Palestinian Photo Fakes: Hamas Not In The Dark
POWER cuts in the Gaza Strip. Candles at the Hamas press conference. But outside it’s sunny. Reuters and AP take the pictures:
Khaled Abu Toameh: ‘Hamas staged some of the blackouts’
On at least two occasions this week, Hamas staged scenes of darkness as part of its campaign to end the political and economic sanctions against the Gaza Strip, Palestinian journalists said Wednesday.
In the first case, journalists who were invited to cover the Hamas government meeting were surprised to see Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his ministers sitting around a table with burning candles.
In the second case on Tuesday, journalists noticed that Hamas legislators who were meeting in Gaza City also sat in front of burning candles.
But some of the journalists noticed that there was actually no need for the candles because both meetings were being held in daylight.
“They had closed the curtains in the rooms to create the impression that Hamas leaders were also suffering as a result of the power stoppage,” one journalist told The Jerusalem Post. “It was obvious that the whole thing was staged.”
Another journalist said he and his colleagues were told to wait for a few minutes before entering the chamber of the Palestinian Legislative Council so that each legislator would have time to light his candle. He said that when he saw that the curtains had been closed to prevent the light from entering, he realized that Hamas was trying to manipulate the media for political gain.
Update: Jerusalem Posts emails some more photos [Note the sunlight behind the curtains.]:
Palestinian lawmakers attend a parliament session in candlelight during a power cut in Gaza January 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian lawmakers attend a parliament session in candlelight during a power cut in Gaza January 22, 2008. Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
Palestinian lawmakers attend a parliament session in candlelight during a power cut in Gaza January 22, 2008. Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
What is to be gained from making things look worse than they are?
Posted: 26th, January 2008 | In: War On Terror Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
The media describes it as a ’sad moment of commemorating a great loss’ when thousands of people lit candles to bid farewell to princess diana. I find it repulsive that the same media is making propoganda (out of the lighting of candles) when the leaders of the palestinian people do the same to show solidarity with their people by lighting candles.
Did someone say ‘media brainwash’? shhhh
January 7th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Isreal is a country that goes back to Biblecall days , It is where the LORD Jesus will come to when he comes back to earth at Gods own choosing in the future,When that happens there will be peace on earth and the Middle East. I back Isreal,as they have no-where else to go , if they give up, then this will open the whole area to Islam ,and you know then what will happen. The Taliban are a good example. Take Note,it could happend ,and you have been warned. The Jews have a right to live in Peace as do the people in Gaza.But they must get rid of Hamas if they want peace. regards Rick
January 27th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Dear me dave. Do you really think that you are going to win any friends/arguments/brownie-points with the following:
“crypto-Communist, self-haters like Chomsky and Finkelstein, or that wacko Ahmadinejad-sponsored cult group NK display the same kind of loopy hatred of Israel as you do “and that they are Jewish”.
Tell me it’s irony!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Petronius - you are one sick pup for comparing the Jewish state to the regime that tried to eradicate all Jews from the planet.
Actually - cancel that - you are one of many sick pups that compares Israel to the Nazis.
You’ll point to the fact that crypto-Communist, self-haters like Chomsky and Finkelstein, or that wacko Ahmadinejad-sponsored cult group NK display the same kind of loopy hatred of Israel as you do “and that they are Jewish”.
You’ll expel a lot of your precious hot air loudly protesting that your venal, obvious bigotry against that Jew State isn’t antisemitism (as you crudely scrawl swastikas next to stars of David on that clever banner you’re taking on the next Islamist-sponsored political protest).
“and besides” you’ll helpfully point out “Jews aren’t the only semites”.
Actually - by the look of your ignorant response and racist allusions to “blond, blue-eyed zionists”, you probably don’t think Jews are semites at all. Have you ever met one?
And since we’re both in full throttle “projection” mode, I bet you deny the holocaust and secretly yearn to burn crosses (as long as this doesn’t harm the environment).
Fed up of this hurtful caricature of you yet? Yet bub - that ain’t a fraction of the hurt you’d feel if you were Jewish and saw the Jewish homeland being grotesquely, inappropriately compared to the people that used industrial slaughter methods to wipe out their people.
Yes - Israel is heavy-handed against the Palestinians, but guess what assmunch? The Palestinians are heavy handed back. It isn’t Israelis lobbing random missiles into gaza - just to see if they can hit a few civilians. It isn’t young Jews being send into Arab shops, buses and discos - packed with explodes and shrapnel.
Israel is at war and here’s the fact you’d prefer not to realise: If the Palestinians stopped the terrorism, they’d be peace. If Israel stopped military action, they’d be….no more Israel.
