That's a strawman argument and shallow, since it can practicely be used everywhere in any country. Did my country keep out reporters? No. Did the USA? No.
Truly, massive losses of lives happened because of that! Whole troop divisions were led into ambushes! 
Excuses. Shallow excuses everywhere.
Wha... I'm at a total loss for words. How can you go from arguing about how the only people who will speak up from Gaza are the ones who will speak up against Israel under threat of death by the Hamas to keeping out reporters?
Keeping the news people out is done neither for their security nor the security of the troops.
I was under no illusion that it was done for the protection of the news crews but it was for the protection of the troops. Even Hizbollah after the 2nd Lebanon wars said that they were aided by being shown by the 'western pigs own technology' where to strike. So we have me who took part in the 2nd Lebanon war who saw this in practice from the Israeli side where there was far to much shown on TV AND Hizbollah claims that they were aided by what was given out on the news. And then we have you whose only basis for claiming that they weren't aided by what was reported on TV is that you don't want it to be true.
So what sensitive troop movement did they leak? Don't recall ever hearing anything about that.
Not to mention that unless the camera is showing battleplans with coordinates that is totally useless. The news could give so little information of any military value that it's simply preposterous. It's not like they give the the numbers, armament and future troop deployment in detail.
Interesting. okay so first It doesn't even have to be "sensitive" information. All it has to be is in real time and it gives out enough to know where the troops are and what direction they are heading. And they don't even have to say where they are I identified half the backdrops for the newscasters from satellite photos imagine how many locations Hizbollah could identify since it was their 'playground'. I love how you think terrorists are so dumb. I wish it were the case. And claiming that all other information would have been useless you either A. Never been in the military B. you have but because you are in Europe, IIRC, you have had no wars and therefore no need to learn first hand what it is to fight in a modern combat zone. and thank God for that... Believe it or not I envy you in that respect.
Second I was doing a search to try and find some links for you but every time it was mentioned that "a lot of official information was available in real time." It was overshadowed by the rest of the article talking about how "DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon."
No wonder Israelis can't stand the UN haha. Here's
the article although I saw it was published in many different places.
Did I say they were Israeli convoys? Humanitarian aid for Gaza comes from all over the world.
No, but I did. I am telling you that they are Israeli convoys and that every single day there are Israeli trucks with Israeli supplies paid for by the Israeli government at the border. What do you think they are doing there? Trying to taunt the Palestinians? by loading the trucks driving cross country to the border crossing and then getting turned back by their own troops? get real. There is a reason there is a blockade on the strip. Because in foreign 'aid' packages they like to throw in a few grenades and missile launchers and searching the boat will not always find those weapons which is why Israel sends aid itself because it knows there are no hidden surprises that will come back and bite them in the ass. If they want to bite the hand that feeds them thats their tough luck.
Would you believe me if I told you I did visit recently? No? Thought so...
Sure why not? I would believe it because a person of your views would surely want to record his journy so you can just show me some pictures or your little blog posts. I would believe it. But because of what you say and how you say it I know you haven't unless you were blindfolded the whole way in or you are just lying to my face.
Oh yes. Trucks with humanitarian aid butchered to no end. It us so terrible no one wants to drive there anymore! The horror!
CLEARLY the only logical action is to stop aid delivery cause some if might end up in the hands of Hamas. Golly gee, Hamas would never give it to the people! They never do anything for the people!
First of all the trucks haven't stopped they just turn around when they are shot at. Secondly if that doesn't bug you I would like to extended you the position of aid truck driver and see what you do when they decide that they want to shoot at you because you are not Arab.
And really if you think the Hamas takes good care of the people you have your head buried somewhere just look up in other arguments on the same subject there have been plenty of posts about what the Hamas does. And if you still aren't convinced I invite you to come visit them in fact I encourage you to do so. Gain a little real life perspective away from your computer screen.
No, the pretex of "doing it for love" is horrificly twisted.
If Israeli loved eachother more than they hated arabs, they wouldn't be occuping their homes abd would be getting rockets as gifts for their brotherly love.
Is that the best you can do? Guilt transfer?
That's the oldest, most basic psychological trick in the book. Newsflash - projecting ones own guilt on others (as in, he "forced" me to do this, ergo, it's his fault) works only on weak-mined fools.
Wait wait. So you believe that Israelis hate the Arabs and we want to do things to them? You just stuck your foot in your mouth my friend. Because as has been pointed out soooooooooo many times there are hundreds and thousands or Arabs living within Israeli borders some are Christians some are Muslims some are atheists none are under military occupation or even behind a checkpoint or fence. The main north south road crossing Israel ends in the North into a Muslim Arab town of 43k+ called Umm Al-Fahm where to go east is to drive straight through the town. On the way you will notice most the signs are in Arabic some also have Hebrew the cars traveling through are 80% Israelis and there are no checkpoints no one throwing stones no one glaring at you for being different.
To reach my home in Gilo (a neighborhood of Jerusalem) you drive past Beit Tzafafa and Shuafat both situated between Jerusalem proper and the neighborhood of Gilo again both are Muslim Arab towns with no road blocks or police presence in fact I go to work with many of the the residents. When I pull A night shift the guy that drives me home is an arab from those villages and sometime we drive through those villages to drop off or pick up people and I never feel at risk because hes my friend. We get along because his beliefs don't encompass the part of wanting to kill me for being a Jew or an Israeli or a non Muslim. We get along because all these people love that now that they are not fighting they have jobs and houses and cars and electricity and water and no one bugs them.
I could go on and on and on with hundreds of examples but my point is you are flat out wrong to suggest Israelis are motivated by a hatred for Arabs. Israelis have a long proven track record of having no problem living alongside Arabs. Live and let live.
I don't study psychology and I don't know any tricks. I know fact and fact is that we live with Arabs in Israel in peace. Where can you show me the same kind of tolerance being reciprocated from your buddy's in Gaza and the West Bank? So the point stands if the Palestinians loved life more than death. If they loved each other more than hated us they wouldn't have any problems with Israel.
No, that's reality.
Last time I checked, slavery was OK in the past. So it would be terribly wrong of you to protest if I take you as a slave...right?
Comon' slave boy!
No, That's war. What are you in some kind of 'we shouldn't have killed Hitler and destroyed Nazi Germany' youth movement? Get real. War is war and it's never pretty but you would charge the allies with war crimes for bombing Berlin?
What? Never noticed the fast that most of your government and military are just as radical and retarded as the worst palestinin terrorists?
Don't you know history? The first leaders of Israel were radical terrorists.
First of all I never noticed 'the fast' please tell me what it's about.
Second of all no I never noticed that my government and military purposefully targeted and sought to destroy civilians while ignoring juicy military targets. Hmmm.
Third of all what does history have to do with it? Are those people still in charge? No. They are dead. And besides that they didn't target civilians they targeted the British forces. Big difference but hey If it doesn't seem like that big a difference to you give me a soldier and a kid from your country I'll hide from the soldier and shoot the kid and see how you feel.
