This is just the latest of innumerable examples of the deception that is perpetrated on an industrial scale by “Palestinian” propagandists and their allies in order to make Israel seem to be an oppressive occupying power. Discover the breadth and sophistication of this deception, and its deleterious international effects, in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.
But all of this atrocity manufacturing makes the question inescapable: if the “Palestinians” are really so bad off, why all the fakery? Why is it so hard to find authentic photos showing the actual misery of the people?
“Old Attack in Iraq Passed Off as Israel Firing at Palestine Mosque,” by Divya Chandra, The Quint, March 2, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
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The claim along with the video reads: “इजरायल बॉर्डर के पास फलस्तीन में बनी मस्जिद से अज़ान की आवाज़ से तंग आकर इस्राइली फोज ने मस्जिद के गुंबद पर गोली बारी करदी अब्दुल की बेसुरी आवाज से बचने का उत्तम उपाय।”
(Translated: Fed up with the sound of Azaan from the mosque in Palestine near the Israeli border, the Israeli Army opened fire on the mosque’s dome. The best way to avoid Abdul’s callous voice.)
Several social media users shared the video on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim….
We divided the video into multiple keyframes using InVid and reverse searched each frame on Yandex, which led us to an article published in 2008 that carried a snapshot as in the viral video.
The article, originally in Turkish, when translated to English mentioned, “In the footage shot in different cities of Iraq at different times, it is seen that US soldiers fired on the minarets targeted by heavy machine guns for minutes.[sic.]”
Since the article claimed that the viral video showed US soldiers attacking Iraq, we ran a relevant keyword search on YouTube and came across a video uploaded by American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in March 2008.
The description of the video read: “Cpl. Jon M. Turner’s (3/8 Kilo Company, 1st Platoon, U.S. Marine Corps) testimony on March 15th, 2008 included these two videos of Turner’s squad firing on Mosques unprovoked, a violation of international law.[sic.]”
We also found a video uploaded in 2008 that carried Jon Michael Turner’s testimony in which he can be heard saying that he was in Iraq in 2006.
At 06:41 minutes, one can see similar visuals as in the viral video. “For those of you who don’t know, it is illegal to shoot into a mosque unless you were taking fire from it. There was no fire that was taken from that mosque. It was shot into because we were angry,” he added.
The video carries the logo of ‘IVAW’ which stands for ‘Iraq Veterans Against the War’ and the website carried several video links mentioning: “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan featured testimony from US veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.”…
mortimer says
Where are all those previously hyperactive so-called ‘FACT CHECKERS’ who only checked conservatives?
I guess TERRORIST members of the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL, *NEVER* get fact-checked by the globalist LACKEYS.
gravenimage says
Good points, Mortimer.
americaanpatriot says
Muslims are experts in deceiving the public to promote their Islamic expansion and Muslim promotion in every conflict they started, be it in Palestine, in Africa, in Europe, in North America, in Australia, in Asia such as India, in Southern Thailand, in Myanmar’s South-West state of Rakhine where their brethren Bangladeshi so-called Rohingya are involved. They are always victim. Stupid and ignorant non-Muslim folks only accept and take it. It is time to wake up and know this on-going deception.
It is time for all of us to educate more about this to a wider public. Otherwise, we all are all going down under Islam. Writing comments alone is not enough.
gravenimage says
2008 attack on mosque in Iraq passed off on social media as Israel firing on ‘Palestinian’ mosque
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More lies from “Pallywood”–just disgusting.
And yes–if the “Palestinians” were really so badly off, this constant lying about Israel would not be necessary.
Andrew Blackadder says
The writing is in Hindi and not Arabic… WHY?.
Trump wanted Troops out of Iraq,Afghanistan and Syria and managed to get some out of Syria, however Nasty Pissoli and her merry gang of morons thought of this as “leaving our friends behind”, no word as of yet who those friends actually are but I guess it must be either the Syrians, Turks or Kurds, three people that have fought each other longer than the USA has even been a country.
However they thought Trump was the bad guy… Am I missing something here???.
Rob Porter says
Andrew – Yes, which friends? Of the three you’ve listed, only the Kurds have proven friends – of a sort – but more recently I’ve learned that like ISIS, Kurds have taken to persecuting Christians, and if now persecuting Christians then almost certainly also Yazidis. So to hell with the Kurds. Muslims invariably revert to being Muslims. As usual, disgusting Nancy Pelosi has an ‘any port in a storm’ approach to disparaging Trump.
Re this U.S. marine who gave testimony, as one who was conscripted into the South African Army I considered as very peculiar and disgraceful the approach of those marines to soldering. Since when does a marine or soldier kill innocent civilians for the sake of a ‘kill’? And when unable to locate an enemy firing on you, since when do you randomly select another target instead of somewhat patiently locating the enemy and then taking them out? In my opinion that was garbage soldiering, in the process possibly making enemies of people who beforehand were not enemies and glad to see Saddam Hussein removed.