Israel made peace with two Arab enemies Egypt and Jordan. This peace lasted because they havn’t attacked Israel. Peace is possible between Jews and Arabs, but it takes an end to violence.
Israel made peace with Lebanon, but that ended when Hexbollah started showering Israel with rockets and sneaking across the border to grab Israeli patrols.
Israel tried to get the peace process moving by handing the Palestinians Gaza. A great first move. Sadly, they didn’t get it. They just carried on with the terrorism and used this new land as a rocket launch pad. Don’t blame the Israelis for responding to Palestinian lunacy. Look for the cause - not the effect and try to see beyond the propaganda. Put yourself in the position of a small country facing terrorist outrages every single day of the year for the past 40 years. How would you feel? Israel isn’t facing Norway - they are facing Hamas. A charming group that has “kill the Jews” written explicitly into their charter.
Finally - look into your own heart and ask yourself…if your flagrant bigotry towards Israel ISN’T antisemitism, what on earth is making you such as arsehole?
January 27th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
3.
The Jerusalem posts links you put up has this rather nifty artwork entitled:
‘The Islamic Mein Kampf’
It might even lead one to believe that neither party has a monopoly on repugnant claims that the other side are Nazis…
January 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
1 - unprovoked? And you studied hisotry? The allusion to Nazi Isreal is a repugnant twisting of history that does not bear scrutiny…
January 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Another journalist said he and his colleagues were told to wait for a few minutes before entering the chamber of the Palestinian Legislative Council so that each legislator would have time to light his candle. He said that when he saw that the curtains had been closed to prevent the light from entering, he realized that Hamas was trying to manipulate the media for political gain.
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Poor journos, spending all those years not realising that politicians manipulate the media until that moment of illumination.
I suppose they’re just not very bright….
January 27th, 2008 at 8:24 am
More than 60 UN sanctions against Israel, the most outstanding sanctions ever against any single nation.
Breaches of the 4th Geneva convention regarding the treatment of civilian populations, especially in the West Bank.
The EU and many others regard the recent treatment of Palestine as collective punishment. Nothing is being militarily achieved by sonic booming baby children or in cutting off power of water, just breaches of human rights (again). All that is achieved is civilian enmity and a hardening of resolve, as was proven during the German blitz on the UK.
Only 17% of Palestine left as agreed by UN res. no 181.
Having studied the Nazis at Uni, let’s look at the remarkable similarities betweeen Israel and Nazi Germany:
Collective punishments and reprisals. Ghettoization. Funding/Provoking terrorism, and then using the pin-prick reactions to justify brutal reprisals and taking even more land and rights from the Palestinians (re. the Reichstag fire and the treatment of the Assasination of the German Ambassador in Paris by a Jewish “Terrorist”). Ex-propiation of other people’s lands and homes and illegally replacing them with nice blonde haored and blue eyed Zionists in illegal sttlements (all subject to UN resolutions that are ignored of course). The selective use of history that has nothing to do with the Palestinians, to be used against them anyway as a rationale to kill more and steal more. Pariah status with the League of Nations (or UN as it is now). A fanatical devotion and zeal in duty, staggering inhumanity and brutality of the armed forces (mostyl conscripted). Pretending all the time to be victims of terrro when they are always the aggressors and instigators.
The news does have a consensus, that Tuesday before last, Israel made another illegal incursion into Gaza and assasinated the son of a Hamas leader, plus a load of innocent people as well (of course, always the collateral damage with the IDF, a bit like with the Waffen SS). Terrorism, in other words. They followed this up with another illegal invasion to blow up a ministery, again killing innocents. By the end of that weeek 50, as in FIFTY people were killed.
How many Israelis killed? NONE, 0, nada, zip, zilch. But Israel will still, reprise, eh? They started, so they’ll finish and etc.
The Qassam rockets were a response to these. People are not fooled anymore by the whole spontaneous Palestinian terrorism bit, we all know about Operation Dagan to provoke Palestine and keep doing it so that they can “reprise” with our approval.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1868
Given how bad things are in Palestine, I wouldn’t begrudge them hamming it up (sic) with a few candles.
After all, it’s better than Isreal attacking Palestine first, and then the media reporting only on the pin-prick and pathectic reactions as if the Idf is justified in it’s illegal actions, highly reminiscent as they are of how the Wehrmacht conducted themselves in the Former Soviet Union.
I’d rather see Anorak asking why that is, rather than the few candles put out as a reaction to the unprovoked Israeli actions, because in our media it’s a much bigger and more glaring issue of bias and delusional/false reporting, indirectly causing such things as 7/7.