Tablet Magazine Yesterday, we were treated to another in a
series of backpedals, when the Associated Press corrected a caption to
the heartbreaking picture above, which faulted an Israeli air strike for
killing the infant son of a BBC reporter during Israel’s Operation
Pillar of Defense last November. Here’s what the caption to this
picture, which graced the cover of countless papers across the world,
has been for the last four months:
“Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike on their family house, in Gaza City. The Israeli military said its assassination of the Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, marks the beginning of an operation against Gaza militants.”
The correction came as a result of a United Nations report yesterday casting doubt
on the narrative of Israeli blame, which in addition to marking the
first time in history that the Washington Free Beacon and the United
Nations have ever agreed, suggested the death was caused by a misfired
Palestinian rocket. [...]
Al Dura. The Jenin Massacre. The Swedish organ-harvesting ring. Forced sterilization of Ethiopian immigrants..you’d think the media would have some humility about discredited anti-Israel stories. You would be wrong.At a certain point, this stops being about the facile media coverage of extraordinarily polarizing events. The battle for the truth and blame is simply mimicking the conflict itself.
The Arabs absolute disregard for truth helps them win the propaganda war hands down.
ReplyDeleteTo quote Menachem Begin, a"h: Goyim kill goyim and they blame the Jews.
ReplyDeleteThis situation is much more egregious. Those doing the killing in the situation on which PM Begin z'l commented were allies of Israel at the time, although Israel had nothing to do with, and certainly did not encourage or participate in, the killing.
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