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Well, this is sorta shocking. Yesterday, Israel started live-tweeting its ongoing campagin against Gaza, telling us all about how it was blowing people up. Turns out they’re also now the broadcasters of Kill TV, uploading worryingly graphic and tasteless videos of missile strikes up to YouTube.
The original video’s been pulled from YouTube (by the site itself, not the Israeli Defence Force channel), but there are still versions floating around. I have to say, this is more the sort of behaviour I’d expect from terrorist groups, not nation states. No matter which side of the Israel-Palestine fence you happen to fall on, I think we can all agree this isn’t going to help Israel come to a peaceful decision any time soon. [Wired]
You are right, they know that this will make everything worse and this is exactly what they want! Global recession is on so weapon manufacturers need to sell well on both sides. Desperate times, desperate measure. Sad to be honest because it’s the innocents that pay price.
I saw that video on BBC Breakfast this morning (I couldna sleep). It is kind of shocking and kind of rad, but more shocking really.
I can see it becoming a meme. If I wasn’t so busy doing digital compositing for a real client, I’d be turning that car into the Mystery Machine or Herbie or something.
Can’t imagine this part of the world ever having peace whilst religion is more important than reason.
Oh look, Israel are committing war crimes again. And yet nobody seems to care.
both sides are too blame. They will fight in this part of the World as long as they’re still born with a hole in their ass
TO THE LABORATORY, QUICKLY!
To be honest, if anyone is to blame it’s actually us for how we partitioned the Middle East after World War 2. I don’t why Churchill thought it would be a great idea to put two religions who had hated each other for hundreds of years so close to each other, but there you go.
“Don’t matter what’s wrong as long as you’re alright” – Iron Maiden
Neither Churchill nor the rest of us are to blame just as we aren’t to blame for the problems in many an African nation. They make their own choices and the fact that they can’t grow up and learn to behave is their own fault.
I think thats a ridiculous statement you create an enviroment of tension 9 out of 10 ten times tension will occur. Britain and the other allied nations have some blame not all but some. The same with the attrocities in Africa that are still occuring because of foreign policies which are made to benefit the west. A real man acknowledges their mistakes
Yes, but is wansn’t all bad. We also created the majority of their transport networks, provided technology and medicine.
Everything has it’s up’s and down’s. It’s not about playing the blame game. The issue needs to be resolved one way or another. If both sides want to fight, let them duke it out. If they want peace, then work for a solution. None of this half arsed we want peace, but going to blow you up anyway.
How is it a mistake? Things happen, good or bad, they happen but it doesn’t mean they are mistakes. No event is wholly good or wholly bad but apologists like to trace things back to the big bad colonial powers because they can’t accept that people are inherently stupid and narrowminded and just because they themselves don’t see any good or bad it must mean it doesn’t exist.
Claiming that we are even partly responsible for the problems in the Middle-East or Africa is like saying that Napoleon is to blame for WWII. Of course you can make an argument for that as well just as you can argue that your grandparents are partly reponsible for your actions, but at some point you have to accept that irrespective of the actions of those in the past, it is people in the present who are responsible for their own actions and situation and that they are too stupid or too arrogant to fix the problem.
Your speaking about these actions as though they were actions that benefited the country the intentions were wholly bad for the people of these countries building borders where there shouldn’t be borders, causing people who should never mix to mix forcing rule over those who shouldn’t be ruled.
Youre deluded completely and utterly, im from one of those countrys which is in turmoil because of colonial rule. I myself am looking in and can see there is blame actions reverberate through time and it isn’t just the simple action which can be classified as good or bad it is the intentions as well. Intentions of colonial rule were wholly bad
Cowards take no responsibility if all of us had your attitude would any good happen in this world? would any mistakes actually occur? Actions have reactions and sometimes the reaction is not what you want or expect bad things happen from good and bad intentions, simply dismissing it and blaming people as idiots or arrogant is far too simplistic
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And I am speaking about these actions as though they were historical events with as limited a subjective skew as possible but there is little point in debating or discussing with someone who is apparently so steeped in propagandised historical bitterness that they cannot at least attempt to objectively view events thus preventing them from developing a coherent historiological and historiographical understanding of events both past and current.
P.S. You’re reference to personal experience not only enhances the problems above, but also indicates that you have apparently not considered the potential for my family to have been involved in and/or impacted upon by colonialism which in this particular case could not be further from the truth.
Interesting how youv’e derived some of those conclusions from what Iv’e said. What propaganda are you referring to? I haven’t mentioned any specific event to justify the above paragraph. Unless you can justify your above paragraph all you’ve managed to do is to aggregate a number of long words into a pointless statement.
I am referring to a propagandised historical perspective such as a perspective which veiws colonialism as wholly bad. It is impossible to reach that conclusion without adhering to a propagandised history much in the same way that it is impossible to reach the view that colonialism was all good.
My last point on this matter. You completely forget how the collective mentality can be very different to the single mind. Psychologist and sociologists have studied this on numerous occasions. Nazis Germany is prime example of this the mob mentality took over, a whole groups motivation and ideology can be grossly different to one individual and breaking away from that is much harder than simply saying no
You talk about these countries with the same arrogance and self righteousness that plagues the middle class in many western countries. Overly simplifying a very complicated situation and using that to exonerate you. You forget that you have directly benefited from slavery, killing of children and torture.
And as for the latter part, my mum is Irish, my Dad is Ugandan, my grandparents were born in Kenya and Tanganyika, and their ancestory is Indian so I guess I fit pretty well into the deluded Western middle class.
Im not sure you even know who you are:-)
And don’t get him started on the Elves
YouTube, Twitter, where will the madness end? They’ll be ordering pizzas to each others houses next.
At least that just hit the target… if it were the other side they’d have taken out a couple of dozen civilians with it too!
how are you so sure that its wasn’t civilians, did you order that hit or where you there to see it in person?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1uDJalR4acw#! watch this, this is another side of the story your nearly always never shown, warning it is contains some very graphic content
“I’d expect from terrorist groups”
But you feel the need to distribute it?
My thoughts exactly.
Well, at least Israel doesn’t attack civilians.