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"Solid evidence now reveals how Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been deliberately placing their civilian population in mortal danger, choreographing a number of seemingly gory scenes"
Yet the mainstream media ignores this. This isn't desperation -- it's showing that they know how to play the game, as the mainstream media has rigged the rules for them.
"Brazen faking of images reveals Hamas’ desperation," by Paul Alster for Fox News, November 20 (thanks to David):
Haifa, Israel – There is only one thing worse than the image of a child killed by military conflict, and that is the image of a child killed by military conflict having deliberately been placed in the line of fire.
War is, by definition, a very nasty business, and invariably it is the innocents on all sides who bear a significant cost in lives lost, people maimed and communities traumatized.
But solid evidence now reveals how Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been deliberately placing their civilian population in mortal danger, choreographing a number of seemingly gory scenes, as well as releasing images from other conflicts, such as Iraq and Syria, and passing them off as dead Gazan civilians killed by Israeli missiles.
In an attempt to persuade the world that Israel is committing war crimes and to distract attention away from the illegal and immoral use of their own population as human shields, Hamas has resorted to staging a number of fake deaths and scenes of severely injured people right in front of international TV crews.
The BBC recently broadcast a news report showing a man being carried off by four others, seemingly the victim of an Israeli missile strike, only for him to reappear in the same clip a few seconds later wandering around completely unharmed. The same organization’s Jon Donnison yesterday re-tweeted a picture of the dead body of a young girl on a stretcher in Gaza with the headline "Heartbreaking," only for it to transpire that the girl had sadly been killed three weeks earlier in Syria.
Such is the sometimes chaotic nature of the situation on the ground in Gaza that mistakes can be made, but according to Paul Hirschson, spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamas has crossed a red line even in the Arab world by promoting the use of images of dead people – children in particular – against the tradition of their religion and the expected respect for the dead.
Hirschson told FoxNews.com that, “There’s no question that there are civilians being killed and injured on both sides of this conflict, but respect for the dead within the Muslim world is a core principal [sic] and what Hamas is doing is in contradiction to the customs and traditions of the local community.
"As in Judaism, Islam believes in taking the body and burying it at the first opportunity," he said. "Even Al Jazeera is sensitive to this and has blanked out faces as it is an invasion of privacy. This is a cynical abuse of respect and privacy and is not something that is reconcilable with the norms of the community. There are certain moral and ethical codes that we all behave by. In Egypt and Jordan this stuff doesn’t get published. Hamas are going to suffer for it amongst their own.”
Not bloody likely.
Does the apparent manipulation of pictures, the "photoshopping" of images to suggest scenarios that later prove to be false, suggest a desperation then on the part of the Islamists to persuade the outside world of their opinion, regardless of the truth being told or not told?
No, not desperation at all. It shows that they know the Western media and Western Leftists can be manipulated, and indeed are eager to be manipulated. So they are manipulating them. That's all.
Posted by Robert on November 20, 2012 1:59 PM | 12 Comments
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Author Profile Page duh_swami | November 20, 2012 2:31 PM | Reply
They have been faking it a long time...About five years ago, I read where Al-Dura got married...By now he probably has four wives...
Author Profile Page salah | November 20, 2012 2:49 PM | Reply
Respect for the dead within the Muslim world???
"Do not re-wash the deceased after having a sexual intercourse with"
Al-Sharwani, v.1, p.263
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/necrophilia-in-islam-necrophilie-en.htmlAuthor Profile Page RCCA | November 20, 2012 2:51 PM | Reply
Pig flying moment: Arab Columnists Criticize Firing Of Rockets From Gaza As Reckless Escapade Serving Iran, Not Palestinians
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6823.htmAuthor Profile Page ewha1 | November 20, 2012 2:51 PM | Reply
From the article "But solid evidence now reveals how Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been deliberately placing their civilian population in mortal danger, choreographing a number of seemingly gory scenes"
Yup, straight out of the MB playbook. The Muslim Brotherhood did exactly the same thing in the Bosnian civil war. Civilians weren't allowed to leave war zones: The Sarajevo Muslim government refused to sign off on the Bosnian Serb/Bosnian Croat plan to allow all civilians to leave the divided capital. This refusal allowed the Jihadists to use any civilian deaths as evil infidel warmongering.
