Kids, choose your parents carefully.

If we complain, next time they will injure the children to make it look better.

Or at least spill some ketchup on them, good grief.

That may not even be the kids' father... caption doesn't say it is.

It would be news if they published an actual picture, rather than the "posed" ones they always seem to throw out there.

Not even well-staged.
This one rates a Bronx cheer for "production values".

They use their children for worse- all of it is disgusting.

I thought the same thing when I first saw this photo...staged!

On the other hand I've seen a lot of pictures of dead terrorist...appears that Israel's response has hit it's mark.

For victims of missile strikes, the children's clothes are amazingly well-kept.

If young children are injured or killed it is because Hamas surrounds themselves with civilians so they can show the brutality of the Israelis.

Maybe firing rockets at Israel wasn't such a good idea.

We can't even see for sure if the man is actually injured. If so, how seriously? Did he cut his hand on something?

Is that hydraulic fluid on his pants? Was he working on his car?

I call provisional bullshit on the whole photo

Scumbags.

With all the supposed dead and dying, they can still spare hospital beds for propaganda?

Hooray for Pallywood.

The middle child on the stretcher was also featured in a video clip someone linked to yesterday.

Sad that "old guys in the pajamas" can see the obvious, but the uber-educated and sophisticated AP can't.

The kids are suffering all right. They suffer from being raised by assholes.

re: #10 pre-Boomer Marine brat

We can't even see for sure if the man is actually injured. If so, how seriously? Did he cut his hand on something?

Is that hydraulic fluid on his pants? Was he working on his car?

I call provisional bullshit on the whole photo

If they were smart, they would have sprinkled hydraulic fluid on the kids' clothes, too. Of course, that would ruin their Martha Stewart Originals.

Well that didn't take long:

re: #6 Blackacre

OK, lizards, let's keep our eyes open for the next edition of fauxtography or the Green Helmet Guy. We all know that it's coming. It's only a question of when.

These people take their kids to look at fatah torture rooms and blown up car wreckage- why deny them the thrill of a gaza ER in war mode? Where else would the propaganda pictures be getting taken?

re: #8 Wyatt Earp

For victims of missile strikes, the children's clothes are amazingly well-kept.

Also for a population that is supposed to be destitute.

Fuck Hamas.

Are they supposed to be crying? The bottom one seems to have some kind of tear streak on his or her left cheek and the middle one looks recently slapped or denied candy.

re: #19 Bloodnok

Also for a population that is supposed to be destitute.

I can't let my children see this. They'll think I'm a terrible father.

a man wounded in Israeli missile strikes

He doesn't look particularly wounded to me.

/does he have a missile induced hangnail?

Children are used to evoke sympathy for the devil who caused the injuries to the "innocents".
If this is staged, it is sickly exploitive and borders on child abuse.

re: #20 MandyManners

Fuck Hamas.

And the camels they rode in on.

They stack em like so much garbage.

How difficult would it be for them to tumble off that crowded bed and really get hurt?

Call the set designer and order rail guards, assholes.

OT:

Hey Steeler fans...

Ben Roethlisberger Taken Off Field On Stretcher

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was carried away on a stretcher after taking a hit against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

Roethlisberger lay motionless on the Heinz Field turf for about 15 minutes, until medical personnel were able to unscrew his face mask, remove his helmet, strap him onto a stretcher, lift him onto a cart and drive him into the locker room.

Browns linebackers Willie McGinest and D'Qwell Jackson hit Roethlisberger as he attempted a pass with 1:48 left in the first half and the Steelers leading the game 7-0.

The exact nature and extent of Roethlisberger's injury is unknown. Replays on television showed the back of his head slamming onto the turf as he took the hit.

He remained conscious the entire time he was down and stuck his right thumb in the air while he was being taken away.

In a meaningless game as well.

re: #16 Wyatt Earp

If they were smart, they would have sprinkled hydraulic fluid on the kids' clothes, too. Of course, that would ruin their Martha Stewart Originals.

Hey! I got it! Raspberry jam!

/could I make money consulting for Paliwood?! ... WOW! ... I'm outta here!

folks - i bring you - "pointed finger pallywood man in front of smoke"...

[Link: www.imgfreehost.com...]

this also needs to be on the front page of LGF...

So when are we going to do something about the same photographers and newspapers that print these staged lies? We are SO tired of the same old non-sense.

re: #29 buzzdroid

folks - i bring you - "pointed finger pallywood man in front of smoke"...

[Link: www.imgfreehost.com...]

this also needs to be on the front page of LGF...

I remember seeing that guy at the grassy knoll . . .

re: #29 buzzdroid

folks - i bring you - "pointed finger pallywood man in front of smoke"...

[Link: www.imgfreehost.com...]

this also needs to be on the front page of LGF...

left-handed, for whatever exactly that adds.

Goes along with this story:

Israel is addicted to violence

The attack on the Gaza strip is proof that Israel is addicted to violence. Slaughtering 155 civilians, many of whom are women and children, can not be justified.
[Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk...]

The sub-context to these stories is the Blood Libel.
It's pure antisemitism.

re: #8 Wyatt Earp

For victims of missile strikes, the children's clothes are amazingly well-kept.

Their mother obviously dressed them up for their big photo shoot.

They killed Chuckie

[Link: cache.daylife.com...]

re: #29 buzzdroid

folks - i bring you - "pointed finger pallywood man in front of smoke"...

[Link: www.imgfreehost.com...]

this also needs to be on the front page of LGF...

As someone pointed out earlier, "Night Fever, Night Feveeeeerrrr"!

i find it somewhat delicious, that as i am drinking a glass of wine, whilst watching those Vixens from the pop band "Girls Aloud" on british telly, Hamas and Islamofascism is being destroyed and eliminated.

Ahh... let me sit back, sip some wine, and revel in it for a bit.

thank YOU Israel!

re: #35 Opinionated

They killed Chuckie

[Link: cache.daylife.com...]

Oh brother.

re: #34 doriangrey

Their mother obviously dressed them up for their big photo shoot.

Big smile. BIG SMILE!

You can see the middle child in this photo in the Reuters video Charles linked yesterday, from :39 to :41, being carried in by a woman, and rapidly laid down on the gurney. No examination, just a plunk-down.

Results 1 - 10 of about 20,900 for "Khalil Hamra" OR "Hamra, Khalil"

That dude is already a minor celebrity. Some B movie stars get less google hits than him.

Insightful search results:

[Link: www.warphotoltd.com...]
[Link: snappedshot.com...]
[Link: www.google.com...]

re: #32 itellu3times

left-handed, for whatever exactly that adds.

Posing, the right hand would have covered part of their face, way less dramatic!

Professional victims, they could get jobs doing this, in fact they have.
If they got to America they could get hooked up with a sleazy lawyer like John Edwards and run innumerable scams. Its just business.

re: #41 000G

That dude is already a minor celebrity. Some B movie stars get less google hits than him.

Insightful search results:

[Link: www.warphotoltd.com...]
[Link: snappedshot.com...]
[Link: www.google.com...]

He's Bin GAZArra!

re: #24 notutopia

Children are used to evoke sympathy for the devil who caused the injuries to the "innocents".
If this is staged, it is sickly exploitive and borders on child abuse.

That whole fucking region is child abuse.

Hamas is being chastised by the militant wing of the Israeli Defense Force.

re: #46 swamprat

heh.

Duh, the kid in the middle is smiling!

re: #35 Opinionated

They killed Chuckie

[Link: cache.daylife.com...]

Looks more like Chatty Cathy.
Wrong doll in either case. Should have used this one for their staged photos:
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

re: #33 MJ

Goes along with this story:

Israel is addicted to violence

The attack on the Gaza strip is proof that Israel is addicted to violence. Slaughtering 155 civilians, many of whom are women and children, can not be justified.
[Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk...]

