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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"Djathink? Of course, for the dead and injured, it was real enough."
They are quite capable of killing their own. They do it daily every day 24/7. They have bodies to spare.
Look, we agree. I made a post when the story first came out, saying I thought it was set up, they fired the Qassams to provoke an Israeli response then killed some of their own for public relations purposes. Before the forensic evidence was made public.
The victims are real enough all right. Finding out who victimised them is the problem.
Indeed. One guy found shrapnel 200 meters away, and thus claimed Israel was responsible. That's apx 2 football fields away. Hard to imagine that a shell exploding 2 football fields away would kill 7 people.
Not to mention all the other questionable evidence, such as the revival of "dead men", the removal of shrapnel from victims, the Hamas combing the beach shortly after the explosion.
Should be pretty easy to determine from the blast alone. A shell would dig a deep crater on the beach. Where are the pictures of the crater?
What "seasoned journalists"? They are all in hotels in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and rely on Palestinian contacts/reporters for their info. There is no independent journalism in Gaza simply because it's very unsafe to report negatively on any of the factions. They shoot their own just for mouthing off, imagine what they'd do to foreign journalists who wrote critically of Hamas or Islamic Jihad or Fatah.
Without sarcasm, the big story is that the British are much more anti Israel then the Germans.
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I think that is probably the wisest policy about the region and its adherents that one could adopt.
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