The same applied to Srebrenica, yet again the the Sarajevo rejected any idea of civilians leaving, instead the military leadership got seriously rich in the enclave, siphoning off the huge international aid that reached Srebrenica and refusing the civilian population to barter food with the Bosnian Serb villages.
In Sarajevo the Muslim army placed tanks in hospitals, fired truck mounted mortars right next to hospitals then scooted off. Any justified Bosnian Serb counter barrages were portrayed in the media as infidel aggression of course.
All the huge outrages in Sarajevo against the Muslim population were in fact carried out by their own forces, deliberately: the Markale massacres, etc.
And so on and so on ad infinitum.
And they'll keep on with this tactic because it works a charm: the MSM are too gullible and/or in league with the MB for the infidels to get a fair hearing.
Author Profile Page ewha1 | November 20, 2012 2:51 PM | Reply
From the article "But solid evidence now reveals how Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been deliberately placing their civilian population in mortal danger, choreographing a number of seemingly gory scenes"
Yup, straight out of the MB playbook. The Muslim Brotherhood did exactly the same thing in the Bosnian civil war. Civilians weren't allowed to leave war zones: The Sarajevo Muslim government refused to sign off on the Bosnian Serb/Bosnian Croat plan to allow all civilians to leave the divided capital. This refusal allowed the Jihadists to use any civilian deaths as evil infidel warmongering.
The same applied to Srebrenica, yet again the the Sarajevo rejected any idea of civilians leaving, instead the military leadership got seriously rich in the enclave, siphoning off the huge international aid that reached Srebrenica and refusing the civilian population to barter food with the Bosnian Serb villages.
In Sarajevo the Muslim army placed tanks in hospitals, fired truck mounted mortars right next to hospitals then scooted off. Any justified Bosnian Serb counter barrages were portrayed in the media as infidel aggression of course.
All the huge outrages in Sarajevo against the Muslim population were in fact carried out by their own forces, deliberately: the Markale massacres, etc.
And so on and so on ad infinitum.
And they'll keep on with this tactic because it works a charm: the MSM are too gullible and/or in league with the MB for the infidels to get a fair hearing.
Author Profile Page Thomas Pellow | November 20, 2012 3:02 PM | Reply
Gary Clement on Hamas killing of Israeli ‘spies’ in Gaza"
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/11/20/gary-clement-on-hamas-killing-of-israeli-spies-in-gaza/?Author Profile Page Meryl Petkoff | November 20, 2012 3:21 PM | Reply
Just another day in taqiyya land, gotta fool the dumb kuffar!.
Author Profile Page Mackie | November 20, 2012 3:55 PM | Reply
The IDF has put out warnings to reporters in Gaza that Hamas will use them as shields if it helps them.
The IDF surgically targeted a Hamas intelligence operations center on 7th floor of a media building in #Gaza. Direct hit confirmed. (just approimately 5:30 Pm EST.
Author Profile Page wildjew | November 20, 2012 4:02 PM | Reply
"they know the Western media and Western Leftists can be manipulated...."
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Isn't this essentially what Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) jihadists do in a related way? They too want to be seen as victims of persecution by "racist" thugs? By Geller, Spencer, Pipes, McCarthy, Gaffney, Horowitz thugs?
Author Profile Page Eli | November 20, 2012 4:44 PM | Reply
Bukhari (52:269) - "The Prophet said, 'War is deceit.'"
Author Profile Page Meryl Petkoff replied to comment from Eli | November 20, 2012 5:16 PM | Reply
Bukhari? is that pedohammedan for bukakke? that's want pedohammedans seeks at the bacha bazi.
Author Profile Page jake-a-runi | November 21, 2012 2:45 AM | Reply
You cynics are corroding my faith in the noble Islamic peoples.
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