August 02, 2006
Planned and staged Massacre at Qana?
It is common knowledge that the media eagerness to show America and Israel in the poorest of light has led to many a hoax where fake or staged photo-ops were use to mislead a willing and eager press. Was Qana such a time?
Photos of the rescue operation, which were transmitted all over the world and appeared on the front page of the New York Times and other major newspapers, are extremely suspicious. The blog EU Referendum has done important work scrutinizing the photos, finding numerous anomalies. Most notably, the dating of the various photos suggests that the same bodies were paraded before reporters on different occasions, each time as if they had just been pulled from the rubble.
Dr. Herzallah reports on how Hezbollah-terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it. He writes: ‘Laughing, a local sheikh explained to me that the Jews lose either way: either because the rockets are fired at them or because, if they attack munitions depot, they are condemned by world public opinion on account of the dead civilians.’ Hezbollah, he says, uses the civilian population ‘as a human shield and then when they are dead as propaganda.’”Has Western media become the propaganda arm of terrorists, are they so eager for a scoop and fame they will publish anything with shock value regardless of the truth it may or may not show. Are terrorists setting up the circumstances in which tragedy will ensue by luring unsuspecting children into schools placed over munitions storage? How many times do the media need to be played the fool before they start to take their profession seriously?
Posted by Sid at August 2, 2006 06:14 AM | Middle East
