Owen Jones, popular 27 year old UK author/pundit/panelist and weekly columnist for the Independent caused quite a stir Thursday night (“Twitter went mental“) on the BBC’s ‘Question Time‘. The host reads off a question, ‘Do you think Israel was justified in bombing Gaza after months of rocket attacks on Israeli civilians?’
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This one misses a bit, Annie!
Owen also gives his solution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUnsG4zpMI&feature=player_embedded
very powerfully and eloquently!
Owen Jones! Owen Jones! Owen Jones! Owen Jones woohoooooooo!!!!!
What people on earth indeeeeeeed!
Jake Wallis Simmons writing in the Telegraph, criticizing Owen Jones:
“In a nutshell, this is why. All of the “occupied territory” was taken when Israel was attacked, en masse, by an Arab world with genocidal intent. It happened in 1948, immediately after Israel was established. It happened again in 1967. It happened in 1973, when Israel was very nearly obliterated and suffered heavy losses. In each of these three occasions, Israel was attacked by an Arab coalition drunken with hatred; the Jewish state managed, against the odds, to defend itself, gaining territory in the process. Most of that territory – such as the oil-rich Sinai, and Gaza – was returned, often in return for peace. The subsequent wars, some of which Israel instigated in response to various acts of terror, did not result in significant territorial conquest; or if it did, the territory was immediately returned.”
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How is that crap still possible? Genocidal 1948 war? Really?
I guess if that is the best hasbara the Zios and their supporters can come up with, then Owen Jones really has them in a fit.
@Cliff:
I just tried to sign up to a Telegraph account to put the record straight.
I don’t think I’ve seen one article or comment that directly challenges any of Jones’ facts but plenty of those who claim they’re false without offering any information to the contrary.
Just a lot of obfuscation and lies.
Excellent.