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The first Photoshop war
Gal Mor
Published: 17.08.06, 20:24
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1. forget videos
moe ,   montreal, Canada   (08.17.06)
if there was any forged photos or videos it was the ones used by IDF to cover their attacks on lebanon, especially the ones where they were showing the katyucha lunchers and how they hit it hard, or they hit the civilians around it.
2. you can't deny
moe ,   montreal, Canada   (08.17.06)
you can talk about forged photos day and night but you can't deny or hide killing hundreds of lebanese babies and kids. the title around the world for this war is:" Israel, the baby killers".
3. To moe-shmoe
Shlomo   (08.17.06)
You ar a complete idiot sucker who swallowed arab propaganda hook line and a sinker.
4. so libanon is not destroyed it is just photoshop
ruud ,   amsterdam   (08.17.06)
the israeli press did not show pictures of libanon's destruction. Once a guy added some smoke that was a real scandal. In fact it is stupid because the pics did not need additional tricks. The war crimes are clear in this case, but of course also in south beirut the hezb was hidding between the buildings to fire rockets at Israel no. You seem to be halve blind if it concerns human suffering
5. lying and truce breaking - as a HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
(08.17.06)
6. Whats your feeling?
Safir ,   Germany   (08.17.06)
You care about some stupid pictures but you forgot the real disater your wappons had made in Lebanon. I think you are sad about the some 40 citizens who killed in the north. Its really sad. Loosing beloved friends is not easy. I can speak about it because I am palestinean who knows what your army is doing in wars. Killing innocent people! You have killed more than 1000 people in Lebanon. Why? I still have the smell of death in my nose since the 1982 war. Cant you live without killing innocent people? You are the same like the suized bombers.
7. Right subject,wrong name
jewish mother ,   jerusalem   (08.17.06)
Its drop the dead donkey!! Not monkey! Top show. Sad that more harm was caused by the media battle than the physical. Thanks to the world's bloggers for their support. Green helmet man has become a cult figure as has Unluckiest homeowner in Beirut woman. Log on to www.drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com for some real laughs. Classic video of Pals using kids as human shields that should be the shame of the world, but CNN and BBC too scared of Muslims to show it. Just a shame that the world media cannot speak the truth despite this scandal. If you see CNN trucks in a war zone, I'd be more worried about the stuffed Disney toys than the bullets. Is it coincidence that it was FOX reporters who got kidnapped, the only channel that told the truth.
8. propaganda war
tom ,   toronto, canada   (08.17.06)
the fact is that the arab press keeps talking about "war crimes" and "child murderers". but the truth seems to be that arab propagandists regularly stage "media events", and use dead bodies as if they were mere movie props. hezbollah has not even released (questionable) casualty reports, preferring instead to inflate the civilian numbers - obviously any dead lebanese are no longer hezbollah fighters... no, israeli did not commit war crimes in lebanon, but hezbollah did!
9. #4 READ THE ARTICLE
Ertok   (08.17.06)
10. Hezbollah war was principally a media war
Joseph   (08.17.06)
Hezbollah war was principally a media war and their military succeses were highly overrated.
11. The first Photoshop War
Nicolaus ,   San Francisco, USA   (08.17.06)
The bright spots behind the fighter aircraft are heat detractors against possible surface-to-air missiles. Israel did not loose not only the war but its sense of balance: You cannot level a city, kill 300 children, trun a million into refugees and expect a pat on the shoulder. If you dislike the heat, get out of the kitchen.. and that is simple: give back the occupied territories and establish peace and normal relations with your neighbors. But Israel, locked into its Zionist ideolofy, probably still thinks what Ben Gurion thought: from the Litani River to the Red Sea... or worse, what Golda Meir once said: from the Euphrates to the Nile. War will go on. The ultimate looser is obviously Israel!
12. Liberal media tells propaganda rather than reality
David ,   Boston, USA   (08.17.06)
1% of what goes on as told as 99% of what is happening is slander, plain and simple. The one that stands out in my mind is they kept saying how Israel bombed the Beirut airport. I have a Lebanese friend who told me they just finished a 1 billion dollar airport in Beirut. Well, guess what. Israel didnt touch the building, just the runways and planes just landed there due to MINIMAL damage. Those who hate Israel will do it regardless. Those who know the facts know that Israel has the most moral military. 1,000-1,500 dead, about half of them Hezbollah terrorists who hide in civilian areas. IDF forces who suffered greatly limiting civilian deaths. Its hard for Eurabia and the haters to admit that fewer than 1,000 civilian deaths under the circumstances is proof of how moral the IDF is. Eurabia military, Arab terrorists, kill alot more civilians. Look at Eurabia in former Yugoslavia, 10,000+ civilians dead. Its hard for Eurabians to admit IDF does a better job defending civilians than they do. Am Yisrael Chai!
13. Lebanon needs no help from others to get war crimes.
sk ,   USA   (08.17.06)
All this boo-hooing about the causalities in Lebanon is absurd. Lebanon is famous for having an even more dysfunctional political system than Israel. Its long civil war was a mostly home-grown event (with the help of the perfidious and always whining "Palestinians"). Consider that Sabra and Shatila were perpetrated by Maronite paramilitary forces in response to comparable "Palestinian" barbarism. It is not Israel's problem that Lebanon cannot behave like a sovereign state. If the Shiites are the main problem, give them a state of their own. You Lebanese seem to have no trouble handing OTHER people's land way. The "Israeli war crime" business is laughable, as killing moppets who are sitting on top of military sites is no crime. Indeed, a responsible Israeli government would not only destroy the military sites (and en passant the moppets), but would realize that the Arab/Persian use of human shields would be short-lived if it served no purpose. Finally, as I have said elsewhere, Muslims regularly show their contempt for human life, including their own children's. If such lives are worth little as far as the Muslims go - if they can be forfeited to kill a Jew or a fellow Muslim - there is no reason to complain when a few thousand are mowed down. It might be a good exercise for us to allow each people to set the value of their own human lives, and for us then to act accordingly. This would offer outstanding opportunities for behavior modification.
14. #10-Joseph
Igor ,   Princeton, NJ, USA   (08.17.06)
Hezbollah's only military success (but a major one, I agree) was not getting wiped off the face of the planet. Their propaganda victory is due to an antisemitic press and Israel too proud to make political capital off its own civilian casualties. To #: 4 The extra smoke was a symptom that Reuters was either completely negligent or criminally complicit: how many other doctored pictures were there? They might be some actual competent photoshop users among their "objective" stringers. To #6: The destruction of south Lebanon is due to Hizbollah and to the Lebanese, who can't control it. If it uses Lebanese roads to import Iranian weapons through Syria, then Israel must strike Lebanon, or Syria, or Iran. I agree that Syria and Iran got off too easily.
15. To Canadian Moe from #1&2
FED UP ,   Haifa Israel   (08.17.06)
Why is it your are here reading our news? Dont you have to go get together another plan to cut off the head of your Prime Minister of Canada??? Or did everyone forget about that? I guess he must also be guilty of war crimes, since you Muslims only kill army personal! And the same must go for the randomly selected victims of suicide bombers around Israel and the rest of the world! They must have been guilty of something! Good thing there were no kids injured in 9/11!!! At least you guys dropped leaflets on NY to tell the civilians to get out to safety! (and by the way Israel also used radio channels to let the civilians know it was time to head for a safer area) And if we are already on the subject... then I guess you have kidnapped the FOX news team to put them on trial for their crimes right?? You guys have trials down at the town circle and then spit and stomp on the bodies till your rip them to pieces and parade them dragging around the streets! REAL CIVILIZED! And dont even try to bring up the arab prisoners in Israeli JAILS! Yes JAILS where they have a room, roof, freedom, food, visitation rights, red cross, medical treatment.... and all of these are convicted CRIMINALS!! A lot of them are convicted MURDERERS!! Why should they be released?? Did you know that Israel DOES release them WHEN THEIR SENTENCE IS UP!!!!!!!!!!!! I am FED UP! looks like the world needs another 9/11 or something like that to remind it what it feels like to be on the receiving end of this "Islamic" (ha ha they wish they were Islamic peaceful people) terror! Europe especially seems to have forgotten! But they must be to scared to take any other stance since they have let these fanatics take over their countries! I dont know about you all, but I am gonna start digging me a deep safe private bomb shelter! This ain't over yet 8( Good luck to all the peace loving silent majority of the world!
