Israel is shaking up the information war
… signaling the end of legacy media’s influence. The big Internet story this week is Israel’s magnificent end run around the mainstream media. The IDF’s new weapons of war: YouTube and Twitter. According to the head of the IDF’s press team: “The blogosphere and new media are another war zone, we have to be relevant there.”
Footage we’ll NEVER see on the MSM. I hope the IDF keeps it up – the video postings, that is – and that the word gets out, which it most certainly will with continuing coverage on this site.
Excellent video, never to be seen on CBC/CTV. The internet makes hiding so much harder for terrorists. May freedom reign, with the help of blogs like SDA’s!
The Power Of The Pen – replaced by electrons ! At the speed of light.
No dead trees. No ink.
Video SAYS IT ALL!
Wow that is a totally comprehensive summary. I don’t think it could be better. Now if only people will listen…
I wish this clip could be fwd to everyone and any blog available. I echo James comment. Wow
If I thought the CBC could be shamed into showing it I’d put in the effort there.
My hope is enough LPC and NDP voters will be shamed into realizing what their respective parties represent.
Tks for posting this clip
When I sent it to Kate I pointed it out that clearly one could argue that it is a propaganda piece. Hell, one could also argue that all of my postings are propaganda pieces … for Israel.
Where the facts lie, that’s what I’m interested about. I would love to see our “friends” on the Left point out where there are errors in what the video is saying. Perhaps there are some, but I haven’t heard of any yet … and I’ve been watching for them!
6 month after bush was elected on 2001
sep 11 was started and cheney was disappear for awhile
hit was
Iraq and afganstan and pakstan and india
in second elction in jan 2005
6 month after
in summer of 2005 isreali moved out of gaza
to hit in june 2006 for hebelozah in lbeban
and later dec 19, 2008 for hamas for plestina and basicaly
second round of election
was hamas( paletin) and hezbolah( lebanan) and
isreal and iran to got finished their war there
teh prolbmes was used civilan to made conspriracy made cheny to under cia for criminal actiives under question
no evidence so far proof from isreali to say when whre and who hit first from hamas
the same as nobody know detail of sep 11 attack
and the same as nobody know june 2006 and destroy all cities in lebanan done with how to hit two isrelai soludre
all was blames was conpiracy of cheney with iseali nothing else
wake up jewish people
use jewish tax and money to help each otehre and get indepenct from USA soon and all wars
teh data above is not correst since all was slander with no detail of how or who start no evidnece attached only slander filme no eviedne
Just to demo Hamas’s idea of a cease fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rocket_and_mortar_attacks_in_Israel_in_2008
I watched some of the videos, those who support Israel don’t need them, and those who don’t won’t believe them.
And, I’m willing to bet, the CBC won’t play them.
Somebody in the IDF is THINKING for a change! I LIKE IT! Byt George, I was saying they needed to do this the other day, and here they went and done it. Awesome.
Canadian Forces needs to do this. The only way to combat MSM lies is truth, and lots of it. Helmet-cam footage from the action, with Google maps and after-action TESTIMONY from the guys who were there.
Hell yes. Take that, New York Times.
Excellent video, sent the link to several of my contacts.Thanks
Ultimately radical Islam is the new Nazism, complete with the “Sieg Heils” and the cult of leader personalities. This movement will push and push, and will in all likelihood overthrow the Western democracies (including Israel), but then it’ll run into the Russia-India-China Axis, and the result will be a World War III that will see the Islamic world utterly destroyed, and the ME possibly de-Islamified after the real genocide against Muslim populations that share borders with the three. Nuclear weapons may be end up being used, probably by an Islamic nation at first, but ultimately overwhelmingly by the Big Three.
This si the trajectory we are on. There is no possibility of appeasing radical Islam. Like Nazism, it has to be utterly destroyed, possibly by state actors against ANY state that enables it. History is a cruel master…
Forget CBC and MSM. Make sure this video is available to to the teachers in our school systems, especially educators who teach about current events in the world. Perhaps they might find this video useful.
Lyta, you have no idea whatsoever how liberalized, socialized & sodomized our Canadian educational establishments have become.
Teacher unions fight nail & claw to prevent such points of view from ever appearing in classrooms.
