Posted on 06/18/2006 5:02:57 AM PDT by croak
While three major British newspapers published reports contradicting Israel's claims that its military was not responsible for the murder of seven members of the Ghalia family on a Gaza beach over a week ago, a German newspaper casts doubt on the authenticity of pictures taken soon after the bloody incident. German daily Sued Deutsche, said pictures taken by Zakaria Abu Irbad, 36, a cameramen with the Palestinian independent news agency Ramattan, contradict Palestinian claims that an IDF shell killed the Ghalia family and point to the possibility that the event was staged to hold Israel responsible
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So what? It is well known that the Sueddeutsche Zeitung is part of the leftist MSM-media. It is like asking the DU. Their stance is simply irrelevant.
Wow. I think the media is missing the bigger story here. A true miracle happened!
/sarcasm
The Gaza beach, Haditha, et. al. If they're Muslim you can expect them to lie through their teeth. It's condoned by their religion.
Truth fears no trial
Except when those conducting the trial are not interested in the truth.....only their agenda.
Staged? Ya think? That thought should have occurred to anyone with half a brain. Especially the "seasoned" journalists, who were so quick to publish the photos and blame Israel without blinking an eye.
how can anyone, after the fact, figure
out what happened?
the artillery shell could be a new or dud
shell wire as a bomb.
The newspaper said Irbad evaded most of the questions addressed to him.
Asked why he didn’t try to calm Hadil instead of filming her he said: “She asked me to film her. She wanted to be seen next to her father to show the world the crimes that Israel is committing.”
The newspaper finally asks: “Did the shocked 10-year-old girl, who had lost her father minutes earlier, give the cameraman direction instructions?”
Well, for one thing the dead and injured were taken to an Israeli hospital. The shrapnel removed was inconsistent with artillery, the victims were not in the location where the artillery was aimed, the incident occurred about five minutes after the shelling had ceased, the crater on the beach was inconsistent with an artillery crater, but completely consistent with a buried charge.
As Mary Mapes would point out, it hasn't been proved that it wasn't Israeli artillery and Israelis are guilty until proven beyond peradventure to be innocent.
Ask yourself, cui bono, who benefits? Who is likely to benefit from pictures of dead, injured and sobbing Palestinians splashed across the world's newspapers and TV screens? Da Jooz, of course! Also Neocons, Haliburton, Republicans, White Males, the Usual Suspects.
I guess the MSM will be too busy to investigate this story.... They will also let the Haditha story (that stinks of the same type of fabrication)slip away as well.
What a bunch of schmucks
I watched the video of the girl wailing (without tears--go figure). At the end of the clip, one of the "dead" guys gets up.
Happy Freepday (next Saturday)!
A testament to the power and mystery of Faith. Of course, in this case, it's the MSM's credulous Faith in the most flimsy and tranparent fabrications and the mystery of why anyone would take them seriously, even for a minute.
Maybe someone could write a book about the enduring Faith of the self-professed unbelievers.
"At the end of the clip, one of the "dead" guys gets up."
I guess that was one those "Allah Akbar" moments, but more likely the whole damn thing was staged and is a lie.
Djathink? Of course, for the dead and injured, it was real enough.
As to the likelihood that the girl was actually the daughter of the dead man (a corpse did show up at an Israeli hospital) I think of Reagan's press secretary when being told that a young girl killed in an American raid on Tripoli was the adopted daughter of Quaddify Duck, "We haven't seen the adoption papers."
I dont beieve anyone is saying no one died. What they are saying is that we dont know whether or not the Palestinians blew up their own people to get a story. The Palestinians are not above doing that.
For a country that is still in the 19th century they always seem to have a video camera at hand.
I realize that no one is saying that no one died. (There's an interesting spoonerism or tautology or oxymoron or limerick of something lurking in that sentence...) I just meant to point out, that even if some of the dead walked, some of the victims were genuine enough.
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