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picture12 Jun 2006 @ 17:58, by Bruce Kodish

Richard Landes provides analysis of the latest success of the Pallywood propaganda machine.



The June 12 'report' of the NY Times repeats various unwarranted assertions as 'facts' and the demonization of Israelis is off and running:

< This image of Huda hovering over the bloody bodies of 13 dead or wounded members of her family was televised around the world.
Eleven-year-old Huda unwittingly became a symbol of Palestinian pain and loss during an afternoon picnic with her family on a hot day when a cameraman captured her shrieking “Father, Father, Father!” as she hovered over the bloody bodies of 13 dead or wounded members of her family, hit by what was apparently an errant Israeli artillery shell.>>

As Landes notes:
"...in the space of a few sentences, several assertions by the Times not necessarily warranted by the material.

*She is not hovering.

*It is not over the thirteen members of her family but near her father.

*It is not clear this footage was unwitting in its aim to create symbols.

*It is not clear that her grief symbolizes the stuggle against Israeli might so much as Hamas madness.

This footage, as affecting as it might be, leaves a most bizarre impression. As a number of commenters at this site have noted, there are strange anomalies."

For more on this story of Western media misreporting see Is it Pallywood?: Thoughts on the Footage from the Gaza Beach



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12 Jun 2006 @ 18:15 by jstarrs : Then it didn't happen...
..the grief, the pain, the suffering because your semantics (the study of relationships between signs and symbols) say differently.
Thank 'goodness'!
Your post, also, leaves a most bizarre impression.  



12 Jun 2006 @ 19:37 by vaxen : Shame...
upon the whole human family! Human? HU-men everywhere bleed for we know who is behind the needless slaughter of human beings of all creeds and colors. The rainbow family weeps, too, at the injustice flaunted by this world systems 'elites.' The time will come when all HU-men everywhere wake up to that which unites us...

"There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth..."

"But at one point, circa 2000 B.C.E., all hell broke loose. In an all out war of Enki’s humans against Enlil’s humans -- complete with all manner of diplomatic subterfuge in the mix -- Sodom and Gomorrah took the brunt of the action and were destroyed. By nuclear weaponry! They were A-bombed. The decision for this, however, was not, as you might have expected, due to Enlil’s instigation. Instead, it was due to the actions of his sons, Ninurta and Ningal. The (radioactive) fallout of their actions then resulted in the final destruction of the Sumerian civilization (circa 2000 B.C.E.). Curiously, this event in the Annals of Earth turned out to be something of a Waterloo for Enlil. Not that the guy (dba “God”) fled the scene, but thereafter, the idea of unilateral actions was a bit more constrained. Enlil was no longer the undisputed Lord of the Command among his peers."

http://www.halexandria.org/dward184.htm

But the Anunnaki were more than just a pair of squabbling half-brothers. They were the council of Gods and Goddesses, who periodically met to consider their future actions with respect to each other, and probably as a smaller, nondescript item on their agenda, the fate of mankind. The Anunnaki, depending upon the context, were the Nephilim, the gods that Abraham’s father, Terah, (according to the book of Joshua) was reputed to have served, the fallen angels, the lesser individuals of the race from which Anu, Enki, Enlil, Inanna and the other notables had sprung, and the “judges” over the question of life and death. They were in fact the bene ha-elohim, which translates as “the sons of the gods”, or equally likely, “the sons of the goddesses.” For example, from Psalm 82:



“Jehovah takes his stand at the Council of El to deliver judgment

among the elohim.” “You too are gods (high or elevated ones), sons of El Elyon, all of you.”

Now will you please define for us just what the word "Jew" means and please give us a really good 'etymology' that we might further see through the mists and vales of Avalon...

The 'truth' beyond all of this insanity?

When is a Goy, like Abraham of UR, not a Goy?

"Ani Aasei mimcha Goy gadol!"--- Ha Kadosh, Baruch HU, to Abraham so called father of three, probably more, ''great?'' religions.  



13 Jun 2006 @ 17:58 by bkodish : LATEST REPORT JERUSALEM POST
Link:{http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150035838991&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull|IDF DIDN'T SHELL GAZA BEACH}  


14 Jun 2006 @ 18:57 by bkodish : Hamas Bomb Killed Arab Family
Findings Indicate: Hamas Bomb Killed Arab Family
IsraelNationalNews.com - June 13, 2006 / 17 Sivan 5766

Despite hasty condemnation of Israel, IDF finds that the Arab family decimated on a Gaza beach was not hit by IDF artillery. The only other option: A Hamas mine placed there against Israel.

