From all of the photographs that I have seen I believe that even the figure of 28 victims, even though a far cry from the 60 victims that caused such a world-wide storm and condemnation of Israel, is probably no more than about 14 civilians including children, at the very most. I base this estimate on a shot of bodies wrapped in plastic bags, laid out in a row at the hospital - at the most I counted 14 bodies. I am wondering how many of the dead were in fact Hezbollah operatives, and yes women can be involved in Hezbollah so it is not beyond the realm of probability that the women victims were not civilians.
The media has failed to acknowledge that the fauxtographs at Qana were posed. Richard has been most astute in noting the way in which Green Helmet is seen looking directly at the photographers as they plied their whoring trade of doing the will of Hezbollah. Similar scenes were repeated at Chiyah where the bodies of a baby and two little girls were manhandled by a different rescue worker. At least Green Helmet and White T-shirt were nowhere to be seen at Chiyah. Yet, the children were treated to the same form of abuse as the children in Qana.
Apparently it is common in Middle Eastern countries to put the bodies of dead children on show, especially if there is an opportunity to draw fire on the enemy (Israel). In this case, we are told that Israel has committed a war crime because of the deaths of these children. Western nations are not used to such a blatant abuse of the dead. It is totally offensive to abuse these children by turning them into propaganda plots. The world-wide condemnation of Israel is predictable. Koffi Anan has gone too far with his opinion that war crimes have been committed by Israel, without taking into consideration that Hezbollah are the war criminals because they have hidden rocket launchers and rockets in civilian areas. Also, in Israel the civilian population that has endured the bombings of Haifa and other portions of the Israel countryside have not suffered as much because Israel has proper bunkers.
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, the organization that was started by Iran, trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and funded by Iran, has ingratiated itself to the civilian population by setting about rebuilding infrastructre such as hospitals, schools and community centres. These centres were built at an unusual cost. They were a cover for an underground bunker system that would keep Hezbollah safe, but not the civilian population. This brings me back to Qana, and why on earth the people were in the building that was bombed in the first place. The area was identified by the Israelis as a site for rocket launchers - this was done by following the path of a rocket launched from Qana. The IDF had the evidence that Hezbollah were in that location, but they were not aware that there were civilians in the building in question. Now comes a twist. The bombs dropped by the IDF did not land on the building but they were dropped in a nearby area. At this point, without some form of proper forensic analysis, it is not possible to confirm or deny that the building was hit with a bomb or that it was even a target of the IDF. How then can the UN claim that Israel committed a war crime?
By being snap happy, the western media has played right into the hands of Hezbollah, who are, like their Hamas counterparts, masters with the propaganda shot. In effect they have become accomplices of the real terrorists and they have done this by propagating these fauxtographs around the world. Hezbollah have used these shots as a means of stirring up tensions amongst the Islamic populations in a variety of countries. This is a population that has a tendency to be hot headed, and if you add to that mix, the fact that many of these Muslim hot heads are also being brainwashed into becoming jihadi operatives by their firebrand imams, then one can see the kind of situation that is starting to bubble to the surface.
Who is pulling the strings of Hezbollah? None other than Iran and her whore, Syria. Lebanon has been a country under seige for a very long time. The Lebanese government does not have the will to disarm Hezbollah because they believe that that Israel does not have the right to exist at least they do believe that in secret. It is not possible for the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah because they are complicit in allowing arms from Iran and Syria to cross the border. This is why Israel found it necessary to take out the supply route for these arms. This is why it was necessary to bomb Beirut airport and now to maintain an embargo on the port of Tyre.
The media has been guilty of bias in their reporting, and yes there are notable exceptions with regard to the bias against Israel. The media need to be reminded that they are not an arm of government and that they do not have the right to make or break governments. They need to go back to the basics and learn how to present material that is well-balanced. Can this happen with the kind of people that are in powerful positions within the media? I have my doubts because some of them do not understand the word integrtity.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Why the Media needs to clean up its act
I have been very interested in the progress of the work that is being done by Richard North from EUReferendum in the past week or so. The subject of the interest is how Hezbollah via Green Helmet and White T-shirt staged photographic opportunities for a hungry gaggle of fauxtographers. On one side of the Atlantic LGF (Little Green Footballs) was making his own discoveries about fauxtography, and on the other side of the Atlantic Richard and Helen have been leading the way by taking the issue to the media and asking them to "please explain".
