Column One: Terrorist theater tricks

Jerusalem Post ^ | 8?28/06 | Caroline Glick

[dervish]

What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?

Let us observe two media events which occurred on Sunday in Gaza. Sunday afternoon released hostages and Fox News journalists Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig spoke before the cameras. The fact of their release and their statements were reported by more than 1,000 news organizations throughout the world.

At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who were forced by their Palestinian captors to convert to Islam, praised the Palestinians. Centanni said, "I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story because the Palestinian people are a very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people that the world need[s] to know more about." Wiig similarly praised the Palestinians.

While their remarks were covered extensively, no one seemed to think that the fact that their first post-release statements were made at a Palestinian Authority sponsored media extravaganza in Gaza was significant. No one noted that the men were flanked by Palestinian "security forces," and stood next to Hamas terrorist leader and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

No mention was made of the fact that the two were initially kidnapped by just such PA "security officials," or that Haniyeh is one of the leaders of one of the most fanatical jihadist organizations in the world, an organization that the majority of the "beautiful, kind-hearted and caring" Palestinians voted into office last January.

That is, no mention was made of the fact that until the two men left Gaza, they remained unfree. No one asked whether they had been given the option of not giving a press conference in Gaza...

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[goldstategop]

Caroline Glick comes out in support of the Pajamahadeen!

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[DTA]

Before the Second intifada, during Bosnia civil war (1992-95) Islamic terrorists (both domestic and imported variety) have mastered the macabre theatrics to capture world sympathy for their terrorist cause. They were highly successful, mostly because they did not spare the lives of their own coreligionists in order to acheive the full effect: sniping of the citizens of Sarajevo, mortar bombing breadline, planting explosive devices on a busy marketplace and so on, culminating in genocide hoax of Srebrenica.

Willing media Media instructed by the Saudi-funded PR agencies blamed the Serbs. And Jerusalem Post dutifully followed and spred the lies on their behalf.

In order to support NATO aggression on Yugoslavia in 1999 even more macabre theatrics was employed. A massacre was staged (Racak) and dead terrorists were represented as poor innocent Albanian civilians.

And guess what? Jerusalem Post followed the terrorist line and blamed the Serbs.

When agression started, Serbs were accused of HOLOCAUST, genocide, concentration camps, even running crematoria similar to Treblinka and Birkenau.

Guess what, Jerusalem Post followed the line and thus not only supported terrorists, denigrated Serbs as a people in a Goebbels manner, but also injured the memory of people who perished in The Holocaust.

Now, Jerusalem Post complains of islamic terrorist theatrics. Theatrics were developed with the willing help of Jerusalem Post.

The lessons of islamic theatrics and propaganda use of children in Kosovo were employed in Second intifada, the lessons of Racak "massacre" were employed in Jenin "massacre", the lessons of Sarajevo "massacres" were emplouyed in Qana "massacre".

And it will not stop any time soon.

Jusalem Post, what kept you? I am sick of islamic propaganda and I am sick of Jerusalem Post spreading the very same Islamic propaganda they now complain of. They are fully responsible, as a member of Jihad supporting media corps. Now, it is too late and "we did not know" is not an excuse we can believe in.

However, better late than never.

[mvpel]

That's what happens when you get to lippy in the middle of a mob of Palestinians.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !

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[exnavy]

A very obvious series of coincidence.

[exnavy]

Without an M-249 SAW in your hand.

[Mad Dawg]

From the same article (maybe this is a digression):

The International Committee of the Red Cross, with its internationally mandated status as a protected organization, is particularly culpable. The blogoshere - and specifically EU Referendum and Zombietime Web sites - have shown that Red Cross employees in Tyre and Kana fabricated from whole cloth a tale of an Israeli airstrike against Red Cross ambulances in Kana on July 23. In an exhaustively documented report, "How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War," Zombietime showed how Red Cross employees took an old, rusty ambulance and alleged that the IAF had attacked it with a missile that blew a hole straight through the middle of the red cross on the ambulance's roof.

The Red Cross allegation was reported as fact by such "credible" news organizations as Associated Press, Time magazine, the BBC, ITV, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Age, MSNBC, The Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both published accounts of the attack as evidence of Israeli "war crimes" in Lebanon.

Zombietime clearly proved from simple scrutiny of the photographs taken of the ambulance, that the hole in the cross was not the result of a missile attack but the work of the ambulance manufacturer. It was the hole for an air vent. The pock marks on the roof were the result of age and decay. There had been no fire in the ambulance. There was no attack. It was a complete fabrication, concocted by Red Cross employees who enjoy their protected status because their organization has pledged its neutral status in this and all wars.

