Is the Israeli media overfocusing on one death while it ignores the death of thousands.

[faisal akbar]

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The Israeli media is going nuts riling up the masses, perhaps for another large scale ground invasion.

The pretext the media is using? One death, one single death. http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Gaza-rocket-that-four-year-old-Israeli-was-launched-from-UNRWA-school-says-IDF-371989

They make no mention of the 2,000 Palestinian deaths, the majority of whom were children.

How can anyone in good conscience do this? This is demagougery. An objective analysis would raise the question "what exactly is the big deal?"

[sabbat hunter]

1. abput 300

of the deaths have been children. That is FAR from a majority, so I believe that your math is very faulty.

Additionally, by the article you linked, the cowards in Hamas are hiding weapons in UNRWA schools, which is illegal under rules of war (but then again who expects a terror organization like hamas to follow rules of war) and Israel is attacking the weapons, not the children.


Maybe the cowards that lead Hamas should stop launching, storing weapons in civilian areas. But that would require a bit of thought and brains, which the idiots that lead hamas lack.

[faisal akbar]

2. logical implication

The only reason that they would have to shoot from an UNRWA school is because Israel cannot fire back there. Firing back upon a school would kill hundreds of children, just to kill 3 or 4 mlitants. Even Israel is not so crazy to invite the international heat that would come from intentionally bombing an UNRWA school. Why exactly should Hamas, in this war between a superpower and an ill equipped militia, not fire from the safest area it can? To do otherwise, would turn the mlitary operation into a suicide mission. To do as it did resulted in the mission achieving its objective with no loss. It is unrealistic of you to expect Hamas to intentionally make bad military decisions.

[sabbat hunter]

3. but doing such things

is illegal under rules of warfare, and it would be incredible stupid of hamas to expect Israel to just sit there and be attacked without attacking back.
But then again, Hamas is led by cowardly morons, so maybe they actually think that Israel wouldn't strike back.


Oh and last I checked Hamas is a terror group, not a ill equipped milita, and Israel is FAR from being a superpower.

[faisal akbar]

4. You are calling

Hamas stupid to believe that Israel would abide by international law and would refrain from committing a war crime.

[sabbat hunter]

6. I am calling Hamas stupid

for storing items in civilian areas which is a war crime.


hamas is led by cowardly morons plain and simple

[azurnoir]

5. How does Israel know how many Palestinian hildren have been killed?

the rest and the focus on one child is quite expected in some parts and bespeaks volumes as to the value placed on the lives of Palestinian children

[faisal akbar]

7. That is a good point.

Just today Israel was responsible for another 18 Palestinian deaths for people who faced the death penalty for spying that enabled Israel to kill three Palestinian leaders the day before. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/world/middleeast/israel-gaza.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=photo-spot&WT.nav=photo-spot&_r=0

[sabbat hunter]

8. How is

the extra judicial killing by the hamas terror group Israels fault.

And HUZZAH and cheers that 3 leaders of the terror group Hamas were killed.

[faisal akbar]

9. If Israel did not kill the three Hamas leaders,

then the 18 Palestinians would not have been co-conspirators toward the killing. And these collaborators would have been guilty of no crime.

[sabbat hunter]

13. Those three are legitimate military targets

as they are leaders of a terrorist organization.

the 18 so called co-conspirators did not receive any fair trial and were summarily executed.

Those so called collaborators were trying to bring to justice terror leaders. as collaborators they should have received a trial, then any punishment (which is the risk of collaborating with what is considered to be the group in charge of an area enemy). But they knew that risk going in.

why was there no trial? or allowance to have a fair defense?

[shaayecanaan]

15. president Obama has summarily executed at least three

collaborators (us citizens) by using predator drones, one of whom was a sixteen year old boy, and may, in fact, not have been an actual collaborator.

Desertion and adhering to the enemy are the two offences which are generally punishable by summary execution in time of war.

[regnaD kciN]

10. Is the Pope...uh...non-Jewish?

Just for the record, the death of this child is a tragic waste, just like the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including several hundred children.

[faisal akbar]

11. And the death

of 400 Palestinian children is much worse than the death of one single Israeli kid. In fact it is more than 100 times worse. In fact it is 400 times worse. So this death of one single Israeli is incidental. It should not be reported on at all, until the Palestinians are given 400 times the media coverage.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. All murder is morally wrong; whether it is 1 or 1,000.

This is not a their or our side tit-for-tat game.

[sabbat hunter]

14. why is

one death worse than another?

All civilian deaths are tragic, moreso if they are children.

Maybe hamas should stop attacking civilian targets, and hiding weapons among civilians and launching attacks from civilian areas and then they will be seen differently.