The propaganda jihad is nowhere more sophisticated or virulent than in Israel. Not only does the Palestinian media fabricate Israeli atrocities; the Israeli media does too. From "Citizens should insist on a fair press" in the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to JS:
A particularly flagrant Israeli example was Ilana Dayan's report on the October 5 shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by IDF soldiers. Initially, the soldiers claimed to have no idea that Iman al-Hams was a schoolgirl; they merely saw an unidentified Palestinian carrying a backpack near their outpost, where no innocent Palestinian had reason to be, and concluded that it was a bomber coming to attack them.Later, however, several soldiers accused their company commander of "confirming the kill" – i.e. shooting al-Hams repeatedly at close range, where he could not have avoided seeing that she was a schoolgirl. (The star prosecution witness in the commander's trial has since admitted in court that his "eyewitness" account of this "confirmed kill" was a lie.)
After the "confirmed kill" story broke, Dayan broadcast an investigative report into it on Fact, the acclaimed television news magazine she anchors. The IDF subsequently accused her of having distorted, or even fabricated, parts of the report in a libelous fashion. Most egregiously, the IDF said, she tacked footage of the soldiers celebrating onto the footage of them shooting, so that anyone watching would assume they were celebrating al-Hams' death.
In reality, the celebration footage came from a Rosh Hashana party several weeks earlier – a fact Dayan admitted when confronted.
Tacking unrelated celebration scenes onto the ostensible footage of al-Hams's killing (in reality, the shooting scenes also turned out to be from a different incident) is indeed slanderous fabrication; it implies that the soldiers rejoiced over having killed a schoolgirl.
Yet not only did Dayan pay no price; her media colleagues vigorously defended her right to indulge in such fabrications.
Her boss, program editor Doron Glazer, for instance, dismissed the incident by declaring: "The chief of staff has more important work to do than attacking Fact." And Haaretz columnist Ehud Asheri went even further, writing that Dayan was not guilty of "tendentious and intentional fabrication," because "the celebration scene was shown in the context of the general atmosphere in the company."
In other words, since Dayan believed – rightly or wrongly – that those particular soldiers were capable of celebrating a schoolgirl's death, it was legitimate for her to fabricate footage that showed them doing so when they did not.
Her boss, program editor Doron Glazer, for instance, dismissed the incident by declaring: "The chief of staff has more important work to do than attacking Fact."
Actually, no. There is hardly anything more important in Israel than in exposing the nonsense and lies of such people as this reporter for "Fact." Where are the demands by people in Israel that all the people so unrepentantly defiant about their making up false stories, with false testimony and film footage that is entirely unrelated (the soldiers celebrating a holiday two weeks before, not expressing fiendish glee at the killing of a girl), be fired?
If Israel goes under, and it certainly could, and one can see it feelingly, the consequences would be terrible. There is the fate of the Jews in Israel, who would not survive, or would be pushed out. They are the last people in the world who deserve this. The second is that those still capable of thought in the Western world would be, or should be, permanently paralyzed with guilt after all that has happened in the Western and Islamic world to the Jews, the most persecuted tribe in human history. The third is that the very idea of Western civilization, despite all the nonsensee of the age, depends in recognizing certain imupulses. European, and now Western civilization, makes no sense without some recognition of Christianity and its Jewish roots. Its art and its literature, and its morals, and its political arrangmeents, require that what is called the Holy Land not be seized by gloating Muslims, now OPEC-fueled and maddened by the videocassettes, audiocassettes, and assorted al-Jazeeras that have made Islam, despite its being a political, economic, social, intellectual and moral failure, a permanent threat to its betters -- that is, to all other systems of belief.
Robert Frost once defined a "liberal" as someone "who always takes the other fellow's side in a quarrel." He had no idea. Taking someone else's side in a mortal struggle, and stopping at nothing -- like this Israeli reporter -- is beyond any conceivable reason, except psychic disarray, and a desire not to face or own up to an implacable and ruthless and limitless enemy, but rather to construct "reasons" for the implacable hatred that is directed at Israel, as an Infidel sovereign state -- how much more psychically appealing it is to fabricate Israeli atrocities as a way of explaining, and justifying, the otherwise unendurable and (to some, but not to those who study Islam) inexplicable Arab hatred.
And of course, self-flagellation is not limited, in the Middle East, to the Shi'a at Ashura -- any number of Israelis on the left engage it it, without metal chains, but with their mental chains, every day of the year.
Believing she is an embedded CNN reporter? lets give her some credit to that wall of shame growing ever so with the likes of blatant liars.
While shaking her head yes she says no,were her lips moving.Lies