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Joe Whatshisname braves the flying pipes in Sderot and schools international reporters on patriotism

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Mon, 01/12/2009 - 00:19 — McJ
Joe Whatshisname braves the flying pipes in Sderot and schools international reporters on patriotism

With camera in hand, Joe Whatshisname, the tax dodging, unlicensed plumber's helper from Toledo Ohio, arrived in Sderot, Israel on Sunday on his first assignment as a correspondent for PJTV and Pajamas Media. He got to experience a red alert for an incoming flying pipe first hand and reported from a house where one landed on Sunday. According to the Jerusalem post, Joe wondered why Israel had waited so long to act. "I know if I were a citizen here, I'd be damned upset. The people of Sderot can't do normal things day to day, like get soap in their eyes in the shower...". "I'm sure they're taking quick showers," he said, "I know I would." Haaretz.com reported that the rookie war correspondent said, "I have a thousand questions, but I can't think of one right now."

Joe is scheduled to be in Sderot for ten days to 'get out Israel's side of the story'. It was not clear from the reports if Israel's massive, one sided propoganda campaign was in need of his help.

There is no doubt Joe will be joining the ever growing crowd of tourists and local 'looky loos' (according to Al Jazeera- TV News Now) lining the hilltops of the town. Empire Burlesque's, Chris Floyd reported on a gang of them that drove down from Jerusalem to catch a birds eye view of the action.

The Jerusalem post's, Shelley Paz says that Joe is angry with the foreign reporters' coverage of the conflict and accused them of giving information to the enemy. He told the journalists that gathered around him, "You should be ashamed of yourselves". "It makes me sick to see the way you behave - you should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started," he said. Joe didn't mention to which country the foreign reporters should direct their patriotic feelings or how their reporting on the story was stopping them from protecting their families.

Since the start of the War on Gaza two weeks ago, 4 Israeli citizens have been killed by Qassam rockets fired from inside Gaza. Eight IDF soldiers have been killed, four due to friendly fire. 876 Palestinians have been killed, roughly half of them civilians including many children. More than 3600 have been injured and there are reports of victims with severe burn injuries consistent with the use of white phosphorus. The IDF is now advancing into Gaza's most densely populated areas. Al Jazeera reported that the advance into the cities was phase three of the Israeli campaign and there is a phase four planned but no one seems to know what that is.

"According to Israeli news reports, Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak disagree over how the war should end, and the three have argued in recent days over whether Israel should seek a cease-fire with Hamas or unilaterally declare victory. http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/01/12/israel_a...

In a Dec 31, 2008 report, Haretz TV reported that Hamas had 3000 rockets at the beginning of the conflict but was down to 2000 rockets. They didn't report on how they obtained these figures. Al Jazeera TV News Now has shown live coverage of rockets being launched from IDF held territory. It is not clear to me how Hamas was able to accomplish this. I have tried to find a link for this but I can't seem to find any archived footage of Al Jazeera coverage.

UPDATE: As of Jan 12, 2009
13 Israeli's killed
895 Palestinians killed, 4100 injured

If you subtract the 4 Israelis killed due to friendly fire that is roughly a 100 to 1 kill ratio.

Comments

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 07:51 — littlehorn

Where did you get that ?

"It makes me sick to see the way you behave - you should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started," he said. Joe didn't mention to which country the foreign reporters should direct their patriotic feelings or how their reporting on the story was stopping them from protecting their families.

Ha ha ha. Where was this whole thing from ? You just wrote it down ??

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 12:59 — McJ
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New Jerusalem Post and Haaretz

Well, I wrote it but the quotes and other info are from the New Jerusalem Post and Haaretz.com. They are linked in the post. I really didn't have to make many changes to what they said I just added a few of my own comments and put a different spin on it.
laughing out loud laughing out loud

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 14:04 — Bob in Prague
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Truth v Fiction

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. This whole thing could vie with The Producers as the acme of comic relief, were it not such a tragic act of barbarism, with real people, families and communities, being obliterated. I don't need no Joe the Plummer, I need an end to the genocide! Chris Floyd is right on the money, as usual:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 15:39 — McJ
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Agreed!!

