Posted on 07/31/2006 2:18:11 AM PDT by BlueSky194
It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah. Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel's "Grapes of Wrath operation," so too a sequel of Qana II could change, once and for all, the direction of Israel's current summer blockbuster, "Change of Direction." Ten years ago, world condemnation of an errant Israeli shell that hit a civilian compound forced then-PM Shimon Peres to curtail the offensive against terror bases.
The setting was also perfect: Kana was again being used as a primary site for launching rockets against Israeli cities. The IDF reported that more than 150 rockets had been launched from Qana and its vicinity at Israeli civilians, wreaking destruction in Kiryat Shmona, Maalot, Nahariya and Haifa. It was only a matter of time before the Israeli Air Force would come for a visit, using pinpoint targeting of the sites used to launch rockets, Hezbollah logistical centers and weapon storage facilities.
On the morning of July 30, according to the IDF, the air force came in three waves. In the first, between midnight and one in the morning, there was a strike at or near the building that eventually collapsed. There was a second strike at other targets far from the collapse building several hours later, and a third strike at around 7:30 in the morning. There too the nearest hit was some 460 meters away, according to the IDF. But first reports of a building collapse came only around 8 am.
Thus there was an unexplained 7 to 8 hour gap between the time of the helicopter strike and the building collapse. Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters, in a press briefing, told journalists that "the attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear."
Gen. Eshel appeared genuinely mystified by the gap in time. He "I'm saying this very carefully, because at this time I don't have a clue as to what the explanation could be for this gap," he added.
The army's only explanation was that somehow there was unexploded Hezbollah ordnance in the building that only detonated much later.
"It could be that inside the building, things that could eventually cause an explosion were being housed, things that we could not blow up in the attack, and maybe remained there, Brigadier General Eshel said.
Eshel reported that as recently as two days ago, military intelligence reported the building area had been used by the terrorists for storage or firing of weapons. It was a bad place to cram dozens of women and children.
There are other mysteries. The roof of the building was intact. Journalist Ben Wedeman of CNN noted that there was a larger crater next to the building, but observed that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.
Why would the civilians who had supposedly taken shelter in the basement of the building not leave after the post-midnight attack? They just went back to sleep and had the bad luck to wait for the building to collapse in the morning?
What we do know is that sometime after dawn a call went hour to journalists and rescue workers to come to the scene. And come they did.
While Hezbollah and its apologists have been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.
Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until the morning and only after the camera crews came. The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking. There were no scenes of live or injured people being extracted.
There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted: all the victims, he concluded, appeared to have died while as they were sleeping -- sleeping, apparently, through thunderous Israeli air attacks. Rescue workers equipped with cameras were removing the bodies from the same opening in the collapsed structure. Journalists were not allowed near the collapsed building.
Rescue workers filmed as they went carried the victims on the stretchers, occasionally flipping up the blankets so that cameras could show the faces and bodies of the dead.
But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. Their limbs appeared to have stiffened, from rigor mortis. Neither were effects that would have resulted from an Israeli attack hours before. These were bodies that looked like they had been dead for days.
Viewers can judge for themselves. But the accumulating evidence suggests another explanation for what happened at Kana. The scenario would be a setup in which the time between the initial Israeli bombing near the building and morning reports of its collapse would have been used to "plant" bodies killed in previous fighting -- reports in previous days indicated that nearby Tyre was used as a temporary morgue -- place them in the basement, and then engineer a "controlled demolition" to fake another Israeli attack.
The well-documented use by Palestinians of this kind of faked footage -- from the alleged shooting of Mohammed Dura in Gaza, scenes from Jenin of "dead" victims falling off gurneys and then climbing back on -- have merited the creation of a new film genre called "Palliwood."
There is increasing evidence that the Kana sequel is another episode in this genre, a variety which might be called Hezbollywood. The Hezbollah have evidently learned their craft well.
The current suspension of Israeli military air activity is supposedly intended, among other things, to be used for the investigation of what really happened at Qana. It is to be hoped that there are real journalists on the scene, and unbiased medical examiners, who will have the courage and intelligence to sort out the anomalies and contradictions, and get to the buried truth of what happened.
There is no shortage of victims in Lebanon and Israel these days. From this vantage point, at this time, it looks like in the case of Qana, the world's media was duped in a cruel and colossal hoax by a terror organization that knows no moral bounds in its exploitation of suffering and anti-Israel hatred. But, as usual, the only party expected to pay the full price will be Israelis.
Yes, it would be a Hollywood ending for it all to end in Qana, exactly as it did a decade ago. But perfect endings, and perfect crimes, are rarely pulled off in real life.
Israelis will not be able to investigate this claim directly. The question remains whether honest men and women of other nationalities will let this likely lie stand or press for the revelation of the improbable and inconvenient truth.
You beat me to it!
One of the things I noticed was the lack of blood. In building collapses there is LOTS of blood and bruises.
...ping.
bttt
"The Jews didn't start this mess...."
no they didn't, and it was a hell of alot more than what the MSM's keep limiting they reports to say; " ...after Hezbullah captured 2 Israeli soldiers"; that is just bullshit, they also killed 11 more and a few civilians at the same time plus all their attacks prior
If the victims were gassed, they were either gassed elsewhere or the gas had bled off before the "rescuers" went in. But the lack of blood and crushing injuries and their gray skin does seem to point towards asphyxiation of some sort.
