Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:18:50 AM
In looking at many pictures coming out of Lebanon, there seems to be a disturbing trend, you cannot trust them. They are either being doctored or staged. At least many of them are being staged.
Over the weekend, Little Green Footballs discovered a photo that had been edited to make it look like the Israeli Air Force had caused greater damage to Beirut than they really did. This was a photo from Reuters news service. Reuters immediately fired the photographer and later removed all of his photos from their service. But many of his photos are still in circulation by newsgroups that have purchased their photos from Reuters.
The interesting thing about this photographer is that he seems to have been everywhere. Whenever there were important photos to be taken in Lebanon, he was there. The Beirut photo was doctored to make it look worse. The photos from Qana were staged. When people looked at the date and time stamps on the photos, they appeared out of sequence. The same people were wearing different clothes in sequential pictures. Obviously the photographer was working with Hezbollah to put out photos that make Israel look bad.
I saw a video where the "dead" person fell off the stretcher. The "dead" person climbed back on the stretcher and the funeral went on. The person was not dead. I saw another photo of bodies from an Israeli raid. Some of them are sitting up without support. That would indicate that the person being photographed as "dead" is alive. How many other "dead" bodies in the photo are really alive, but are willing to lay down when photographed.
I saw another video of a Palestanian running up to a hole in the wall and shooting at Israeli soldiers. Others in the video were ducking for cover. The video showed the location of this supposed action. It was on the other side of a building from the Israeli soldiers. The Palestanian people in the picture were in no danger. The man firing at the soldiers was firing into an empty building.
Other video's show people being shot. An ambulance instantly comes into the scene. People grab the individual, even by the part of the body where they were shot, and put them into the ambulance. All of this is acted out directly in front of the Israeli position. If they are afraid of being shot, why is it being acted out there. The individual with the shot leg does not react in pain when people grab him by that leg to take him to the ambulance. Something is not right.
All of this adds up to the fact that you cannot believe any facts that come out of Lebanon, if they are being put out by the Lebanese government or Hezbollah. The Israeli information, so far, has not been tainted by any allegation of inaccuracy. But, they can be fooled by Hezbollah stage plays put on for their cameras.
It just shows the world that one side is trying to do things by the book. The other side is ignoring the book and putting on a stage play for the benefit of world opinion. Even when the figures get reduced to believeable numbers, the damage has been done. The Muslim world believes the inflated lies put out by Hezbollah, showing them the later truth does no good.
Israel needs to be able to finish the job they started. They need to root out and destroy Hezbollah. Anything less is a victory for Hezbollah and a defeat for Israel. We as a free people should support Israel.