In an information war, the truth will eventually come out. How can anyone be supportive of Hamas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOIaG2kA5bY&eurl=http://occidentalsoapbox.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded
Lyta and Alienated
Show it and everything else directly to your kids and have open discussions. I have noticed that my 9 year old can form very valid opinions if the information is conveyed to her in a manner she can understand and interpret. IMO our kids need their parents to give them the tools necessary to think rationally and for themselves. Without these tools they will become victims of a disingenuous ideology that is being beat into them daily. Not every kid is going to be able to challenge their teacher intellectually in school, it is not a fair debate, but at a minimum they must understand that everyone has a belly button and an opinion, and they are just that, opinions. These opinions are no more important or valid than theirs or anyone elses. Just because someone is more articulate or able to argue doesn’t mean they are right!
Right on, Alienated. The public school systems are gulags. Go one inch out of lock step and watch out: re-education, fines, relocation, demotion, even loss of job. It’s a scandal.
Now, on whose side is the union? You’ve got it: on the side of the leftist boards. They all “think” alike.
(Most teachers are “soft left”, e.g., just go with the flow. There’s not a lot of interest or intellect there. Sad. For those who don’t go with the lefty flow, there are ways to be subversive without having one’s head blown off.)
The Dirty War of Hamas
Watch this new video and you will see precisely what Israel is up against. They’re doomed if they don’t fight back and damned [by many] if they do.
Right on, Alienated. The public school systems are gulags. Go one inch out of lock step and watch out: re-education, fines, relocation, demotion, even loss of job. It’s a scandal.
Now, on whose side is the union? You’ve got it: on the side of the leftist boards. They all “think” alike.
(Most teachers are “soft left”, e.g., just go with the flow. There’s not a lot of interest or intellect there. Sad. For those who don’t go with the lefty flow, there are ways to be subversive without having one’s head blown off.)
Very sorry for the double post. The window stayed open after the original post–??
I was right with Indiana Homez until he (?) wrote, “. . . they [kids] must understand that everyone has a belly button and an opinion, and they are just that, opinions. These opinions are no more important or valid than theirs or anyone elses [sic]”. Come again? That’s moral relativism and it’s not true.
E.g., If one says that Obama can solve all our problems and another person says that this is a fallacy, Indiana Homez seems to be teaching his kid that both “opinions” are valid. No, they aren’t: one opinion is based on FACT and the other on magic thinking.
Indiana Homez, why would you bother, in this case, trying to acquaint your nine year old with “the [IDF] information”—it must have some validity if you’re willing to use it to counter the lefty propaganda—if you then tell this child that any conflicting or contradictory “information” is “no more important or valid than theirs or anyone elses”. I’m stumped by your (il)logic here.
I’ve taught my kids that there is such a thing as truth and that one doesn’t have to mindlessly go along with the fairy tales of the elites. My kids have seen me take many stands against the Zeitgeist, get knocked down—and stand back up—and admire me for it because they know that some things are true and other things are not.
Perhaps you didn’t mean to, Indiana Homez, but what you said is moral relativism, pure and simple. And it’s one of the major lies in the arsenal of the loony left.
lookout
an opinion is an opinion, t’is neither rite nor is it wrong, any opinion that is. But an opinion can be supported by fact or fallacy, there in lies the difference. So, yes IH was rite in his assertion that all opinions are equal, as they pertain only to the “opinion holder” and nothing else
LOOKOUT
Once again my inability to articulate my thoughts has bitten me in the arse. What I was trying to say is it is important for (my) kids to understand that just because their teacher says something, it doesn’t mean it is true. It is often an opinion that MAY be based on false or true information; therefore, it is imperative to see the evidence for yourself, then form your own opinion based on facts regardless of what a teacher or father’s opinion is. After all it is an opinion. I believe that most leftists are intellectually lazy so they do believe what they spew. I also believe that at the top of the leftist think tanks the people are disingenuous, and see misinformation as a means to an end. These are the people I truly worry about, and are those I seek to protect my kids from. The parrots teaching at the schools don’t worry me too much because they are(generally) at the bottom of the intellectual ladder and no match for my kid’s critical thinking prowess After all, that is why they are teachers, they chose the path of least resistance.
Facts are facts, I agree, but how someone interprets those facts is opinion.
“These opinions are no more important or valid than theirs or anyone else’s [sic]”. Come again? That’s moral relativism and it’s not true. ”
You are right, this line is wrong.
