Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired

Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by pg on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:04PM (#418512)

Following the sentence "no politics" with one equating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism is a bit hypocritical. It does show why stories that intersect with politics are dangerous though; the topic seems to bring out the most irrational in people.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by brl on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:34PM (#418589)

Not as hypocritical as following this submission up with whining about "no politics".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417001

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by qqq on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:57PM (#418616)

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http://curi.us/

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by davidw on Saturday January 03, 2009 @03:47PM (#418666)

I would have bet good money that this story would turn into a flame fest, you could see it coming from a mile away.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by fallentimes on Saturday January 03, 2009 @05:10PM (#418720)

It's a shame because the article is really interesting and the discussions on HN are normally even better.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by qqq on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:09PM (#418515)

I think it's important that he knows reasonable people consider that article anti-semitic. If you saw a post you considered anti-semitic, would you want to quietly omit that?

I did not "equate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism". That is not my reasoning. That is a political interpretation that you have made.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by natrius on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:14PM (#418579)

"I think it's important that he knows reasonable people consider that article anti-semitic."

I don't think anyone who is reading this places you in the category of reasonable people. For some reason you think it's okay to throw out accusations without justification. That is unreasonable.

The article is hacker news because it shows an example of waging a PR campaign via YouTube.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by edw519 on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:40PM (#418543)

disagreement = irrationality?

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by ivankirigin on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:12PM (#418577)

clearly he said hypocritical == irrational

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by edw519 on Saturday January 03, 2009 @04:17PM (#418679)

hypocritical == irrational Yes, my mistake. Thank you.

clearly Not so sure about that.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by rgr on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:24PM (#418585)

He didn't say that criticism of Israel is anti-semitism. He just said 'No Politics. No anti-semitism.' I agree with him that HN should have no politics and no anti semitism or any racism for that matter. Don't you?

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by qqq on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:47PM (#418604)

rgr,

You assert 'no politics' and also imply that anti-semitism is a type of racism. Some people think anti-semitism is different; that's a political issue. Therefore, according to pg, you are a hypocrite. And also irrational, if ivankirigin's interpretation is correct.

Welcome to the club :)

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by nir on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:01PM (#418510)

BBC is not anti semite (though it is anti Israeli, according to its own report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balen_Report)

Anyway, I second "no politics" and flagging this. Take it to Reddit.

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by vaksel on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:10PM (#418517)

how come any time anyone criticizes Israel, people instantly label them Nazis who want to throw jews into ovens?

And wtf really...the source is BBC, not some Hitler loving blog

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by qqq on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:17PM (#418524)

What makes you think that "criticizing Israel" is what I was commenting on?

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Re:Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired by vaksel on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:26PM (#418534)

Well what else is there? Or is there some subliminal message in the article to kill jews?

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