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I'm amazed that nobody's thought to blame "Da Joos" for this yet—20 people were injured and 3 killed at a funeral for a random Fatah thug, when suddenly amongst all of the traditional Palestinian funeral festivities, there was a fairly sizable explosion.



The Reuters caption is, admirably, somewhat less ambiguous:

A wounded Palestinian is transported to hospital after a blast at the funeral of Khalil Al-Msarai in Gaza December 14, 2007. Medical officials said at least 20 mourners were wounded in Friday's funeral blast, which police believe may have been caused by a grenade dropped by a gunman. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)

Yeah, who would've guessed that it would be a bad idea to bring hand grenades to a funeral anyway? Continue reading »

The terrorist scum over at Hamas have rounded up a handful of innocent-looking children and trotted them out to protest the "unfair" Israeli sanctions. Lest we forget, the "unfair" sanctions they are protesting are in response to a continual barrage of rockets launched at Israel, openly admitted to by Hamas itself.



Two things to note about these pictures: The press is fully aware of Hamas' complicity in the rocket attacks—photojournalists cover the press conferences that announce such actions on a regular basis. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Israel has completely backed away from cutting electricity to the Gaza Strip, which means that all of this darkness and candlelight is merely simulated for dramatic effect.

Once again, the press proves that it cannot be trusted in honestly covering the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Why am I not surprised?

See-also:

LGF, Israellycool, Dogfight at Bankstown

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As you may have heard this morning, there was yet another traditional Friday protest led by Fatah in the Hamas-occupied Gaza Strip today, which led to yet another "Traditional Hamas Beatdown.™" In reviewing the footage of this event, I noticed that our illustrious photographers, of whom 7 seem to have been slightly bothered, seemed to gravitate to certain individuals.

See this guy here?



He's about to get a hurtin'... Continue reading »

The Elder has run across something remarkably familiar. (I love getting Z-mail!) I saw these photos when they came across the wires, and didn't think anything of it. After all, blatant emotionalism for the sake of the camera is not exactly unheard of in the Palestinian territories...

Here's what the controversy is about:



And here's how photos like this happen:



Pretty straightforward, I'd say. I don't think the scene is staged in any way—it's entirely plausible that the boy, if standing in a similar position to the photo above, would be hit by flying debris, without necessarily being covered in dust. Are the photographers trying to put it together as an emotional, dramatic scene? Absolutely. But I don't think for a moment that they set this man up to running around screaming... that's something that the locals seem to do on their own accord. For the cameras, of course.

Of course, it is pretty disturbing to see all of the the photographers lining up like lemmings, vying to capture their own "Pulitzer" moment.

Can you imagine how much better journalism would be if journalists would pay as much attention to the truth as they did to getting glitzy awards?

I've rounded up all of the photos I could find on the wires below the fold. Continue reading »

Check this caption out:



Is Adel Hana seriously that disinterested in what's going on in this picture? In case you don't already know, "metal bars" like that are routinely used by Hamas to build those "home-made rockets" you've been seeing, one of which that killed an actual poor, innocent Israeli civilian yesterday.

At least the IDF managed to take out a Hamas weapons-production facility.

Here's a fine example of the thuggery that passes for leadership in the "Palestinian" territories.



More pictures of this shining example of "peace and tolerance" (and hopefully future victim of the "Zionist War Machine") follow the break. Continue reading »

Here's yet another instance of what I like to call "selective" truth:—We're presented initially, via our intrepid (by which I mean "totally uninquisitive") photographers, with news that a man was found dead, shot somewhere in the Gaza Strip. This, as far as anyone can tell, is true. Cue: crocodile tears.

We're also told, via captional inference, that the Israelis are being blamed for this shooting. Hello, conjecture.

Finally, we're told that, according to Israeli records, no soldiers were in the area at the time. Enter, truth.

This type of thing happens far more often than you'd ever think, yet time and time again, the press falls for the immediate blame-da-JEWSism spewed at them by the hostile locals and repeats the claims unquestioned. And time and time again, when the facts come in, the inital storyline is almost always shown to be false.

Are the collective press acting as ignorant dupes, merely parroting what they're told by "local" sources? If so, why do we even bother having a press, since they can't be trusted to report information that is, well, factual.

If they're not ignorant dupes, then the only other option I can think of is far worse:—Are they actively involved in trying to find stories that they can use to smear Israel?

Check out the extended article to see the evolution of the captions surrounding this story. By my count, the press continues to fall farther and farther into the latter category each passing day. Continue reading »