Reply #172: So, in order to understand, you say, we must be compelled to listen to [View All]

[MADem]

"Kill the Jews, Kill ALL the Jews" around the clock? Come on.

And to respond to my assertiions by accusing me of spouting right-wing, Republican, war-mongering talking points is pretty low, it's probably not in accordance with the rules here, and suggests you've lost the bubble. It's first, a cheap shot, and second, it is false. Do you toss that bomb every time someone doesn't agree with you? Way to go! Heckuva job!

And then, you presume to know what I am thinking. US vs. THEM?? Give me a break. I object to hate speech on the basis that it is against our law. Is that so hard for you to comprehend? I object to any kind of discussion that advocates death to an entire group of people, be it Jews, Mexicans, gays, Sunni, Shi'a, Druze, Maronites, Catholics, mimes or computer geeks, for that matter.

You need to look at what you just wrote: Violence will not end violence. Then, check out the al-Manar programming, and tell me how airing that crap that advocates murder and violence against Jews will help the situation.

This is an old article, but instructive, as well as prescient. I've posted it elsewhere in this thread, but you need to read it. It will aid in your understanding of Hizb'Allah, since understanding is what you seek. Pay particular attention to Section III--THE SUICIDE CHANNEL: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021014fa_fact4

...Al Manar regularly airs raw footage of violence in the occupied territories, and it will break into its programming with what one Al Manar official called "patriotic music videos" to announce Palestinian attacks and applaud the killing of Israelis. When I visited the station, the videos were being produced in a basement editing room by a young man named Firas Mansour. Al Manar has modern equipment, and the day I was there Mansour, who was in charge of mixing the videos, was working on a Windows-based editing suite. Mansour is in his late twenties, and he was dressed in hip-hop style. His hair was gelled, and he wore a gold chain, a heavy silver bracelet, and a goatee. He spoke colloquial American English. I asked him where he learned it. "Boston," he said.

Mansour showed me some recent footage from the West Bank, of Israeli soldiers firing on Palestinians. Accompanying the video was a Hezbollah fighting song. "What I'm doing is synchronizing the gunshots to form the downbeat of the song," he told me. "This is my technique. I thought of it." He had come up with a title: "I'm going to call it 'Death to Israel.' " Mansour said that he can produce two or three videos on a good day. "What I do is, first, I try to feel the music. Then I find the pictures to go along with it." He pulled up another video, this one almost ready to air. "Try and see if you could figure out the theme of this one," he said.

The video began with Israeli soldiers firing on Palestinians. Then the screen filled with pictures of Palestinians carrying the wounded to ambulances, followed by an angry funeral scene. Suddenly, the scene shifted to Israelis under fire. An Israeli soldier was on the ground, rocking back and forth, next to a burning jeep; this was followed by scenes of Jewish funerals, with coffins draped in the Israeli flag being lowered into graves.

Mansour pressed a button, and the images disappeared from the screen. "The idea is that even if the Jews are killing us we can still kill them. That we derive our power from blood. It's saying, 'Get ready to blow yourselves up, because this is the only way to liberate Palestine.' '' The video, he said, would be shown after the next attack in Israel. He said he was thinking of calling it "We Will Kill All the Jews." I suggested that these videos would encourage the recruitment of suicide bombers among the Palestinians. "Exactly," he replied....