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Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened
An anonymous reader writes "This is a new one, twitter as a form of historical reenactment: 'Israel's army is giving a "live" blow-by-blow account of the 1967 Six Day War, tweeting each air strike at the exact time it occurred 46 years ago ... @IDF1967 "is an official Israel Defence Forces account that is aimed at re-tweeting the events of the Six Day War in live time", ... The account was tweeting key events in the battle against the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria that took place from June 5 to 10, 1967 and includes pictures and videos, the army said. The tweets are mostly in Hebrew, with some translated into English. "In response to repeated provocations by Egypt, the State of Israel and the IDF are going to war. We will not sit idly as the enemy forces tighten the noose around our necks," the opening tweet said around 8.00am (1500 AEST) on Wednesday when Israel landed its first preemptive air strike 46 years ago.'"
Interesting piece of propaganda
Since when did Slashdot become horribly biased in supporting Israel?
I assume the tweets will come strictly from an Israeli perspective.
Can we have a counter channel with a play-by-play according to the other sides? Then it would actually be historically interesting, and not pure one-sided YAY WAR, YAY ISRAEL propaganda.
When I read an international news story from an American outlet, I also try to read the Al Jazeera version in an attempt to extract the truth from somewhere in the middle. This is kind of like that.
Oddly enough, the article doesn't say anything about anyone being "cleansed" from their city in 1948.
What it does say is that:
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
You talk nonsense. People were murdered and their home stolen. After pushing them onto reservation-type camps, they are still subject to things like collective punishments - which include mass aerial bombardment of civilian homes with white phosphorus, or the interruption of potable water.
Both are war crimes.
None of this can be justified in any way by the alleged rhetoric of some ill-defined "arabs" saying something that - if you are understood correctly - would amount to: "If you leave your property that you own, and your orchards and shops, then after you are refugees, you might be able to squat on the couple of Kibbutz those Poles stole from your parents, instead!"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
How do you feel about the way the Arabs treat Palestinian refugees? That is the test to see if someone is a hypocrite or ignorant on the topic.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Why post this article on Slashdot? Its obvious flamebait, bringing out all the hatred, hand-wringing and dubious justifications from all sides of this conflict.
Nothing good is going to come from all the comments in here, ive already seem my fair share of sheer hatred in the comments so far.
Why post this Slashdot? Because its on Twitter?
No. But it does equate to a double standard. A different standard is applied to Israel than to everyone else. What's worse is that the other Arab countries are treating their own people like shit.
That's like you pissing on your family. That's actually WORSE than some stranger doing it.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Is there a logical or rhetorical fallacy you won't ignore, in the pursuit of your defense for the outlaw nation?
Yeah, on both sides. Did you know that the Jews globally lost more property than they gained in 1948? After Arabs lost the war, Jews everywhere in the Middle East were essentially evicted and all their stuff was confiscated, depriving them of wealth amounting to almost three billion dollars (1948 dolllar value, try adjusting *that* for current value) and lands larger than the 1948 Israel.
But the people murdered by Stern and Irgun were innocent. Those who lost homes and property were not even indirectly responsible. It's like claiming Catholic farmworkers should be exploited because there are priests who molest children.
It's funny that countries such as Jordan and other, despite supposedly being the same ethnic group, don't actually want these troublemakers.
Yeah. Like why England and Finland weren't asking to accept the whole nation of Croatia in the 90's. Hey! There the same ethnic group. Your racism is vile. "Troublemakers"? They were just born there, descendents of Ancient Greece, Phoenecia, Rome, Egypt, Sumer and - dare I say Judea. But that's "causing trouble".
"Mass aerial bombardment"? And do you actually have anything to support this claim?
Operation Cast Lead
I may be wrong, but isn't it the case that Israel actually provides the water to the West Bank and to Gaza at their own expense, essentially at a loss?
"Here, we stole your aquifers. Aren't we forebaring and even magnanimous in trickling some back, after diverting it to water illegal colonial settlements? Gosh. What's a little matter of war crime, compared to our virtues?"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
A different standard is applied to Israel than to everyone else.
Yup, like nuclear weapon arming, and massive military investment from the US. The soviet union is long dead.
You're projecting, with the usual bullshit handwaving and the usual canards to justify the unjustifiable. The formation of Israel was impossible without massive land theft from the native population, from a bunch of immigrants just off the boat from Europe.
Then there's the other bullshit in the form of headscratching that the victims of land theft and ethnic cleansing feel some sort of animosity towards their oppressors. Do you also spend a lot of time yelling at the Sioux for being pissed that the Black Hills were stolen from them? Still calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist because he resisted Apartheid?
Zionism is amoral sociopathy. A sense of entitlement to other people's land and property is bullshit, whether it was the Spaniards, the Pope, or the Germans doing it to Jews, and it's bullshit when Zionists do it to the people who have lived in Palestine for centuries.
The point is, if you really cared about helping Palestinians, you would focus on helping Palestinians, because flaming Israel isn't going to accomplish much. Israel is the smallest of the Palestinians' problems.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."