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Originally Posted by roachboy
well gee, stevo, do ya think you might be able to draw SOME kind of cause-effect link between the occupation, how it has been handled, the settlement programs and "terrorism"?
or would you prefer to simply think of palestinians as less than quite human?
problem no. 1 with ustwo's video: no meaningful context.
problem no. 2: the assumption that saying that the cameramen were palestinian in the clips showed necessarily equals some kind of problem. do you think that all palestinians are of one mind politically?
why would you think that?
the clip offers no proof that there is any such problem: it simply states it and leaves it to you, the audience, to generalize.
that is a shabby argument.
landes is a historian and should know better.
btu it does serve to chump the credulous...
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Roachboy, would you consider beginning a new topic with this video as the basis of discussion? I have seen other media topics on tfp, but none this specific to the presentation of the Israli/Palestinian conflict in the US media. I could see evidence of most of the seven PR strategies in today's paper and I confess that I was completely naive, willfully so I fear, to any of this prior to viewing the video. I would also be interested in speculation concerning what has transpired since the video was made in 2003, specifically Sharon's pullout from Gaza.
Of course, anyone wanting to participate in that topic would need to invest the hour and 20 minutes needed to view the video. That may prove to be a very small discussion group.