Palestinian photo-victimology

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AP photo caption (thanks to James):

Palestinian children and a man wounded in Israeli missile strikes are seen in the emergency area at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes demolished dozens of Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous air strikes. Gaza medics said at least 145 people were killed and more than 310 wounded in the single deadliest day in Gaza fighting in recent memory. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

"Palestinian children and a man wounded..." What an odd locution! Why not just say, "Wounded Palestinians" or "wounded children lay next to wounded man" or some such? Are the children wounded at all? They look unhappy, but show no visible signs of injury. Did AP photographer Khalil Hamra or his Palestinian contacts place unhurt children next to this apparently wounded man in order to tug at the West's heartstrings?

Certainly when it comes to faking grievance issues and manipulating the mainstream media, the "Palestinians" are old hands.

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That is obviously a 100% fraudulent photo...I doubt if even the adult is injured in the slightest, unless he was knocked down by a courageous Hamas jihadi rushing to be the first in the bomb shelter. And got a bloody nose.

Are there no baby milk factories in Gaza?
Have we any stock photos?
Whose in charge here?

Their address must be,

Associated Press, Palestine Propaganda Office, Gaza City.

Did the IDF forget to take out this Pallywood address?

The ever perpetual victim hood of Muslims. The forever farce of being persecuted seeing the rest of the non Muslim world reject allah and Islam makes them feel hatred and persecuted.

Bunch of sorry Mohammedans.

There appears to be some blood on the man's trousers. Nothing like that on the babies. It looks like he has landed in the infants hospital, or babies are lying in a bed next to him for a photo-Op.

Down here in Australia, last night I watched SBS Television at 6:30pm. I'm not sure which camera footage SBS was using however, you could definitely see that many of the "wounded" that were being carried to ambulances actually weren't wounded at all.

This is not to say that there are no wounded Palestinians, however, as we all know, the Palestinians will do anything they can to ensure Pallywood reigns supreme and world sympathy comes their way, even if that means faking injuries and constructing scenes of great destruction for the cameras.

Aaahhhh, Paliwood at its finest.

This ranks right there with the Palestinian woman in Sidon,Lebanon, in 1982, who for three successive days was shown,EXACTLY THE SAME FOOTAGE, SITTING IN RUBBLE ,EACH DAY WITH THE COMMENTATOR SAYING IT JUST HAPPENED.

Daddy was hurt on the job and couldn't find a baby sitter.

The sad part of all this is that the MSM the leaders of the world soon forget the real victims of Islamic Jihad. The many non Muslims who have been killed by these murdering thugs and followers of Mohammad. All those killed in Mumbai, London, Madrid, Bali, Thailand, Philippines, New York, Washington DC, Kashmir, Israel etc, and those in the past since the inception of this evil ideology of Islam came to be.

"There appears to be some blood on the man's trousers."

Posted by: MusHuntCowboy

Or maybe it's just dirt; he was probably standing too close to a mud puddle when a car went by and splashed him.
As for the kids, they remind me of the little gypsy beggar kids in the Paris subway. they're carefully coached to lie still and quiet and sick-looking, while Mama holds out her hand to passers-by and asks for "Help for the baby", and a couple of older children work the platform for more hand-outs. At the end of the work-day, you could see them all, including the "sick" youngest one, walking back to their apartment with the day's takings.

I feel for the palestinian children in the picture its so sad that people on this site are so blinded with there Hatred for others that they feel the need to laugh and make jokes about the children in the picture who are suffering and in pain.

Greek Vixen,

Good for you keep feeling the pain and suffering for these Palestinian children. You must be really busy feeling the pain for all those millions of children around the world who go hungry, die of hunger are killed and lose their parents everyday around the world too! Or is it that you just happened to feel this now and forgotten about the rest of children of the world who are left without parents or killed in many wars around the world?

I wonder if you see the children in Africa killed by Mohammedans in Darfur or left without parents or dying of malnutrition?

JewishOdysseus wrote:

...I doubt if even the adult is injured in the slightest...
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Quite likely--he has no visible wound--just a white cloth wound around his hand. The splatter on his pants *might* be blood, but just as easily could be mud or paint. Not only are none of the kids visibly injured, but their clothes appear perfectly clean except for a small grease stain on the arm of the little girl's coat. None of children are even crying, as they would likely be if actually hurt or even scared.

Now, it is not *impossible* that some of these people are injured--but given the visual evidence and the sad "Pallywood" tradition, I would consider it rather unlikely.

Those children don't look injured at all. And from what i can see the man only has some bloodsplatters on his pants.
Well i am not surprised at these fraudulent pics afterall that's Al-Taqiyya Pallywood in action

Vixen:

As a Greek, surely you must have read Aesop's tale of the boy who cried wolf. What has made these publications so humorous is that no one in the world who has followed the years of Palestinian propaganda can, nor should, believe them to be true. They have depleted all credibility, by lying so often, that no matter what comes out of Palestine should be doubted.

