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See Martin Sherman’s article at ynetnews.com “Proportionality and hypocrisy” for an excellent comparison of civilian casualties — and the efforts to prevent them — in Gaza as compared to the Nato campaign in Kosovo. The IDF has created fewer civilian casualties than Nato — whether viewed as an absolute number, or in comparison to total casualties, or to casualties suffered by its own civilians or by its own soldiers. And unlike NATO, the IDF has knowingly taken additional risks to its own soldiers in order to reduce the risk to civilians in the war zone.

I am unable to reconcile in my mind two aspects of this situation. The first image is the various Islamist groups (including HAMAS) and their supporters, screaming bloodcurdling venomous hate at Israel and the United States, claiming they will destroy both entities. The second is these same people screaming “they are conducting a massacre” and “we are innocent victims”, when Israel strikes back. It really is high time they made their minds up as to which they want to be.
Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

Phyllis, perhaps…just perhaps my fine, esteemed friend, you and I have passed the point where we are able to see the world as it is, because we have lived long enough to know how it could be.

We see the Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, MSNBC, NYTImes reports filled with distortions, intentionally misleading and often “planted” stories, faked scenes, forged documents, …we see the UN allowing itself to be used as a prop and backdrop for slander, embezzlement and fraud, we see massive heaps of sophistry and bearing false witness…and we remember the days when our information stream was here to guide and protect us.

Now, the information stream is a vehicle for gaming the system of “fact gathering”. No longer are we bolstered by brave and industrious men and women who hunted for kernels of truth by digging it out of the dirt with their fingernails…instead we are burdened by manufactured “message” bits and bytes of prefabricated (emphasis on the fabricated) leftist pap and pablum for the feeble minded.

We no longer can trust a single word, a photograph, a description of a scene or even a tally of numbers, because it has been thoroughly infused with leftist conclusions, premasticated and half-digested for the little baby birds to swallow and regurgitate here at home.

You and I, Phyllis,…we remember a better day. We remember when truth stood for something. We remember when our information stream was vital to our decision-making process. No longer living in that day, we long for its return, but to no avail.

Our information stream is corrupted, polluted with lies, half-truths, distortions and false “facts”, arranged with the conclusion already in place…in fact, starting with the conclusion and filled in with whatever phony filler is necessary to complete the distortion.

We have reached the nadir, a point where truth, integrity and honor have no place in the vehicles from which we used to obtain our facts. If you don’t already believe the conclusion, prior to obtaining any facts…you are out of touch. You aren’t NYTimes “nuanced” or CNN “cool” or MSNBC “chic”.

You and I Phyllis, are a dying breed. We actually like to know the truth BEFORE we form our conclusions. God bless you and keep you, Phyllis. The leftists are creating a distortion which shrouds our very existence. And there aren’t enough of us to fight them, there aren’t enough who care about the truth to expose them, there aren’t enough of us who remember what it was like when the truth mattered.

@cfbleachers; Actually, I do not think
that things are quite as bad as you fear.

Back when, there were a significant number of Englishmen who wanted to be a Lord Haw Haw.
However, only one got a microphone from the Third Reich.

Today, thanks to the internet, ALL the wannabes get to sound off. This makes them much more noticeable than before but not necessarily more influential.

And the MSM has always (with few exceptions)
parroted somebody else’s line. Once again. it is the quantity of repitition that disturbs us all. Their ability fo shape opinion is nowhere near what they imagine it to be.

I do not mean to sound Pollyannish here. We do have some severe problems and the loud mouths are among them. But do not forget that
that which enables them to sound more numerous than they are is also what enables you and I to communicate and let each other know that we are not alone.

This is in addition to giving Phyllis Chessler and others like her a wider audience than they could have had in the past.

So put your faith in God, keep your powder dry, your tail down, your chin up and all your other metaphors well-mixed. We shall overcome.

Dear Phyllis & Friends

Maybe out of all this chaos of disinformation, we need to make sure we keep accurate records, and when things have calmed down a little, we review all this material, analyze it carefully and dispassionately, and publish our findings in a book, so that in the future–and it won’t take long–when all this starts again, we can provide at once a means of dealing with the crisis of a media gone mad, a public tipped over into confusion, and a world on the verge of allowing another Holocaust to happen.

Norman

Terrorists masquerading as doctors in a hospital? Geez, isn’t that something right out of “The Dark Knight”???

If I were the Israeli Military Command, I would go in hiding. Killing civilians in a concentration camp is a war crime. I used the wrong word. It was not war; it was genocide.

wbefore the Hague First, however, I might make a contribution to the Chelser Chronicles.