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The Qana Conspiracy Theory
The Washington Post ^ | 08/ 2/2006 | Jefferson Morley

Posted on 08/02/2006 7:18:25 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

As Hezbollah wins support throughout the Middle East in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrike that killed at least 57 Lebanese civilians over the weekend, an alternative view of the attack is emerging in blogs -- that the incident was actually staged by Hezbollah.

This "story" is a useful companion to last week's post about watching the war as it unfolds on the Web. The Qana conspiracy theory not only underscores how the Internet can misinform (an old story), it also reveals a popular demand for online content that attempts to explain away news reports that Israel (and by proxy, its closest ally and arms supplier, the United States) was responsible for the deaths of dozens of women and children in a Hezbollah stronghold.

At a time when American and Israeli public opinion of the war diverge radically from the world opinion elsewhere, the emergence of a right-wing equivalent of the Sept. 11 conspiracy theories is worth noting.........."

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; enemedia; hezbollah; israel; mediabias; qana; tinfoil; wot
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To: Anti-Bubba182
...Middle East in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrike that killed at least 57 Lebanese civilians over the weekend...

This shows who is misinformed. The death toll is 27.
41 posted on 08/02/2006 8:57:15 PM PDT by msnimje (Uni-FAIL - UN peace keeping force in Lebanon has lived up to its name.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

---Confronted with photographs of dead children, Israeli Insider's Korvet insisted they must be something else: "The victims were non-residents who chose to shelter in the building that night," he writes. "They were 'too poor' to leave the down, one resident told CNN's [Jon] Wedeman. Who were these people?"

That question has been definitively answered in the mainstream press. Almost all of the victims belonged to two extended families, the Hashems and the Shalhoubs, who lived in the area, according to the independent accounts of The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid and the Daily Star's Nicholas Blanford.---

So where were the grieving relatives pushing in on all sides of the rescue site, Morley? It appeared from the photographs that the only ones there were "reporters", "photographers", and "rescuers". Where were the grieving extended families, numnuts?


42 posted on 08/02/2006 9:06:19 PM PDT by claudiustg (dou•ble•think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, 1949: a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Nailed it bump.

This is entirely fluff, predicated on arrogance.


43 posted on 08/02/2006 9:10:55 PM PDT by Kryptonite (Keep Democrats Out of Power!)
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To: UCANSEE2
I think you are right and he did not look at the photos or study the analysis.

"Confronted with photographs of dead children, Israeli Insider's Korvet insisted they must be something else:"

Below are the two Israeli Insider pieces dealing with Qana.

Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged

There is a photo of a dead child in this one.

Lebanese report: Hezbollah planted disabled children in basement to die

And in this one as well.

He just hacked the piece out. At no time did Korvet deny dead children. The question is how did they get there?

44 posted on 08/02/2006 9:10:55 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: claudiustg

Another thing occurs to me. How credible would these "relatives" be anyway?


45 posted on 08/02/2006 9:15:33 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Qana conspiracy theory not only underscores how the Internet can misinform (an old story)...

In other words, we're not qualified to analyze the news, like he is.

-PJ

46 posted on 08/02/2006 9:24:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: DCPatriot
"Never pick a fight with somebody who buys ink by the barrel"

Ink has become much less relevant than when that was first written. Now even owning a TV network doesn't carry as much weight as it once did.

Almost anyone can afford electrons by the mega-mole.

47 posted on 08/02/2006 9:48:44 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Anti-Bubba182

---Another thing occurs to me. How credible would these "relatives" be anyway?---

More credible than what we have seen anyway. Can you believe that these people just left 19 children behind or that if they were in the area wouldn't mob the site, carrying on hysterically? This whole thing just looks unreal. They should have hired some professionals to set it up. There's too much that just doesn't fit.

Even if the whole thing was real, the fact that they posed the children reduces it to propaganda. I took only one semester of journalism, but I learned that you don't pose or reenact news photos.

And now we hear the AP and others defend their little dog and pony show, and it seems their main defense is to declare anyone that has doubts to be a kook or a conspiracy buff.


48 posted on 08/02/2006 10:32:26 PM PDT by claudiustg (dou•ble•think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, 1949: a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Ping


49 posted on 08/02/2006 11:29:57 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Anti-Bubba182

"underscores how the Internet can misinform (an old story)", Well I guess they should know if anyone does, since they do it constantly.


50 posted on 08/03/2006 7:03:48 AM PDT by thile44 (Simplicity is too complex.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Who killed the Hashems and Shalhoubs, if it wasn't an Israel bomb? Korvet and the other bloggers don't offer any theories.

Yes, we do. Explosives in the building.

51 posted on 08/03/2006 7:07:33 AM PDT by dirtboy
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