Sunday 3 June 2012

Why Israel Should Not Return To The 1967 Borders (video)

This is a splendid video, very worth watching. Indeed, it should be viewed by all inclined to demonise Israel, for as one tour guide says on camera "This is not what the western press wishes to depict".

Introduced by Tom Trento, the video features footage of two security checkpoints (Ramallah and TulKarm) and brief interviews with the IDF officers on duty at each.

The video shows how, in order to protect its population from terrorist violence, including sniper fire onto cars on a highway,  it is "a country fenced in".

In the words of interviewee Marc Kahlberg, who took part in the disengagement from Gaza that was undertaken in the vain expectation of peace,
"Anyone who says we need to go back to the 1967 border is making a strategical mistake".


Hat tip: reader Shirlee
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6 comments:

  1. Shirl in Oz3 June 2012 at 16:49

    I was in Sderot in March, and was taken on a personal tour, reserved for visiting foreign journalists, by the Director of the Sderot Media Centre.

    I’ll tell you it’s very confronting never to be more than 15 seconds from a bomb shelter.

    I looked into a school playground & saw a basket ball court with bomb shelters around the sides.

    I went to a children’s playground to see a bomb-shelter in the shape, & painted to look like a caterpillar, so that the little ones aren’t scared. Even the bus stops are bomb shelters

    I was taken to a police station where some of the thousands of rockets are displayed.

    It’s amazing how bomb shelters have been built on to the side of apartment buildings
    and schools, because people 2 and 3 floors up cannot get to a bomb shelter within 15 seconds.

    I really admire the guts these people. I don’t know if I could do it, but to leave would show them they have won.

    I spent the entire day wondering when a rocket was coming

    I’ve sent ‘Daphne’ some photos which she may like to post

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    1. Daphne Anson3 June 2012 at 22:08

      Thanks for the photos, Shirlee. I'll have a look through and save for a separate future post...

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  2. Rita4 June 2012 at 10:51

    Daphne, is there a second part to this video? It seems to cut off apruptly. It is technically imperfect, but just because of that it is even more striking and very poignant.

    It should be obligatory viewing for the demonisers of Israel, but they would probably still continue their false propaganda. For those, however, with a minimum of openess who might not know a lot about the plight of Israel, it should be, perhaps, edited down a little - with the attentionspan of today's internet population, 15 minutes might be discourageing them. Just a thought.

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  3. Shirl in Oz4 June 2012 at 22:57

    Who knows? It's taken from an American TV programme.

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  4. Shirl in Oz4 June 2012 at 23:07

    The video came from here

    https://www.facebook.com/theunitedwest

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