ONE WEEK later, as EU Referendum reports in a similarly detailed investigation of the much condemned IAF bombing of Kana on July 30, (which actually happened a mile north of Kana at Khuraybah village), Red Cross relief workers actively participated in the staging of a perverted media extravaganza where the bodies of dead children were paraded about before the waiting camera crews for hours and hours.

Rather than demand that the ICRC account for the clear breach of its binding commitment to neutrality, and rather than attack the Lebanese Red Cross for its active collaboration with Hizbullah, the international media has attacked the bloggers. They are brushed off as "Israel supporters," and "right-wing extremists." The aim of these brush-offs is to convince "right thinking" citizens that they oughtn't have anything to do with these champions of truth and human decency.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to be associated with the Red Cross. They insist that their volunteers be unable to protect themselves and they make it difficult to go to Mass or other worship when one is working for them, and they pretty much show contempt for their volunteers. I had a very bad time in Louisiana last year and I'm guess I'm still not over it.

[sheik yerbouty]

Not to mention, "industrious and self reliant"..

[DTA]

>>>>>>>I'm finding it increasingly difficult to be associated with the Red Cross.<<<<<<

There are TWO Red Cross organisations, not one.

There is a International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, where Red Cross organisations from varius countries are members. That's where pennies collected by school children and volonteers go.

Their role is positive, if somewhat ineffective.

And there is another organisation. The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC (one mentioned in this article) A PRIVATE enterprise based in Switzerland. They hide behind better known above mentioned organisation and are not too eager to point to the fact they are not related.

ICRC is a profit making machine with murky political goals. It will suffice to say they were the ones who visited Nazi concentration camps and found nothing wrong there.

ICRC operates on the principles of a private company with no public insight. They are nefarious group hiding behind humanitarian front.

[Mad Dawg]

I don't understand then:

What is the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a phrase that symbolizes the unity of all Red Cross work carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; and national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies or their equivalents around the world, including the American Red Cross; and the Magen David Adom in Israel.

How are the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross different?
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (often called the Federation) is an umbrella organization of national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that coordinate relief efforts throughout the world occurring outside the theatre of war and other forms of armed conflict.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.

(I added some underlining and took out some internal linking) It seems to me that there is some closeness between the two organizations. And in any event the anti-religion behavior I saw in LA is a problem whther or not the American Red Cross coooperates with the ICRC.

I want to stress, this is a Problem for me. Of course I want to help in a crisis. But if the Red Cross is going to treat me like a child, be massively inconsistent in their training requirements, and generally be a PITA, I'm going to have to find some other group to work with. That's partially why I'm working on my EMT certification.

[Mad Dawg]

All that stuff I blockquoted was from: here

[DTA]

Read this:

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/international/red-cross/press/reuters-icrc-960830.html

No need to teach old dogs new tricks - ICRC are nasty bunch of people, they were and they are Nazis and Nazi sympathizers- the business stayed within the same families.

Auschwitz's Angel of Death Josef Mengele obtained Red Cross papers

Nazi war criminals escaped to Argentina using false identities supplied by the Red Cross, the humanitarian organisation has admitted.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it unwittingly provided travel papers to at least 10 Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie.

source: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/red_cross_nazis.htm

As I said, a nasty bunch.

Pay attention to word game "red cross" and "ICRC".

[dervish]

"How are the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross different?"

NO difference. The International Red Crosses are the organizations whose ambulances have been used in Iraq and Palestinian disputed areas to transport terrorists and whose mouthpieces condemn US as war criminals in Guantanamo. They are complicit with the terrorists and the we-hate-America-crowd .

OTOH the American Red Cross is a separate org which may be inefficient and wasteful at times but they are not in the business of enabling terrorists.

[dervish]

I hope to watch the Greta exclusive tonite when they will describe their ordeal.

During the Lebanon war, Mike Tobin in Israel spoke of his counterpart accross the border being limited in what he could say for fear of Hezbollah. Access equals corruption. CNN taught that lesson.

[Sabramerican]

when they will describe their ordeal.

I'll take a wild stab.

They were scared. They were hopeful. They had their fingers crossed when they converted to Islam. The kidnappers are to blame but not the rest of the great "Palestinian" people who suffer and need their story told. They're happy to be home and would go back if asked because, you know, the "Palestinians" are just beautiful and don't have the opportunity to have their story told. Let me know if I missed anything.

[Mad Dawg]

Well, I would say worse than inefficient. When they cancelled the Mass that was held every Sunday in the Shelter and didn't tell the volunteers or the residents in time for us to get to a Mass in the community, I knew the ARC was in trouble. ANd their reason for cancelling sefrvices in the shelter AND announcements of the arrival of transporation to services in the community was 100% PC toro caca.

BTW, the stie to which I was referred descrbies the ICRC as coordinating all the national red crosses, crescents, what-have-yous.