When seven members of one family were killed in an explosion on a Gaza beach this past Friday afternoon, the world, including many Israelis, was quick to condemn Israel. Israel's policy of firing artillery shells at generally empty areas, in response to ongoing Kassam rocket attacks at Israeli towns and kibbutzim, was immediately blamed.

Both Defense Minister Amir Peretz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz were quick to express sorrow over the incident. Though Halutz said this was not an acceptance of responsibility, that was precisely how it was understood.

"We are not accepting responsibility as long as the investigation has not been completed," Halutz said over the weekend, "and we will be happy to cooperate with the Palestinians in the investigation."

This cooperation did not materialize, however, and in fact the Arabs quickly removed all evidence from the scene - thus raising suspicions that they knew more than they wanted Israel to know.

The IDF investigation quickly ruled out the possibility of air or naval attack, and concentrated only on the option that artillery fire had been responsible. The following findings were then found over the course of the ensuing days:
* The characteristic hole, or "crater," that would have been made by an artillery shell was not found on the scene.
* The timing was off: PA sources claimed the explosion occurred at approximately 16:40 Friday afternoon. However, IDF artillery stopped firing in the vicinity at 16:51, and throughout that time and until at least 16:58, no unusual activity was noticed on the beach.
* Two or three of the wounded were treated in an Israeli hospital, and the shrapnel that wounded at least one of them was not of the type used in Israeli ammunition.

Probably most significantly of all, Israeli intelligence shows that Hamas had placed explosives and mines on the beach against Israeli naval commandos who might try to ambush terrorists using the beach to fire Kassam rockets. It was likely a Hamas-placed bomb of this type that killed the Arab family.

The seven victims included Ali Ghaliya, one of his two wives, and five of his eleven or more children. The film clip of one survivor, 12-year-old Huda, whose mother survived as well, was screened repeatedly around the world, showing her shrieking in agony as she ran among the bodies. All the news reports attributed the deaths to Israeli shelling.

Huda was quickly "adopted" by PA politicians and publicists who seized upon the tragedy for their own purposes. Within hours after seeing her family largely erased, she starred in a press conference, flanked by Palestinian Authority officials who made lengthy speeches. She was also brought to the office of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and Ismail Haniya, his Hamas rival and PA prime minister, visited the family home.

The findings of the IDF investigation are not yet final, and were reported last night on Channel Two television. The official report will be presented to Defense Minister Peretz tonight.  



14 Jun 2006 @ 19:06 by bkodish : And Now....
10 dead, including 2 kids, as IAF strikes Gaza Katyusha cell
Yaakov Katz, Jpost staff, and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 13, 2006

Israel will no longer exhibit restraint toward Palestinian terrorists involved in anti-Israel operations, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday following an Israeli air strike in Gaza that targeted a car carrying Islamic Jihad cell members on their way to launch GRAD-model Katyusha rockets at Israel. 10 people died in the strike, at least three of them being Islamic Jihad members.

"We will act with all our might and use all our means against any group that acts against us," Peretz said. "We showed the necessary restraint in light ... of the international uproar that resulted, but it's over," Peretz continued.

"What happened today is a brutal massacre committed against innocent civilians and fighters from our group," said Kader Abib, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza speaking to protesters outside a hospital morgue.

"The Zionist enemy insists on shedding Palestinian blood and we insist on going ahead with our Jihad and resistance. God willing the resistance groups ... will have a harsh response. All options are open for us."

The Islamic Jihad said earlier that two of its operatives who were killed were Hamoud Wadiya, the group's top rocket launcher, and Shawki Sayklia. Seven Palestinian civilians, including two schoolchildren, were also killed Tuesday when the single missile fired by the IAF detonated the Katyushas inside the car. The army said it had proof that only one missile had been fired and that the terrorists were the only target in the strike.

Seventeen Palestinians were wounded in the explosion, three seriously.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the air strike, calling it "state terrorism." He also accused Israel of trying to "wipe out the Palestinian people."
The strike took place shortly after a probe investigating the deaths of seven Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach on Friday exonerated the IDF and said that the blast was likely caused by a mine planted by Hamas.

Had the cell members managed to execute the Katyusha attack, it would have been the fourth time since March that Katyusha rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza. On March 28, election day, a Katyusha landed in an open field. In April, a Katyusha rocket struck the chicken coop at Kibbutz Netiv Ha'asara, and another one landed in open territory.

While Katyusha fire from Gaza remains relatively rare, over 100 Kassam rockets have been launched at Israel since the weekend, wounding at least two Israelis in Sderot and causing damage to a number of buildings in Sderot and the western Negev.  



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