There's no way to fully describe in words what it feels like to be on the receiving end of an Israeli offensive.
But today's multi-media world gives us a chance to see an Israeli attack from both sides.
As part of its PR campaign, the Israeli military has launched a YouTube channel where it is posting video clips of its air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Below is the most recent one showing a massive hit on a government complex in Gaza.
While I can't be certain, I am pretty confident that the video below from Al Jazeera English is a shot of the same strike taken from a cameraman living nearby.
The two videos give you an interesting contrast in what it's like to be on both sides of a massive strike like this.
Here's another prize from the IDF YouTube video collection. The IDF touted it as an example of their brilliant surgical strike capabilities, of the IDF blowing up a Hamas pickup along with Hamas 'terrorists' that were readying missiles to strike the colonists in Sdreot aka the Palestinian village of Najd. I saw it run seveal times on both CNN Int'l and BBC World.
Well, the ter'rist turned out to be teenagers loading gas cylinders.
http://tinyurl.com/8mmlhm
Go, IDF. Go Tzipi. Go Olmert (wasn't he accused of thievery by the Israel Judicial System? What happened to that?)
Posted by: kassandra | January 01, 2009 at 06:48 PM
Al Jazeera had this to say about that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYkrGIFnvI
Posted by: Laura | January 01, 2009 at 09:23 PM
I saw the footage today of a medic being deliberately targeted as he was trying to retrieve a dead body. Snipers of Israel are the terrorists. They shoot children and babies! So you brag you that you at least don't rape the women... oh, that makes all the difference, doesn't it! Today, Israel finally admitted that there were no rockets being fired from the UN school; of course, like all other crimes and murders they've committed, the Palestinians will never see compensation. Well, at least let them eat dates!
Posted by: Morgan | January 08, 2009 at 08:45 PM