That suicide bomber footage from last week is causing the excpected furor -- but in a perhaps unexpected place: Israel. From The Washington Post:
The decision to put the graphic five minute and 38-second video on the Israeli Foreign Ministry Web site just hours after Thursday's explosion, which killed 11 people and the bomber, has unleashed an emotional public debate in a nation weary of a conflict that has turned Israeli buses, cafes and public streets into targets and frustrated by political leadership on both sides that has not ended the violence.
Foreign ministry official Meir said the agency's Web site had received 600,000 hits on the video as of Sunday night. On Thursday, the day of the bombing, the site temporarily collapsed under the volume of attempts to view the footage, which carried the understated warning – "Caution: Video contains very graphic footage."
According to Meir, the government decided to air the footage because of a pending case before the U.N.'s International Court of Justice in The Hague over the legal aspects of the massive complex of walls, fences and trenches that Israel is building around and though the West Bank. The Israeli government describes the project as a "security fence" that is needed to prevent suicide attacks such as Thursday's bus bombing.
No word on whether it's had the intended effect at the UN, other than maybe some cheers from the usual anti-Semites.
Stephen, read this:
What anti-Israel bias?
The so-called outrage is from an Israel-hating group. This alleged straight news article article is bias of the worst kind.
I'm going to post that video on my own site tonight. The Isreali government cannot prevail inf the fight against terrorism until the basic culture of the Arabs around them changes, which will take eons, if it ever happens at all. I agree with their posting of the video.
If I were Isreal, I would be working on space colonization. Expand outward and leave the bad memories behind. Instead of working on the pipe dream of peace, work on another pipe dream that has more potential.