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RBT is on the road again with spotty net access. I had to post this one re the Qana incident in Lebanon. I will update later with some other questions the MSM is not probing e.g. the building collapsed some seven hours after the bombing run.
RBT
The Missile Defense System Has Been Rolled Into Position
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Hezbollah loves children- dead ones
Posted By Uncle Jimbo
I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajund that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to have its say in other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters and armed to the teeth, they stored rockets in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rockets depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.
Dr. Mounir Herzallah
Berlin-Wedding
OK let me get this straight Hezbollah, who does so much charitable work, builds a piece of terrorism infrastructure and then puts a school on top of it.
After thousands of rockets fired into Israel from these Hezbollah hideouts among their own people, the Israelis document that there are rockets being fired from just behind a structure in Qana. These rockets fly purposely toward Israeli civilians killing and wounding innocents. The Israelis then drop leaflets warning the populace that because rockets are coming from their houses they will be forced to destroy those houses to safeguard their own people.
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Update:
Other thoughts re the Qana incident being a Hezbollah proganda event.
All is not as it at first appears to be.
As promised earlier, here's a summary of cogent thoughts from other thinkers in the Blogos on this developing story.
There's a problem developing here where the MSM is getting sucked in as a propaganda outlet for the enemy in the GWOT. I'm sorry but many large dailies have such an unabashed hatred for President Bush, they are lossing there sense of objectivity and succumbing to manipulation by the enemy. We just witnessed this with the report by CNN's own Nick Robertson on the bombing in Beirut that Anderson Cooper deftly corrected several days later.
Bush has many faults but I haven't seen much rational/logical alternatives on the part of the LL and MSM either. I just read where Britain's PM Tony Blair, likened the US to Superman. Even though innocents will be killed in any war, we can't retreat to Smallville either, as Superman later learns there are greater unfavorable consequences if he fails to act.
I'm not a big fan of Gingrich but I tend to believe we are witnessing the start of WWIII. If not perhaps the Spanish War prior to WWII. The parties are probing and testing each others mettle with this proxy fight. There are many signs similar to 1938 that many are in a state of denial. The MSM is distracted with its personal battle with President Bush to notice these nuances and educate the readers on the growing darkness and rise of Evil in the world.
Are we about to enter
Tolkien's World of The Ring Trilogy of good vs. Evil?
I'd be watching very carefully what the Iranians [President MAD and Immam Yazdi and the Mad Mullahs] do on
Aug 22nd.
We must clearly identify the enemy, radical Jihadists and their ideology of hate and evil that has no place in the modern world. There is no moral equivalence between the death and destruction of Islamofascism [Religion of Peace?] and the modern, peaceful religions of the world.
My God are we all going to die like frogs brought slowy to a boil in a pot of water?
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The Real Ugly American
Israeli Massacre or Hezbollah Propaganda
By now we have all heard the news about an Israeli aistrike on a building they beleived to be a Hezbollah base and the source of rocket attacks on southern Israel.
EU Referendum now makes a very strong case that many of the grizzly photographs being circulated around the world were staged.
Among other things EU Referendum compares several photographs from several different news organizations with the same rescue worker carrying the same lifeless childs body for well over an hour.
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Read more with other thoughts and links to the
Strata-Sphere and the
Confederate Yankee.
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The American Thinker
Qana update
The site EU Referendum demonstrates the extent to which the Qana deaths are being exploited heartlessly by Hezbollah propagandists and their willing enablers in the mass media. The cynical exploitation of the dead bodies of children over a period of hours shows beyond any doubt that Hezbollah has no respect for or compassion for the the mortal remains of these victims of violence.
Which fact adds weight to the hypothesis that Israel’s attack did not kill the children, but they were rather kept inside the building afterward, and it collapsed hours later due to either its weakened state or to vibrations from an attack half a kilometer away, or perhaps from the explosion of weapons kept in the building by Hezbollah.
The
IDF is reporting that evidence suggests that it was not, in fact, responsible:
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Michelle Malkin and this MUST READ link to
Allahpundit
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Dr. Rusty of the
Jawa Report has these observations
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Dr Sanity as always is,
Shining a psychological spotlight on a few of the insanities of life
DOES TRUTH EVEN MATTER ANY MORE ?
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Spook86 at In From the Cold
Israel (Nearly) Blinks
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Right Wing Nuthouse
THE SECOND MIRACLE AT QANA
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Michael J. Totten reporting from Beirut
Hezbollah’s Coup d'État
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Outside the Beltway:
Was Qana Staged?
