When we compare the good result of the water-landing of Flight 1549 with the indiscriminate "collateral damage" occurring in Gaza, we can only conclude one thing: American lives are much more important than Palestinian lives. After all, saving those 155 American lives was "miraculous," according to American media reports (listen…
Israel is a divided country regarding its military actions in Gaza. This video will give you an idea of the intensity of the dispute among Israelis. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMs0nai4JQ&eurl=http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/01/whats-happening-in-gaza-is-wrong-it-needs-to-stop-now/[/youtube]
This latest example of well-armed humans being cruel to relatively helpless humans has embarrassed Israel, as it should. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaPZLNLBu8[/youtube] Meanwhile, there are more than 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, doing who-knows-what because the U.S. media is not covering Iraq anymore. The official word is that our soldiers are still out…
"They're bombing 1 1/2 million people in a cage," says a Norwegian doctor working in Gaza. The attached video contains pointed commentary by Bill Moyers, who addresses massive media failure and indiscriminate death. So often, the human condition seems to be the same sad story over and over, ever so…
Yes, there is another side to this conflict, even in Israel (despite this vote by the U.S. Congress, 390 - 5). [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9DN2Oi0-w[/youtube] It's the same issues every time a country wants to go to war. And the same media problems.