Gruesome Claims About Israel & Photo Prooved False!

Good dig.  Defending those that pile on, it is difficult to know what really happened this week and what happened in the past.  The annoying thing is how quickly they pile on and how silent they are under this article.

This story was already covered on NP some hours earlier today, and author mtippett updated it thus:

UPDATE:  This video is now allegedly a hoax:

URUKNET says:  "We, like many other websites, posted a video allegedly showing the aftermath of an IDF air strike on a Gaza market. The video turned out to be disinformation: it was not shot three days ago, as indicated by the link, and has nothing to do with the current conflict. It is actually from 2005. It was taken in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, when a pickup truck carrying homemade rockets detonated by mistake during a Hamas rally. Our apologies to our readers. "

source:  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50381&hd=&size=1&l=e

Perhaps the title should have been updated to reflect too (were that possible)?

As the previous post mentioned, I covered this as it was breaking. 

The problem is more fundamental than this seemingly obvious piece of propaganda.  The deeper problem is that the world has no visibility into what is really happening and therefore whatever material surfaces will have credibility.  Based on some of the accounts I have heard, read and seen this didn't strike me as implausible.  Again, the solution to darkness is light.  We need the press in Gaza now - for the sake of the citizens of Gaza as well as the Israelis. 

One tonne bombs are being dropped on areas with population density of around 6800 persons per square kilometre. What the video depicts is occurring now. Depleted Uranium is also reportedly being used in these densely populated civilian areas.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Occupied Palestinian Territory

http://www.ochaopt.org/gazacrisis/index.php?section=7

That proves one lie by Hamas.

If Israel was deliberately targeting civilians there would be 100,000 dead, not just 100.

The President of the UN General Assembly has called it what it is:

"I think it's a monstrosity; there's no other way to name it,"

Thanks for finding the truth about this film.  It validates my analysis in my Newsvine post last Saturday.............

I'm sorry.......Unless the Israel carried out this attack with Ice Picks...

                                   THE FILM IS A FAKE!

            Or a gross embellishment of a much smaller incident.

I have seen pictures of Israeli markets after suicide bomb attacks.  There are massive pools of blood under the victims and the people helping have blood on them as well. 

They do not have clean white shirts and clean hands after tending to and moving victims.  This must have been staged LATER around an old shot up vehicle that was moved there. The curb itself shows no evidence recent fire, or smoke damage. 

There are no ruined vegatables scattered around the market. Other than the usual gabage the "attacked" area is unremarkable. There are no craters anywhere either.

Oh, next time remember that blood runs down the torso and on to the street not upward for the best camera shot.

FINAL GRADE:  A+ for crowd involvement.  C+ for film work.  F for special effects.

Here's another hoax as reported in the Globe and Mail regarding the bombing of the UN school.

tikun

You are completely wrong. But a good try.

Your source LGF is listed on wikipedia as being founded by Charles Johnson who states in that entry:

"I'm not pretending I'm giving equal time to both sides. But I do think what I'm advocating, and what I believe in, is the right side."

For "promoting Israel, and Zionism" and "presenting Israel's side of the conflict," LGF won the "Best Israel Advocacy Blog" award from the Jerusalem Post in 2005.

LFG's financial lobby also, according to Wikipedia, are very charitable, stating that LGF:

• "Supporters also donate pizzas for IDF soldiers."

LGF founder and owner and chief Charles Johnson has stated many times that he is disgusted with media coverage of the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip.  Johnson disputes the ISM's account, holding that Corrie was "trying to 'protect' a house used for drugs and weapons smuggling".

In the very words of LGF (the post source) leader Charles Johnson states:

Rachel Corrie was emphatically not a "peace activist". She sided with terrorists and criminals, and advocated—in fact, was excited by—violence and mass murder.

Is LGF (like its use to try and discredit the video showing Israeli war crime I posted) a mind-reading or newsgathering blog? How does it know what Rachel was thinking?

The totally false and discredited LFG, above its mouthpiece slandering the slain human rights and female peace activist Rachel Corrie, is unbelievably used in the NP post this reply addresses as an authority on Gaza and the Israeli mass murder of children there.

