The Israeli Defense Forces released a You Tube video showing the assassination of Ahmed Jabri, the Hamas military chief. At the same time it released the following Tweet:
- We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.
Such actions are specifically designed to be inflammatory–Live Blogging a war is truly in bad taste. It appears as if Israel is hoping to provoke Hamas so that a larger Israeli strike can be justified.
Interestingly, as the Israelis were using social media to broadcast their interests, other parts of social media were blocking the dissemination of other interests, specifically the photographs of a group called The Uprising of Women in the Arab World. Consistency is hard to implement in the decentralized world of the web.
The United Nations Population Fund has declared that access to contraception is a universal human right. The declaration has no legal force, and it is difficult to determine how a unilateral statement by a UN Agency can achieve legal status. Meanwhile, a woman in Ireland died after being denied an abortion in accordance with Irish law.
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