Israel Just Live-Blogged a Gaza Bombing

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by seanmb • 14 years ago

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cup• 14 years ago

Bombing? Lets be frank, this was a targeted assassination by a nation state.

Say all you want about Ahmed Jabari but his modus operandi was a direct result of a life of occupation and subjugation. You don't go into prison at the age of 22 and come out 13 years later a happy individual. I mean it was only 6 years ago that Hamas was democratically elected in a process considered fair and transparant, only for the elections to be found null and void by those (US/Israel et al) outside of Gaza!

yozmsn5• 14 years ago

What occupation? where was he being "occupied"?

pretoriusB6• 14 years ago

His land was being occupied -- and with deplorable tactics at that.

galactus• 14 years ago

At first I thought it was a fake account, then I saw the verified account logo. Scary stuff.

malandrew2• 14 years ago

What I don't get is that the article says 9 were killed and 40 injured, but from watching the video, it looks like a targeted attack at one vehicle that could have had collateral damage, but I don't see anyone near the vehicle in the image.

Assuming the vehicle was full, that's ~5 dead. What about the 4 other deaths and the 40 injuries?

pretoriusB6• 14 years ago

Well, who said the video captures the whole of the attack?

Now, slightly off-topic, but I don't like words like "collateral damage".

It's not a building demolition we're talking about, in this context collateral damage is newspeak for "innocent bystanders murdered".

If someone did an attack on some target in the US, even a deplorable one (like some bloodthirsty third world dictator living there to avoid prosecution in his country), would anyone in the media dare to speak about innocent nearby people killed as "collateral damage"?

It's equally bad, and very racist to use this word exclusively in the case of third world, middle-eastern, etc people.

yozmsn5• 14 years ago

Actually yes. Innocent bystanders killed in targeted attack of some foreign national or just regular criminal are often referred to as "collateral damage" in CIA, FBI, and Police reports.

malandrew2• 14 years ago

Actually, I'm not a fan of the word myself, but it's habit and it's a term only two words long that everyone is familiar with so it's convenient.

It's so well known a term among people that it doesn't even do a good job of masking or downplaying what it actually means anymore.

Israel Just Live-Blogged a Gaza Bombing

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