A perspective on Israeli military action that you won’t hear from Al Beeb (From Tom Gross):
Video dispatch 21: Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like Israel’s?
“Why don’t they learn from the Israeli army which tries, through great efforts, to avoid shelling areas populated by civilians in Lebanon and Palestine?
I attach a remarkable new video from Al-Jazeera (the Arabic version of al-Jazeera) in which the presenter, Faisal Al-Qaseem, asks his audience why Arab armies (and in particular the Iranian proxy organization Hizbullah) can’t act in a more humane way to civilians, like the Israeli and French militaries do. The discussion took place on one of the channel’s flagship live discussion shows, The Opposite Direction. (The guest in the video on the right, Mr Muhammed, also agrees with him.)
Among the questions posed on air:
“Why don’t they learn from the Israeli army which tries, through great efforts, to avoid shelling areas populated by civilians in Lebanon and Palestine? Didn’t Hezbollah take shelter in areas populated by civilians because it knows that Israeli air force doesn’t bomb those areas? Why doesn’t the Syrian army respect premises of universities, schools or inhabited neighborhoods? Why does it shell even the areas of its supporters? …
“I will also give you the example of France. All Syrians remember that the French forces, when they occupied Syria tried to avoid, when rebels entered mosques or schools, they stopped. The people would prefer that France come back! For god’s sake, if a referendum were to be held… if people were to be asked, who would you prefer the current regime or the French, I swear by God they would have preferred the French.”
“The Israeli army, if it wanted to break up a demonstration, would have used water cannons or rubber bullets, not rockets or explosive barrels as happens in Aleppo today.
“You mustn’t compare the Syrian army with French or Israeli… The Israeli army didn’t shell Aleppo University and students there. They didn’t shell the university with rockets killing dozens of students… The Israelis or the French didn’t kill their people. Please tell me how many of their people did the French army kill?”
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You can watch the video below. One wonders when Western news outlets, such as The Guardian and BBC, which day after day single out Israel for denigration, will be as honest as this al-Jazeera anchor and studio guest?
the bbc hates israel because it is pro-us and was a us proxy during the cold war, when the beeb’s beloved arafat, ashrawi, assad snr etc were all on the moscow payroll.
the bbc’s coverage of israel/palestine/judea and samaria is sickeningly biased.
even where israelis are victims, the beeb uses loaded terms to describe the conflict. i’m sure that chomsky would be happy with their linguistic efforts to put spin on their message.
the bbc often ignores salient points (eg where pallies killed by israel have connections to paramilitary groups) and frequently omits reports on the daily shelling of israel, but panders the pally victimhood if an idf private/turai so much as looks askance at a palestinian.
“Christy” on human right abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank
Palestinian woman speaks about her experience growing up in Gaza/West bank. Worth watching to the end.
http://vladtepesblog.com/2014/04/25/christy-on-human-right-abuses-against-palestinians-in-the-west-bank/
‘video removed by user’ any other links to it DP?
Blimey do think Newsnights fortunes might be revived if they followed that format?