The sub-context to these stories is the Blood Libel.
It's pure antisemitism.

I have the impression that the antisemitism has noticeably increased, not just in the FMSM but in the comments from people on various blogs as well, when compared to the Lebanon war two years ago.

re: #48 OldDog

Duh, the kid in the middle is smiling!

That's because he just got his SAG card!

look at the treachery. look how they don't give a shite abt. their children.
what a belligerent 'religion' that fosters deceit and abuse of innocence as a means to further its spread around the world.
crushing anyone and anything to dominate.
rather than co-exist.
ropma.

re: #24 notutopia

If this is staged, it is sickly exploitive and borders on child abuse.

borders? BORDERS?You are nuanced aren't you?

re: #21 000G

Shame on you.

Has anyone seen a picture with a Mickey Mouse doll carefully placed on top of a pile of rubble yet?

re: #33 MJ

The attack on the Gaza strip is proof that Israel is addicted to violence. Slaughtering 155 civilians, many of whom are women and children, can not be justified.
[Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk...]

From the column: "slaughter on such a wholesale scale"

We have a hole in the ground in Manhattan, Mr. Rayment.
What is it about the definition of "wholesale" that you don't get?

re: #30 LEGION

So when are we going to do something about the same photographers and newspapers that print these staged lies? We are SO tired of the same old non-sense.

What can we do?

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

re: #55 NJDhockeyfan

Has anyone seen a picture with a Mickey Mouse doll carefully placed on top of a pile of rubble yet?

I prefer this one.

worth linking again... "the corruption of the media".

qanagate expose of the hez war by the EU Ref blog

WELL worth bookmarking and reading.. its lengthy..

[Link: eureferendum.blogspot.com...]

the current Hamas fauxtography isnt new - its well disciplined, trained and calculated for maximum media impact.

read the link.

Know what's great?

Pallywood is just BS.

And this picture is BS. And there will be more of this BS and propaganda.

But in this action, one thing is true.

Many of the Hamas mother******* are in fact injured and dead.

re: #50 yma o hyd

I have the impression that the antisemitism has noticeably increased, not just in the FMSM but in the comments from people on various blogs as well, when compared to the Lebanon war two years ago.

You see it everywhere, even in the casual way that people now talk offensively on the subway or push past people who look jewish. They feel empowered, particularly since the election.

re: #58 pegcity

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

I've been doing that for over a year now.

re: #55 NJDhockeyfan

Has anyone seen a picture with a Mickey Mouse doll carefully placed on top of a pile of rubble yet?

Won't happen this time - Mickey Mouse is haram, or so the Imams said ...

Might be a rabbit, though, from that TV series Hamas is so fond of broadcasting to their children.

What a pretty smile on #2.

re: #52 nyc redneck

ropma.

ROTFLMAO...... (Religion of peace my ass) Funny you should mention it that way, cause that is exactly what Islam has in mind.... A piece of your ass, and a piece of your skull, a piece of your arm, a piece of your back, and maybe a piece of your soul if they can get it....

re: #54 MandyManners

Shame on you.

what the hell?

re: #56 pre-Boomer Marine brat

From the column: "slaughter on such a wholesale scale"

We have a hole in the ground in Manhattan, Mr. Rayment.
What is it about the definition of "wholesale" that you don't get?

Why worry about the definition of 'wholesale' when he obviously doesn't even get the meaning of slaughter.

re: #58 pegcity

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

Only print media I've read regularly the last several years is WSJ, and sometimes they piss me off majorly, too - but have been pretty good recently, maybe I should resubscribe ... waiting for their $99 offer.

re: #63 Sharmuta

I've been doing that for over a year now.

25 years (with the exception of the WSJ in times past)

re: #67 000G

what the hell?

Joking about slapping a child is not funny.

The article where I saw this picture yesterday, as part of the AP slide show, mentioned that the Egyptians had opened a few crossings to allow ambulances in because of the lack of hospital beds. At the time I thought it was curious that unhurt kids were there.

Naturally I should have guessed a willing propaganda arm of Hamas in the AP.

re: #70 pre-Boomer Marine brat

25 years (with the exception of the WSJ in times past)

If it's not on the net, it's not news.

re: #58 pegcity

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

Me.
And I've given up on reading comments on the online editions as well - this antisemitism in practically every second comment is so sickening, its not even worth debating with such filth any longer.

re: #50 yma o hyd

I have the impression that the antisemitism has noticeably increased, not just in the FMSM but in the comments from people on various blogs as well, when compared to the Lebanon war two years ago.

You might be right. It will just be matter of a day or two, maybe a week, until some Jewish gravestones in the UK are defaced by Swastikas and some other antisemitic incidents occur. The BBC and other media outlets promotes these kinds of responses. The politicians in the UK will remain silent as they always do when antisemitism explodes in the UK as will Church leaders.
It's all very predicable.

re: #64 yma o hyd

Won't happen this time - Mickey Mouse is haram, or so the Imams said ...

Might be a rabbit, though, from that TV series Hamas is so fond of broadcasting to their children.

Is it a Killer Rabbit?

re: #72 Quilly Mammoth

The article where I saw this picture yesterday, as part of the AP slide show, mentioned that the Egyptians had opened a few crossings to allow ambulances in because of the lack of hospital beds. At the time I thought it was curious that unhurt kids were there.

Naturally I should have guessed a willing propaganda arm of Hamas in the AP.

Hamas is not allowing the wounded to be taken to Egypt now.

re: #76 Desert Dog

Is it a Killer Rabbit?

Run, Jimmah, Run!

re: #68 yma o hyd

Why worry about the definition of 'wholesale' when he obviously doesn't even get the meaning of slaughter.

Not to mention the differences between the genders, or between children and adults. This is my first time to see one of his columns, but from looking at its rhetorical structure, I'm guessing that Rayment is a self-inflated politicized *ss.

I'm so sick of the blatent propaganda. The mainstream media has become the most unreliable source of news there is. I may as well be reading The Onion or something.

re: #30 LEGION

So when are we going to do something about the same photographers and newspapers that print these staged lies?

Share the honest truth

re: #58 pegcity

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

yup. count me in . have given up on sky news... i thought they would be better than the obviously anti-israel BBC... as for the telegraph or any british paper - not a chance. sticking with jpost and israeli blogs.

rupert murdoch needs to have a word or two with the folks at sky - at times it was non stop Hamas propaganda bollocks...

Gaza attacks like war crimes - Tutu

Israel's bombardment of Gaza "bears all the hallmarks of war crimes", Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said in a statement on Sunday.

"In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes."

Or maybe they're strikes against legitimate military targets in self defense, take your pick.

/hey, someone toss Mr. Tutuman another Nobel peace prize

re: #77 MandyManners

Hamas is not allowing the wounded to be taken to Egypt now.

Neither is Egypt, they are shooting Palestinians attempting to cross the Egyptian border.

re: #77 MandyManners

Hamas is not allowing the wounded to be taken to Egypt now.

Yeah but wouldn't it be a nice touch if Egypt got medieval with Hamass as well? It would never happen in a million years but this being the holiday season, "it's the thought that counts".

Kossack showing love for the USA...

Who's The World's Leading Terrorists? Looks Like It's Uncle Sam
by joeyess
Sun Dec 28, 2008 at 09:51:46 AM PST

You're gonna love this. Looks like our beloved government agency the DoD is really the world's largest, best funded terrorist organization.

That's right. Here in this diary I will give to you in black and white , the words our government uses in their fight against the terrerristsssss.

So, without further fanfare and a jaw on the floor I give you our country's solution to fighting the "greatest threat to freedom that the world has ever known................."

TERRORISM!

That's right. Written down in black and white is the admission that we engage in terrorist activities.