16. Moe: Provide evidence
Peter ,   Toronto   (08.17.06)
Moe, please provide evidence to back up your absurd commentary. In fact, the only evidence of doctored photos in this war are all photos that were intended to make Israel look bad. That stands in complete contradiction to your comments. Please leave Canada.
17. rude
jacques ,   france   (08.17.06)
O please rude comment #4 explain me and to israelis what is human suffering..
18. to kafir from germany #6
jacques ,   france   (08.17.06)
hey kafir would you please help me;how can live arab people without killing jews?
19. civilians were killed but not targeted as in Kosovo etc
michael ,   tel aviv & london   (08.17.06)
The world has a very conveniently short memory. Quite recently 20,000 civilians were intentionally killed in Kosovo and in WW2 the allies pattern bombed German civilians. Israel had almost 1/3 of it's population in shelters and never purposely attacked civilians. Was Israel's behavior more moral than the allies, Canada included? Yes. 100% Don't forget to remember - you're sitting in a glass house.
20. #11 - maybe you do bird impressions too? Come audition! :-)
michael ,   tel aviv & london   (08.17.06)
21. This didn't start with Photoshop
Sher   (08.17.06)
Touching up photos is as old as photography itself. The Soviets had no compunction about ordering their best photographers to add a more smoke to a plume to dramatize war photos, or, conversely remove something they did not want seen.
22.  a man in many pics
tamar   (08.17.06)
in areas under attack, in alreadydestroyed areas and then, shocking, he himself dead with his very cap hidden under his arm- which is easily seen in the pic...
23. the first photoshop war
estelle ,   far rockaway, ny   (08.17.06)
to moe have you personally counted the hundreds and hundreds of babys in lebanon? maybe they all died because their fathers left them to fend for themselves since not a single man died in lebanon, only women and children. what does that say about them
24. to #1
estelle ,   far rockaway, ny   (08.17.06)
are you denying that there were andy katyusha "lunchers", maybe they were launched around supper time
25. mayb it didn't happen
moe ,   montreal, Canada   (08.17.06)
mayb this war didn't happen at all, it was all photoshop, mayb not more them 1000 are dead, more them 350 under the age of 13, mayb the human rights and red cross are lying, mayb the UN headquarter didn't got hit, and the four soldiers are still alive. mayb the red cross cars didn't got hit, it was also a phtoshop. mayb it wasn't Qana1 in the UN headquarter with 110 dead, and Qana2. mayb because we weren't over there, mayb the holocaust didn't happen too, who knows??
26. Reuters employment opportunity - Anyone who knows photoshop
(08.17.06)
27. Why don't we just send them all to you?
TP EZEEPOSSE ,   Haifa, the best city   (08.17.06)
28. Moe (in Montreal)
Someone who cares ,   MN, US   (08.17.06)
Look man, it did happen, alright? You happy now? No one is defending the war here except you. This article is about media reporting on the War coverage. Just because some idiot edited photo's doesnt mean that anyone is hiding any facts about the toll this conflict has brought. In my opinion Media is always biased toward a country that is getting attacked, no matter who it is. Im sure that if Israel was getting bombed like that, then it would have received same majority of coverage. It jsut so happens that if Israel was bombed for 30 days, there would be nothing and no one left to take any pictures of destruction. And afterwards Hezzi's would spit back at your pathetic comments about the dead in the conflict. They could care less, they are either martyrs to them or infidels. And Infidels should die. Don't you get it? You are infidel as well my friend, unless you convert to Muslim religion. Wake up buddy! Dont be talking like Moe the stooge.
29. Peace for Lebanon without Hizbullah
Yuhanna Alqermidi ,   CA, USA   (08.17.06)
I am a Lebanese friend of Israel. I wish the current UN ceasefire in Lebanon prevails, hizbullah vanishes and the Mullah's regime in Iran is replaced by a democratic Iranian government.
30. Paliwood and Hezbollywood
RA   (08.17.06)
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