Posted on 1/26/2008, 3:48:26 PM by jdm
My good friend Scott Johnson, who in real life may be one of the most unassuming people you'll ever meet, is a tiger when it comes to documenting media shenanigans and Palestinian terrorism. In the upcoming issue of the Weekly Standard, the Power Line heavyweight delves into one of the more reprehensible media-fueled urban legends of 9/11: Yasser Arafat and his blood donation.
Recall the shrieking adulation in the streets of Ramallah when al-Qaeda killed 3,000 people in New York City and Washington DC as the context for this event. Americans, already with our blood boiling, saw the images of ululating Palestinians and began drawing connections between the jihadist mass murderers and the Palestinian cause. Arafat sensed disaster, and the media put on a show to blunt American rage:
The story of Arafat's blood donation was reported around the world in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, usually accompanied by photographs depicting Arafat in the apparent act of giving blood at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Enderlin elaborated on his contention that the scene depicted in the photographs was staged. According to Pollak's account of Enderlin's remarks, "Arafat didn't like needles, and so the doctor put a needle near his arm and agitated a bag of blood. The reporters took the requisite photographs." ...
Do the photographs conform to Enderlin's description of them? In short, the [answer] is yes. ... But what about the photographers? What does the record reveal about them?
Among the work of AP photographer Adel Hana is a 2006 photograph claiming to show a Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli airstrike against "Islamic militants" being carried into the Shifa Hospital by a grieving relative surrounded by armed men. It is a heartbreaking photograph. The AP subsequently updated the caption to indicate that "doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area before the strike."
Reuters's Ahmed Jadallah, for his part, is clearly on the team he's covering. Reuters itself helpfully advises visitors that Jadallah "shoots reportages of Palestinian funerals and Israeli violence" almost daily. Israeli authorities have barred him from going to Reuters's main office in Jerusalem. Reuters also ingenuously discloses: "He sees it as his mission to have the world see the despair of the Palestinian people." And, we can fairly assume, the benefactions of their late chairman.
Be sure to read it all. The blood may have been faked, but we saw the bloodthirstiness of the Palestinians for ourselves on 9/11, and all of the media hoaxes in the world can't possibly erase that from our consciousnesses.
Didn't Arafat die from AIDS anyway? If so, it's good that no one received any of his blood. But still for the media to fake this is reprehensible.
Reuter's, AP, and CNN have been caught doing this many times.
Nobody wanted the dirty Rat’s blood anyway.
After what he did to his own people and the world, I hope he’s getting extra crispy in hell right now.
I’m sure there are plenty of moonbats willing to join precious bodily fluids with any mass murderer, HIV or not.
“Americans, already with our blood boiling, saw the images of ululating Palestinians and began drawing connections between the jihadist mass murderers and the Palestinian cause.”
If the Israelis ever behaved so reprehensibly, do you think you would EVER see a news story on television about Israel that didn’t include a re-airing of that video? That’s how the MSM gins up hatred of America and her allies and hides the atrocities of our enemies.
This reminds me of the Arkansas blood scandal which no one talks about any more--the infected blood from Arkansas prisons, collected during Clinton's governorship, which may have killed several hundred people in Canada. Somehow everyone lost interest in that story.
Speaking as a cancer survivor who has received numerous blood transfusions, I’d rather be infused with blood from a rabid jackal than blood from the late Arafart.
OK, not really, I’d rather die than take blood from either.
Anyway, Arafart probably had HIV/AIDS and other horrible diseases, so it’s a good thing if no one really received his vile blood.
But what an appalling piece of MSM propaganda to swallow and regurgitate such filth? I had (foolishly) imagined that the MSM actually had something more reliable to go on when reporting this stunt, but obviously the vaunted skepticism and rigor (sic) of these tough, savvy (sic, sic) so-called journalists deserts them when it comes to re-playing Pali-fascist propaganda for the world.
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