Isn’t This Odd?
A few points to ponder:
Item: The village in Lebanon where civilian deaths occurred – many of them children – is the exact same village that forced a world outcry in 1996 and caused Israel to agree to a ceasefire.
Item: There are an astonishing number of dramatic photographs all over the web from Qana. It seems every media outlet has new ones all the time.
Item: There were an inordinate number of children inside a building, inside a village, that had been warned repeatedly that it would be a target because of the large number of Hezbollah rockets fired from it.
Item: I read on another blog that the excuse for the civilians being there was that the roads were impassible. But how does that gibe with the huge number of media cameramen who have e\been able to make ti there and take hundreds of pictures? And then get them out to the world?
Item: It turns out that there is something like a eight hour gap between the Israeli missile strikes and the building's collapse.
One has to ask the question here. Are we being exposed to Hezbollywood propaganda? Anyone else getting a weird feeling about this whole episode?
UPDATE: Flopping Aces has a lot of video up – something here appears to be wrong, not just to me.
UPDATE: Powerline has another oddity. A professionally produced 30 foot banner of Condi Rice that just happens to have the perfect lettering at exactly the right moment? Folks, something stinks out loud about this.
UPDATE: Confederate Yankee has some exceedingly disturbing pictures.
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The Right Nation — July 31, 2006 @ 6:42 am
By crosspatch, July 30, 2006 @ 3:25 pm
Fox reporting 24-hour suspension of operations in Southern Lebanon. Reuters is reporting it as 48-hours.
By Gaius, July 30, 2006 @ 3:26 pm
Hmmmm
By crosspatch, July 30, 2006 @ 4:20 pm
I have a problem with this notion that they are going to let “humanitarian aid” into the area. They need to evacuate civilians, not give them the supplies they need to stay in harm’s way longer. This is just going to prolong things if true. The only humanitarian aid they need is a ride North.