I've seen some pretty discusting posts on this site but this has to be one of the worst.

Lets say the children in the photo are not injured - did you ever think that could be their father or brother next to them?

No matter what the "liberal" media tells you, the fact of the matter is the IDF is using Hamas as an excuse to target and destroy more CIVILIAN - remember that word -civilian infrastructure and personal and to bring the people of Gaza into an even more miserable exsistence than they already have.

First of all missile attacks against innocent civilians won't stop Hamas' rocket attacks(watch they'll be back up to 100+ a day in less than a month after the IDF is done)

Second how exactly will this help the Israeli's in the long run? Are they pro-Lukid so delusional they think they can bomb there problems away? They don't think for a sec that for every dead Palestinian man, woman and child that their brother, sister, mother or father won't want to come back and take revenge?

As long as you have the worlds worst system of Apartide cast system since the dark-ages
don't ever expect to be out of business as a news reporter in Jerusalem anytime soon.

But whats the point of me even posting this - your all dead set on what ever pro-Israeli propaganda you hear from every American news source; from the liberal Wolf Blitzer to the conservative Ann Coulter -weird that's the only time they tend to agree on whats going on..hmmmm!

Greek Vixen,

I think I can safely say that most people on this site aren't blinded by hatred for others. Personally, what I'm disgusted with is the Palestinians' constant desire to be the centre of the media with their "suffering". In fact, much of their suffering is self-inflicted so if you'd like to blame someone, start with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Anyone who has read enough history or followed the situation in the Middle East would know that Israel has had to defend herself MANY times from annihilation. When it became apparent that Israel couldn't be defeated militarily, the "Palestinians" suddenly came into being with the intent and purpose of continuing the war against Israel and weaken her resolve over the years with a relentless terrorist campaign. Indeed, it can be argued that the Palestinians' nationalism is really just a front to advance their terrorist cause and war to push the Jews into the Mediterranean.

Furthermore, the Palestinians have squandered too much goodwill, foreign aid and assistance which hasn't gone towards anything useful. They haven't constructed any meaningful institutions of civil society or made any attempt to show that they are ready to have their own state. It's quite clear that the clear majority of them want war with Israel and hate Israel that much.

And, obviously you haven't seen before how the Palestinians do, literally, construct fake scenes for the international press in order to gain world sympathy and further isolate Israel. This is why I, and many others here who know what goes on, are sceptical of photos and news footage of Palestinians suffering as they've proven to be liars time and again.

fuwad84

You're in desperate need of detoxification. The IDF have and have only gone after targeting Hamas' military infrastructure and personnel. They have NOT declared a war against normal Palestinian civilians. You obviously didn't see the photos of the military infrastructure that Israel has targeted.

Importantly, you appear to be too stupid to acknowledge that Hamas place their military infrastructure and headquarters IN THE MIDDLE of cities where they are surrounded by other civilian targets.

Therefore, when Israel does destroy Hamas related targets, inevitably civilian casualties are going to happen. This doesn't make it nice but Israel does all they can to avoid civilian casualties, which by the way, is something Hamas does in their utmost power to achieve - Hamas don't care if Palestinians are killed because they don't care about them anyway and it's going to get them world sympathy, and, if Hamas kills Israeli civilians, then they just rejoice anyway.

You state: "First of all missile attacks against innocent civilians won't stop Hamas' rocket attacks(watch they'll be back up to 100+ a day in less than a month after the IDF is done)". Ok then, so how about Israel just remains doing nothing and see how far that gets them? Oh, that's right, they have done nothing for the past three years and that got them nowhere. They've been left with no choice but to cripple Hamas' military capability the hard way.

You also state: "Second how exactly will this help the Israeli's in the long run?" This will help Israel because now their citizens will be subjected to fewer rocket attacks and their citizens will be safer. It's the only solution that they have at the moment given that Hamas doesn't desire any peace and wants to see Israel destroyed.

Finally, I don't know where you get off saying "As long as you have the worlds worst system of Apartide cast system since the dark-ages don't ever expect to be out of business as a news reporter in Jerusalem anytime soon." There's an apartheid cast system in Israel? Perhaps you'd care to elaborate. It's hard to argue such a thing given that Israeli Arabs have their own newspapers, are able to vote in Israeli elections and an Israeli Arab sits on the country's Supreme Court bench.

But, then again, I guess I'm just a neo-con Zionist, pro-Israeli propagandist so what would I know? If knowing the truth makes me one then I think I can live with that.

No matter what the "liberal" media tells you, the fact of the matter is the IDF is using Hamas as an excuse to target and destroy more CIVILIAN

90% of the killed were Hamas members (policemen, militants etc).