The LGF source is nothing more than murder-excusing psuedo-proof from yet another Citizen Jorunalism penetrating virus, another misinformation site claiming the video I posted was first uploaded by a 'Jew Hater', no proof given (of course), just the usual Israel child-murderer-excusing rhetoric excuse that disrespects the victim of rela anti-Semitism or excusing the mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

LGF is a ridiculous (you will soon see if you read this to the end) extremist Israeli misinformation blog with absolutely no authority to 'expose' as you claim the legitimacy of the video above.

For example, LGF today 30 January 2009 has the headline at

• http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

LGF 30 January 2009 Top Story from Rome:

• Another Holocaust-Denying Priest

The source LGF is also a well-known anti-President Obama site.

LGF other Top Stories listed today:

• Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims
• Fired Obama Advisor Hired by Obama
  

LGF on 28 January 2009 ran this headline:

• Suddenly Obama Has Muslim Roots

Since when was anything aout Obama 'sudden?' LGF just wishes to discredit him with its appeal to disgusting racists.

LGF 26 January 2009 headline:

• Family Member Appalled at Obama' Gitmo Closing
  

What does the majority of America wish concerning Gitmo? Is this 'family member' news, or an attempt to discredit Obama's listening to the wishes of the greater American public today?

Or LGF 25 January 2009 headline:

• Some Christians Angry at Obama's 'Nonbelievers' Statement

Who cares? Is that news or like the post that I reply to nothing more than hate-mongering, racist-fueling innuendo, suggestion, and the type of misinformation penetrating Citizen Journalism sites and the blogosphere, hoping readers don't like me actually take time to check their sources. Such misinformation exploiting the 'honest' reputation of CJ is often paid for by military and government information agencies. Israel is spending oodles of cash to penetrate CJ sites. Google it. There are even Israeli blog penetration training audio files, to which the post above, if not as I hope, could be a model for.

LGF 21 January 2009 headline:

• Obama Snubs Medal of Honor Ball

And on and on.... LGF is totally beyond any stretch of the imagination an authority to discredit any post, not even my own.

If you WhoIs the LGF domain registry, you get:

Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260

If you Google that street Address you get results like:

Ever Private Card Complaints - I am a victim of this fraudulent ...4 Apr 2007 ... 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353. Scottsdale, Arizona 85260. United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599. Technical Contact: ...

not a highly recommended Domain and site server, in my book, at least.

My alltime favorite LGF post, the blog that the 'news' above refers to as a source that is authoritative enough to discredit the video showing Isreal massacre of civilians in a Gazan market is this:

• Obama Campaign Behind Anti-Palin Smear Site

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31096_Obama_Campaign_Behind_Anti-Palin_Smear_Site

It is the posts like that one I reply to here, that are slowly and surely discrediting Citizen Journalism.  They use the illusion that CJ is open and inclusive, exploit its soon-short-lived image of pristine, alternative credibility to prey on lazy readers who are trained by the mass media CJ is supposedly the antidote for to not check sources like the despicable and ridiculously biased LGF the post above glorifies as some authority on Gaza video.

As well, the recent removal or 'veto' by a leading so-called Citizen Journalism platfrom  of my recent Opinion about the degradation of women - an Opinion I posted about Twitter, an imposter misrepresenting Arab women who expresses hate or Palestinina families and hate for its 'stupid children', a Tweeter called GAZAMOM and a leading CJ platform only shows that CJ is losing credibility, or 'selling its credibility' as a way to add credibility to the same sort of military and government misinformation agencies in support of hate and mass murdering war tactics, against human rights and peace, most recently in the appalling Israel massacring civilians and mass-murdering children in Gaza.

Back to LGF and the post to which I reply.

Another favorite tha exposes the post above as utterly Gazan-child-mass-murder-excusing misinformation is to be found in the LGF-praising blog story titled:

• OBAMA'S DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS

with its byline in prasie of LGF:
"LGF does it again. This time Charles has busted the Obama campaign producing fake websites posing as ultra-conservatives against Palin for supporting gay rights."