Monday, January 9, 2006
I'm looking forward to reading Stephanie Gutmann's book, The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy, reviewed here at the Claremont Institute: Pictures Worth a Thousand Lives
Regime propaganda is pervasive. TV spots feature inspirational poetry like "how beautiful is the scent of the land, which is fed from the waterfall of blood, springing from an angry body." In April 2002, an Israeli drone flying above a funeral procession in the city of Jenin caught on tape a Palestinian corpse falling off his bier, reproving his handlers, then hopping back on. It happened again in the midst of a crowd, sending bystanders fleeing in terror. It was part of an effort to inflate both the body count and the number of photo-ops...
(H/T: mal)