Yes, it was a horrific video. But it was also no doubt an accurate depiction of what the US is sponsoring -- most recently with a veto of a UN Security Council resolution -- in the Gaza Strip.
Why was it censored on Daily Kos? Moreover, why was no reason given for its censorship?
It was on the "Recommended" list, and had a couple hundred comments, but here's all that's left of it now:
Video from Gaza. (WARNING: Graphic content.)
Update: It has been suggested that the video was revealed to be from a few months ago, and that the diary's author deleted it.
In any case, given that Israel has banned foreign journalists from the Gaza Strip, we may assume that many scenes much worse than the one in the video are unfolding there, with no witnesses allowed. Here is the video:
Aftermath of attack on Gaza
See what your tax dollars have wrought, whether recently or a few months ago. Imagine it expanded a hundred fold, and you might get an idea of what we are sponsoring in the Gaza Strip today.
Osama bin Laden has been awfully lenient with us.
Further update:
The video was actually apparently from an IDF attack on Gaza circa March 2008. Fifty7, who posted the original diary, apparently deleted it himself, although possibly because someone had convinced him it was a video from Iraq (it isn't) rather than because it was from an earlier atrocity in Gaza rather than the current one.
Also, however, a few people went out of their way to censor a comment I'd made below to the effect that it would be a bad day for America when someone less romantic than Osama bin Laden took up his cause, and that it seemed an obvious rule of politics and war that a country that had 3-5 thousand people crossing its borders illegally every day must not fight a terrorist war. (This was in response to someone's righteous indignation that I would have said that bin Laden has been awfully lenient on us.)
Last Update:
It appears that the original Gaza video diary was self-censored. There remain a few serious problems on dKos, however, regarding Israel's Gaza assault. First, the center column almost completely ignores it; second, people go about -- particularly in center column articles -- deleting comments that people make that mention it in a way unfavorable to Israel. I don't expect that there is much, officially, that dKos can do about the latter problem: the Israeli government and its allies have a very elaborate system for promoting their beliefs on the internet and elsewhere. You might even be able to get yourself a stipend for patrolling dKos in a pro-Israeli manner, if that's your bent. The center column's embargo of all news Gaza is pretty inexcusable, though.
I also have to confess that I know very well that my poll allows only anti-dKos responses. Much as dKos has confined discussion of Gaza to the margins, my poll only allows defense of dKos in the notes rather than in the statistics. Not really fair, is it?