Comments on: Appropos of media bias…. http://www.yourish.com/2005/12/28/513 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: oceanguy http://www.yourish.com/2005/12/28/513/comment-page-1#comment-1629 oceanguy Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:02:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=513#comment-1629 Israeli Jets flying over Beirut are meant to make a statement... perhaps the biggest statement is THEY ARE JUST FLYING OVER! They aren't dropping bombs, they aren't killing and injuring people. The jets are screaming over all right... And they're screaming, "LEAVE US ALONE!" Israeli Jets flying over Beirut are meant to make a statement… perhaps the biggest statement is THEY ARE JUST FLYING OVER! They aren’t dropping bombs, they aren’t killing and injuring people. The jets are screaming over all right…

And they’re screaming, “LEAVE US ALONE!”

]]> By: Amanda http://www.yourish.com/2005/12/28/513/comment-page-1#comment-1612 Amanda Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:41:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=513#comment-1612 As an American who lives in Beirut I can say from experience that Israeli jets are freakin' SCARY. So, I argue that there is a difference between some rockets shot FROM LAND and dropping into a village and rockets being shot FROM A SCARY FREAKIN' WAR JET. ISRAELI AIR RAIDS are the only time i've been scared here in lebanon. the earth shakes, the building shakes, my baby cries, i scream. so, try to put it into perspective of comparing *on the ground* the two situations. of course rockets landing anywhere is frightening and disconcerting, but here in lebanon israel doesn't just bite, israel snarls and foams and barks and carries on. i speak from experience. and, BTW, i am not political. this whole issue between israelis and arabs is not my bailiwick. i'm just giving you some info as one who has experienced israel's jets. AND, i completely disagree about the one-sided bias. i see bias in the press toward both camps. As an American who lives in Beirut I can say from experience that Israeli jets are freakin’ SCARY. So, I argue that there is a difference between some rockets shot FROM LAND and dropping into a village and rockets being shot FROM A SCARY FREAKIN’ WAR JET.

ISRAELI AIR RAIDS are the only time i’ve been scared here in lebanon. the earth shakes, the building shakes, my baby cries, i scream.

so, try to put it into perspective of comparing *on the ground* the two situations. of course rockets landing anywhere is frightening and disconcerting, but here in lebanon israel doesn’t just bite, israel snarls and foams and barks and carries on. i speak from experience.

and, BTW, i am not political. this whole issue between israelis and arabs is not my bailiwick. i’m just giving you some info as one who has experienced israel’s jets.

AND, i completely disagree about the one-sided bias. i see bias in the press toward both camps.

]]> By: oceanguy http://www.yourish.com/2005/12/28/513/comment-page-1#comment-1592 oceanguy Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:13:16 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=513#comment-1592 Just a minor geographical note which puts the "blasted a Palestinian militant group’s base a few miles outside the Lebanese capital Beirut" comment into perspective... Relatively speaking, Haifa is just a few miles outside Beirut. Just a minor geographical note which puts the “blasted a Palestinian militant group’s base a few miles outside the Lebanese capital Beirut” comment into perspective… Relatively speaking, Haifa is just a few miles outside Beirut.

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