I just wanted to express that if a student has a different view on an issue than the teacher, that doesn’t mean that the teacher is right and they are wrong. Teachers are in a position of authority and that authority can be misconstrued as infallibility in the eyes of some. For example, my older daughter was indoctrinated about AGW at school. It was very difficult for me to explain to her that there are different views on this issue(or lack there of). I had to go to third party resources to show her that I wasn’t some odd ball loon who didn’t agree with “settled science”, but that there is no such thing as settled science. I personally don’t believe in AGW but I could be wrong, I have formed an opinion based on my interpretation of the facts that I’ve seen. Is my opinion better? Probably, but I wouldn’t want anyone to take my position just because it’s my position.
Hamas has been firing missiles at Israel for years, this is fact. Israel is retaliating to these attacks, this is also fact. Israel has a right to defend itself regardless of who is attacking it, this is opinion. Israel brings this on itself, this is opinion.
Are we on the same page yet?
Geez GYM
You said in two lines what I struggled to say in fifteen lines.
Indiana Homez, your post to me @ 5:00 is VERY MUCH on the page I’m on (A+!). . . except that I do believe some opinions are valid and others aren’t!
E.g., I had a chat on the street with a very nicely dressed young black man today who sold me a booklet about “Black History”. We talked about a lot of things and I was very frank with him. Among other things, I expressed the opinion—true, I believe—that Canada is quite a free and democratic country BECAUSE my British ancestors brought a culture that made it so, which is now generally ignored in schools, unlike Black History Month.
When he expressed that he disagreed with the idea that Canada was free or democratic, I asked if he’d really like to still be in Africa. He said he wouldn’t mind that. I was incredulous. “You’d like to live in Nigeria, Sudan or Zimbabwe?” I asked. He said he wouldn’t mind. I left it at that, realizing that I wasn’t really dealing with someone whose opinion on this was credible. I believe that my understanding of the British in Canada— responsible government, etc.—qualifies me to say that my opinion IS credible.
If we’re talking feelings only—a typical lefty thing—who’s to say whose opinion is more valid. If we’re talking facts, I think it’s a different matter: one person can be RIGHT and the other WRONG! (A propos of this: for the last years of my teaching career, I kept many of the facts I know and many opinions strictly to myself. Except for the actual teaching and interaction with my students, which I loved and was very good at, I was definitely a fish out of water.)
Lookout, we are neither ‘free’ or ‘democratic’ by normal definition. Read the BNAct, AND the
constitution. ALL rights are reserved to the Crown.
Technically we have ‘priviledge’, as it can be withdrawn at the whim of the Crown. A long history of British Common Law supports ‘Freedoms’, but Trudeau trumped them by updating the BNAct and hiring a bunch of Trotskyite lawyers to write our constitution.
Add in the fact that Liberals have filled the Courts with judges with no interest in ordinary Canadians have any freedoms not sanctioned by the courts, and we see a direct course towards Human Wrongs Commissions and the segregation of our society into groups that HAVE the privilege to abuse and slander others, and groups that don’t have those privileges.
As for democracy, the minute we allowed the delegating of our voice to others, within arbitrary boundaries, as in MP’s and MLA’s, we are not within the actual definition of democracy.
Going back to the Greeks, (loosely, I don’t pretend to speak for a bunch of dead people),
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Social and political equality and respect for the individual within the community.
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As long as you are comfortable with omitting slaves, women and furriners, you might settle for that.
Modern definitions are getting further and further away from any pretending that it is ‘Of the People, By the People, For the People’.
For a little re-education, find a copy of Collins Cobuild ‘English Dictionary for Advanced Learners’ ISBN 0-00-710201-1 (paperback) The definition will appall you. Actually, open this tome almost at random, and you’ll be appalled.
It does explain where journalism students get their concepts from though.
lookout
Your chat reminds me of my favorite quote.
“A wise man told me don’t argue with fools; cause people at a distance can’t tell who is who”Jay-Z
I haven’t gone wrong trying to following this rule. Sometimes someone will say something that is so ridiculous a person knows not to bother.
Ian Vaughan, re “we [as Canadians] are neither ‘free’ or ‘democratic’ by normal definition”, I’d agree with you: I altogether concur with your paragraphs two and three.
However, when one contrasts Canadians’ pre-Charter “rights”, those very rights which were conferred on the forebears of the young black man to whom I spoke, with the “rights” of tribal Africa—which I was doing—I believe the “rights” of present day Canadians, as compromised as they are, would come out ahead.
And now TODAY – They march in our streets, calling for the destruction of a peoples and their nation!!!
What the hell is wrong with Canadians to think that you could allow this insanity (seen around the globe) into our home and not think we would be next??????????
What did France not do differently, or Belgium or Sweden or the UK? Not enough welfare or not enough submission! This needs to end and end soon.