I’m writing a paper on the bias from sources concerning the conflict. I'm not asking your general opinion, I want to know any bias that you know of from specific sources/what you’ve heard.
For example:
Pro-Palestinians say Israel is bad, blah blah blah because the Israeli soldiers brutally killed a girl & her kitten, without mentioning that the Israeli soldiers unintentionally shot some Palestinians in a crowd because there was a person who purposefully hid among the crowd and started shooting at the soldiers, knowing this would happen.
Pro-Israelis say Palestinians are bad, blah blah blah because the refugees should have no problem with where they were moved because it’s still an Arab country whereas Jewish people came from completely different places, regardless of the fact that moving to a neighboring country is still moving away from a home/community, in which case location is a small factor.
Please don’t argue with these points, I know some of you will. I want to hear others.
2006-12-03 16:20:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
please refer to an interview of Jimmy Carter with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. When Carter was President he had the leaders of both Egypt and Isreal putting aside their differences. He probably has a better prespective than most people. He is more respected outside the US than in the US.
Carter's new book outlines how Isreal has set up an aparthied system against the Palestinians. He has strong supporting agruements to back his viewpioint.
You can judge for yourself who has what bias in the interview.
2006-12-03 16:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by joe f 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We in Europe tend to be either neutral on the issue or pro-Palestinian especially in my country. It's sad how biased the US politicians are. How easily they forget their own separatist history when judging other separatists. I believe that Israel is primarily to blame because it is occupying Palestinian land. As a nuclear power with one of the largest and most advanced armies on earth - including the 2nd largest airforce - and 4,000 tanks - the notion that Israel is about to be "wiped off the map" is clearly a red-herring. The Iranian president is all talk, but at the end of the day, he is merely a figurehead. The real power in that country rests with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. I wish Israel would learn to at least try to find peaceful solutions instead of bombing, shooting, shelling all the time. And they wonder why they are resented not only in the Muslim world but in most of the West too with the obvious exception of the US - and there only for religious reasons.
2006-12-04 01:50:45 · answer #2 · answered by Paranormal I 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the palestinians are a concentration of all arab nations from the whole region to put a thorn in the jews. they are some of the poorest. an this way they have no where to go but stay and fight. they don't even realize their justing being used. and now hezbalah is the military side pushing down from the north. and this is the truth!
2006-12-04 00:41:51 · answer #3 · answered by Einstein 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a neutral look at the history of the world. Indigenous people in each area of the globe at one time or another were replaced by another group. You can go back thousands of years or just decades. I don't know where you live, but I'm sure the people there now weren't the first ones, nor will they be the last.
2006-12-04 02:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Israelis are squatters, The only nation that truly recognizes them is the United States and I still to learn why we back them like we do, they can do almost no wrong no matter how messed up it is.
One person stated USA backs Israel because the power they have in our country. I thought was bogus so he said really look up your government and true over half in power are Jewish, then you have the Lawyers, doctors, Actors allot of $$$ and power there.
2006-12-04 01:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by tannum2000 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think Israelis are justified controlling the land because Palestinians refuse to share. They had their chance at a seperate country with fair share of land but they blew it. Palestine's selfishness is what led the United Nations to give the land to Israel. Palestinians are lucky to have gotten anything.
That's not bias, that's fact.
2006-12-04 00:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Blow palestine off the map and We'll all be good! leave Israel, because they will and cannot ever be defeated anyway! Read it in the Bible!
2006-12-04 00:30:12 · answer #7 · answered by us_pilot 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