EUReferendum is now in the process of co-ordinating a blog-wide effort of bloggers who are studying the fauxtographs that have been reproduced onto the Internet, as well as videoclip footage that has become available. We really do have to thank Al-Jazeerah for their contribution in exposing the antics of Green Helmet, for we could not possibly have gotten this far without some excellent footage that has unwittingly exposed Green Helmet and White T-shirt, as well as Green T-shirt, and green checked shirt as Hezbollah operatives. I have no intention of stealing the thunder of all the bloggers who are putting so much into exposing how the media have been willing dupes with regard to how the Qana tragedy was reported.
From all of the photographs that I have seen I believe that even the figure of 28 victims, even though a far cry from the 60 victims that caused such a world-wide storm and condemnation of Israel, is probably no more than about 14 civilians including children, at the very most. I base this estimate on a shot of bodies wrapped in plastic bags, laid out in a row at the hospital - at the most I counted 14 bodies. I am wondering how many of the dead were in fact Hezbollah operatives, and yes women can be involved in Hezbollah so it is not beyond the realm of probability that the women victims were not civilians.
The media has failed to acknowledge that the fauxtographs at Qana were posed. Richard has been most astute in noting the way in which Green Helmet is seen looking directly at the photographers as they plied their whoring trade of doing the will of Hezbollah. Similar scenes were repeated at Chiyah where the bodies of a baby and two little girls were manhandled by a different rescue worker. At least Green Helmet and White T-shirt were nowhere to be seen at Chiyah. Yet, the children were treated to the same form of abuse as the children in Qana.
Apparently it is common in Middle Eastern countries to put the bodies of dead children on show, especially if there is an opportunity to draw fire on the enemy (Israel). In this case, we are told that Israel has committed a war crime because of the deaths of these children. Western nations are not used to such a blatant abuse of the dead. It is totally offensive to abuse these children by turning them into propaganda plots. The world-wide condemnation of Israel is predictable. Koffi Anan has gone too far with his opinion that war crimes have been committed by Israel, without taking into consideration that Hezbollah are the war criminals because they have hidden rocket launchers and rockets in civilian areas. Also, in Israel the civilian population that has endured the bombings of Haifa and other portions of the Israel countryside have not suffered as much because Israel has proper bunkers.
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, the organization that was started by Iran, trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and funded by Iran, has ingratiated itself to the civilian population by setting about rebuilding infrastructre such as hospitals, schools and community centres. These centres were built at an unusual cost. They were a cover for an underground bunker system that would keep Hezbollah safe, but not the civilian population. This brings me back to Qana, and why on earth the people were in the building that was bombed in the first place. The area was identified by the Israelis as a site for rocket launchers - this was done by following the path of a rocket launched from Qana. The IDF had the evidence that Hezbollah were in that location, but they were not aware that there were civilians in the building in question. Now comes a twist. The bombs dropped by the IDF did not land on the building but they were dropped in a nearby area. At this point, without some form of proper forensic analysis, it is not possible to confirm or deny that the building was hit with a bomb or that it was even a target of the IDF. How then can the UN claim that Israel committed a war crime?
By being snap happy, the western media has played right into the hands of Hezbollah, who are, like their Hamas counterparts, masters with the propaganda shot. In effect they have become accomplices of the real terrorists and they have done this by propagating these fauxtographs around the world. Hezbollah have used these shots as a means of stirring up tensions amongst the Islamic populations in a variety of countries. This is a population that has a tendency to be hot headed, and if you add to that mix, the fact that many of these Muslim hot heads are also being brainwashed into becoming jihadi operatives by their firebrand imams, then one can see the kind of situation that is starting to bubble to the surface.
Who is pulling the strings of Hezbollah? None other than Iran and her whore, Syria. Lebanon has been a country under seige for a very long time. The Lebanese government does not have the will to disarm Hezbollah because they believe that that Israel does not have the right to exist at least they do believe that in secret. It is not possible for the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah because they are complicit in allowing arms from Iran and Syria to cross the border. This is why Israel found it necessary to take out the supply route for these arms. This is why it was necessary to bomb Beirut airport and now to maintain an embargo on the port of Tyre.