Well, sure. Put yourself in the reporter's position -- you can report the truth as you see it or report it as the terrorists present it to you.
If you report it as you see it, then there's a slim chance it will get exposure in the media.
If you report it as you see it, there's an even slimmer chance you will ever get access to areas where the behind-the-lines action on the terrorist side is happening.
If you report it as you see it, you may even get roughly handled or even "disappeared."
Most "investigative" reporting is done against people who aren't likely to kill the reporters, not against someone who doesn't give two hoots in Hell whether the reporter continues to stave off ambient temperature or not.
Screw the press..
Screw the U.N..
Screw the Arab Street's protests...
Screw the E.U. protests..
Screw the Chinese..
Screw the Russians..
Screw em all....
Allow the Jews sufficient time and support to give the brave Muslim Jihadists what they "claim" to crave -- the opportunity to kill Jews....or die trying.
But THIS time, the Jews are coming to THEM...
But THIS time, the Jews are ARMED...
But THIS time, the Jews will kill the sonsuvbitches...
Unfortunately -- the World has become to "civilized" to permit the Jews to kill enough of the bastards...
Semper Fi
Arabs, lies and videotape
Why did the Lebanese rescue teams not evacuate the building until hours after the collapse and only when the camera crews came. The rescue team then took out the bodies of children slowly for the camera crews.
The Arabs prefer dead children for the camera's then to rescue their children.
July 27: From the Ottawa Citizen: Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=37278180-a261-421d-84a9-7f94d5fc6d50
When it first was being reported, I suggested that the dead might be "political unreliables" who were being used for cover. Now I wonder if some "undesirable" families had been killed just for the media showcase
Hiz firing from Apartment complex
http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/B883D7F6-FF7B-4E46-A639-643ED03F477E/0/FiringBehindBuilding.wmv
Must Visit...
http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=15123
Israelly Cool is all over it
http://www.israellycool.com/
All kinds of art and knowledge (Glorious, Glorious)
http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Right.asp
Flopping Aces (big up) with video
http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/07/29/pictures-showing-the-cowardly-hezbollah/
(with the killer roundup at bottom, trust me... there's knowledge in those links)
Regime Change Iran (smoking hot)
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/07/tehran-likely-to-gain-if-lebanon.html
Marathon Pundit (League of Villains, visits)
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_marathonpundit_archive.html#115422034350072989
Tigerhawk (antiwar protests and how long on Condi banner)
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/07/orchestration-of-demonstrations-survey.html
Blue Crab Boulevard
(list of possible war crimes from this incident)
http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/07/30/caught-red-handed/
Hot Air (linkfest bottom)
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/07/30/qana-bombing-building-collapsed-eight-hours-after-attack/
Powerline (building collapsed a short time before Arab journalists on the scene? Hours later?)
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014844.php
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
A note for Appeasement Swine on our Own Shores
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/?p=1135
And today's
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/
The American Thinker
Jihad Watch
EU Referendum (Milking It, graphic, must read)
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html
Second Miracle at Cana
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/
NYT story with Christians telling what's really going on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/middleeast/28refugees.htm?_r=1&oref=slogin
Vital Perspective also notes Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention:
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
So the civilian casualties are, under the Geneva Convention, Hezbollah's responsibility.
http://vitalperspective.typepad.com/vital_perspective_clarity/2006/07/responding_to_t.html
Wide Awakes look at history re: Hiz
Pics
http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/07/28/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-solve-no-evil-moral-equivalence-perpetuates-violence/
A reminder... for fans of moral equivalence
http://redneckperil.blogspot.com/2006/07/every-american-should-watch-this.html
Israel Vlog from Jerusalem Post
http://www.jerusalemonline.co.il/home.asp
Poles Rally at Warsaw Synagogue in Support of Israel
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Also at Gateway:
Islamic Extremists Gain Control of Mogadishu & Associated Press (A must read)
Because I love you... the vid closet:
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah's Use of Human Shields (Short Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM35dzT9dUI&mode=related&search=
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah's Use of Human Shields
Longer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM35dzT9dUI&mode=related&search=
Longer, more in depth
http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/22169/Hezbollah_s_Use_of_Human_Shields
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah Fires From Behind 3-Story Bldg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWO5oU5LHFI&mode=related&search=
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah Rockets in Civilian Areas
Clear)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8fSkSMhjw&mode=related&search=
War in Lebanon: Hezbollah Attacks From Qana; Human Shields
2:24 Must See
http://vitalperspective.typepad.com/vital_perspective_clarity/2006/07/responding_to_t.html
Good eye Fred.
I'm not ashamed to admit -- I've come to distrust every damned thing out of most Muslim's mouth, camera, papers, TV, radio or literature.
By "religion" and "culture" they're liars and totally untrustworthy to "infidels".....
EVERYTHING requires independent verification...
It will not be long, before our "good friends" the Afghans and Iraqi will "pull a France" -- and stab us in the back...
To the "pious" Muslim -- Islam comes before EVERYTHING...especially the interests of an "infidel"..
The saving grace to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, is not that we've actually earned their "friendship" - but that they gave us a killing ground to destroy the neighborhood Jihadists...
Both countries were excellent "shit magnets" and the turds came running to the slaughter.
Semper Fi
Because they knew the kids were already dead previously.
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