Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
The more I think about it Kirkland, the more I think you do make a fair point. It's important that visual representations about what the Israeli's are doing in Gaza become publically available, and the western press certainly can't be counted on to be in any way objective (nor can any other press, but that is a different discussion entirely).

I just hate seeing those kinds of picture. I believe I have a fair understanding of what goes on there, so I find myself repulsed by the images. It drives me away from discussions like this one, discussions which I feel passionately about and which I want to participate in, but I understand the most people probably don't feel that way and it is important that people see what is going on.
There is unbelievable pro-Israel censorship in western media. It's like the Israeli press office is running the newsdesks of every major media outlet. Any possible video/photographs (and it's images which bring this shit home to people, especially in wartime) that would make people sympathetic to Israel are published everywhere and unending stuff that would make people furious with Israel, rows of dead children, Palestinian kids laid out dead in a line never make it into the papers but you're guaranteed to see pictures of Israeli kids crying in a bomb shelter every single time Israel blow the shit out of Gaza, (at least once a year for over a decade now).

Imagine if the Iranians had boarded a humanitarian aid convoy of ships in international waters -- who were bringing aid to 1.5 million people Iran had been imprisoning and starving illegally for three years -- and killed nine people, then blamed the peace convoy people for "ambushing" the team of heavily armed Iranian commandos sent a hundred miles to take over the ships. Imagine the different press coverage there'd be if that was the case, or if North Korea had done it to a convoy bringing aid to North Koreans.




This girl died of a heart attack when Israel bombed the apartment building next to hers in Gaza in January 2009, one of nearly a thouand dead children in a giant six-week-long massacre that Israel timed to take advantage of the last days in power of the outgoing US president who never ever criticised them or told them to restrain themselves in eight years.