By Greg Tinti
According to The Israel Insider, evidence is mounting that indicates that the collapse of the building in Qana and subsequent deaths of women and children were all staged by Hezbollah. Here’s are the facts as The Insider presents them:
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From Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch:
Muslim Brotherhood chairman calls on Arab leaders to arm their people for jihad
The Qana "massacre" has become the latest pretext for jihad. Western analysts continue to miss the fact that if it weren't Qana, it would be something else, and that Qana is just the latest in a long, long line of similar incidents used by jihadists to stir up a sense of grievance among Muslims and thereby increase support for the jihad du jour. "MB Chairman: Peace Treaties Provided Cover for Zionist Massacres," from Ikhwanweb,
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Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters with MUST READ link to Noami Ragen:
Putting Qana In Perspective
When we or our allies go to war, we expect the maximum effort to adhere to the modern conventions of warfare, especially in protecting civilian populations. Unfortunately, the success for such efforts largely depend on the nature of the enemy. An enemy that does not concern itself with protecting civilian populations — in fact, one that hides itself and its weapons among civilians for tactical and political purposes — makes civilian casualties impossible to avoid. That Israel faces such an enemy should surprise no one, especially considering the tactics used by their enemies now and for the last generation, as
Naomi Ragen reminds us in Arutz Sheva.
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Alexandra von Maltzan at All Things Beautiful has a similar perspective to Capt Ed:
The 'Moral Equivalence Brigade' Reign Supreme
As a breath of fresh air and sparkling sanity at the UN meeting, came the unscripted speech given by Israel's Dan Gillerman, [from my own notes] who in no uncertain terms named Hezbollah as the monster the Lebanese Government had allowed to spread its tentacles everywhere totally unchallenged; who would not have taken such a massive stronghold had they enforced resolution 1559 as they were obliged to do; that the atrocities carried out by the Hezbollah thugs would not have happened.
He talked about how Hezbollah has infiltrated every pore of Lebanon, like a metastasizing cancer from within. He said that we have witnessed civilian casualties, and that Israel grieves for each one of them. Also, we have heard how difficult it is to distinguish between Hizbullah and civilians. He pointed out the admission by the Lebanese Ambassador, only the other day, that
It is impossible to differentiate between Hizbullah and civilians in Lebanon. Hizbullah is everywhere in Lebanon, and has become part of Lebanese society.
He also said that he would not be surprised if Hezbollah had not allowed the civilians to leave the building, despite repeated requests by Israel to do so. My own view is rather mixed regarding this particular issue: Although I believe that this is not only possible but in fact highly probable, I nonetheless think the Lebanese Government bears the heaviest burden of guilt, for it failed throughout this crisis to provide any of its citizens with the most basic means to evacuate.
Gillerman went on to say that the world has learned how deeply Hezbollah has penetrated Lebanese society, and that we have learned once again how ruthless and indiscriminate Hezbollah is. The same international community and this very Council has learned how right they were in repeatedly demanding the disarming of this terrorist monster.
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UPDATE III: Via Dave in the comments: "Now villagers in Qana tell them there are only five people that are unaccounted for, not the 25 or 30 they originally thought. The excavation teams give up the dig at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A beautiful soft dusk falls over the surrounding hills and valleys, a sharp contrast to the death and destruction they have been knee-deep in for more than 12 hours."
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From Eagle1 at Eaglespeak linking to The American Spectator
Modern warfare: the second front is the media
A nation at war must either be better at propaganda than their enemy or ignore the media and win the battles on the ground. In either event, it's no place for half measures. See here:
The Israelis are losing this war because their government is fighting indecisively on one battlefield and not at all on the other. Because the Israelis aren't fighting the media war, the press is slashing at the Israelis hourly in a manner previously reserved for President Bush. Like the president, the Israelis are losing politically because the enemy is fully engaged on both fronts.
Hezbollah is playing the media like a fine instrument, and despite Israel's post-event explanations, videos of dead babies trump videos of rockets being launched from the building housing the children.
In a weird way, one of the factors that hurts Israel is that its people are protected from the unguided rocket attacks by their civil defense preparation- bomb shelters and safe rooms, anti-missile defenses. If Israel had lost 50 kids when a rocket had hit a school early in this skirmish, the world might be more sympathetic to Israel. But....when the rule is "if it bleeds, it leads" then the reprehensible tactics of Hezbollah in using human shields work.