Terrorism! In the name of fighting Terrorism! I mean, what. the f@#$!?

re: #80 baconeatingkaffir

The Onion is far superior.

re: #33 MJ

Remarkable mindset:

Hamas is not without blame. The group's leaders have cynically goaded the Israeli government with hundreds of rocket attacks in the past six weeks, 80 of which struck the Jewish state on Wednesday,

When Israelis are under rocket attack from hundreds of missles they are just being goaded?

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" If you rocket us, are we just being "goaded"?

I. Call. Bullshit.

re: #84 doriangrey

Neither is Egypt, they are shooting Palestinians attempting to cross the Egyptian border.

I'm so glad we have a secure border that we don't have to shoot at people coming through . . .

///

re: #83 Killian Bundy

Gaza attacks like war crimes - Tutu

Or maybe they're strikes against legitimate military targets in self defense, take your pick.

/hey, someone toss Mr. Tutuman another Nobel peace prize

He is still alive? He should go to the Congo or the Sudan and stop he butchering his fellow Africans are partaking in.

re: #75 MJ

You might be right. It will just be matter of a day or two, maybe a week, until some Jewish gravestones in the UK are defaced by Swastikas and some other antisemitic incidents occur. The BBC and other media outlets promotes these kinds of responses. The politicians in the UK will remain silent as they always do when antisemitism explodes in the UK as will Church leaders.
It's all very predicable.

and when some Jewish kid in north london gets murdered, they'll sleep easy in their beds wont they?

scum.
the lot of them.

(and deeply shameful, for i am a british citizen..)

re: #83 Killian Bundy

Gaza attacks like war crimes - Tutu

Or maybe they're strikes against legitimate military targets in self defense, take your pick.

/hey, someone toss Mr. Tutuman another Nobel peace prize

that old fart needs to shut his mouth, way to keep silent on the whole you know 50 million dead in Africa in the last decade asshole

re: #33 MJ

Goes along with this story:

Israel is addicted to violence

The attack on the Gaza strip is proof that Israel is addicted to violence. Slaughtering 155 civilians, many of whom are women and children, can not be justified.
[Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk...]

The sub-context to these stories is the Blood Libel.
It's pure antisemitism.

Good find. From the article antiIsrael propganda:

Hamas is not without blame. The group's leaders have cynically goaded the Israeli government with hundreds of rocket attacks in the past six weeks, 80 of which struck the Jewish state on Wednesday, knowing that the Israelis response would be extreme - but even they couldn't have been prepared for slaughter on such a wholesale scale. What is most worrying is that more violence from both sides seems certain.

So let me get this straight. Hamas intentionally attempted to start a Lebanon/Hezbollah war by indiscriminately killing Jews, and they have repeatedly said they wish to kill each and every Jew on Earth, but Israel is at fault for Hamas purposely putting the population at risk.
Hamas is just lucky I am not in charge. I would order in arty. There would be no people within 20 miles of the border after 10 days.

re: #88 Opinionated

Remarkable mindset:

When Israelis are under rocket attack from hundreds of missles they are just being goaded?

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" If you rocket us, are we just being "goaded"?

Actually, the "prick" in the story is Hamas. :)

re: #84 doriangrey

Neither is Egypt, they are shooting Palestinians attempting to cross the Egyptian border.

The article another Lizard linked earlier today stated that the Egyptians want to help the wounded.

re: #73 Sharmuta

If it's not on the net, it's not news.

And even if it's news, it just might not matter very much.

/curmudgeon retreats further into his cave ... (-:

re: #92 buzzdroid

id tell any jew in England or hell Europe to get the hell out now, in 10 years we'll see how freely jews are allowed to travel

re: #85 baconeatingkaffir

Yeah but wouldn't it be a nice touch if Egypt got medieval with Hamass as well? It would never happen in a million years but this being the holiday season, "it's the thought that counts".

Yes, it is a nice thought.

re: #62 lifeofthemind

You see it everywhere, even in the casual way that people now talk offensively on the subway or push past people who look jewish. They feel empowered, particularly since the election.

I've asked myself how it is possible, after the Holocaust, that this is happening yet again.
But then - reading the daily din of the FMSM and the moonbat commments about 'Nazi Israel', 'Apartheid Israel', 'Palestinian Holocaust', it is clear that this islamic and leftist propaganda has taken root, and is believed by far too many people.
Insanity has indeed wiped out rationality and reason.

re: #91 Desert Dog

AMEN to that.

Looks like the dude in the photo has a bleeding nose. Must be life threatening if he was brought to the ER.

re: #82 buzzdroid

yup. count me in . have given up on sky news... i thought they would be better than the obviously anti-israel BBC... as for the telegraph or any british paper - not a chance. sticking with jpost and israeli blogs.

rupert murdoch needs to have a word or two with the folks at sky - at times it was non stop Hamas propaganda bollocks...

HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has money invested in Newscorp/Fox, do not count on the Murdoch Press. Ever since Conrad Black got railroaded there is no voice for the truth.

re: #103 lifeofthemind

so true, they used to call terrorists just that now its "militants"

Fox news sucks now

re: #98 pegcity

id tell any jew in England or hell Europe to get the hell out now, in 10 years we'll see how freely jews are allowed to travel

sad to say - that would be my advice too. preferably to america, where they will be extremely safe, and armed. texas is a good bet.

i'm non-jewish, but i can see where this is heading.

shaking my head here... its the 1930s all over again.
europe is losing its best and brightest to what ? a bunch of islamonazi lunatics...

re: #94 pat

So let me get this straight. Hamas intentionally attempted to start a Lebanon/Hezbollah war by indiscriminately killing Jews

I believe you misred the quote. Hamas isn't firing rockets at innocent Israeli civilians. It is only firing rockets at "the Jewish state."

In the MSM world, it's only the Israelis who attack people.

re: #14 ggt

Sad that "old guys in the pajamas" can see the obvious, but the uber-educated and sophisticated AP can't.

The prick-bastards at the AP are happy to go along with it!

re: #103 lifeofthemind

HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has money invested in Newscorp/Fox, do not count on the Murdoch Press. Ever since Conrad Black got railroaded there is no voice for the truth.

yeah - was kinda wondering why Conrad Black got targetted... that figures.

that guy was pro-israel TO THE FRIGGIN BONE...

nah - cant have that.. a media mogul who is pro-israel...

re: #57 MandyManners

What can we do?

invade with extreme prejudice....

re: #75 MJ

You might be right. It will just be matter of a day or two, maybe a week, until some Jewish gravestones in the UK are defaced by Swastikas and some other antisemitic incidents occur. The BBC and other media outlets promotes these kinds of responses. The politicians in the UK will remain silent as they always do when antisemitism explodes in the UK as will Church leaders.
It's all very predicable.

Predictable - and it won't be reported in the national media either. A notice in some local rag, perhaps, for what its worth.

Haven't there been attacks on Jewish gravestones in France recently?

Gawd - its ironic that the one country where there would be public outrage in the media, by politicians and Church leaders would probably be Germany.

re: #94 pat

So let me get this straight. Hamas intentionally attempted to start a Lebanon/Hezbollah war by indiscriminately killing Jews, and they have repeatedly said they wish to kill each and every Jew on Earth, but Israel is at fault for Hamas purposely putting the population at risk.
Hamas is just lucky I am not in charge. I would order in arty. There would be no people within 20 miles of the border after 10 days.

amen to that.

re: #76 Desert Dog

Is it a Killer Rabbit?

Don't worry! We have the Holy Hand Grenade!

The media's veracity and the stock prices of the media both seem to be in a state of synchronized free fall. I assume that pulp paper prices are falling as well.

re: #76 Desert Dog

Is it a Killer Rabbit?

Yep - a killed killer rabbit!

The photographer's bio is here.

