Sunday, June 25, 2006
More data on the Gaza Beach incident, especially important for those doing analysis. Never make firm judgements without the raw footage.
The Palestinian Arab photographer complains in the story that just because they're Palestinians, people question what they say, but given their track record and the fact that they live in an un-free society where those who do not toe the line are at fear for their lives, skepticism is highly warranted.
The harshest images were edited for TV
GAZA - When Zakaria Abu Arabid, a journalist with the Ramatan news agency, arrived at Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp two weeks ago on Friday to photograph casualties of an incident in the Beit Lahia area, a staff member told him that Israel had shelled the Lahia beach. He headed to the spot.
Two weeks later, Abu Arabid and Haaretz view the now-famous tape of Huda Ghalia as she runs along the beach and finds the body of her father. The most gruesome images, it turns out, were censored for television...
I'll just say what we both know, the entire footage is a gigantic lie!
Palestinian Surgeons aren't frantically pulling out shrapnel imperiling the injured by delaying how quickly they get to Specialist Trauma Israeli surgeons and making cuts so deep they further imperil their life unless Hamas and the PA don't want Israel to see where that shrapnel really came from.
B - Israel should send Shabbak to find Mohammed Al Durra and blow the whole PR Propoganda war up. They should be putting their $$$ and efforts there over just about everything else.
The propoganda agenda war of the PA, AP, AFP and Reuters has to be exposed for what it is before anything will begin to change.
Mike
Landes's latest post addresses some of this in more depth and references the Al Durrah affair.