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Why The Left Hates Israel
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For the second time in less than a week, rockets have been found in a school in Gaza operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the body said.
“Today, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip,” the organization said in a statement issued Tuesday. “As soon as the rockets were discovered, UNRWA staff were withdrawn from the premises, and so we are unable to confirm the precise number of rockets. The school is situated between two other UNRWA schools that currently each accommodate 1,500 internally displaced persons.”
As it did the last time around when missiles were found in a school it operates, UNRWA said it “strongly and unequivocally condemns the group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises under international law.”
This is how mentally sick these UN leftists are: UNRWA said it strongly and unequivocally condemns the group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation.
They won't even condemn Hamas by name!
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Who do you think controls the editors and is making them follow their view?
"Business owner decides he wants to get the highest possible return for the lowest possible outlay."
"Employee decides he wants to get the highest possible return for the lowest possible outlay."
Which approach will the media attribute to "sound business sense"? Which approach will the media attribute to "rapacious greed"? ... but just a second, the approaches are identical.
You think people who disagree with Israel's actions base their opinion on turns of phrase?
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostLike?
Like the kind of mass antiwar demonstrations we saw from liberals against US military interventions before Obama got into office and increased the drone program and implemented a US citizen "kill list." There is clear discrepancy of public outrage.Last edited by seanD; 07-19-2014, 04:20 PM.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostThe point is, where is the same anger and MSM attention given to the greater atrocities?
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Originally posted by seanD View PostThe international backlash, including and especially from the left, over years of war and death toll associated with US claims of fighting terrorism in no way reflects the backlash Israel is getting for similar but far lesser and probably more justified activities... was my point.
Originally posted by tabibito View PostThat, and the propensity for the media to massage the story with the ideological views of those who control the editors - which by and large becomes merged with fact in the readers' minds. Small things, like billing the rescue of a kidnap victim as an escape by the victim, never mentioning the rescue or the rescuer don't mean a lot by themselves, but there is a cumulative effect.
Case in point - the Israel thing gets constant front page press. The USA thing maybe gets a paragraph on page 5 a couple of times.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostCouldn't it just be that people react to the way a country acts if they find it displeasing?
I've seen plenty of backlash against the US's atrocities. The UN has condemned the US for its action in the Middle East. I have no idea where you got these ideas. I am not interested in talking about the situation with Israel. I am interested in the argument in the OP about the cause of backlash.Last edited by tabibito; 07-19-2014, 10:17 AM.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostI've seen plenty of backlash against the US's atrocities. The UN has condemned the US for its action in the Middle East. I have no idea where you got these ideas. I am not interested in talking about the situation with Israel. I am interested in the argument in the OP about the cause of backlash.
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Originally posted by seer View PostSo trying to survive is a morally bad thing?
Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostIf you are a nutty lefty like PM.
Originally posted by seanD View PostUS is not receiving anywhere near the international backlash that Israel is receiving and the former has committed far more atrocities around the world and in a much bigger territorial expanse than Israel, so no, that isn't very plausible in light of that discrepancy. Israel is surrounded by hostile folks (folks they also deem as terrorists, or at least harboring terrorists) on every side of their border, so (whether what they're doing is ethical or not is not really relevant here) they're reacting in a fashion that most countries would act in that situation; certainly the way we reacted. US was attacked by enemies thousands of miles away from its borders and look at our military expansions and campaigns across the globe in the last decade, yet the UN says next to nothing. Imagine had those enemies existed right on our border.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostCouldn't it just be that people react to the way a country acts if they find it displeasing?Last edited by seanD; 07-18-2014, 08:01 PM.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostYeah, "western" was too vague. I meant certain neocons (including "democrats" such as Obama and the Clintons) and religious leaders like Haggee. I understand this undying loyalty from people like Haggee -- influenced by his eschatological views -- but I don't understand the political side of it.
(Though I don't see a theological necessity to support Israel, I do happen to think they are more in the right in this particular conflict. Or perhaps "less in the wrong" would be more accurate.)
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Couldn't it just be that people react to the way a country acts if they find it displeasing?
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