Oh, the stories those photos tell ...

So much has been written about the staged pictures, doctored photographs, photoshopping, fauxtography, the props, the toys ... but was it enough? I mean the perversity of the fauxtojournalists and the MSM editors has gone and is still going beyond any stretch of the imagination, just to bash Israel some more. Needless to say that the damaging pictures have been pulled, discreetly, quietly, but the stain on Israel's reputation lingers. Remember the Lebanon ambulance attack? The pathetic ITV reporter, Julian Manyon (we can get bossy with the troops, you know!!!), who in his broken, nearly tearful voice, practically crucified the IDF spokesman? Where are the apologies? None deemed necessary. Why apologize? Why explain? It's alright to hate Israel, it's trendy. The fact that it means sucking up to islamofascism does not seem to connect.

These apparently "innocent" pictures surely deserve a closer look:
Minnie was posted by Sharif Karim on July 28, 2005, while Barbie was contributed by Mohamad Azakir on August 1, both for Reuters. The building on the left hand side of 'Minnie" is still there, or was it blasted by IAF? And if it was blasted, where is the debris and the rubble? Because there is no doubt that both pictures were taken at the same site: the shattered concrete beam - identical down to the most minute detail, 2 mattresses - one behind the concrete, the other on top of it (albeit slightly obscured).






















Actually, I highlighted a few landmarks on both pictures:





















As to the plastic chair, I thought I had seen it elsehwere, that's right, at Qana, another propaganda chef d'oeuvre. I seem to have stumbled upon another Hezbollah prop. I mean, after the destruction of the house in Qana (also here and here), where "so many innocent children" etc., etc., what should be more natural than to find an overturned, otherwise undamaged plastic chair, right outside the house?

By the way, the Qana in Lebanon is not the Biblical Cana, still to be found in Israel, in the Galilee, where Jesus performed the water-to-wine miracle, although the Lebanese would love the world to blame the IAF for attacking sites that the Christians hold dear. But no, the desecration of Christian shrines has never been part of the IDF/IAF agenda.