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AP Beirut photo faces questions
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 08.08.06, 22:22
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1. There is a conspiracy in the media against Israel.
Daisy ,   USA   (08.08.06)
Arab organizations and governments are are behind it.
2. "Either this woman is the unluckiest multiple home owner .."
Israel   (08.08.06)
LMAO! If ever there was proof of the manipulative nature of our enemies - and their current level of desperation to distract from their failures. Too bad most of the reading public has too poor a short-term memory to recognize these patterns and hold it against them.
3. hypocrites
Libneniyye   (08.08.06)
What a friggin waste of time. All that inverstigation - what point are u trying to prove when ur such hypocrites
4. MAYBE???
ALAN ,   USA   (08.08.06)
MAYBE THIS IS THE SAME WOMAN, HOW DO WE KNOW? THEY SORT OF ALL LOOK ALIKE TO ME.
5. Her home insurance must be damn expensive.
(08.08.06)
6. looks like normal middle eastern house
(08.08.06)
7. Look at this link
Leah ,   Canada   (08.08.06)
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html
8. To #3
Patricia ,   Hawaii, USA   (08.08.06)
Is truth a friggin waste of time? Maybe you have an interest in slanted media coverage, I do not. The point is that things apparently are not as they seem. As long as the media dishonestly presents your point of view I guess things are OK. When it is asked to present the truth by some of us than we are the hypocrites. You are sounding like the journalists who fake the news. Perhaps you are one of the people who helped perpetuate this by posing in some of the photos or maybe you are one of the military analyists quoted by the Wishy Post reporter.
9. stop it !
yoel   (08.08.06)
The real question is WHY Israelis still continue to welcome foreign journalists in nice hotels and give them so much freedom of speech. Make their lives as hard as Hezb and Hamas do, and intimidate them as they are used to in Gaza, or in Lebanon. Unfortunately, those people are used to land in Ben Gurion Airport, and install in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem's nice hotels inside nice areas surrounded by big buildings.. . Then, they are used to travel across checkpoints, and go visit poor areas. Pals and Hezb's friends take advantage of this situation, offer them tours,and make them cry with their Palywood stories. Sure, my analysis could look superficial, but I think it's at least part of the truth. PS: for french speakers, watch this video report from Roger Auque. He is a journalist working for the first Swiss TV, and former hostage in Lebanon years ago. He speaks about human shields used by Hezb... http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=501930&startDate=2006-08-01&endDate=2006-08-31&selectedDate=2006-08-05&dateFormat=yyyy-MM-dd&format=&sourceId=294&preciseDate=2006-08-05
10. WHO CARES
john ,   Canada   (08.08.06)
Who cares ? isnt the point that this woman's house was destroyed. point is this woman was actually upset.. who cares about when and how did reuters sell the pictures. Also, the timestamp could be the time of publishing. YNET is enjoying spreading propoganda !! you should be ashamed of such low-class israeli media
11. #3
Leo ,   Canada   (08.08.06)
point is easy as 1-2-3 - lie I will be not surprize if dead bodies just moved from one site to another in order to show how bad is IDF. I will be not surprised if number of dead in Lebanon will finaly go back. as it happand last time. I am not surprised that out of 27 60 was killed I am not surprised that out of 1 - 40 was killed etc..
12. Cynical people since Moses till now
Captain London ,   London, UK   (08.08.06)
You have destroyed the houses of those people and now you are being cynical of whether the pic was taken on the same day or not. For Heaven's sake, be HUMANE. Feel with them even if they are gentiles...!!! I bet that this woman left her house and she doesnt have clothes but those that she is wearing. Youare being hostile with the Lebanese.
13. Hezbullsh*t
Greg ,   Dallas TX USA   (08.08.06)
The Hezbullsh*tters would have made Josef Goebels and the other Nazis proud. They are masters of the Big Lie technique of propaganda. Shout a lie loud enough and persistently enough and eventually people will accept it as true, no matter how untrue it is. Fortunately the media have a lot of folks in the blogosphere looking over their shoulders. Ultimately the Truth will come out and the media will lose even more of their credibility than they already have.
14. Hmmm
James ,   US   (08.08.06)
I think this is the same woman I saw in a photo from Gaza. She travels from Gaza to Lebanon, oh wait, I saw her in a photo from Iraq in April 2003 when Saddam's statue fell. You will soon see her in Syria..........................................
15. conspiracy
dawn ,   beersheva, israel   (08.08.06)
Hey, the conspiracy isn't just in the media.
16. see nothing wrong in the pic!
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17. 10 to one this fair
Lebanese   (08.08.06)
1000 Innocents lebanese civilian has been killed VS 50 Israeli Civilian So logically each 20 picture of innocent killed or injured Lebanese VS 1 picture .!!! and this also can be applied to the buildings who care if this woman own one or 1000 building , In the Fact each israeli 'balcon' VS 1000 buildings in lebanon this is what's going !!!!!
