Cheerleading for the Terrorists
The media, in all of its glory, wholeheartedly participating in the celebration of a new weapon designed to kill Jews:
More details will follow shortly, as soon as I have the time. I hope to track down the news articles attached to this event, photographs from other wires that might have attended, etc. In the meantime, the only other photo I've found on the wires so far from this "celebration" follows in the extended article.
Update: Reuters is beginning to weigh in on this event, sending in a photo bylined Abed Omar Qusini. It's interesting to note that Reuters' version of this story is significantly different than the story presented by the AP.
Masked Palestinian militants of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' brigades display weapons to the media in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The millitants displayed in a news conference what they claim to be a new homemade rocket named in Arabic 'Jondallah 1', means 'Soldiers of God'. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
More details will follow shortly, as soon as I have the time. I hope to track down the news articles attached to this event, photographs from other wires that might have attended, etc. In the meantime, the only other photo I've found on the wires so far from this "celebration" follows in the extended article.
Update: Reuters is beginning to weigh in on this event, sending in a photo bylined Abed Omar Qusini. It's interesting to note that Reuters' version of this story is significantly different than the story presented by the AP.
A masked Palestinian militant of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' brigades attends a press conference in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The millitants displayed in a news conference what they claim to be is a new homemade rocket, named in Arabic ' Jondallah 1', which means ' soldiers of God'. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Reuters is beginning to weigh in on this event. Their version of events sounds somewhat different than the AP's version, with the group, rather than the rocket being given the euphemistic title, and completely ignoring the new and improved Jew-killing weaponry. Could this be Abed trying to spin events? Did Reuters misunderstand what is going on there? Or is the Associated Press wrong?
Somebody has some 'splaining to do.
For those of you who might be new to Snapped Shot, this is not the first time that the press has coddled up to terrorist "press conferences." Just close your eyes for a second and see if you can picture the media showing up to a press conference organized by the Klu Klux Klan, and reporting on the Klan as glowingly as they do these murderous scum. After seeing photos like these, that picture really isn't all that hard for me to picture any longer. How about you?
The blind one-sidedness of the press continues to amaze me.
Update: The AFP has weighed in on this story. It appears to me that the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle: The most likely explanation I'm able to come up with for this is that the group is called "Jondallah," and the weapons are too. The only reason this still seems odd to me is that there really isn't any need to come up with another offshoot of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, as that group has not, to my knowledge, ever agreed to any cease-fire with the Israeli state.
Details, details. Too bad there aren't any actual investigative reporters in the middle east, but instead are only an endless fleet of gullible sycophants, who serve only to remind us that the press as a whole is a mere shadow of what it once was.
This just screams propaganda, and the MSM is shoving it at us with a big used car salesman grin. (no offense to any used car salesmen out there) For crying out loud, the rockets have their names written on them in English. That should tell you exactly which market this photo op is staged for.
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