https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/why-israeli-officials-screened-footage-hamas-attack/675735/
“A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism”

If you haven’t seen this reference site before, give it a look.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-atlantic/

They rate The Atlantic thusly:
“These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.
Overall, we rate The Atlantic Left-Center Biased due to editorial positions and High for factual reporting based on excellent sourcing of information and a clean fact-check record.”

I can’t evaluate all their ratings, but IMO their scale for Left-Right is perhaps skewed a bit, although not as far as Dan Rather’s belief that the New York Times was “middle of the road” — IOW, pubs may be more a tetch more to the left than MBFC rates them.

I’ve seen some pretty extreme damage and helped in dealing with it but not surgery like you.

I wonder how many of them had any experience dressing animals?

They used to not allow butchers as jurors, believing that experience made them immune to the evidence.

Then when we got called to the ER to close a scalp laceration, the surgeon handed me the local anesthetic and told me to go ahead. When I stuck the needle into the patient’s scalp, he winced and I got queasy all over again. I had gotten to think of bodies under general anesthesia who could not feel anything as almost ‘slabs of meat’, and upon being visibly reminded that here were awake patients who could feel pain, I had to undergo a 2nd round of desensitization. And in the interests of my medical career, I did.

Fast forward some 40 years. I bring brand new PA students into our cadaver lab, and after putting blades on scalpels, I ask them to make 1″ incisions in the cadaver thighs to learn how much resistance to expect. That day is like being in a chapel as they silently and timidly go ahead with wide eyes.

But 6 weeks down the road, they’re already talking about things outside of class, and by the end of the term, telling jokes and having a good time as they cut.

So Hamas starts their training with little kids. Little surprise they’re so desensitized that they can call their parents and brag. They truly don’t feel it in their specific trained behavior, yet to a psychiatrist, they’d be evaluated as completely sane people.

I guess Bibi was a hero of mine, at least since he was on Nightline, debating the oleaginous Hana Ashwari, when he was at the UN, then I found out about Entebbe, is he perfect, far from but compared to most,

I have sort of imposed a “video blackout” on myself. I watched a couple of news videos and IDF videos when this first happened. I found it too distressing; so I decided not to watch any more.

Even with these “good news” videos you post I could only watch the one about the father and brother who rescued so many others beside his daughter/sister. And that one ended with the father saying that they have all been given the gift of life – do the best with it you can. Now, that is a real mensch!

I think before this video the last one I watched was from the IDF; they were inside a house knocking on the safe room door letting those inside know that it was safe to come out. A mother and her son were the only ones inside. And, although they blurred her face and the face of her son you could still tell the shock of what they lived through was tremendous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVRTWxQqMcU

As for me I would be so scared to open that door – IDF or not!

Om – here’s my chant: From the River to the Sea; May Israel forever be free.

Thanks for the link and that steadfast hero’s story.

The elimination of the Hamashite english-speaking scum who was “negotiating” and anticipating another murder (?) was especially good.

From the river
to the sea
Gazamites
are dead to me.

No quarter.

On a touch screen, finger on screen and hold it. A menu pops up.

A small tutorial on this. here.

No prob, bud. Glad to help.

(Full career in software. Unfortunately, this crap comes natural to me. 🙂