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July 18, 2006

AP And Foreign Press Do Their Part To Create Anti-Israeli Sentiment: 'When A Picture Isn't Worth A Thousand Words'

Topics: Follies of the Mainstream Media

Did you catch this story and images today? (The images were taken by Sebastian Scheiner who works for the AP (hat tip - Egyptian Sandmonkey).

From comments at The Egyptian Sandmonkey: ... Sand monkey, what is the exact source for those pictures? I can't quite believe them. If they are true, they are disgusting beyond belief. But what is the exact source? Just because they look original doesn't mean they are. ... The original credit seems to be "Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)"

Disgusted that Israeli children would be acting like Palestinians? Don't be.

They were encouraged and set up by the "mostly foreign" press (including the AP)!

... kids were in bomb shelters for days. city is a ghost town. ... only poor people stayed. ... a new army unit arrived, kids were bored, went out with parents to look. ... there were TWELVE photographers there and they egged the kids on. ... the kids are low class, not educated, have never met a Lebanese, just want to live their lives, don't understand why Lebanon attacked their home, etc. ... the photographers told them "hey, your cousins in america will see you!." ... mostly foreign photographers. ...so the kids, who were bored and restless and had been cooped up in bomb shelters for 5 days, took the felt markers and drew messages to Nasrallah. ... there were no cries of hatred toward Lebanese.

Egyptian Sandmonkey has more with comments.

Israel continues to face not only the Islamic terrorists and terrorist states like Iran and Syria, but also an anti-Israel international community and an anti-Israel media that never ceases to criticize Israel while scoring propaganda points for the terrorists.

Posted by Richard at July 18, 2006 11:21 PM

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