Staged Massacre

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Aug 02, 2006 | Robert Spencer

[neverdem]

“The Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana early Sunday morning did more than kill 57 civilians,” says Jefferson Morley in the Washington Post. “According to a wide range of commentary in the international media, it inflamed already boiling public opinion in the Arab world against Israel, undermined what little support the United States has among the Lebanese people, and illuminated the continuing inability of Israel and the United States to achieve their goal of decisively weakening Hezbollah.” The Hindustan Times editorialized that “with Qana, one senses that the Israelis’ definition of ‘collateral damage’ has started to bear a striking resemblance to that of the very terrorist organisation that they are keen to destroy.”

Except for one nagging little detail: it is increasingly clear that the Qana “massacre” was a stage-managed Hizballah production, designed precisely to enflame international sentiment against Israel and compel the Israelis to accept a ceasefire that would enable the jihad terrorist group to gain some time to recover from the Israeli attacks. Some of the principal evidence for this:

• The Israeli bombardment took place about midnight, but the house where the civilians were gathered reportedly did not collapse until 8AM. Said Brigadier General Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force, “It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it.” It strains credulity that not only did these Lebanese civilians remain in a house that had been bombed for eight hours, but peacefully went to sleep in it after the bombing -- since the victims were all apparently sleeping, despite continuing Israeli air bombardment in the area, when the building collapsed. Eshel suggested that “it could be that inside the building, things that could eventually cause an explosion were being housed, things that we could not blow up in the attack, and maybe remained there” -- in other words, Hizballah bombs and/or weapons.

• The blog EU Referendum has found numerous anomalies in the photos of the rescue operation. Some workers, for example, are wearing different gear in different photos, yet clearly carrying the same corpse. EU Refendum’s Richard North comments about one of these workers: “It stretches belief to breaking point to argue that, on his way to the ambulance, he took off his helmet, his fluorescent waistcoat and his flack jacket just in order to pose for the cameras putting the body in the wagon -- especially as we have the body being placed on the ‘guerney’ -- which means the scenes are totally inconsistent.”

• The very existence of these pictures raises more questions. As Israel Insider puts it: “While Hezbollah and its apologists have been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.”

• The Christian Lebanese website LIBANOSCOPIE has charged that Hizballah “concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations….Hizbullah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the negotiation initiative.”

Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, declared that “War is deceit.” Americans and Westerners are not used to dealing with carefully orchestrated and large-scale deception of this kind. It is time that it be recognized as a weapon of warfare, and an extremely potent one at that. Qana has already largely accomplished what it was supposed to. It will now take its place beside the Danish cartoons, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and all the rest as a useful focal point for Muslim outrage and a magnet for jihad recruitment. The dhimmi Leftist Western press is happy, for it can again show America and Israel as guilty in the world’s sight. The mujahedin are happy, for jihad and Sharia will advance still more. The only people who couldn’t possibly be happy with this are the Israelis and others on the front lines of the jihad worldwide.

But who cares about them?

[bboop]

And if we bothered to train our students how to THINK, we could see through their deceit. But we instead focus on self-esteem and diversity....

[nikos1121]

A large poster of Condi Rice captioning the Qana massacre appeared just a few hours after the bombing.

The same little girl's body is seen in AP photos with different times on the photo. Showing that she had been taken back for a photo op.

[yatros from flatwater]

The Qana incident seems to be just another example of taqiyya

Prior examples are documented here and here.

[angkor]

Most damning is the bizarre presence of the "aid worker" - "Mr. Green Helmet" - at Qana last week, and at the previous Qana tragedy in 1996:

Green Helmet, Qana, July 31, 2006

Green Helmet, Qana, 18 April 1996

From http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html

[SerpentDove]

Let's see who in the MSM report this. Will Tim Russert, for example?

[mvpel]

They have no problem displaying corpses when it will damage the enemy, but when it might help acquit US Marines, then it's an affront to sacred religious sensibilities.

[Steve_Seattle]

The same little girl's body is seen in AP photos with different times on the photo. Showing that she had been taken back for a photo op.

And after the Haditha "massacre" in Iraq, one of the survivors gave three different accounts of how she managed to survive. In the Muslim world, lying is a way of life.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They have no problem displaying corpses when it will damage the enemy, but when it might help acquit US Marines, then it's an affront to sacred religious sensibilities."

Excellent point. And the MSM would not show images of 9/11 victims, but has splashed the pictures of these dead children all across the world.

[johnny7]

[crosslink]

Per the Red Cross no males over the age of 18 in the 28 dead. Think about that? No dads, no grandfathers? Just woman and children. Sure that is normal.

[walford]

Hiding behind civlians is a means of using the decency of your enemy as a sheild when you have none.

Meanwhile the Western press continues to refer to Hezbollah as guerillas and militias.

[nikos1121]

And of course they're not letting anyone exhume the bodies, but Murtha and the Pentagon attorneys hold a press conference to skewer these soldiers in the public eye yesterday.

[BufordP]

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[UCANSEE2]

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[Ready4Freddy]

A few more comments here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676318/posts and here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676264/posts