They lie and cheat
Many media organizations are known to have an anti-Israel bias, whatever the
situation they will always find that Israel is wrong, culpable, excessive, and
even inhuman. One of these is the Reuters news agency, that was ironically
founded by a Jew. In the era of the internet it is foolish to indulge in media
manipulation, but many people still do it and get away with it. One such
example was Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer working for Reuters. He
doctored his pictures during the recent war, for example to make the IAF
attacks on Beirut look worse than they were he intensified the blackness of
the smoke and made multiple plumes when there was only one. He also posed the
same sympathetic looking old woman, dressed in her black robes, before three
(!) different buildings, claiming each was her destroyed home. Another
example included pictures of bodies, and showed two of the bodies moving and
sitting up (maybe it was uncomfortable to be in a body bag for too long).
Hajj was found out by persistent bloggers, and Reuters fired him and removed
920 of his photos from their archives. However, while he was doing this they
must have known his bias, they must have known that he was editing and
slanting his picture for years. How many other media organizations accept
this kind of material?
We have previous examples, the French TV cameraman who faked the shooting
of Mohammed al Dura in Gaza at the beginning of the intifada, which became a
cause celebre, the so-called "massacre" of Jenin during the Israeli operation,
in which "eye-witnesses" (uncorroborated) told on camera how IDF soldiers
had lined Palestinian civilians up against a wall and shot them, but it was
all lies, and the "beach incident" in Gaza a few months ago, in which it was
claimed that an Israeli shell had killed a family of 7, but it turned out that
it was in fact a Hamas mine buried on the beach that had killed them. I could
go on, there are numerous examples, but the point is made, pro-Palestinian
media lie and cheat in order to defame and denigrate Israel.
Why do they do this? After all, the destruction in south Beirut was enough to
show without further elaboration. But, reality is not enough for their bias
and hatred, they see no problem with exaggerating the destruction in south
Beirut while not showing any damage in north Israel from 4,000 rockets fired
into it. They talk about 500,000, perhaps a million or more (!), Lebanese
civilians leaving their homes and fleeing north, without any kind of numerical
corroboration, while not mentioning the similar numbers of Israelis forced to
flee south.
Behind this approach is a fundamental truth, that in order to achieve their
end of destroying Israel, it is valid for Muslims to lie and cheat if it helps
to realize their goal. Truth is what you want it to be, wishful thinking and
rumor become reality in their media reports. This is something that the
western media has not realized and has not taken into account, and neither
have the unsuspecting western viewers. Do not believe everything you read in
the papers and even see on TV, much of it is manipulated and biased. But,
unfortunately, once the damage is done it is too late.
Thus, in reports during the Lebanon war, many anchors spoke in hushed terms
of the terrible destruction that Israel had unleashed on Lebanon. One would
think that the whole country was destroyed. But, in fact probably no more
than 5%, if that, of the country was affected. Yes, bridges were bombed, and
ports and airports put out of action, but see how quickly Beirut airport
recovered (one runway was left untouched). And only south Beirut (not the
center nor the Government area) and south Lebanon were targeted by the IAF
and IDF artillery, because that was where Hizbollah was located and was
fighting from. When a preponderance, it seems, of anchors on the main
networks, BBC, CNN and Sky are of Indian or Muslim origin (for example,
Shihab Rattansi, Hala Gourani, Nisha Pillai, Monita Rajpal, Terry Baddoo, etc.
etc.) how can one expect them to retain a semblance of balance in their choice
of reporting.
situation they will always find that Israel is wrong, culpable, excessive, and
even inhuman. One of these is the Reuters news agency, that was ironically
founded by a Jew. In the era of the internet it is foolish to indulge in media
manipulation, but many people still do it and get away with it. One such
example was Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer working for Reuters. He
doctored his pictures during the recent war, for example to make the IAF
attacks on Beirut look worse than they were he intensified the blackness of
the smoke and made multiple plumes when there was only one. He also posed the
same sympathetic looking old woman, dressed in her black robes, before three
(!) different buildings, claiming each was her destroyed home. Another
example included pictures of bodies, and showed two of the bodies moving and
sitting up (maybe it was uncomfortable to be in a body bag for too long).
Hajj was found out by persistent bloggers, and Reuters fired him and removed
920 of his photos from their archives. However, while he was doing this they
must have known his bias, they must have known that he was editing and
slanting his picture for years. How many other media organizations accept
this kind of material?
We have previous examples, the French TV cameraman who faked the shooting
of Mohammed al Dura in Gaza at the beginning of the intifada, which became a
cause celebre, the so-called "massacre" of Jenin during the Israeli operation,
in which "eye-witnesses" (uncorroborated) told on camera how IDF soldiers
had lined Palestinian civilians up against a wall and shot them, but it was
all lies, and the "beach incident" in Gaza a few months ago, in which it was
claimed that an Israeli shell had killed a family of 7, but it turned out that
it was in fact a Hamas mine buried on the beach that had killed them. I could
go on, there are numerous examples, but the point is made, pro-Palestinian
media lie and cheat in order to defame and denigrate Israel.
Why do they do this? After all, the destruction in south Beirut was enough to
show without further elaboration. But, reality is not enough for their bias
and hatred, they see no problem with exaggerating the destruction in south
Beirut while not showing any damage in north Israel from 4,000 rockets fired
into it. They talk about 500,000, perhaps a million or more (!), Lebanese
civilians leaving their homes and fleeing north, without any kind of numerical
corroboration, while not mentioning the similar numbers of Israelis forced to
flee south.
Behind this approach is a fundamental truth, that in order to achieve their
end of destroying Israel, it is valid for Muslims to lie and cheat if it helps
to realize their goal. Truth is what you want it to be, wishful thinking and
rumor become reality in their media reports. This is something that the
western media has not realized and has not taken into account, and neither
have the unsuspecting western viewers. Do not believe everything you read in
the papers and even see on TV, much of it is manipulated and biased. But,
unfortunately, once the damage is done it is too late.
Thus, in reports during the Lebanon war, many anchors spoke in hushed terms
of the terrible destruction that Israel had unleashed on Lebanon. One would
think that the whole country was destroyed. But, in fact probably no more
than 5%, if that, of the country was affected. Yes, bridges were bombed, and
ports and airports put out of action, but see how quickly Beirut airport
recovered (one runway was left untouched). And only south Beirut (not the
center nor the Government area) and south Lebanon were targeted by the IAF
and IDF artillery, because that was where Hizbollah was located and was
fighting from. When a preponderance, it seems, of anchors on the main
networks, BBC, CNN and Sky are of Indian or Muslim origin (for example,
Shihab Rattansi, Hala Gourani, Nisha Pillai, Monita Rajpal, Terry Baddoo, etc.
etc.) how can one expect them to retain a semblance of balance in their choice
of reporting.
posted by Jack Cohen at 11:46 AM
1 Comments:
Don't conflate Indians and Muslims - majority of Indians are Hindu, though many millions are Muslim. It's a big country!
Look at the Free Muslims website from the USA - not all Muslims are against Israel.
And finally, you are not alone in your struggle against Iran and the forces of darkness - there are so many Christians who support Israel and pray for the well-being of the Jews, G-d's chosen people. Keep the faith!
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