Seems Israel’s bombing of Beirut was not intense enough for Beirut, so they published some doctored photos to make the destruction appear more widespread.
Charles over at Little Green Footballs has a long, in-depth post on the issue with a series of examples, so I will not repost and rehash here what is already being hammered throughout the conservative blogosphere.
Suffice it to say this is not the first time the MSM has willfully disseminated such distortions in its quest to discredit Israel. This map of Beirut shows that while the MSM would have you believe the entire city is being obliterated, Israel is in fact attacking only a very small corner of the Lebanese capital, leaving 99% of it virtually untouched.
Nor is the phenomenon isolated to the current Israel-Hizb’allah conflict. When Israel really went after “Palestinian” terrorists during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, the Palestinian Authority told the MSM that the town of Jenin was being flattened and its citizens massacred by the Israelis. The story was reported as dictated. But aerial photographs of Jenin later released by the IDF showed that the fighting and destruction in that city had in fact been confined to an extremely small area.
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2 comments so far ↓
1 Jeff // Aug 6, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Who is the Master of reality, really?
He will be sending an operation of deception, that falsehood may be believed.
2 Tom Goodwin, G.G. // Aug 12, 2006 at 12:08 am
The Reuters photograph was obviously photoshopped. Just like the photograph of the UN flag flying beside the Hezbollah flag shown elsewhere in this blog. Those of us who are adept at digital manipulation know when a photo doesn’t look quite right or when something is TOO GOOD to be TRUE! The first casualty in any war is the truth!
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