Busywolf: More crap from Lebanon c/o AP

These are fauxlegs. I mean the nuns are real, they have real legs, the bar stools are also real. And naughty. The whole thing is funny, and the nuns are just as amused as anybody else. Fauxtography, on the other hand is neither that innocent nor well-intended.

Below is Hezbollah anti-Israel propaganda and the MSM editors are buying it again, producing more proof of their stupidity, ignorance and lack of professionalism. During the second Lebanon war the general excuse offered by the major news outlets when caught with their pants down was that the editors were too busy okaying the posting of the huge amount of pictures coming in all the time, to spot any kind of monkey business. Okay, I'll give them that. What's there excuse now? They're too busy doing what? Trying to ignore the massacres Hamas and Fatah are inflicting on each other?

Hezbollah is back on the border to hoist its bile-stained jaundiced flag:

Hezbollah supporters set a huge Hezbollah flag in front the Israeli settlement of Metulla, in Hamames village at the Lebanese-Israeli border south of Lebanon, Thursday May 17, 2007. Israel released a Lebanese civilian on Thursday, a day after capturing him near the disputed Chebaa Farms area, U.N. and Lebanese security officials said. Israeli troops seized Hisham Daleh, 35, as he was gathering herbs near the village of Chebaa on Wednesday, the security officials said. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)

And not only is this in violation of UN resolution 1701 [Aware of its responsibilities to help secure a permanent ceasefire and a long-term solution to the conflict, the Security Council created a buffer zone free of “any armed personnel” –- both Hizbollah militants and Israeli troops -- between the United Nations-drawn Blue Line in southern Lebanon and the Litani River (12 miles from the Israeli border), and called for both Israel and Lebanon to support a permanent ceasefire and comprehensive solution to the crisis], it is incitement against Israel. Take a look at the caption again: "settlement of Metulla." Except Metulla was founded in 1896 on lands bought from Druze land owners by Baron Nathan Rothschild. At the time Israel/Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire, as was Lebanon. By the way, Lebanon gained its independence in the 1940's, a few years before Israel.

In any case, during the war photographs posted by Lutfallah (or Lotfallah?) Daher for AP were also contributed by Karamallah Daher for Reuters (and they claim to be twin brothers). Is it possible that the MSM is actually funding Hezbollah due to negligent standards or are AP and Reuters supporting terrorism in earnest?

Israeli army tanks advance to new positions in the outskirts of the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006. Israeli troops, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, took the key south Lebanon town of Marjayoun early Thursday just hours before a senior Israeli official announced that the military would hold off expanding its ground offensive to give diplomacy a chance. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)

Israeli tanks are seen in the field of Marjayoun in south Lebanon, August 10, 2006. (Karamallah Daher/Reuters)

Is Marjayoun such a small place that two different photographers working for two different news agencies should need to stick together and contribute nearly identical pictures?

Two Israeli tanks on fire after a Hezbollah attack while they were advancing to a new position in the town of Marjayoun in South Lebanon early Thursday morning Aug. 10, 2006. There is no immediate information on casualties. Israeli troops, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, took the key south Lebanon town of Marjayoun early Thursday just hours before a senior Israeli official announced that the military would hold off expanding its ground offensive to give diplomacy a chance. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)

An Israeli tank burns during fighting with Hizbollah guerrillas near Marjayoun town in south Lebanon August 10, 2006. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher (LEBANON)

In addition, it appears to me that they are embedded with the Hezbollah, otherwise how could they have gotten these images of burning tanks? Hezbollah has a long standing history of documenting its attacks of Israel. So the MSM is paying Hezbollah to attack Israeli troops...

Smoke billows in the town of Khiam, in southern Lebanon, Friday, July 28, 2006, after an Israeli attack. Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on suspected Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Friday, killing at least one person and wounding four others, Lebanese security officials said. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)

Smoke rises from Al-Khiam village after it was targeted by Israeli air strikes in south Lebanon July 28, 2006. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher (LEBANON)

Is it me or are the pictures practically identical? No, its' probably me. I mean could AP and Reuters be this sloppy?

And there's more from Karamallah who couldn't even get his dates right. See, the war didn't start until July 12, 2006. Yet the caption claims the IDF destroyed this bridge on July 7, 2007. Unless of course, he meant August 7, 2006, in order to amplify the Israeli bombardments, a practice which became so common during the war last summer: multiple use buildings, multiple use bodies, multiple use toys, as already revealed by this blog.

<--- Lebanese civilians inspect Litani bridge that was attacked by Israeli warplanes in south Lebanon July 13, 2006. Israel struck Beirut airport and Hizbollah's television station on Thursday and killed 22 civilians in raids on south Lebanon, intensifying its reprisals after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

To say nothing of the fact that the picture on the left seems to be a close-up of the left side of the picture below: