Still More On Qana
Have you noticed all the outcry over Qana has disappeared from the MSM? David Warren has. Writing in Real Clear Politics, it's instructive to look at Qana's similarities to other "massacres".
My reader may be wondering what happened to all the coverage from Qana. As usual, when the "liberal" media begin to realize they've been had, the story disappears. But it is never properly corrected. We get a few days of blazing headlines, and round-the-dial TV coverage of an "Israeli massacre", laden with innuendos, and then — the fade-out. This will not do.
What happened at Qana was, almost certainly, what happened at Jenin in 2002, what happened on a beach in Gaza a few weeks ago, and what has happened on innumerable other occasions. The Israelis are instantaneously accused and convicted of a monstrous and perhaps intentional act of butchery, by people quite incurious about the facts. Their pathological hatred of "Zionism" is all the proof they need. These are people who seldom bother to shed even crocodile tears when Jews are blown to pieces by suicide bombers, or rockets are fired indiscriminately into their homes; but become tremendously excited when the news breaks that some Israeli retaliation may have gone wrong.
It took several months to clarify what had happened at Jenin — a staged massacre. It will take several months before something like the true story emerges, from Qana. By which time no one will be listening. (The ideologues will continue citing the original lies, regardless.) And yet in both these cases — Jenin and Qana — indications of fakery were visible from the beginning.
Go read it, it's worth taking the time.
By Black Jack, Friday, 4 August , 2006 @ 1:57 pm
“How many times must a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
Apparently, the watchdogs of democracy are either asleep, or feeding from the tyrant’s hand. It either case, America’s professional journalists can’t be trusted to give us the straight story.