A Reminder

Doesn't surprise me in the least to hear what I have just heard, I heard the same thing from a friend of mine in Oz by the name of Leo, a Christian Lebanese. Even those of us that support Israel become conditioned to the muslim propaganda in the MSM, especially the sleaze b sleaze. They lie and deceive us through omission as I have stated before about MSM. This lady's comments were exactly the same as Leo's only not as strong, Leo would like to see Israel take over Lebanon completely. He said the pig muslims you see on TV are not at all representative of the majority of muslims which are nice, but different, and hate this war as much as anyone. The difference being they cannot speak up for fear of brutal reprisal from their own. The muslims would think nothing of blowing up a whole family, then blaming it on Israel. When I first heard that 50 some people had been killed the first thing that ran through my mind was who really did it. Pretty sad when your own media in a supposedly lawful country have reached the depths they have, curb worms.

MSM's Hizballah Sources

AP journalist Nasser Nasser files a report on the IDF operation in Baalbek, consisting of nothing but context-free Hizballah propaganda, starting with the headline: Heavy equipment used to bury the dead.

And Nasser Nasser’s photograph shows a bulldozer carrying one body.

UPDATE at 8/2/06 10:14:39 am:

Please note that Nasser Nasser was also one of the photographers who participated in staging photos at Qana: AP Rewards Qana Photographers.
10:09 AM PDT via LGF ...-

Qana deaths are 28 as reported by the Red Cross. Has this been seen/heard/printed by MSM?

Saw a posting at Calgary Grit pointing at a Toronto Star article on Michael Ignatieff's stance on the Middle East.

A particularly juicy passage from the article:

He was asked if a turning point came when Israel bombed the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday, with 54 civilian deaths, 37 of them children.

"It wasn't Qana," replied Ignatieff, formerly head of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. "Qana was, frankly, inevitable, in a situation in which you have rocket-launchers within 100 yards of a civilian population. This is the nature of the war that's going on.

"This is the kind of dirty war you're in when you have to do this and I'm not losing sleep
about that."

Where is the media's outrage? Where would it be if Harper/Mackay had made a similar statement?

On Pajamas there is a link to a U.S. blog Confederate Yankee (10:00 PDT The Jerusalem Post takes notice of the blogosphere’s efforts to publicize the curious aspects of the Qana matter. (HT: Confederate Yankee). He has a link to a video starring Mr. Green Helmet. A curious thing. Apparently 2 Red Cross workers come up bearing a stretcher, see journalists/photographers, put the stretcher down for a moment as if deciding what to do, then appear to turn around and go back where they came from when same journalists start coming towards them. This is video link:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZsq3jyJ6w&mode=related&search=qana%20)

From Pajamas Media: 13:22 PDT “Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.

“Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border.” (Reuters)

From the above Reuters story: "Western intelligence sources have long suspected that Iran is holding a number of al Qaeda figures, possibly including Saad bin Laden and Saif al-Adel, the network's security chief."

Another link via Pajamas to LGF and further to judeoscope.ca. There is a video there with this caption underneath: "Video excerpted from CBC footage aired on July 30, 2006. Most media reported that the rally had been peaceful."

I'm curious to know if CBC reported the account by this 'counterprotestor'. He sounds almost as though he was an innocent bystander compelled to speak to this vile demonstration that happened outside of his place of business. I have yet to figure out if he is behind judeoscope.ca. There is an account of the assault upon him at this site and LGF.

Hold Damascus Responsible- Daniel Pipes

At this point, the government of Bashar al-Assad should be told immediately to cease provisioning Hezbollah, and that future violence from south Lebanon will meet with what the Wall Street Journal calls an "offer that Syria cannot refuse" – meaning military reprisal. As David Bedein explains in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, "for every target hit by Syria's proxy, Israel will single out Syrian targets for attack." Such targets could include the terrorist, military, and governmental infrastructures.

This approach will work because Hezbollah's stature, strength, and skills depend on Syrian support, both direct and indirect. Given that Syrian territory is the only route by which Iranian aid reaches Hezbollah, focusing on Damascus has the major side benefit of restricting Iranian influence in the Levant.

This plan has its drawbacks and complications – the recent Syrian-Iranian mutual defense treaty, or its giving Hezbollah the option to drag Syria into war – but it has a better chance of success, I believe, than any alternative.

Recalling how a similar approach worked in 1998, when the Turkish government successfully pressured Damascus to stop hosting a terrorist leader, the Israeli strategist Efraim Inbar rightly suggests "the time has come to speak Turkish to the Syrians."......

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3811

This is the best analysis of the present conflict that I have read. Ultimately, this is the approach the Israelis will have to take. Pipes very eloquently explains why a multinational force will not work.