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Oh, it's Overton and that

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 23 May 2018 07:12:24 +0000

In reply to Here's @ The Guardian is the

Oh, it's Overton and that buzzer experiment and our team/their team tribalism and getting caught up in the horserace and distractions, etc, etc. It's hard to sustain outrage, and that that is is often contrived.

Here's @ The Guardian is the

artappraiser — Wed, 23 May 2018 05:35:19 +0000

In reply to Oh come on, you're being

Here's @ The Guardian is the "de-sensitizing violent entertainment" argument. (Comes to mind that a lot of us reject that when it comes from NRA supporters, or say, moms like Tipper Gore. Wondering if it fits here). And in the article, this show is labeled as a new more "fair and balanced approach" compared to previous fare, there would still be effects from past pop culture it is attempting to revise:

Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer and former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, points to another problem with Fauda. “If you’re not careful, you find yourself drawn into the assassinations, you get lured into the cat and mouse,” she says, of a series that essentially depicts targeted killings. “The concept of right and wrong gets erased, the illegality gets erased … It just becomes this action-packed show.”

from

The next Homeland? The problems with Fauda, Israel's brutal TV hit https://t.co/en47w1s9Gx
— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) May 23, 2018

Jews suffered under Europeans

rmrd0000 — Tue, 22 May 2018 14:35:27 +0000

In reply to Essentially, Israelis are

Jews suffered under Europeans. Instead of claiming land in Europe as a safe zone, they went to an ancestral home in the Middle East. Arabs were displaced. European states got off scott free. Now we have European Jews battling Arabs. There is no peaceful solution coming.

Essentially, Israelis are

Anon — Tue, 22 May 2018 14:28:53 +0000

In reply to Gaza

Essentially, Israelis are subduing Gaza just as European settlers have done everywhere they could.

https://therealnews.com/stories/killing-gaza-a-new-documentary-on-palestinians-under-siege

Some details on payments -

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 May 2018 11:06:35 +0000

In reply to A cynical retort could be 'in

Some details on payments - dunno if the best article, but lengthy w numbers and cant be bothered to go back and see... can Google others.

https://www.welcometopalestine.com/article/the-palestinian-authority-mar...

Probably true, although that

Aaron Carine — Sat, 19 May 2018 08:01:01 +0000

In reply to From an Israeli publication.

Probably true, although that was 5-8 guys(Hamas says five) out of hundreds of people shot.

From an Israeli publication.

Flavius — Sat, 19 May 2018 04:55:45 +0000

In reply to You claim they had guns. I

From an Israeli publication.

Among the dead, the IDF said on Tuesday, were all eight members of a cell of armed Hamas operatives who were killed in a gun battle as they sought to breach the fence in the northern Gaza Strip.

I don't know; an image of

Aaron Carine — Sat, 19 May 2018 01:25:18 +0000

In reply to Gaza

I don't know; an image of people shooting at a drone the day after the slaughter isn't proof that any of the people who rushed the fence were armed, let alone "a significant number". I can't read Arabic, so I don't know if Tablet's account of what the transcript says is accurate.

And I now feel it was

artappraiser — Fri, 18 May 2018 19:16:48 +0000

In reply to Thanks, Double A. I feel

And I now feel it was worthwhile tiptoeing onto an IP thread!

Can you cite a source?

artappraiser — Fri, 18 May 2018 18:55:27 +0000

In reply to You claim they had guns. I

Can you cite a source?

See point # 7 in the article link I posted above, includes a CNN video.. I'll repost here for your convenience, scroll down to #7 if you don't want to read the whole thing, though I recommend you do:

I wrote: 13 inconvenient truths about what has been happening in Gaza, an attempt to acknowledge the realities partisans often do not https://t.co/TTBRgdy9tQ
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) May 17, 2018