Aloofi:
Or better yet, Isreal should set off a cluster of nukes in the Iraqi desert to show how it
could have made a giant mirror out of downtown Bagdad, but "once again" was capable of demonstrating a super-human amount of restraint. It would be important that Isreal somehow manages to broadcast the unbelievable sorrow of a devastated Israel.
I'd suggest that the desert-->insta-glass demo be postponed at least 2 days after the Isreal incident, to allow some play time of the Isreali sorrow. Otherwise, the world press will focus instead on the "plight of the Iraqi Red-Brested Desert Tit" or the "devestation of the rare Double-Barrel Euphrates Spine Cactus" following the "uncalled for" Isreali reprissal against the vast unoccupied Iraqi wastes.*
* Perhaps I seem a little pesimistic about the objectivity of the worlds' press agencies regarding the likelyhood of Isreali suffering getting equal air time with the suffering of others. In my defence I'll simply say that, while I don't know about the rest of the world, our major news agency (the CBC) loves to report things like
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Isreali tanks rolled into Gaza again today, reportedly killing 12 Palestinians and destroying a number of homes in response to yesterday's bombing attack.
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They never say that the bombing attack targetted and killed a bus load of children, or that the bomb killed a group of people who were doing nothing more than a little Sunday shopping. I'm pretty sure that Jews have funerals, but I've yet to see one displayed on my TV! (okay, that's a bit overboard, I have actually seen two scenes of Jewish mourners over the Last few years, one of and Isreali family, the other of a Dutch-Jewish family on holiday). And when do we ever actually get confimation on the numbers of Palestinians killed? Remember the Jenin (sp) masacre - three weeks later we learn from UN observers that not one person had been killed! But retractions don't make front line news... just unconfirmed, questionable numbers.
Well thats my opinion, take it for what it is (or isn't) worth.
And from the other Canadians: am I reading the CBC wrong here? What's your opinion?