Khalil Hamra was obviously hired for his journalistic objectivity.

Khalil continues covering the Intifada for the Associated Press where his images are published regularly in major newspapers and magazines worldwide.

**KOFF**

re: #109 albusteve

invade with extreme prejudice....

He was talking about the MFM.

re: #96 MandyManners

The article another Lizard linked earlier today stated that the Egyptians want to help the wounded.

Try this one then Mandy... Egyptians open fire on Palestinians

re: #79 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Not to mention the differences between the genders, or between children and adults. This is my first time to see one of his columns, but from looking at its rhetorical structure, I'm guessing that Rayment is a self-inflated politicized *ss.

Too many of them about, unfortunately.

re: #102 Watcher

Looks like the dude in the photo has a bleeding nose. Must be life threatening if he was brought to the ER.

he was trampled int he stampede to the Egyptian border...

...

re: #115 rightymouse

The photographer's bio is here.

Khalil Hamra was obviously hired for his journalistic objectivity.

**KOFF**

Khalil Hamra a photographer based in Rafah covers the southern Gaza Strip for the Associated Press. Born in Kuwait 1979 to Palestinian parents, Khalil grew up in Qatar, Egypt and Palestine. He settled in Rafah (Gaza Strip) in 1995 and joined the Islamic University in Gaza in 1997 till his graduation from the Faculty of Journalism in 2001. At the beginning of the ongoing uprising (the 2nd Intifada) Khalil worked as a trainee photojournalist for a local press office for a year. In 2002 Khalil began his career as a photojournalist, freelancing with the Associated Press news agency, covering events in southern Gaza Strip. Khalil continues covering the Intifada for the Associated Press where his images are published regularly in major newspapers and magazines worldwide.

I'm still trying to figure out the jihadi logic behind this one:

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

it is so fashionable to bash israel.
all these fools who are slaves to the most egregious fashions of the day.
who know nothing. who just want to follow the crowd. to fit in.
and the others who should know better.
none thinking abt. what is really going on.
how dangerous the world is because of islam.
i have no respect for these ignorant assholes.
they are stupid enablers and a menace to us all.

re: #117 MandyManners

He was talking about the MFM.

I got confused...my bad

Even the man looks to be minorly injured. I don't see any holes.

re: #118 doriangrey

Try this one then Mandy... Egyptians open fire on Palestinians

It doesn't state that they're shooting at ambulances or wounded.

Hamas' new found concern for the health of their subjects is touching.

another thought - its a pity that Israel doesnt allow non-nationals to help their cause. sure, the security risk would be greater because of potential infiltration,... but surely somebody in Israel must be thinking about how they could use an army of lizards in their defense?

i'd sign up. even if it was just monitoring Jihad websites, i sure can help them out in my own little way...

any israeli lizards care to coment? good idea or not?

re: #118 doriangrey

I'm gonna' find the article I mentioned. bbiab

IAF Attacks Haniyeh

praying!

Are any any pali lovin' potential pancake candidates trying to block the Pali bulldozers from bashing their way into Egypt? Thought not.

re: #126 ClosetConservative

Even the man looks to be minorly injured. I don't see any holes.

Just the ones in the photographer's story.

re: #129 buzzdroid

Didnt a group go to Israel to help out during the first Gulf War? I vaguely remember hearing about that.

re: #133 Wyatt Earp

Just the ones in the photographer's story.

Reminds me of the Sam Kinnison sketch about the starving african kids and Sally Struthers "don't feed him the sandwich yet.. he's not crying hard enough".

re: #100 yma o hyd

I've asked myself how it is possible, after the Holocaust, that this is happening yet again.
But then - reading the daily din of the FMSM and the moonbat commments about 'Nazi Israel', 'Apartheid Israel', 'Palestinian Holocaust', it is clear that this islamic and leftist propaganda has taken root, and is believed by far too many people.
Insanity has indeed wiped out rationality and reason.

Yes! And for all of the above, Americans must do two things: Support Israel and let it be known that "Never Again" means something to us!

re: #91 Desert Dog

He is still alive? He should go to the Congo or the Sudan and stop he butchering his fellow Africans are partaking in.

Och, he thinks Mugabe isn't nice, letting his people die of cholera.
As for the other countries - well, its internal African affairs, see. No war crimes ...

///

re: #106 cicero05

I believe you misred the quote. Hamas isn't firing rockets at innocent Israeli civilians. It is only firing rockets at "the Jewish state."

In the MSM world, it's only the Israelis who attack people.

Yes, and all of those Hamas rockets are carefully and surgically aimed at only military and command and control centers within Israel.....whereas the evil Israelis just fire randomly, hoping to kill as many Palestinians as possible...right?

/

re: #134 baconeatingkaffir

Didnt a group go to Israel to help out during the first Gulf War? I vaguely remember hearing about that.

yeah they did - christian evangelicals. medical supplies and medical help for the casualties of the Iraq scud missiles, as far as i can recall...

re: #136 SurferDoc

Am I wrong for thinking its not a good thing for the US to shut down most of our military installations in Europe? Sometimes they need to be protected from themselves.

re: #59 Wyatt Earp

I prefer this one.

I couldn't figure out how to submit a caption for that picture, so I just left a comment instead.

re: #135 baconeatingkaffir

Reminds me of the Sam Kinnison sketch about the starving african kids and Sally Struthers "don't feed him the sandwich yet.. he's not crying hard enough".

The irony being that Sally the Blimp could have used a little starving, too.

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

re: #140 baconeatingkaffir

Am I wrong for thinking its not a good thing for the US to shut down most of our military installations in Europe? Sometimes they need to be protected from themselves.

Putin would not complain, then he could really start bullying the wimpy Euros around

re: #143 wolfie

I agree with you. I wonder what CNN or CBS would have done if they had been at Guadalcanal with my grandads brother or at the Battle of the Bulge etc etc.

IAF Warplanes Seen Flying Over Lebanon

(IsraelNN.com) IAF warplanes flew over Lebanon Sunday following a vow by Hizbullah terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah to attack northern Israeli communities in retaliation for the IDF military operation against terrorists in Gaza.

According to Lebanese Army officials, four IAF aircraft were spotted flying in southern Lebanese air space. The aircraft, which appeared to be combat planes, remained in the Lebanese skies for more than an hour.

...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned the Lebanese guerrilla organization in his speech to Israel's citizens on Saturday night not to be misled into thinking that because the IDF was engaged in military operations in the south, it might leave the north unprotected.

Medical staff at Ziv Hospital in Tzefat were placed on alert and have been asked not to leave the area; in addition, bomb shelters were once again prepared for possible action as well.

Something big is brewing.

re: #100 yma o hyd

I've asked myself how it is possible, after the Holocaust, that this is happening yet again.
But then - reading the daily din of the FMSM and the moonbat commments about 'Nazi Israel', 'Apartheid Israel', 'Palestinian Holocaust', it is clear that this islamic and leftist propaganda has taken root, and is believed by far too many people.
Insanity has indeed wiped out rationality and reason.

My take on the sources of current anti-Semitism and anti-Israel posturing, they are the same thing of course.

1) Genuine hatred of Western Civilization and the values it represents. I call this the honest opposition.
2) Anti-Semitism that was sublimated or nurtured privately under duress but that now feels encouraged to come out again in public. This is empowered partly by the alliance of Arab money and old fashioned aristocratic snobbery. I call this the traditional opposition.
3) Fear, the suspicion that the bien pessants are more likely to be killed as Theo van Gogh was than by an offended Jew. I call this the dishonest opposition.

re: #134 baconeatingkaffir

Didnt a group go to Israel to help out during the first Gulf War? I vaguely remember hearing about that.

I recall President Clinton bravely volunteering to grab a rifle & defend Israel...

