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To: Taro who wrote (445860)	1/7/2009 7:37:51 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575797

It is the same never ending story: terrorists fire at Israeli forces from some school or hospital building full of civilians, Israeli military fire back - and the press screams "massacre" and shows pictures of civilians torn by the explosion of the shell. Hamas rejoice, public opinion turns against Israel, prostituting Western leaders get scared of their growing Moslem electorate, lose heart and put pressure on Israel to stop fighting the terrorists. So frigging what? The UN gave Israel the coordinates of their schools. They told the Israelis they were the setting the schools up as safe houses. The Israelis knew there would be significant civilians staying at those schools. That means you don't take out the school with mortars. If you think Hamas is there, you don't use mortars to take them out. Its the same old whining from the Israelis......nobody fights the way they want them to fight. I am sick of it.

To: Taro who wrote (445860)	1/7/2009 7:43:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575797

Taro, great post. However, I would like to comment on the last sentence: > Harsh and paradoxical as this may sound, democracy is entitled to some protection against newsmen who are either gullible enough to be manipulated by the terrorists, or criminally hungry for pornographic death pictures that cause a moral inversion of the public. I don't see how censorship is going to help here. Democracy allows for said gullible and attention-grabbing newsmen to spread their garbage as far and wide as they can. The only "solution" to that would be for the authorities to reign in "anti-patriotic" sentiment, but usually such extreme measures are reserved for full-scale wars. Tenchusatsu