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.'"

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Eyeroll

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting piece of propaganda

Worthless propoganda

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:now they are nazis

[CrimsonAvenger]

Oddly enough, the article doesn't say anything about anyone being "cleansed" from their city in 1948.

What it does say is that:

A local fisherman Atar Zeinab, 80, said that as a teenager during the final months of fighting in 1948 he helped to collect the Arab dead in the area south of Jaffa.

They were then brought for a quick burial in the cemetery, the areaâ(TM)s main graveyard.

'I carried to the cemetery 60 bodies during a period of three or four months,' he told AFP. 'We used to find the people in the street and most of the time we didnâ(TM)t know who they were.'

He said that the danger of being hit by flying bullets or grenade fragments was such that bodies were dumped one on top of the other in existing family crypts in the cemetery, contrary to Muslim custom.

'We carried them early in the morning or in the night. We put women, children and men in the same place... nobody prayed for these people.

Note that there is no mention as to who did the killing, though the "danger of being hit by flying bullets or grenade fragments" suggests ongoing fighting between the Jews and Palestinians (which means that any particular death was just as likely to be to a Palestinian bullet as a Jewish bullet)....

Attack on the USS Liberty

[sumdumfuk]

I wonder if that broadcast will include the attack on the US Liberty in which they killed 34 American Sailors and was covered up for MANY years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Re:Cool, why not reenact WW2?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's done already! https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII

Re: The First in a Series!

[topherkersting]

And the French Army simply retweets.

Re:Article is Flamebait

[Charliemopps]

>Why post this Slashdot? Because its on Twitter?

Because it's an interesting use of technology. Pretending difficult issues like the Israel/Palestine thing do not exist may prevent arguments on slashdot but it's certainly not going to do the world any good. Flamewars on this site are the least of the middle-Easts concerns.