The media has been guilty of bias in their reporting, and yes there are notable exceptions with regard to the bias against Israel. The media need to be reminded that they are not an arm of government and that they do not have the right to make or break governments. They need to go back to the basics and learn how to present material that is well-balanced. Can this happen with the kind of people that are in powerful positions within the media? I have my doubts because some of them do not understand the word integrtity.
From all of the photographs that I have seen I believe that even the figure of 28 victims, even though a far cry from the 60 victims that caused such a world-wide storm and condemnation of Israel, is probably no more than about 14 civilians including children, at the very most. I base this estimate on a shot of bodies wrapped in plastic bags, laid out in a row at the hospital - at the most I counted 14 bodies. I am wondering how many of the dead were in fact Hezbollah operatives, and yes women can be involved in Hezbollah so it is not beyond the realm of probability that the women victims were not civilians.
The media has failed to acknowledge that the fauxtographs at Qana were posed. Richard has been most astute in noting the way in which Green Helmet is seen looking directly at the photographers as they plied their whoring trade of doing the will of Hezbollah. Similar scenes were repeated at Chiyah where the bodies of a baby and two little girls were manhandled by a different rescue worker. At least Green Helmet and White T-shirt were nowhere to be seen at Chiyah. Yet, the children were treated to the same form of abuse as the children in Qana.
Apparently it is common in Middle Eastern countries to put the bodies of dead children on show, especially if there is an opportunity to draw fire on the enemy (Israel). In this case, we are told that Israel has committed a war crime because of the deaths of these children. Western nations are not used to such a blatant abuse of the dead. It is totally offensive to abuse these children by turning them into propaganda plots. The world-wide condemnation of Israel is predictable. Koffi Anan has gone too far with his opinion that war crimes have been committed by Israel, without taking into consideration that Hezbollah are the war criminals because they have hidden rocket launchers and rockets in civilian areas. Also, in Israel the civilian population that has endured the bombings of Haifa and other portions of the Israel countryside have not suffered as much because Israel has proper bunkers.
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, the organization that was started by Iran, trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and funded by Iran, has ingratiated itself to the civilian population by setting about rebuilding infrastructre such as hospitals, schools and community centres. These centres were built at an unusual cost. They were a cover for an underground bunker system that would keep Hezbollah safe, but not the civilian population. This brings me back to Qana, and why on earth the people were in the building that was bombed in the first place. The area was identified by the Israelis as a site for rocket launchers - this was done by following the path of a rocket launched from Qana. The IDF had the evidence that Hezbollah were in that location, but they were not aware that there were civilians in the building in question. Now comes a twist. The bombs dropped by the IDF did not land on the building but they were dropped in a nearby area. At this point, without some form of proper forensic analysis, it is not possible to confirm or deny that the building was hit with a bomb or that it was even a target of the IDF. How then can the UN claim that Israel committed a war crime?
By being snap happy, the western media has played right into the hands of Hezbollah, who are, like their Hamas counterparts, masters with the propaganda shot. In effect they have become accomplices of the real terrorists and they have done this by propagating these fauxtographs around the world. Hezbollah have used these shots as a means of stirring up tensions amongst the Islamic populations in a variety of countries. This is a population that has a tendency to be hot headed, and if you add to that mix, the fact that many of these Muslim hot heads are also being brainwashed into becoming jihadi operatives by their firebrand imams, then one can see the kind of situation that is starting to bubble to the surface.
Who is pulling the strings of Hezbollah? None other than Iran and her whore, Syria. Lebanon has been a country under seige for a very long time. The Lebanese government does not have the will to disarm Hezbollah because they believe that that Israel does not have the right to exist at least they do believe that in secret. It is not possible for the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah because they are complicit in allowing arms from Iran and Syria to cross the border. This is why Israel found it necessary to take out the supply route for these arms. This is why it was necessary to bomb Beirut airport and now to maintain an embargo on the port of Tyre.
The media has been guilty of bias in their reporting, and yes there are notable exceptions with regard to the bias against Israel. The media need to be reminded that they are not an arm of government and that they do not have the right to make or break governments. They need to go back to the basics and learn how to present material that is well-balanced. Can this happen with the kind of people that are in powerful positions within the media? I have my doubts because some of them do not understand the word integrtity.
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