tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post964808009740553298..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: How Do We Know What We Know - And Are We Right?Yaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-53955072808935539402008-11-01T18:36:00.000+02:002008-11-01T18:36:00.000+02:00Well, you know, war is a messy thing, and war repo...Well, you know, war is a messy thing, and war reporting is just as messy. All journalists make mistakes, so why do you obsesively focus on Gideon Levy's? Intolerance of dissent? An aversion to contrarian views? I'll call it by its true name: <I>anti-Levytism</I>.<BR/><BR/>Seriously speaking. As I noted in a <A HREF="http://thehasbarabuster.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-pallywood-to-hollycaust.html" REL="nofollow">post on my blog</A>, you're using Holocaust denial techniques to delegitimize Levy & Co. Yes, he may have been wrong with regard to the grandmother who dropped dead -- but he didn't err in a vacuum. The story was plausible because the IDF has a history of not assisting injured Palestinians. See <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0&feature=related" REL="nofollow">here</A> how the Israeli army blew up the door of a house, severely wounding the woman inside. The soldiers are caught on video tearing down the house as they leave the woman to die without anyone assisting her. No terrorist was hiding in the house; the soldiers took it over only to gain secure access to a neighboring home by opening a hole in the wall.<BR/><BR/>So you cherry pick a few instances of misreporting and make an indictiment of the whole leftwing camp, while not noting that if it were not for B'Tselem, the brutal clubbing of elderly Palestinians by Jews wearing masks disturbingly reminiscent of the KKK would not have come to light.<BR/><BR/>Maybe one day "good" journalists will begin to report on Israeli soldiers leaving wounded civilians to die, Israeli settlers kicking prisoners in the head with the soldiers looking on, Israeli soldiers shooting blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners or IDF soldiers using an 11-yr-old girl as a human shield. But up to now such proven atrocities have been overwhelmingly reported by unreliables such as Levy, B'Tselem and Ilana Dayan. That's why we need them.Ibrahim Ibn Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-11223893270806539152008-10-28T19:22:00.000+02:002008-10-28T19:22:00.000+02:00FROM CAROL HERMANSorry, the word "push" doesn't qu...FROM CAROL HERMAN<BR/><BR/>Sorry, the word "push" doesn't quite describe what happens when a woman of 60 (and unknown weight. She could have been the size of a cow) is "pushed."<BR/><BR/>Seems she went backwards and cracked the base of her skull. Hence, she died.<BR/><BR/>And, this is because?<BR/><BR/>Let's see some reasons, Sherlock.<BR/><BR/>Was she hiding a tunnel entrance? Was she doing something that could have threatened the soldiers?<BR/><BR/>Am I to feel "pity?" Where the IDF are at risk, playing these games which the arabs don't play at all.<BR/><BR/>In other words?<BR/><BR/>Suddenly, in enemy territory, you're told "civilians." Even bigger: GRANDMAS. Can't hurt them. They're just flies on the wall.<BR/><BR/>Better to understand that there's only one reason you're putting troops at risk! Something fowl exists inside the homes. Which you can attack in other ways.<BR/><BR/>Up ahead? It's very possible that the world of robotics will enter in? Seeing eyeballs in the dark. And, your forces at computer screens. Far enough away so that no fowl play takes place. <BR/><BR/>As to bumps and bruises under current conditions? Is this any worse than a car's bumper hitting a pedestrian? We don't put drivers in jail!<BR/><BR/>But we do seem to know how to feed animosity. <BR/><BR/>Same things happens in history books. In history books? You'll never hear of Wild Indians. You'll never hear of the savagry purpetrated against civilians who were eke-ing out a living ... and Wild Indians, probably very hungry. Came to steal food in the night.<BR/><BR/>Brought about worse consequences than you can imagine.<BR/><BR/>And, that's pretty much human behavior.<BR/><BR/>Till you get to try and educate everybody. And, someone tampers with the lines. As if everything's a fairytale in a story book.<BR/><BR/>By the way, Israel won territory during the 6-day-1967 war. What you didn't get afterwards were millions of hostile arabs.<BR/><BR/>And, then? The fantasy that "democracy comes" to Islam. Sure. But if you didn't notice, George Dubya Bush blew his whole legacy chasing this ideal.<BR/><BR/>While I think he chased it for the Saud's. Who hungrily thought they'd pick up real estate. No. They weren't going to offer "democracy" to shi'ites. But they didn't get the real estate.<BR/><BR/>You could learn a lot if you applied yourselves to "trades" like that. Because? Nothing trickles down. Not even knowledge.<BR/><BR/>Oh, you can't make all those arabs leave, either. Where would they want to go? Go ahead. Pick a place. Because they're not moving! They like it hostile, just where they are!<BR/><BR/>Poor Israel. Too many lazy asses. Too many who will never "get with the program." But will always go to the taxpayers to steal "easy" money. <BR/><BR/>What lessons can you learn from this? Well, you could learn that the Haredi are of European extraction. And, Olmert handed the Haredi Jerusalem. Made the place go backwards in time. With the exception, perhaps, of improving the plumbing.<BR/><BR/>Imagine telling the squatters (settlers) they need to move along; and get along. <BR/><BR/>While the IDF is taxed with doing the heavy lifting.<BR/><BR/>As to the communists, they love shining the flashlight on freedom. But if you shove them into russia they're never heard from again! <BR/><BR/>Well, it's been said before; there are plenty of politicians who hate reading the morning papers. But it's still the best darn system of managing people you can find. <BR/><BR/>Oh, as to tragedies; lots of groups perished. The lessons in survival, here, should be the FIRST LESSON absorbed. No free lunches. You want to keep it? Fight. You want to protect yourselves from thieves. Have good laws. And, a better police force.<BR/><BR/>And, on that scale, "better police force" ... Israel's already failed.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile? Livni holds her own. You may even notice that she grows in stature. Teaching "the other lesson" ... From bad there's good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com