The problem with you mohamedans is you expect people to submit to your will , if they don't, you whine cry and play the victim card.

Now go complain to the Hamas, they are responsible for this situation.

A croire les sources médicales du Califat elles-mêmes, en dépit de quelque 150 cibles détruites par Tsahal depuis hier à 11 heures trente, de centaines de miliciens éliminés et d’un millier de blessés environ, on ne déplorerait "que" 15 victimes civiles.
http://www.menapress.com/categories.php?op=newindex&catid=2

from this site who is not even pro israeli , it calls Hamas terrorists Islamic "resistants" (LOL)

According to the Hamas itself , only 15 civilians died.

So please spare us your bs

I have read about ten news article about Gaza just this evening...Every one of them has photo's of injured children, if no photo's there is description of children and families suffering.

They are clearly trying to hype the emotional content. They may tell you that most of the dead and injured are 'Hamas Security Men', (that's code for terrorist), but they only show pictures of children...

It's bad enough that innocents are caught up in armed conflict, but it is even worse to try and exploit it for political gain...That's evil...

The poster who commented on the boy who cried wolf, in relation to photos and news emanating from Gaza has got it right. No decent person wants to see children suffer, wether those children are citizens of a hostile power or not.

But when so many times we discover that news has been faked, that children are used to stage agitprop (agitation and propagnda), people tend to start dismissing those tales out of hand.

That is the sad truth of what happens to liars, eventually nobody will believe a liar, even when they are telling the truth.

That brings me to the practice of taqiyya, lying to gain some advantage over others, it is a poor practice that eventually ruins all trust, since we are not equipped with lie detectors, we tend to trust people that do not lie to us more than we tend to trust people that routinely lie as a matter of policy or religious doctrine.

ouch!!!!! it hurts, the constant whining. Those pictures are fake and made up (taqqiyya). The blood is slaughtered animal blood. The whole mohammadean world whines in unison. The pigs are grunting in unison, these same pigs didnt grunt when the Hamas was firing rockets into Israel well not their Ummah. The dhimmis are also on the side of these whiners now, Israel do what u want to do and do it fast.

this photo is so staqed that l cannot believe anyone so stupid not to see through it. the blood sprayed on the man's leg.. yeah..sure.. most of the ones killed were hammas, and they probably died with checkered kitchen towels around their faces!

Hey stupid Arabs of Gaza.

Don’t you have better photos? I mean real ones with lots of blood and dismemberments!

You keep nagging Israel with your homemade firecrackers since you own Gaza.

Don’t you realize Israel has bigger firecrackers than you?

The condition of your economy and your people is YOUR fault!

So don’t show us grisly pictures which reflects your doings.

I repeat: stop nagging Israel with your firecrackers!

Or else...

Never hear from Greek Vixen or fuwad84, it's like those one time hit run sympathizers of Mohammedans or are actual Mohammedans disguised as kufars.

Note to self:

Don't lob rockets into Israel day after day after day after day after day after day...if you don't want to get your ass kicked.


That is all.

fuwad84 wrote:

As long as you have the worlds worst system of Apartide (sic) cast (sic) system since the dark-ages don't ever expect to be out of business as a news reporter in Jerusalem anytime soon.
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Actually, Arabs in Israel enjoy full rights--far more rights than citizens have in any Muslim country. There is no apartheid caste system.

In addition, when Hamas was viciously targetting their fellow Muslims in Fatah, they fled to Israel for safety. When "Palestinians" need medical treatment, who takes care of them? Usually it is Israel. It is Israel who supplies food aid and electricity and infrastructure maintenance to Gaza.

But instead of feeling gratitude that the people they are so violent towards offer humanitarian aid, they have another reason--as they see it--for grievance. There are constant complaints that Israel didn't suspend checking for terrorists at the checkpoints when Fatah members were fleeing Hamas, or that Israel is not admitting enough Palestinians for medical treatment quickly enough.

Israel *is* unique--but not as an apartheid state. They are unique in providing more aid to their sworn destroyers than perhaps any people in history. Sadly, they will receive very little credit for it.

"Israel *is* unique--but not as an apartheid state. They are unique in providing more aid to their sworn destroyers than perhaps any people in history. Sadly, they will receive very little credit for it."
-- from a posting above

Yes, and in that ceaseless "providing" of "more aid to their sworn destroyers than perhaps any people in history" they are offering a model not to be emulated, but to be shunned. Indeed, their suicidal kindness to their enemies is idiotic.

Hummm... why does is seem like every time you bomb Jihadist targets in Gaza, Iraq, and Afghanistan you always hit nothing but children?

Where are the military aged males?

Jerry Joe: Psst. Look behind them. Their the guys cowering behind them firing rockets.