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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I think you might have.
Israel is the "good guy" here, right? They have democracy, they are just defending themselves, they aren't doing anything wrong bla bla bla.
So, why ban journalists? What do they have to hide? Maybe nothing. Maybe something.
I don't buy this "they don't want them to get hurt" business either. They are firing missiles into densely packed refugee camps so it comes across as slightly disingenuous to play the "fear of casualties" card on this issue.
And just because we know one side (Hamas) is bad doesn't mean the other side is doing good. It's reasonable to be suspicious of both of the, IMO.
As for the afterlife stuff, don't they all believe in the afterlife over there? I mean on both sides?
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In this issue, Israel certainly is the so called good guy. How many rockets does a sovereign nation have to take before they respond? There is no debate here, Hamas was firing rockets.
Who said anyone is banning journalists? The area is locked down, journalists don't have a right to walk past soldiers who are hunting down terrorists while airstrikes are taking place. This is not a complex issue. Israel might be one of the most open societies in the world. Do you think for a second a so called pro Israel news team would survive a second in the Gaza strip even during the best of times? In fact I doubt a Jew can walk in the majority of middle eastern cities without having the hide the fact they are Jewish. And now we are debating why Israel would ban the media (let alone anyone else period)?
Religiously, Judaism has no afterlife. Your life here is all you get. There is some orthodox though that believe at some point the dead will rise again, but they are in the vast minority and are not in the military (typically). On the other hand, the world of Islam is based on the afterlife.