frontline doc on paletinian situation

Micheal Ellis onyxmirr at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 5 14:21:48 PST 2002



>i apologize for passing this on...i thought it was going to
>be good...the only interesting thing was that it showed
>that the palestinian militants are getting their weapons
>from the isreali military through 3rd party intermediarys
>(drug dealers etc.).
>
>Drug dealers? Why do all people who sell guns for money have to be drug
>dealers? What? They got an illegal network of Viagra labs in Tel Aviv?
>
>Did they mention much about the treatment of the Palestinians in the
>beginning of the Intifada? Water? Boys being taunted by soldiers in tanks
>and shot?

no nothing like that.....nothing really about the context of it. it was just mostly film crews following around the isreali patrols and then an interview with the guy that makes the "suicide" bombs and the anti tank mines. you know, the crew had to be hooded etc. etc.

the only really "controversial" parts were about the american apache helicopters flying "sorties" (the pilots are only given coordinates and know nothing about the target etc. except like it's a blue car or something)


>
>>Did they call the Palestinians terrorists or refer to the suicide
>>bombings as acts of terror? Just curious.

no not at all....all the content was provided by interviews with israeli millitary leaders and al aqsa jihad and hamas leaders. the producers of the show were from the BBC so it's about what one would expect if one weren't informed about the situation and saw it it would just look like people fighting except the isrealis have better weapons. no footage of palestinian kids throwing rocks etc.

~M.E.



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