What would Jimmy Carter say?

re: #144 Desert Dog

How old is your Golden? Nice looking dog. :)

re: #122 MandyManners

Khalil Hamra a photographer based in Rafah covers the southern Gaza Strip for the Associated Press. Born in Kuwait 1979 to Palestinian parents, Khalil grew up in Qatar, Egypt and Palestine. He settled in Rafah (Gaza Strip) in 1995 and joined the Islamic University in Gaza in 1997 till his graduation from the Faculty of Journalism in 2001. At the beginning of the ongoing uprising (the 2nd Intifada) Khalil worked as a trainee photojournalist for a local press office for a year. In 2002 Khalil began his career as a photojournalist, freelancing with the Associated Press news agency, covering events in southern Gaza Strip. Khalil continues covering the Intifada for the Associated Press where his images are published regularly in major newspapers and magazines worldwide.

But..but..he's an unbiased photographer for the AP! He wouldn't DREAM of staging a photoshoot for $$$ since the AP would never, ever publish such photos. C'mon!

/

re: #149 gatorbait

What would Jimmy Carter say?

le to

Something completely asinine, I'm guessing.

re: #143 wolfie

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

i'm up for that. pass the word onto your neighbours... and watch those nielsen ratings sink big time.

email advertisers, with your objections.

such things can start small - but they can end up being big... case in point - the election of Obama. which was pure internet driven. its time we did something similar.. for israel.

re: #118 doriangrey

Try this one then Mandy... Egyptians open fire on Palestinians

From that link:
"Dr Abdel Qader Higazi, a representative of the Egyptian Doctor's Syndicate in Rafah said Egyptian authorities closed the border crossing after allowing several trucks of medical supplies into Gaza."

So medical supplies ahve gone into Gaza, so why did the doctor in one of the reports say they have nothing, and its a crisis?

Ah - sure, forgot: its all used to treat the 'civilian' hamas-thugs.

re: #131 akak

IAF Attacks Haniyeh

praying!

Where did you see/read this?

re: #143 wolfie

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

Everywhere I look, I see scads and scads and scads of photos of injuried people and devastation in Gaza, attributed to being the result of Israeli bombing - I have yet to find photos of what's happening in Israel as a result of the Hamas bombing.

Does Israel keep those sorts of photos out of the press, or is there truly that much lack of interest?

re: #148 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

I recall President Clinton bravely volunteering to grab a rifle & defend Israel...

Actually he said he'd defend some of the IDF babes.

re: #143 wolfie

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

You forgot the 0bama campaign.

I agree- and they'll continue to shape events so long as they have revenue.

re: #145 baconeatingkaffir

I agree with you. I wonder what CNN or CBS would have done if they had been at Guadalcanal with my grandads brother or at the Battle of the Bulge etc etc.

If a CNN camera crew had been at Chosin, it would have ridden back in trucks, with the heaters running.

re: #142 Wyatt Earp

The irony being that Sally the Blimp could have used a little starving, too.

World Hunger

re: #136 SurferDoc

Indeed!
And please, don't forget to teach your children (1) the true history of Israel and (2) how to find news sources to balance the MSM view.

re: #145 baconeatingkaffir

I agree with you. I wonder what CNN or CBS would have done if they had been at Guadalcanal with my grandads brother or at the Battle of the Bulge etc etc.

"U.S. Forces in Retreat

By our correspondent in France.

U.S. Forces are in full retreat from the onslaught of the German army, and onslaught that some say is in response to the firebombing of Hamburg, which the UN has said is a war crime.

German people were dancing in the streets as they burned American flags, whilst the UN asked America to restrain itself from a disproportionate response to the German attacks."

and more bollocks like that...

still find it amazing that the U.S. army actually won the war in Iraq..

re: #150 fclass308

How old is your Golden? Nice looking dog. :)

JD is 12, he's a mutt, a mix of Chow, Golden and some other unidentified breed (according to my vet). He's the best dog I've ever had....smart, friendly, good with kids and cats....I can only hope to have another like him in the future....

re: #161 SurferDoc

Better quote?
HellIsComing

Damn. How did I not post that first.

*feels shame*

re: #118 doriangrey

I give up. All I could find was this.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

re: #162 wolfie

Indeed!
And please, don't forget to teach your children (1) the true history of Israel and (2) how to find news sources to balance the MSM view.

Abso-frakkin'-lutely!

It's Official, the Vikings Suck! Tarvaris Jackson doesn't really care which team he throws the ball to which makes every pass play an adventure.

/Go Texans!

re: #124 nyc redneck

it is so fashionable to bash israel.
all these fools who are slaves to the most egregious fashions of the day.
who know nothing. who just want to follow the crowd. to fit in.
and the others who should know better.
none thinking abt. what is really going on.
how dangerous the world is because of islam.
i have no respect for these ignorant assholes.
they are stupid enablers and a menace to us all.

True!

I've now started to change my tactics when speaking with people about this. I'm no longer waiting politely for them to declare their anti-semitic sh*t, I'm now being impolite and speak first, in no uncertain terms.
They either agree - or walk away.
They know better not start argueing back.

Age has some advantages, after all.

re: #156 reine.de.tout

Everywhere I look, I see scads and scads and scads of photos of injuried people and devastation in Gaza, attributed to being the result of Israeli bombing - I have yet to find photos of what's happening in Israel as a result of the Hamas bombing.

Does Israel keep those sorts of photos out of the press, or is there truly that much lack of interest?

All of these photos exist...Israel doesn't hide them. Like you mentioned, its simply a lack of interest in Israeli suffering. The MSM goes out of its way to paint Israel as the big, mean, war machine, the superior force against the "oppressed" Palestinian Arabs. Yet they forget to mention that Israel is surrounded by about 1.5 billion hostile Arabs who are dedicated to its destruction.

re: #165 Wyatt Earp

Damn. How did I not post that first.

*feels shame*

I was jes' helpin' ya a bit!

re: #156 reine.de.tout

Everywhere I look, I see scads and scads and scads of photos of injuried people and devastation in Gaza, attributed to being the result of Israeli bombing - I have yet to find photos of what's happening in Israel as a result of the Hamas bombing.

Does Israel keep those sorts of photos out of the press, or is there truly that much lack of interest?

its just the lazy media.. taking every Hamas photo as a given and not fact checking it.

there are NO INDEPENDENT WESTERN JOURNALISTS in gaza right now. none whatsoever...

re: #170 traderjoe9

All of these photos exist...Israel doesn't hide them. Like you mentioned, its simply a lack of interest in Israeli suffering. The MSM goes out of its way to paint Israel as the big, mean, war machine, the superior force against the "oppressed" Palestinian Arabs. Yet they forget to mention that Israel is surrounded by about 1.5 billion hostile Arabs who are dedicated to its destruction.

They have a narrative to promote, after all.

re: #150 fclass308

How old is your Golden? Nice looking dog. :)

Golden and "nice looking dog" ----redundant!

re: #171 SurferDoc

I was jes' helpin' ya a bit!

And I appreciate it!

re: #58 pegcity

anyone else taking a hiatus from watching any so called news programs on tv or reading their daily propaganda in paper form?

Yes. It has contributed greatly to my mental well being.

re: #172 buzzdroid

its just the lazy media.. taking every Hamas photo as a given and not fact checking it.

there are NO INDEPENDENT WESTERN JOURNALISTS in gaza right now. none whatsoever...

The only goal of any journalist in Gaza these days seems to be making the palis look like victims. Poor, pathetic victims...

re: #149 gatorbait

What would Jimmy Carter say?

You don't have to guess. He would lament that the terrorists are lacking in sophisticated weapons to repel the Israeli "aggressor".

The general showed us a graph of the many flights of Israeli planes over all parts of Lebanon, averaging about a dozen each day. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense.

