I am on the mailing list for Honest Reporting, which is dedicated to countering the false propaganda that goes out through the international media whenever Israel is involved in combat. It is undeniable that the Palestinians are playing a sympathetic media like violins whenever they engage in combat against the Jewish state. Here is what I received from Honest Reporting today.
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Dear Friends,
Israel needs your help.
Our military is strong and motivated – there is no doubt. But Israel cannot ignore public pressure.
Public pressure can tie the hands of Israel's military and prevent it from getting the job done. This pressure is a direct result of what people see in the media.
Please click here to support our work. Your tax-deductible gift directly helps us to defend Israel from media lies.
What will happen when the world sees one-sided media reports of alleged Israeli attacks against an innocent population?
I think you know the answer.
When these reports are faked or exaggerated, we must do everything in our power to expose the lies and distortions.
A few days ago, the BBC and CNN showed images from Reuters of the alleged aftermath of an Israeli attack – but we have been analyzing the media for years, and we've been taking a closer look as stories and images come in. It became clear that a supposedly injured man strolling around had successfully duped one of the most influential news organizations in the world.
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Within minutes, we put together a simple video that clearly demonstrates how the footage was staged and fed to a media who were all too eager to broadcast it to the world without checking for accuracy. Already more than a quarter of a million people have seen the lies that are being broadcast as truth.
But that's just one example. We need to be able – within minutes – to expose media lies and manipulations.
Will you help us to do so?
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Please click here to support our work. Your tax-deductible gift directly helps us to defend Israel from media lies.
The media war depends on your support. We can't do it without you.
Thank you.
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Joe Hyams, CEO HonestReporting
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It is also what they leave out of the news that is so infuriating. Take this one item:
ReplyDeleteNew York, NY --- November 4, 2012 ... Israel Flying Aid, the Israeli global humanitarian organization, which was first to land in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, has been distributing generators to medical facilities as well as supplies of food, batteries and other necessities to Hurricane Sandy victims.
"We have many years of disaster relief experience," said Israel Flying Aid North American Operations Manager Moti Kahana. "Israel Flying Aid, in having Israelis on the ground here in New York and New Jersey, have made Israel the only foreign nation to provide humanitarian assistance to the US during this disaster. We are working in coordination with FEMA, local police, the American Red Cross and Jewish communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."
Note: The ONLY foreign nation to provide humanitarian assistance.... not newsworthy, I suppose. Or rather, not helpful so we'll pass on this story.
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Why don't you all volunteer for the IDF?
ReplyDeleteVolunteer for the IDF? Or we can just wait until our kids are having to fight the same enemy.
ReplyDeleteIt is very easy to assume a moral equivalence here but it is simply not the case. One side targets civilians purposely and launches missiles from schools, mosques, homes, and other crowded public sites. The other side specifically targets military installations and headquarters and even calls off many strikes if too many civilians are in danger.
ReplyDeleteIn what war, were civilians spared? In what war was any side urged to exercise restraint? Which war was supposed to be "proportional"?
We bombed Dresden and the Nazis bombed London. Every war has civilian casualties. Maybe if the civilians would think twice about electing terrorists they would spare themselves.
Hatred is taught solely in the Muslim schools... around the world. It will take many generations to eradicate the justification for violence they have instilled in their children.
Only in Islam can have the paradox of someone yelling ALLAH AKBAR as he kills civilians around him and himself. Normative religions assume a moral god who does not ask the followers to commit heinous crimes. But firing missiles at civilians is acceptable for them! Not one prominent Islamic cleric has spoken against them.
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Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteNow I know why you live in America's Dairyland (Wisconsin) Home of contented cows.
You do? Why?
ReplyDeleteWas it anything I said?
What? And what was the hidden clue you found? Are you writing a sequel to the DaVinci code?