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From Michael at Liberty and Justice echoing the thread by Michael J. Totten linked above:
Supreme Importance In War: Attack The Enemy's Strategy
The real terrible thing is, to me, that somehow Hizbullah's propaganda machinery seems to be working magnificently. Israel must not only win the military battle, she must also win the propaganda war. Doing that requires more openness about what happens in the area and it means that Israel must emphasize the cruelty of the terrorist organization time and time again.
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Update II:
AJ Strata of The Strata-Sphere has more re the Qana photos perhaps being staged:
More Staged Photo’s From AP-Reuters-Qana
Graphic Warning - Pictures of Carnage
When are we as a nation going to take the media to task for publishing staged propaganda as if it was news. Check out this AP photo at Yahoo of a picture of a young girl laying ‘in the rubble’ of a mosque. Clearly there is no dirt or dust on the photo which was just as clearly laid on the debri to make a propaganda image. Or how about this amazingly well parked tricycle in an AFP Photo which apparently was barely disturbed by the blast in the wall behind it.
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From neo-neocon:
Women and children first: the propaganda of compassion, at Qana and elsewhere
The casualties at Qana are horrific. The visuals are heartrending, and the details sorrowful--especially the predominance of women and children among the dead.
We are biologically predisposed to want to protect children--to love them, to smile when we see them. Only monsters kill children, correct?
Although the phrase "women and children first" comes from maritime tradition, the same impulse has meant, historically, that societies were generally dedicated to protecting that especially vulnerable and vital portion of their population from the enemy.
This doesn't mean that in war women and children were not killed, of course, despite those efforts at protection. In particular, the aeriel bombardments of World War II made children fair game if they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, although they were not specifically targets (except for purposeful Nazi killings of Jewish children during the Holocaust). Some countries, such as England, sent many of their children off to the countryside during the war, because it was mainly cities that were bombed.
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LGF has more:
Blogs Examine Qana Propaganda
(WARNING: graphic images linked below.)
Confederate Yankee notes more discrepancies in the photo reports from Qana: Were the Qana Bodies Staged?
More at Riehl World View: A Tyre For Qana?
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Update III:
And finally this just in from Michelle Malkin who unloads with both barrels on the MSM:
Lights, camera, Hezbollywood!
Why doesn't some MSM hotshot stop smoking figurative hookah with Hezbollah and do some actual journalism? Who the hell is that Green Helmet holding up those poor dead babies as props and why does he always seem to show up where the jihadi propagandists need a helping hand?
Larry? Christiane? Nic? Anderson? [Fill-in-the-blank network anchor]? Anyone? Anyone?
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Gerard Van der Leun is must-must-read on the weaponization of children. We need more antidotes to moral equivalence like this:
If you aren't sure exactly who has the moral high ground in the current struggle in Lebanon, you might reflect that while it is possible to see a grown man on the Lebanese side of the struggle dangle a shredded child by an ankle for the world's cameras, you don't ever see that sort of thing at an Israeli funeral, do you?
And while you might be feeling very, very bad for the dead and dangled child, you might also ask yourself where the pictures of all the dead Hezbollah and Hamas warriors are? Don't see many of those, do you?
Or perhaps you do, if you ask yourself what sort of man could hold up a dead child by the ankle to be photographed. Or what sort of man could seek out and take the picture and make sure it got out to the ever accommodating Associated Press?
Because you do see the "brave" terrorist warriors in these pictures after all. They're the ones digging up the kids, and holding them up for the feast of the cameras. Indeed, the terrible truth that we in the West cannot confront is that, in some instances, they're the ones that are killing the kids in the first place. As we know if we are honest with ourselves at this stage, there is nothing too base and too vile for the proud "warriors" of Islam to do in the service of their anachronistic god; their banner is the Bloody Shirt, and they will never have enough blood to quench it. And any blood, as long as it is not theirs, will do.
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Update IV:
I could'nt pass up on this one from
Michelle Malkin:
QANA AND THE BLOGS
By Michelle Malkin · August 01, 2006 10:31 AM
Ynetnews.com, an invaluable resource for Middle East news, looks at the role of blogs scrutinizing the Qana incident.
Just doing the job the MSM won't do.
The truth is worth pursuing. "World opinion" be damned.
[And don't miss Michelle's VLOG Vent]
What Happend in Qana
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Schlussel: There's one thing Muslims and the media love more than dead Jewish kids
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