[Link: www.cartercenter.org...]

re: #143 wolfie

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

Yep - and propaganda of the most blatant sort works best: something, even the most ridiculous thing, will be remembered.
Time for Israel and all her friends to stop being so effen polite.

re: #156 reine.de.tout

Everywhere I look, I see scads and scads and scads of photos of injuried people and devastation in Gaza, attributed to being the result of Israeli bombing - I have yet to find photos of what's happening in Israel as a result of the Hamas bombing.

Does Israel keep those sorts of photos out of the press, or is there truly that much lack of interest?

The problem is that the photographs themselves would be, to use the phrase being currently promoted in media, asymmetrical.
A photo of a hole in the ground or damage to an apartment building cannot capture to terror of living with hundreds of those rockets being fired at your home, your school, your children during the course of days or weeks. Living in fear cannot be captured by a photograph.

One dead Palestinian is always going to be more dramatic, more "journalistic", than a photograph of an exploded rocket on the ground.
The Palestinians know this and exploit it. And the MSM happily allows itself to be exploited.

re: #158 Sharmuta

Indeed.

Unfortunately there are enough weepy fools who will look at that photo and get suckerd in by it, the facts be damned. I'm glad to see Israel standing up to defend itself against Hamas. I just hope they don't stop until the job is done.

re: #143 wolfie

I'm all for boycotting the MSM. Why give them a dime?
But the fact is that the media, especially the big TV networks, have the power to shape events.
The USSR knew this. The NVietnamese knew it. The Palestinians know it. The Islamists know it. Wars are fought on the TV screen. All that matters is propaganda.

2nd thing Israel did was bomb the TV studio, smart move.

re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

IAF Warplanes Seen Flying Over Lebanon

Something big is brewing.

Shut the fuck up, Nassie.

Not too many pictures of the actual targets around, I notice. They do not publish the pictures of the dead Hamas "Soldiers", do they?

re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

IAF Warplanes Seen Flying Over Lebanon

Something big is brewing.

Perhaps by the grace of god the IA now has the GPS coordinates of Hassan Nasrallah's underground bunker, and a 5000lbs JDAM with Nasrallah's name on it.

re: #149 gatorbait

What would Jimmy Carter say?

Was that mild mannered "rabbit bait" Carter or the steely eyed "cat killer" Carter?

Does anyone have a link to a post that Charles put up last year which spoke about a major poll taken among Muslim leaders in the US, and how many said Islam was partly if not at all to blame for 9/11?

re: #145 baconeatingkaffir

I agree with you. I wonder what CNN or CBS would have done if they had been at Guadalcanal with my grandads brother or at the Battle of the Bulge etc etc.

And I wonder how WWII would have ended, if the BBC, CNN and all the FMSM had reported from inside the German cities under Allied Bomber attacks.
To be sure - they would have known nothing about any extermination camps, and would probably have praised the humanity of the ones they were guided through ...

Gah.

re: #6 Sharmuta

Hi Sharmuta!

re: #176 rawmuse

I agree. I listen to shortwave from time to time and look at the web. I cant watch the mainstream news anymore. It insults my intelligence. I actually did sit through the turkish news tonight watching footage of anti Israel and US protests by the beardie wierdies in Ankara and Istanbul. For the life of me I cant undestand why the Turks have so much sympathy for the Palis when turkey was one of the first countries to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Really bizarre. The Turks only catch Al Qaeda people or Taliban douchebags a few times a month yet the public feels so sorry for them. However, I did enjoy the footage of one of the Chechen warlords and his family being deported. They sent his scarfie wife and daughters back but had to take him to the police station after he ripped up his passport. I hope he got a good thorough "interrogation" again.

re: #186 doriangrey

Perhaps by the grace of god the IA now has the GPS coordinates of Hassan Nasrallah's underground bunker, and a 5000lbs JDAM with Nasrallah's name on it.

Or, they are showing the Hezbollah assholes they are only a flight away from continuing the pounding they took the last time. So, they better think long and hard if they wish to get way more back than they could possible dish out.

re: #154 yma o hyd

Dustyvet posted the claim earlier today but I've found no article to back it up.

re: #170 traderjoe9

All of these photos exist...Israel doesn't hide them. Like you mentioned, its simply a lack of interest in Israeli suffering. The MSM goes out of its way to paint Israel as the big, mean, war machine, the superior force against the "oppressed" Palestinian Arabs. Yet they forget to mention that Israel is surrounded by about 1.5 billion hostile Arabs who are dedicated to its destruction.

It is true that Israel is the superior force - but it is not because they are "oppressing" the Palestinian arabs - if they did that, there would be no time to build a superior force.

Israel is a superior force because of their culture of "life", because it desires to build and to be productive, to provide for itself, to defend itself obviously, to avoid whining and looking for a handout - just basically, the entire life force of Israel is superior to that of the Palestinian arabs.

Our local paper had an interesting article yesterday about letter to "God", even letters to "Santa", that arrive in Israel. They are collected and once a year, volunteers to go the Western Wall and place all those letters into the wall, on behalf of those who wrote them, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim - whatever. The letters are delivered to the wall by volunteers.

I cannot fathom that any Palestinian arab would care enough about anyone else to do such a thing.

I wonder when Green Helmet™ will make a guest appearance.

MI

re: #164 Desert Dog

His Golden lineage really shows through in the pic.

Good dogs are a real treasure. I miss my Golden that died a few years back at the ripe old age of 15.

re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

IAF Warplanes Seen Flying Over Lebanon

Something big is brewing.

Looks like it, doesn't it.
I hope Hezbollah, like Hamas, are miscalculating very very badly!

re: #174 wolfie

True. :)

re: #195 Militant-Infidel

I wonder when Green Helmet™ will make a guest appearance.

MI

I get a kick out of rage boy! He cracks me up every time!

re: #183 lifeofthemind

2nd thing Israel did was bomb the TV studio, smart move.

I did not know that! Yes, that is damned smart.

re: #183 lifeofthemind

2nd thing Israel did was bomb the TV studio, smart move.

my fault..

i told an israeli blogger about it as it was happening - a Hamas guy broadcasting LIVE on Sky News UK yesterday.

informed him that i think he should tell someone in charge to do something about that. voila - that was the ONLY live broadcast they managed to get out.

now it might not be as a result of me doing that - maybe they knew already. but the timing was weird. tv studio got bombed about 1 hour after my alert.

good job IAF.

The latest from the LA Times...

Israel broadens attacks along Gaza border

REPORTING FROM GAZA CITY AND JERUSALEM -- Israeli warplanes expanded their assault on the Gaza Strip today, launching missile strikes on the network of cross-border tunnels to Egypt that serve as a vital lifeline for the besieged coastal enclave.

Israeli tanks massed along the Gaza border as the Jewish state called up more than 6,000 army reservists in possible preparation for a land assault against the Hamas movement, which controls the strip.

As darkness fell over Gaza this evening, the situation on the territory's southern border with Egypt was chaotic and fluid. Egyptian border police traded sporadic gunfire with Gazan militants amid reports that a large group had tried to breach the border fence that Egypt has kept sealed for more than a year.

"About 100-150 Palestinians jumped over the border fence to the Egyptian side," said Gaza resident Ahmed Radwan, speaking on the phone from the town of Rafah. "They are about 300 meters into the Egyptian side but have been prevented by Egyptian forces from going any further."

Fighters from Gaza's various militant factions launched at least 30 rockets toward southern Israel, according to the Israeli army. That number was less than half the size of the barrage launched on Saturday, when Israel began its aerial assault with strikes targeting police stations and security compounds throughout Gaza.

Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly told the Cabinet today that 50% of Hamas' rocket-launching capabilities had been destroyed.

However, two of the Gazan rockets reached deeper into Israel than than most previous strikes, landing near the coastal city of Ashdod, 23 miles north of Gaza.

