On the contrary. Go to eureferendum, which is not a propaganda site, look at the many blog sites discussing Qana. Many people looked at the pictures and noted the obvious: they were expecting to see dust covered freshly killed bodies pulled out of the wreckage, but many of the bodies had no dust on them at all, and some showed rigor mortis and other evidence of having been dead some time.
Note that the first reports, dutifully repeated by all the wire services, said that over 50 were killed at Qana; now all have dropped the figure to 27. What created that large discrepancy? Furthermore, exactly ONE day after this supposedly surprise massacre at Qana, Hezbullah had ready a 30 foot banner with Condi Rice's face on it, condemning the massacre - a banner that would take a professional shop at least 2 days to prepare in New York.
The more you look, the more it becomes obvious that whatever the original air strike & whatever the original casualties, the whole affair was stage managed for best effect, with added corpses and poses of extreme emotion for the cameras. And the photo journalists took the photos and asked no questions. The guy who was holding up the corpses for the photos was described as a "rescue worker" though he wasn't behaving like one, and curiously enough had been on the scene at the Qana massacre of 1996, doing the same job. |