What do we do with the horror and shame we're feeling knowing our elected governments unquestionably support this slaughter and will do absolutely nothing to stop it? The whole 'Joe's on the scene to get out Israeli's side of the story rhetoric' and reporters gathered around him looking for sound bites of what he says makes my head want to explode! What an embarrassment this man is to his country and everything that is decent and humane about it. Residents of Sderot can't get soap in their eyes whilst taking a shower but they can sit on the hilltops around the city watching the 'horror show' going on less than 3 miles away. I saw a picture of some guy up there blowing some kind of weird and twisted long horn. I imagined it had some kind of religious significance, maybe he was calling in god's troop to help protect his countrymen from the 'evil' Palestinians. We in the 'civilized' world get this kind of drivel fed to us as serious reporting, yet there is little appetite for showing the real story.

If this doesn't make you weep, I don't know what will. Thanks to Al Jazeera.

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 14:07 — Bob in Prague
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Oops!

Oops!

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 14:09 — McJ
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Oops ?

??

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 16:35 — Bob in Prague
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I goofed

I goofed and hit the send button twice, and I could edit everything out except I had to have something in the text field, so there you go. A simple enigma instead of a tiresome double post. But it would be nice to correct for such spastic errors...

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 16:52 — McJ
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:)

Well oops worked smiling

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 16:00 — McJ
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Israeli troops push towards Gaza City center

Israeli troops push towards Gaza City center, strike homes around city to ensure easy access - 895 dead, 7 since dawn
Ma'an news
Jan 12, 2009
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50725

"Seven were dead by dawn on day 17 of the Israeli war on Gaza, as Israeli strikes and ground troops push towards Gaza City.
Brigades were heard clashing with Israeli ground troops at the three entrances to Gaza City in an effort to stave off a full invasion of the area.
Airstrikes hit tens of homes on the northern, eastern and southern borders of Gaza City in order to improve access to the city and bypass the Brigades stationed at the entrances.
Warplanes continue to use Phosphorous bombs" and homes around the city continue to burn covering the area with smoke.

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 16:10 — SMDQR
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Video of an Israeli Operation

Now granted this video is not from this particular slaughter, but it is still an indictment of Israeli actions. These type of things are probably going on currently in Gaza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaPZLNLBu8

This is the type of reporting that Joe Whatshisname does not want done. Why? Well, see for yourself.

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 16:50 — McJ
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Purification

Thanks for posting the video link and good for CBC for airing it.
That IDF soldier kinda of says it all doesn't he. With that big smirk on his face he says, "I don't know what we're doing here. Purification, maybe? It's dirty here, I don't know why a good Hebrew boy should be here so far from his home."

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Mon, 01/12/2009 - 19:44 — McJ
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Larissa at at-Largely gives Joe the Crapper the big flush

As if America needed any more embarrassing representatives...Joe the Crapper...

"Let's recall for a moment that Joe's specialty is crap and getting it flowing properly through all sorts of pipes.
So I am not sure what is more astonishing, that this fool went off to war armed with a plunger or that the foreign press gathered about him as though he were significant or his opinions mattered. He is not significant."

Watch Joe as he speaks to reporters, the guy can barely form a coherent sentence:

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

Fri, 01/30/2009 - 17:27 — hANOVER fIST (not verified)

What's with the scrap metal behind Joe's stupid head?

Looks like the makings of some Qassams to me...

Did he get the full scoop from Livni, Olmert and Barak, as well as a reacharound from Peres and the comatose corpse of Sharon?

"The people of Israel need PROTECTING?!?"

How about, "The people of AMERICA need protecting from the parasite!"

Sat, 01/31/2009 - 16:54 — McJ
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Those are Qassams

Those are Qassams. It appears to me that it is part of the standard propaganda tour to take visiting 'dignitaries' to this storage facility for spent Qassam rockets.

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v

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