Rakhel
Well-Known Member
I will be honest, my level of understanding was nil up to about a few years ago as to the Israel/Palestinian conflict.(Christian upbringing, so to speak). My first inclination as to what was going on in the region was "Death in Gaza."I have no problem accepting that IfAmericansKnew might have their own agenda and hence might be somewhat biased in their reporting from time to time. But I wouldn't be surprised at all that entities such as New York Times and Guardian would be criticizing them given IfAmericansKnew is working on criticizing those medias for not being fair. Also, you have to take into account that media monitoring orgs such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting actually praise their reporting. So you can't simply brush it off as anti-semitic.
Furthermore, the reason I would watch that video to get some information from there is because it shows people mostly non-arabs and including Jews and Christians who should not have any reason/interest to take the side of the palestinians over the Israelis except to bring the facts out - even if they end up exaggerating a bit. Mostly, what they show is the plight of the palestinians which is not shown in the mainstream media. So if you can point to a specific thing(i.e. palestinians homes being bulldozed, more and more lands being taken away by settlers etc.) that they show which is not true, I will be more than wiling to investigate that further.
But since reading articles and watching videos and podcasts, I have learned, not as much as I would were I there, but enough to know that not everything is as it seems.
Sure, land is being built on for Israelis to live, but it is also being taken away just as fast. Sure, Palestinian homes are being bulldozed, but so are Israeli homes. I have seen pictures and videos of Gaza prospering, at the same time the media is saying it's not. And I have heard of the deaths of Palestinians about as quick as I have heard of the deaths of Israelis.