No serious injuries were reported, but the expansion of the rockets' range seemed to confirm Israeli concerns that the militant group Hamas was developing the ability to target some of the Israel's largest cities.

re: #183 lifeofthemind

2nd thing Israel did was bomb the TV studio, smart move.

Not going to make a dent. Pallywood headquarters may be damaged but the subsidiary offices at the NY Times, Wash Post, AP, Reuters, CNN, etc, are fully functional.

re: #191 baconeatingkaffir

I agree. I listen to shortwave from time to time and look at the web. I cant watch the mainstream news anymore. It insults my intelligence..

Bingo. They assume that I am as stupid as their average viewer.
Plus, they lie. Not only do they lie, but they do it, again and again and again, even after we have totally humiliated them by exposing their lies.
And as for cable news, you must be joking. The very thought of PAYING someone to pipe that bilge right in my living room is repulsive to me.

re: #183 lifeofthemind

2nd thing Israel did was bomb the TV studio, smart move.

I was impressed...very smart move indeed and a hell of a message to send the freedom fighters...all comms should be destroyed

re: #194 reine.de.tout

what a touching story! wow...

just shows the utter humanity of the Jewish people.

re: #202 NJDhockeyfan

The latest from the LA Times...

Israel broadens attacks along Gaza border

VITAL LIFELINE?

re: #180 MJ

One dead Palestinian is always going to be more dramatic, more "journalistic", than a photograph of an exploded rocket on the ground.
The Palestinians know this and exploit it. And the MSM happily allows itself to be exploited.

Believe me, I wish that the United States PSYOP soldiers and marines had the same complicity in the media (local and international) that the Palestinians do. It would have made my life a whole lot easier.

Cool job of wordsmithing on that caption.

re: #194 reine.de.tout

Islam has its volunteers, ya' know. SPLODEYDOPES!

re: #189 yma o hyd

And I wonder how WWII would have ended, if the BBC, CNN and all the FMSM had reported from inside the German cities under Allied Bomber attacks.
To be sure - they would have known nothing about any extermination camps, and would probably have praised the humanity of the ones they were guided through ...

Gah.

There was a virtual ban on printing or showing images of dead American soldiers at the beginning of WWII. The government asked for that and the media did it. But, towards the middle of the war, they started showing pictures. Tarawa was one of the first. By the end of the war, the images were there. Newsreels showed our fallen soldiers to movie goers to remind them the war was a stark reality.

I think sometimes we need to be reminded of who we are fighting and what they want to do and have done to us. I would show the Sept 11th attacks more often. People have forgotten or have put all of that in a place in their memories they prefer not to access...We have kicked radical Islam is the teeth for years now, but they are still there....plotting and planning something even worse than 9-11. We should be vigilant in our determination to fight these monsters.....

re: #172 buzzdroid

its just the lazy media.. taking every Hamas photo as a given and not fact checking it.

there are NO INDEPENDENT WESTERN JOURNALISTS in gaza right now. none whatsoever...

They might at least report about the damage done by the Hamas rockets, people were injured, one was killed.
Nothing at all - and its reported at the bottom of the page, in half a sentence.
Thats balanced, that is ...

re: #207 MandyManners

Looks like 'vital lifeline' is another one of those boilerplate phrases:
[Link: www.google.com...]

On the other hand, this was not staged at all: schoolchildren killed by suicide bomb in Afghanistan today.

Delenda.

re: #201 buzzdroid

Bravo!
Maybe it had nothing to do with you, but then, who knows?
The point is, you did what you could and made the effort.
That is the thing, only thing that makes a difference!

re: #210 MandyManners

Islam has its volunteers, ya' know. SPLODEYDOPES!

Oooooooohhhhh..... I hate those #$*&@..........

re: #208 psyop

Yeah. My brother is at FT. Bragg now crosstraining into PSYOPS. HE's doing an intensive/media arabic course now. He can read it and write it to an extent but his speaking skills are pretty basic and the folks from DLI are going to be evaluating him on speaking. Arg!

re: #207 MandyManners

VITAL LIFELINE?

Protect the milk tunnels!
/

re: #201 buzzdroid

It was almost certainly on the target list, this is a well planned and crafteds operation, they could respond to an emergency but in Gaza I would bet that every structure, hole and vehicle is in a database.

Uncritically relaying any information from Palestinian sources is dubious. But then the MSM is highly dubious when it comes to certain subjects, so I'll guess we'll just have to let this one pass.

re: #196 fclass308

His Golden lineage really shows through in the pic.

Good dogs are a real treasure. I miss my Golden that died a few years back at the ripe old age of 15.

I hear that....he has some hip problems. We walk him alot and keep his weight down, but that will be his undoing one day.....It will be very hard to find another dog like him.

re: #203 Opinionated

Not going to make a dent. Pallywood headquarters may be damaged but the subsidiary offices at the NY Times, Wash Post, AP, Reuters, CNN, etc, are fully functional.

I would flatten them.

re: #185 Desert Dog

Not too many pictures of the actual targets around, I notice. They do not publish the pictures of the dead Hamas "Soldiers", do they?

Heh.
Perhaps because they don't look sufficiently civilian?

re: #210 MandyManners

Islam has its volunteers, ya' know. SPLODEYDOPES!

They brainwash the children to think it's holy.

Maybe the photographer didn't have one of those 'throw-down' teddy bears on him to plant in the rubble, so he just grabbed a few kids for this set-up shot.

Also, reine.du.tout said: "I have yet to find photos of what's happening in Israel as a result of the Hamas bombing. Does Israel keep those sorts of photos out of the press, or is there truly that much lack of interest?"

The wire services don't shoot or run anywhere near the number of Israeli wounded in rocket attacks, as there are fewer of them, and Israelis do not indulge in the sort of death-cult corpse shows for propaganda purposes as do the Arabs. There was a photo yesterday that AP moved of the Israeli man killed by a Hamas rocket. It was gory enough, you couldn't see his face, but it's not the sort of thing most MSM care to run. They would sooner show injured or dead Palis, of course, but they don't run the goriest shots of them, either, even though they are available, with content warnings to editors. Those decisions are made at the local level, mindful of public taste, and the worst pictures are rarely run.

That said, the AP, Reuters, etc., editors really ought to be as skeptical about a lot of these photos as are as the lizardoids et al of the LGF, the blogosphere in general, and the public at large. But the MSM is populated by dullards who run in their well-worn ruts and and dislike having the received narratives changed. I know, I work there.

re: #203 Opinionated

Not going to make a dent. Pallywood headquarters may be damaged but the subsidiary offices at the NY Times, Wash Post, AP, Reuters, CNN, etc, are fully functional.

full spectrum warfare theory requires that they are next - not in terms of actually blowing them up - more along the lines of folks in dark suits having "meetings" with the editors. a meeting with security services can clear the mind of even the most moonbat of media types.

my bet - watch the western media coverage get progressively less and less as the military offensive intensifies.

re: #216 psyop

Oooooooohhhhh..... I hate those #$*&@..........

What voice should I use in my head for that Oooooooohhhhh? I'm thinking Elmer Fudd.

Elmer's funny.

re: #194 reine.de.tout

It is true that Israel is the superior force - but it is not because they are "oppressing" the Palestinian arabs - if they did that, there would be no time to build a superior force.

Israel is a superior force because of their culture of "life", because it desires to build and to be productive, to provide for itself, to defend itself obviously, to avoid whining and looking for a handout - just basically, the entire life force of Israel is superior to that of the Palestinian arabs.

Our local paper had an interesting article yesterday about letter to "God", even letters to "Santa", that arrive in Israel. They are collected and once a year, volunteers to go the Western Wall and place all those letters into the wall, on behalf of those who wrote them, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim - whatever. The letters are delivered to the wall by volunteers.

