"Arab media's potent weapon: images; Bold pictures elicit passions, defiance" by Jeffrey Fleishman and Raed Rafei, Los Angeles Times | January 9, 2009
A Palestinian woman protesting the Israeli military operation in Gaza signalled her defiance yesterday as she faced Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
Related: (about 1 minute in) ONE VERY BRAVE PALESTINIAN WOMAN!
CAIRO - Face splotched in blood, eyes closed, mouth aslant, the child seems slumbering but is dead. The only part of her you see is her head tilting in ash and rubble above the caption: "A day of massacres in Gaza."
She is nameless, but her face, peeking from a black-and-white photograph spread like a flag of horror across the Saudi-owned Al Hayat newspaper, is unforgettable. In the Gaza Strip, Israel maneuvers with tanks, missiles, and planes. But the Arab media possess a potent arsenal of pictures, videos, and emotional voice-overs that portray Palestinians as courageous victims against a bloodthirsty aggressor.
Translation: Arab media telss the truth -- as opposed to the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan garbage I will no longer purchase or consume.
War is fought on battlefields, but passions are roused by images. Watch the Al Jazeera satellite network or skim through Islamic websites and magazines, and the singular message is clear: Muslims are united in the suffering of Palestinians, and no drop of blood, wailing mother, raised Kalashnikov, smoking ruin, or pair of empty sandals beside a lifeless body goes unrecorded.
It is the cinema verite of the underdog, an erratic landscape of martyrs and heroes and boys hurling rocks at the invader. Romanticism and rallying cries of defiance are often summoned.
Of course, when it is JEWISH ROMANTICISM and DEFIANCE, well, it's good enough for a postive story and maybe even a movie -- which is why I'm not a purchaser of the product anymore, folks.
An editorial published Wednesday in the Syrian daily Al-Watan speaks to the children of Gaza: "Teach us because we have forgotten. Teach us to be men because men here have turned into dough. . . . Teach us the art of clinging to the land."
Al Jazeera and other Arab media outlets have grown more objective in reporting in recent years, but when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict balanced coverage is often outweighed by pathos and narratives of funeral corteges winding amid the sounds of explosions.
This from the STINKING JEWSMEDIA of AmeriKa!!!
Un-flipping-believable!
What RANK CHUTZPAH!!!!
Newspaper caricatures depict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel with a hooked nose and beady eyes and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as a bulbous Nazi on a pedestal. And often, lurking like a creepy Oz, is the visage of Uncle Sam, portrayed as puppet-master and protector of the Jewish state.
Yeah, and? What isn't true about any of those things?
An Al Jazeera report about Tuesday's shelling of a UN school in Gaza offered an emotional account of the civilians killed: "They asked for security after they lost their homes. . . . The Palestinians are asking, what is the world waiting for?"
Of course, if it had been the POOR ISRAELIS we AmeriKans would have been treated to three pages worth of stories about the poor, besieged Jews of Israel; now the jewsmedia is barely covering Palestinian suffering at all (not that they ever did).
The report did not mention Israeli statements that Hamas was launching mortars from the school.
Oh, like AmeriKa's MSM reports never mention where and who is funding the Israeli war machine and its equipment? That the kind of balance you talking about, jewsmedia? And when was the last time settlements came up as an issue? Or checkpoints and priosners being tortured, etc, etc, etc?
Yeah, that's what I thought!
It is not only Israelis and Americans who are pilloried. Arab leaders, especially those seen as US pawns, such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, have been skewered since the Israeli offensive began Dec. 27.
The images of carnage and of young, bloody men rushed to hospitals would be considered too graphic for Western broadcast sensitivities. But in the Arab world, where governments issue statements but are largely powerless to stop Israel, the unsanitized picture is the weapon.Yeah, right, the pictures are too graphic for us westerners (notice no mention of women and children in those pictures from the AmeriKan jewsmedia, just "young men" i.e. "terrorists." And they were criticizing whom? What arrogant chutzpah!).
What CONDESCENDING ZIONIST BULLSHIT! The ZIONIST ATROCITIES are being CENSORED and HIDDEN by the AmeriKan JEWSMEDIA, dork!
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