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Thread #150703   Message #3642389
Posted By: beardedbruce
15-Jul-14 - 12:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
No mention of the photo in that article of the house in that town with a hole in it from a Hamas rocket?


"Explaining that he has also previously witnessed Palestinians cheering news of bombings that killed Israelis, Mr. Sørensen said that, in a war, "this is what happens." Civilians and fighters on both sides, he said, "go through a process of dehumanizing the enemy.""

Or the comments by the author that he understood the people in the town had been under constant rocket attack for the last 14 years?

"When he was a candidate for the American presidency in 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama visited the town and saluted "the brave citizens" of Sderot while standing in front of a collection of spent rockets that had been fired at them from Gaza. He was also presented with an "I Love Sderot" T-shirt that channeled the dark humor of the residents, with the image of a heart on its front pierced by a rocket."

"Mr. Sørensen, who stressed that he has "a complete understanding of what the people of Sderot have been going through for 14 years," attributed the particularly vitriolic response to his Twitter report to the climate in Israel since three young religious students were kidnapped and murdered in the occupied West Bank last month. The journalist called the "extreme incitement to violence from very right-wing Israeli groups unprecedented" in the many years he has been reporting from the region."