Aibu to be incensed at the lack of coverage of the protests against Israel by the mainstream media?

[runes]

Over 100,000 people descend on London to protest against Israel slaughtering the people of Gaza. Where are the reports on the bbc, sky etc?? I'm appalled, not only at the horrendous mass murder of the Palestinian people, but the obviously corrupt and biased pro Israeli media

[somewheresafe]

Yes I'm Jewish too! I understand the plight if Israel but to inflict genocide on a nation? No not in my name. Ffs they are obliterating a nation. I have family in Israel who want israel to stop. I can't believe people are justifying a fucking genocide.

[somewheresafe]

Yes I'm Jewish too! I understand the plight if Israel but to inflict genocide on a nation? No not in my name. Ffs they are obliterating a nation. I have family in Israel who want israel to stop. I can't believe people are justifying a fucking genocide.

[Bambambini]

I think Hamas will think the deaths worth the coverage (at least at the start) and world shock and horror or they would have stopped firing rockets. The Palestinians are in a shit situation no doubt - but it's not just the Israelis who think that the continued aggression is worth the body count. Have no idea how they are going to get to a better place after this and move on to a better situation or negotiate. Shame the richer nations like us couldn't offer those Palestinians who would consider leaving to hopefully have a more peaceful life for their children elsewhere - a home and a fresh start. We take in other refugees and folk seeking asylum.

[runes]

thewitch The boys on the beach must have missed their warning Not to mention that 5 month old baby, maybe the parents were using it as a human shield saying as those arabs don't love their own Disgusting attempts to demonise and dehumanise the Palestinians. Jewish people above all should know better

[runes]

Military targets my ass. Murderers. palsolidarity.org/2014/07/video-of-israeli-sniper-killing-wounded-civilian/

[somewheresafe]

Bambam the palestinians dont want to seek asylum here. They want to go home. They want a right to return.

The sniper video is so disturbing on so many levels.

[Bambambini]

What you speak for ever person in Gaza? No one would take the opportunity to get out with help and start over somewhere else where their children could have a normal secure life with a future? The world is full of people who left a bad situation for a better one. Maybe at least give them the choice.

[runes]

Why the fuck should the Palestinians leave? You are actually suggesting that ethnic cleansing of the area would be the best solution

[somewheresafe]

Bam you clearly have no idea about the essence of this genocide. The palestinians are proud people who are fighting for their right to return, to exist, to have an identity. They are already in exile and have been for decades.

[TheWitchwithNoName]

Somewhere, and if the right of return is granted where do all the displaced Jews go? Back to the countries that hounded them out in the first place?

[Bambambini]

They shouldn't have to leave but some of them might actually want to. Maybe let them decide rather than have you keep them there to make a point and because you think it is unfair. People move all the time for a better life or we wouldn't have folk coming here to start over.

Many will stay i'm but let those that want to leave - start over for a better life.

[somewheresafe]

You can't rectify your own displacement and persecution by displacing and persecuting another race.

[TheWitchwithNoName]

You haven't answered the question

[runes]

thewitch You haven't answered my question. Do you think Israel's murder of over 500 people, mostly innocent civilians, is justified? And don't even think about repeating the shitty human shield line.

[somewheresafe]

No of course jews shouldn't be made to go anywhere else. Apart from what misery the zionist ideology might wreak elsewhere, they will have to learn to respect the basic human rights of the palestinians and treat them as equals. The white south Africans had to do it. It will be painful for Israel but like south Africa they might have to finally accept that apartheid is abhorrent to the world and can't be sustained.

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

jewish people above all should know better

270 Syrian children killed just last month, who gives a shit eh? No one. I guess it wasn't done by the 'right' wrong people.

[runes]

I'll admit I don't know much about the Syrian conflict, hardly any wonder given the standard of reporting However I don't need to know the details to be able to say that 270 children killed is disgustingly horrific and I condemn unreservedly those responsible. Do you equally condemn Israel for the innocents that they have murdered??

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

Yes. It's terrible, heartbreaking and horrendous that children have been killed.

[runes]

But you still do not condemn the people who have killed them. Shocking

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

The individual conscript soldiers? no not so much.

Netanyahu for taking Israel down this destructive path, yes.

[Ragazza33]

And will (or should) the holocaust survivors (or the non-survivors, or even those not directly affected for that matter) 'not blame the individuals' who followed Nazi orders? It's everybody else's complicity that's enabling Netanyahu to get so far down his ethnic cleansing path. Even in our 'asslike' law 'omission' can constitute an 'act'.