodyte is one example among many of the large group of hate-mongers, racists, rednecks, xenophobes, and supremacists who occupy too much space at ATS.
If only they had the nuts to list their residence addresses....PLEASE!