I have a lot of problems with the Holocaust analogies they're going for here, but someone made a comment on my blog that now sums up my major problem with it. Even if we are expected to believe that many of the world powers might agree to these camps (and even that, for me, is a stretch), are we supposed to believe that Israel would ever agree to it? For me, this makes the whole pack of cards come crashing down.
Err. If you ask a Palestinian or a citizen of Lebanon, they would likely have a very different answer to what Israel might or might not agree on. (My personal opinion is - not to the cremation. No. But to the camps as such? Yes. Looking at Gaza? Yes.) In any event, other than the US and the UK, we only heard a couple of European countries started with the camps (not the cremation) and then it was said the UN sanctioned it. Now given how hard it is to get the UN to agree on anything, I have my doubts about that, but not because of Israel being incapable of agreeing to overflow camps.
While the Israeli government is certainly capable of cruelty to Palestinians, I still don't think they would ever treat Jews this way, which would be necessary, under the categories of life guidelines. And the cremation, never. But I also don't fully buy that these countries would sign off on institutions such as these that are actually labelled "camps" as opposed to a less-weighted word like "centers" or "sanctuaries."
While the Israeli government is certainly capable of cruelty to Palestinians, I still don't think they would ever treat Jews this way, which would be necessary, under the categories of life guidelines.
That is a very good point, though I would say that given the current situation in the Palestinian territories, especially in terms of healthcare, chances are that there would far more (and far sooner) category 1 patients there than there would be Jewish category 1s.
Re: terminology: who's to say they're using the word "camp" in every language? (Says someone who lives with dubbed films and translated books having very different titles from the English ones.) They could very well indulge in euphemisms.
Re: male on female - before it turned violent, the way the creep acted made me wonder whether Jane E. wrote from experience, because sadly I found that behaviour all too plausible.
Tech-wise that fact that it didn't seem like Rex's video camera was live-feeding to Jack's computer seemed rather un-Torchwood like.
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That is a very good point, though I would say that given the current situation in the Palestinian territories, especially in terms of healthcare, chances are that there would far more (and far sooner) category 1 patients there than there would be Jewish category 1s.
Re: terminology: who's to say they're using the word "camp" in every language? (Says someone who lives with dubbed films and translated books having very different titles from the English ones.) They could very well indulge in euphemisms.
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Tech-wise that fact that it didn't seem like Rex's video camera was live-feeding to Jack's computer seemed rather un-Torchwood like.
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Tech-wise that fact that it didn't seem like Rex's video camera was live-feeding to Jack's computer seemed rather un-Torchwood like.
True.
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