I cannot fathom that any Palestinian arab would care enough about anyone else to do such a thing.

Indeed. I can't imagine any country being so outnumbered, always being in a constant state of threat and war, and yet being so successful and productive.

No amount of "aid" could have saved Israel. In 1948, Holocaust survivors and refugees literally FOTB formed a substantial part of Israel's nascent army; hardly half of Israels soldiers had any weapons; they had no air force to speak of, no navy, terrible communications, and no organized command. Winning that war was nothing short of a miracle.

Unfortunately, that drive - that desire - to fight for Israel and keep the Jewish nation alive is rapidly dissipating these last few years. A record number of Israelis are evading the military, leaving early, etc. Its sad and pathetic, almost like the base of American Jewry. Israel needs an effective leadership that can not only bring back that pride to Israelis, but to Jews worldwide - just as they did following the 1967 war.

re: #217 baconeatingkaffir

Green Beret?

re: #191 baconeatingkaffir

Isn't their Prime Minister an open islamist, as is his party?
And isn't he trying to overthrow Kemal Ataturk's secular state?
That might be a reason why they're so arab-friendly ...

re: #225 exredtory

I have to agree with you. Wasn't it David Hackworth (RIP) who busted the nose of one of the CNN reporters for talking smack live from Saudi Arabia and the guy went on the air and said something about being caught in a Scud alarm? Maybe we need more former military people in the media.... not just the retired generals who sold out .

re: #202 NJDhockeyfan

The latest from the LA Times...

Israel broadens attacks along Gaza border

What vital lifeline? Just don't commit crime and you can trade legally through two countries. They insist on making everything criminal and threatening. Compare Gaza with Singapore.

re: #215 wolfie

Bravo!
Maybe it had nothing to do with you, but then, who knows?
The point is, you did what you could and made the effort.
That is the thing, only thing that makes a difference!

thats exactly my point - we army of lizards can help israel.

israel cant keep track of the media - we certainly can. for them.

OTL: like I was saying yesterday - why I think Rush Limbaugh's songs hurt the republican party.

[Link: www.commentarymagazine.com...]

re: #229 psyop

No, he's in the 82nd. I think he has plans to go through selection again. He was failed the last time because he broke his arm and refused to go on profile and failed his PT test.

Looking good, Nassie.

re: #227 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Elmer works.

*sung to the tune of "Kill the Wabbit"*

Kill the martyr, kill the martyr, kill the MAAAARTYR!

With all their bellicose talk, I would have imagined that Hezbollah would have gotten into the fight. At least to open up a two front conflict for Israel.

That they haven't- and likely won't- is proof that Islam's threats- when they are not terrorising defenseless innocents- are empty and confronting the bastards on our terms is the only way to deal with them.

re: #236 MandyManners

Looking good, Nassie.

isn't that Mrs. Nassie? (pre-tweezer)

re: #53 lifeofthemind

nuanced? The question has not been answered yet. IS this actual injury or staged sympathy?
There is a vast difference in my personal perpective of actual child abuse depending upon whether you are viewing this moral/ethical abuse dilemma from the eyes and laws of an American, an African, an Indian, a Chinese. Each country has it's boundaries of what is acceptable or not for child exploitation. This is a fact and not a nuance.
I am an American. It's exploitative. This however, is occurring in Gaza. To them it's acceptable.
If I were that American working in China or Africa or Gaza, it would not be considered child abuse. That is a sad fact. I have worked in numerous countries where the children are still considered just "property" and incidentals of the family. In my case, I have had to treat abused children and send them right back out into the family that perpetrated that abuse. It is very difficult to work in this type of socially skewed environment.
What we view and call abuse here in the USA, we think it is ALL abhorrent if it involves child exploitation. Those US judgement rules do not apply around the globe. (Unless you are stateside making that judgement.)

re: #221 Desert Dog

I hear that....he has some hip problems. We walk him alot and keep his weight down, but that will be his undoing one day.....It will be very hard to find another dog like him.

Looks like a sweetie

re: #236 MandyManners

Of course, he would have been pissed if someone photo-shopped him like that.

re: #215 wolfie

Bravo!
Maybe it had nothing to do with you, but then, who knows?
The point is, you did what you could and made the effort.
That is the thing, only thing that makes a difference!

by the way - sky news has been RE-RUNNING that live broadcast from the Hamas studio all day today. the SAME CLIP

its bloody obvious that they couldnt do another one... and sky never mentioned why.

hah!

if i ever meet the IAF pilot that did the business, i'll buy him a pint or two or three.. job well done.

re: #234 FrogMarch

OTL: like I was saying yesterday - why I think Rush Limbaugh's songs hurt the republican party.

[Link: www.commentarymagazine.com...]

a) they are not his songs b) they are PARODY c) Rush is not running for office.

What media bias?

* 2008 Jun: With Egyptian mediation, Hamas and Israel agree to a six- month ceasefire in Gaza with militants saying they will stop firing rockets while Israel says it will stop offensive operations.

* 2008 Nov: Israel breaks ceasefire by sending ground troops into Gaza. Rocket fire resumes sparking exchanges.

* 2008 Dec 19: Attempts to renew ceasefire fail amid mutual recriminations.

* 2008 Dec 27: Israel launches operation Cast Lead attacking buildings and facilities connected to Hamas.

Damn them.

re: #241 lifeofthemind

Looks like a sweetie

That's a fine look dog in your avatar too. Those are great dogs!

Interesting bit about the economy of starving Gaza:

The goods that come through the tunnels include livestock, cement, steel rods, refrigerators and computer screens, along with Coca-Cola, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals such as the erectile-dysfunction drug, Viagra. At a mobile-telephone store in Gaza City, a smuggled Apple iPod Nano 4-gigabyte model sells for $500. It lists for $149.99 on Amazon.com.

[Link: tribes.tribe.net...]
So who has the disposable income for a $500 iPod Nano?

the Iranian government likes to brainwash children too.
[Link: www.hyscience.com...]

re: #193 MandyManners

Dustyvet posted the claim earlier today but I've found no article to back it up.

I can't find it any longer either - it was a paragraph in a report, probably jpost, but seems to have been taken out.

re: #238 Opinionated

With all their bellicose talk, I would have imagined that Hezbollah would have gotten into the fight. At least to open up a two front conflict for Israel.

That they haven't- and likely won't- is proof that Islam's threats- when they are not terrorising defenseless innocents- are empty and confronting the bastards on our terms is the only way to deal with them.

I think they are just waiting to see what happens in Gaza...thier chances would improve somewhat if the IDF goes in on the ground...still if the IDF ravages Hamas face to face you'd think Hez would shit they're pants...

re: #199 debutaunt

I get a kick out of rage boy! He cracks me up every time!

Now that the action seems to be spreading north (to Lebanon) as well, I suspect we will also see a newly painted ambulance with a big hole in it as well. Can't let that old junk go to waste you know.

MI

"In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes."

In the context of total aerial inferiority, in which one side in a conflict lacks aircraft against opponents and attacks anyway, we have a population that bears all the hallmarks of record-breaking stupidity and desire for death.

re: #240 notutopia

Wrong, every functioning human society, anywhere has two taboos:
1) incest
2) child abuse
The definitions of what is a child or how close a blood relative can vary but the principle appears to be almost hard wired. Violate those norms and your society dies.

[Link: www.funnychill.com...]

GIVE ME A BEER

re: #235 baconeatingkaffir

No, he's in the 82nd. I think he has plans to go through selection again. He was failed the last time because he broke his arm and refused to go on profile and failed his PT test.

Excellent, I had the pleasure of working with some guys from the 2-325 PIR (if memory serves) in Mosul during OIF 3.

Give him my best, and a rousing "AIRBORNE!"