http://communicationisinspiration.com/2006/10/11/media-madness/ Generation 2 Generation: Let's Talk Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:09:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=Communication is Inspiration hourly 1 http://communicationisinspiration.com/2006/10/11/media-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-9 debbie boggs Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:35:15 +0000 http://communicationisinspiration.com#comment-9 Don't get me started on the media again. I was in Syria the first time a week after 9/11, it was my first trip. I went back a year later and we went into Iraq. At that moment, I was glad I didn't speak Arabic. But night after night, I watched video of Palestine. My husband told me once alot of the fighting is about water. His family are very promenient grape farmers in Syria. I thought the water thing was silly. Then I watched a piece on the Israel/Lebanon border. There was a tank going back and forth with a miltary helicopter/gunship flying back and forth overhead while Israeli soldiers were installing a huge pipe into the river on the other side of the border fence (they built a fence why can't we?)to funnel the water over to them. Anyone that interferred would be shot. I couldn't believe it. Another time, I saw an Israeli tank ram a loaded ambulance going to the hospital right after one if their attacks. I am not one sided in my thinking at all but much more informed. I think we need to be open what we do for other countries that are attacking countries that we are also trying to develop relationships with. It's a big price for us, it's hard enough to just take responsibilities for our own actions, which is very little, let alone another country that has alot of baggagge worldwide. Whatever the news is, it is, but editorials are very serious when it is the only source of information. We need to understand the difference between Sunni and Shite. Make no light note that this recent conflict this summer is the first time you have every seen those groups coorperate with each other. Asking them to go into the other's neighbor if displaced is no light weight thing. That they were willing to work together (something you won't see at the Arab League of Nations meetings), during this conflict should be a big flag. Lack of unity has kept the lid on so far. Again, we need people to be educated about these groups because we all now live together in one form or another. So many things go on that we don't know about and the thinking that "ignorance is bliss" is over. Don't get me started on the media again. I was in Syria the first time a week after 9/11, it was my first trip. I went back a year later and we went into Iraq. At that moment, I was glad I didn't speak Arabic.
But night after night, I watched video of Palestine. My husband told me once alot of the fighting is about water. His family are very promenient grape farmers in Syria. I thought the water thing was silly. Then I watched a piece on the Israel/Lebanon border. There was a tank going back and forth with a miltary helicopter/gunship flying back and forth overhead while Israeli soldiers were installing a huge pipe into the river on the other side of the border fence (they built a fence why can't we?)to funnel the water over to them. Anyone that interferred would be shot. I couldn't believe it.
Another time, I saw an Israeli tank ram a loaded ambulance going to the hospital right after one if their attacks. I am not one sided in my thinking at all but much more informed. I think we need to be open what we do for other countries that are attacking countries that we are also trying to develop relationships with. It's a big price for us, it's hard enough to just take responsibilities for our own actions, which is very little, let alone another country that has alot of baggagge worldwide.
Whatever the news is, it is, but editorials are very serious when it is the only source of information.
We need to understand the difference between Sunni and Shite. Make no light note that this recent conflict this summer is the first time you have every seen those groups coorperate with each other. Asking them to go into the other's neighbor if displaced is no light weight thing. That they were willing to work together (something you won't see at the Arab League of Nations meetings), during this conflict should be a big flag. Lack of unity has kept the lid on so far. Again, we need people to be educated about these groups because we all now live together in one form or another.
So many things go on that we don't know about and the thinking that "ignorance is bliss" is over.

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