Grendel,

Australia, America, UK, Russia, China, Israel, EVERYONE, has soldiers who don't wear uniforms to war.

Like abu linked, Israel dresses up in Hamas uniforms.

It's very common.

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Sadly Abu - the average person and those in high places don't care about the mess inside Palestine or the real numbers dead.  The media - as far as I know has never been able to get anywhere near the Gaza strip after a massacre.

What they don't know they make up - or have been fed untruths from Israel which is passed from one international newspaper to another.


For example, we found that in 2004, at a time when 8 Israeli children and 176 Palestinian children were killed – a ratio of 1 to 22 – Times headlines and lead paragraphs reported on Israeli children’s deaths at a rate almost seven times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths.

A one-month sub-study indicated that this disparity grew even larger when the entire article was analyzed, with Israeli children’s deaths mentioned (through repetitions of deaths reported on previous days) at a rate ten times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths.

Times coverage of deaths of all ages, while less dramatically skewed, showed similar distortion. In the first year of the current Palestinian uprising, which began in fall of 2000, we discovered that the Times reported prominently on 42 percent of Palestinian deaths, and on 119 percent of Israeli deaths (follow-up headline articles, we find, frequently push coverage of Israeli deaths over 100 percent). In other words, the Times reported Israeli deaths at a rate approximately three times greater than Palestinian deaths.

During this period over three times more Palestinians were being killed than Israelis.

Overall, we found that in every single category Times coverage reported Israeli deaths at rates three or more times greater than Palestinian deaths.

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir04252005.html

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That's true Mantra, but still they don't want to make the same mistake they made in Lebanon, of allowing world public opinion of their actions to sour. That's why they've been very pro-active in 'feeding' the media and preventing bad press from getting out.

Grendel wrote on Jan 10^th, 2009 at 9:05pm:


Yes, standard troops will wear standard.

Non standard will wear non standard.

Start making sense and stop talking uninformed.

There are many perspectives to look at when considering why the Israeli's wouldn't allow media in. A few quick ones are:

1. They are psycho murderers.

2. They don't want media getting killed.

3. They don't want to allow for the possibility of foreign fighters or human shields entering under the guise of media.

4. They are aware that much of the world media who arrives will possibly be against their cause, whether through honesty or propaganda, and they don't need enemy psy ops demoralising their troops and their support base.

5. They are covering up atrocities. See point 1.

Grendel, you are wrong.

Special forces are well known to wear local clothing and use local weapons when on certain missions.

No further discussion will be entered in to. Feel free to talk from your uninformed perspective, but don't expect me to ever lend you any credibility ever again.

Didn't see it...  that abc link went to an article about Israelis wearing police uniforms.  oh dear.

They don't have a uniform....  they don't fight as an army or in uniform.

They wage war as a guerilla unit, not well drilled or disciplined almost as hopeless as the lebanese street wanderers who blow up their own buildings.  

They have no concern for their fellow palestinians or their children, they are beneath contempt.  Except for your of course.

Now... one last time provide images of an army uniformed fighting the enemy.