Israel - "Palestine" - Is Israel a Just Ally? - 08/17/06 12:23 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696
About an hour long video but an interesting watch all the way through, I highly recommend you watch it; especially if you're a home grown American use to mostly US news.
While although I think the video is overall pretty good and helps to shine some light on what Israel is really about. It is definitely one-sided, with an emphasis on removing from the American peoples' mind the image of Israel being the "Good" guys and Israel being like a little piece of the US over in the middle east.
Israel has done more to try and forge a peace in the region than the video wants you to believe, but until I saw this it wasn't as clear to me how much Israel had done against the interest of peace.
Another thing to keep in mind is this is about events in 2000 - 2003 and about Palestinian people. It is not directly about Lebanon, however you can't help but to forge connections with your mind. The video definitely would like us to view Israel as being a land mongerer and that the current Lebanon conflict is just another example of Israel’s un-peace like actions. But we can't make such a direct connection, these events are different. For example, in Lebanon they are fighting Hezbollah terrorists who are widely accepted as merely the long arm of Iran and Syria.
In the end really all I can suggest is to watch the video and accept it as just another piece of the pie. As US citizens we mostly just hear the one side of the story, the Israeli side... it doesn't hurt to hear the Palestinians' side as well sometimes. It's up to us to then mix the two views together for the "truth".
About an hour long video but an interesting watch all the way through, I highly recommend you watch it; especially if you're a home grown American use to mostly US news.
While although I think the video is overall pretty good and helps to shine some light on what Israel is really about. It is definitely one-sided, with an emphasis on removing from the American peoples' mind the image of Israel being the "Good" guys and Israel being like a little piece of the US over in the middle east.
Israel has done more to try and forge a peace in the region than the video wants you to believe, but until I saw this it wasn't as clear to me how much Israel had done against the interest of peace.
Another thing to keep in mind is this is about events in 2000 - 2003 and about Palestinian people. It is not directly about Lebanon, however you can't help but to forge connections with your mind. The video definitely would like us to view Israel as being a land mongerer and that the current Lebanon conflict is just another example of Israel’s un-peace like actions. But we can't make such a direct connection, these events are different. For example, in Lebanon they are fighting Hezbollah terrorists who are widely accepted as merely the long arm of Iran and Syria.
In the end really all I can suggest is to watch the video and accept it as just another piece of the pie. As US citizens we mostly just hear the one side of the story, the Israeli side... it doesn't hurt to hear the Palestinians' side as well sometimes. It's up to us to then mix the two views together for the "truth".