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Originally Posted by kcdusk
I was quoting the local tv station from tonight. Channel 7 for those people in australia.
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I guessed. I didn't think you were doing that baddly but I was sure that you were getting these figures from local or national press. Lately I haven't seen these guys doing their job correctly (except of course for the one getting killed or imprisoned everywhere, including the western world). Taking whatever news you can find, I would estimate something like 90% of the informations to be either false, incomplete or changed to make you believe what they want to sale you as the truth. Don't take me wrong, I don't think that the press is working for any kind of global plot, just that it works for its interest and money earning. Therefore, it sales us what we are the more ready to buy: an entirely demoniac Hamas to some and an Americano/Jewish plot to others (the people holding on the middle ground are not customers anyway). I knew before Iraq that Saddam had no mass destruction weapon left, very competent people screamed it to the world, but most of the world still bought that crap. Saddam is gone, nice, but I still find the level of casualties to be outrageous (40000 for US and somewhere between 200.000 and 1.5 Million for Iraq if you are including the ten years inerwar period: 1992-2003). In Israel, the number of rockets fired since the end of the cease fire increased quickly and that was unacceptable. However, without concern for the world I would have feared for a Palestinian Genocide, we can now hope that it should remain a limited massacre.
If I was just to give you an advice, take the press as a starting point (that is also true for wikipedia...) and go further as many informations are available on the net. Nevertheless, what I gave is also partially incomplete and a broader range of interpretation can be made out of it (the figures may not be entirely accurate as I had no time to cross reference them). As I said, I only scratched the surface of things and my second opinion might be entirely wrong (In fact, I'm sure it is at least partially wrong). I still agree with the idea that both side bear part of the guilt but I'm convinced that we could do just a little more if we were properly informed. As I said, I remain somewhat idealistic and I remain convinced that information is the key. Before, you could find it in Cafés and Bars, now internet is helping on that matter.