18. #3 -- the point we're trying to prove
BS meter ,   Canada   (08.08.06)
That it's time the whole world woke up to your vicious, destructive, racist shenanigans. YOu want to kill yourselves? Don't drag everybody else aong. Oh, but then you wouldn't be "martyrs" right? I forgot. So long as it's Jews, or Crusaders, or Sunnis, or Shias (whichever you happen not to be), or Hindus, or black, you've got a shot at paradise. Well, we're just having a grim laugh at you.
19. NO NO IT"S NOT TRUE!!
KS ,   LEBANON   (08.08.06)
NO NO...IT'S NOT TRUE!! NON OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING LEBANESE CITIES, TOWNS, HOMES AND BRIDGES DESTROYED ARE TRUE!! LEBANON IS STILL ALL PERFECT! PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT AND DRINKING AND HAVING FUN! DAHYE(THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF BEIRUT) IS COMPLETELY FINE! WHAT A JOKE!! UNBELIEVABLE THE EXTENT TO WHICH ISRAELIS GO TO JUSTIFY WHAT THEY DO AND FIND ALL TYPES OF EXCUSES! EVEN IF THE PICTURES ARE FAKE, WHICH I DON'T THINK THEY ARE, WHAT THE HELL DOES IT MATTER!! HALF OF LEBANON IS DESTROYED!! HALF!! OVER A 1000 PEOPLE ARE DEAD, NOT COUNTING THOSE WHICH CAN'T BE RETRIEVED!! AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PICTURES!! SHOVE THE PICS UP YOUR ASSES!
20. HOW MUCH THE MEDIA RECEIVE FROM SAUDI ARABIA ?
(08.08.06)
21. Waste of time?
Yedidia ,   Atlanta   (08.09.06)
Actually well spent time. They did away with this photographer Adnan Hajj. Didn'y they? However if it is such a waste of your time why are you reading it?
22. # 19...
Frank ,   Seattle WA, USA   (08.09.06)
...first of all, I don't believe you are from Lebanon at all. But that aside, you obviously haven't gotten out of our bunker yet. Your count is way off and no, not half of lebanon is destroyed. Just the fact of you writing in CAPS like that proves you are just another of those extremist brainwashed puppets of the sick minds playing with you. Sad.
23. to # 19 who says "no, its not true"
(08.09.06)
You miss the point, as most arabs and muslims do, in general, in life. First, a journalist has to say the truth and show the truth, not fake it. Second, 1000 dead lebanese is NOTHING, compared to how many lebanese will die if Nassralah fires missiles into Tel Aviv. then you will see what is Israel when it takes its gloves off and makes war as she knows how to do. Then 10 thousand lebanese will die in a week. THEN you can complain (to Hizbollah of course, and to yourself, since I bet you did NOTHING to prevent Hizbollah to have 15 thousand missilies pointing towards Israel)
24. arabs??? lying??? really???
(08.09.06)
25. to 19
aaron ,   ra'anana   (08.09.06)
you are lucky the inept peretz and halutz are in charge, or we'd already have destroyed both halves
26. Dear Lebanese...
Lu ,   OK, US   (08.09.06)
Iranina lapdog Hezbollah was instrumental not only in destruction of your country, but of your credibility as well. I simply don't understand how you can put up with it.
27. Propaganda and the free press
Truth will out! ,   USA   (08.09.06)
Free-Press Propaganda....Now, that's supposed to be an oxymoron. Some of you people will say just about anything to obscure the truth, won't you? Since when is it permissible to present lies as truth? You people who support this obviously have no SCRUPLES whatsoever. The point is, the media have been too quick to judge and condemn. They are supposed to report the news, not make it up. THAT'S why it matters that the photos have been doctored. And to all you conspiracy-theorist Arabs who simply won't believe that the descrepancies in these photos matter and that its just Israeli propaganda: well, congratulations and thanks! you've been a great teacher!
28. Oh!!!
Jack ,   France   (08.09.06)
I want to say my opinion clear. Israel is conctrolling the medias in the US. The rest of the media in the free world is not controlled by Israelis. If these medias are showing more images from Lebanon that is because of the size of terror Israel did. Immagine people in the south are calling for help because they are out of food and supplies. I don't think the people in Haifa are living under the same conditions. Stop your silly war because it will kill you. PS: To all the morrons do not reply to my talkback talking about France and WWII and how heroic was the yankees...do not reply by telling me how much France is antisemit. Please do not reply with bs and nonsense.
29. calm down. We know lebaneese suffer and die
haifa ,   haifa   (08.09.06)
but if you base your case on proportionality you cannot argue that claims of exaggeration are irrelevant.
30. How many more.....
Pat ,   USA   (08.09.06)
Photos have to be faked before western media will stop publishing them as truth? The damage is already done once an image and it's caption is released. They need to start making sure it is real before release.
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