Pericles,

Thats a really ugly thing to say. Would you be happier if more jewish kids were dying? Do you need to see pictures of the absolute destruction a suicide bomber wreaks when they detonate inside a bus or a restaurant?

It is an undeniable fact that more Palestinians are dying that Israelis. If Hamas and the other terror organisations were better armed there would be far more Israeli casualties. I don't believe you can say the same for the Israelis. In fact if Israel had better technology I believe fewer civilians would be victims of attacks on terror targets.

Rockets regularly fall on Israeli towns fired from the gaza strip. They could do a great deal of damage but they are mostly jury-rigged and therefore not very accurate.

When Hamas and the other headhackers can accept that Israel has a right to exist, there can be real peace. Until then all Israel can do is try a kill the terrorists before they make it onto Israel proper.

If these gutless bastards weren't using their children as human shields there'd be fewer casualties. Like the kids who were playing at the site of a rocket launcher.

That's a little extreme, Paul.L

>>Thats a really ugly thing to say. Would you be happier if more jewish kids were dying?<<

If you interpreted my post as advocating the killing of Jewish children, all I can say is that it reflects very badly on your understanding of the English language.

If you deliberately chose to do so, on the other hand, it simply demonstrates exceptionally poor taste.

The point I was attempting to make - obviously rather poorly, given your comment - was that the digging up, in 2008, of an event that occurred in 2000, gives rise to the question, why? Or as I asked, what is the point that is being made here.

Using an eight-year-old event to stir up hatred all over again is, in my view, a little extreme. As can be seen from the posts that followed, there are plenty of folks here only too willing to use any and every opportunity to flaunt their anti-Islamic fear and loathing.

There is also absolutely nothing in the tragedy of Israel and Palestine that justifies the scoring of cheap points.

Missing the point. The point is that hatred was stirred up by the misrepresentation (mild term) of this event. In the name of this event, many hateful acts of terrorism were perpetrated and innocent lives lost...on both sides. If you don't think that the truth of the matter deserves to be told, and that the media be held accountable for its reporting then perhaps, yes...it would be better to just sweep it all under the carpet. But who will be held accountable for the lies and distortions, the propaganda parading as truth...? if not the media? Like it or not, there is a Palestinian propaganda machine, they do orchestrate happenings specifically for the media to record...to show Israel in the worst possible light to the world. See it for yourself, the information is readily available.

feisty, the point I'm trying to get across is not to deny that...

>>hatred was stirred up by the misrepresentation (mild term) of this event. In the name of this event, many hateful acts of terrorism were perpetrated and innocent lives lost...on both sides.<<

We all know that.

But this issue has now been in the public eye for eight years. Doubts over the validity of the material, and the concerns with the way it was presented, have been in the news for only a slightly shorter time.

I have no doubt in my mind that the item was a blatant piece of propaganda. I am aware that many people lost their lives. I can understand that the media should be held accountable for the mindless dissemination of this material.

My point, which I will be happy to repeat as many times as is necessary to get across, is that the regurgitation of this ancient piece of skullduggery at this time - eight years, I say again, after the event - can serve no useful purpose.

Instead, it will serve only to fan the flames of fear and loathing that have become such a regular feature of these threads.

Not to worry, Pericles, some people are not experiencing trouble understanding what you are saying. They even agree with you. (Well this one does, anyway). There has to be some point to what otherwise appears to be a random selection from an entire cornucopia of mis-deeds that have occurred in, for example, the last two years - let alone incidents which took place eight years ago? Yeah?

Unless this particular set-up has graduated to urban myth which is proving tenacious. Allowing it to continue perhaps into the next "decade unchecked would see it's metamorphosis into"fact".

Which seems to be happening in the case of the bogus Lhasa photo's. As soon as the first of those (The police laying into the monks)hit the new stands indignant howls went up from the majority of citizens in the world (which included the entire populations of China and India. )Because anyone who doesn't think "they all look the same" could immediately tell the racial characteristics of the police were of an entirely different ethnicity to the Chinese. While most of S.E. Asia can tell an Indian police uniform from a Chinese police uniform.

Same with the "Army Van" with the strange squiggles on it hustling innocent protesters off to the "re-education camps". To every Chinese reader in the world, the unregarded squiggles clearly spelled out the word "Ambulance". Not to mention that the "husslees" were a random assortment of police and civillians.

Even though France, Italy, America and the UK newspapers all admitted publicly to all the bogus photo's, and duly apologised (Again, quite publicly, many people in the West are still indignant about the "brutality of the soldiers to peaceful monks".

That only happened within the last couple of months, not eight years ago. That'd be as good a thing to make a fuss of as anything else at this time, perhaps?

That was just a bit smug of you Pericles, your remark about trading one life for another is weak and low.
That story was headline news 2 days ago as a result of that court case, it highlighted lies that are as common as ak47,s in that part of the world and used for the same purpose.
It is true that sections of Muslim fundamentalists believe their holy book requires them to lie to non Muslims.
The event was shameful it remains an act that shames those who did it and those who defend it.
Yes BOAZ DAVID is one tracked in his war on this religion but many truly are concerned and have every right to be, by such hate, so many lies.
Would your barbed words be used if it was highlighting an American lie?