The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper flags two photos of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the UN, which were reportedly pushed out on the AP and Reuters wires. They show Netanyahu waving his hand, but the camera caught him mid-hand gesture, making it appear that he’s doing the Nazi salute (except with his left arm). Halper writes:
Two shocking photos coming off the wire of Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the United Nations moments ago.
Of the hundreds of professional photos taken at this speech, the AP and Reuters decided to push these onto the wire.
Maybe the Associated Press and Reuters didn’t catch the inference of the photos before blasting them out, though you would think it would be obvious that these pictures are offensive on multiple levels.
Netanyahu’s persistence on Iran isn’t making things easy for Obama right before the election, so there’s sure to be a big media push in the coming days to dismiss Bibi as a warmonger, a reckless saber-rattler, an extremist and so on. Get ready for plenty more where this came from.
Are Jews paranoid in believing that we are returning to the 1930s?
A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. There is plenty of anti-Semitism out there, mhloutbeltway. Just read the comments under any online piece about Jews, Judaism, or Israel. n nLeann
A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. There is plenty of anti-Semitism out there, mhloutbeltway. Just read the comments under any online piece about Jews, Judaism, or Israel. They'll make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
The appeasement media heaped scorned upon the head of Winston Churchill when he warned about the dangers of Nazism. n nToday's appeasement media heaps scorn-and a display of media instigated antisemitism- upon the head of Benjamin Netanyahu for warning of the danger of a nuclear Iran. n nHistory vindicated Churchill; history will eventually vindicate Netanyahu.
Not much consolation. While waiting for the vindication, the Jews get it in the neck. n n
Will PM Netanyahu's "modern vs. medieval clash" get echo? nNot likely, but he did give an opening on the Israeli content in every cellphone… n nYes, it is again the 1930's, except worse. Whenever before in history has anyone had to defend the evidence of a historical presence of Jews in Israel or Jerusalem?
No, Jews are not being paranoid in believing attitudes from the 30's are back in style. They are surrounded by nations which fall into two categories: (1) those which wish them gone; and (2) those which don't give a damn.
American Jews are among the ones that dont give a damn.
AP and Reuters gave us clues to their left leanings all along… but today they outed themselves. I can't think of strong enough words to condemn their deliberate effort to portray Netanyahu as they did. I would say shame on them, but they have no shame. n nThere is little wonder that mainstream doesn't trust the media.
I am gonna go with the facts on this one and likely offend everyone. n nFirst, if anything, that is a "Bellamy Salute" and not a Nazi one — prior to 1942 when the "Bellamy" flag salute was replaced with the hand over the heart, American schoolchildren saluted the flag in such a manner every morning. The Nazi salute was "different" in that the fingers pointed upward as apposed to straight outward — much as FDR's National Recovery Act (NRA) Eagle was "different" from the Nazi Eagle, although take a look at the NRA Eagle which still appears above some buildings built in that era and compare it to the Nazi one and tell me how (other than the swastika in the talons) the NRA Eagle is really all that different…. But I digress…. n nSecond, particularly in the AP photo, look at his center of mass and where he is facing — were this either a Bellamy or Nazi salute, it would be considered an insult and not an actual salute. In both cases, one is expected to be facing forward and have the arm extending STRAIGHT out from the body — not off in the direction you aren't even looking with you both leaning and shifting your body away from the outstretched arm. This would be like saluting the flag with your hand over your knee and not your heart. n nI'm sorry but I can't figure out how ANYONE considered these to be Nazi salutes — it is clear that he is an animated speaker who uses his hands to punctuate and divide parts of his speech. I do the same thing – and I can assure EVERYONE that this is just me trying to stay linear and not slip off into multiple concurrent dimensions. n nPersonally, as this is a Bellamy salute if anything, I think that AP & Reuters showed their utter ignorance of AMERICAN history although I really am not surprised…. n
While I appreciated learning about the Bellamy Salute, most people have never heard of it, and associate it with Nazis. To characterize your analysis as a stretch is being magnanimous.
What a royal crock of crap THIS story is! …Does "anyone" believe this lying nonsense???
The first thing that came to mind when first examining the AP photo was; No wonder Helen Thomas was so bold, she was merely expressing the standard views of her peers.
I thought PM Netanyahu’s speech before The UN today was excellent. It was delivered perfectly. He deserves our full support.
What disturbs me more than the biased media (that was a given) is that so many people instantly thought "Nazi Salute" — not even thinking of (or perhaps even knowing of) the quite-innocent "Bellamy Salute" that millions of American schoolchildren routinely gave every morning. n nWhat disturbs me is not that the media wants people to believe such things (again, that is a given) but that people actually *do*. We haven't taught true critical thinking or logic in K-12 in over half a century and this is the consequence. n n
The single-most revolting crisis in world affairs is the slaughter going on RIGHT NOW in Syria, an abbatoir the knives for which are supplied and regularly sharpened by Iran, the executioners of which are advised by Iranian advisers who draw on a wealth of experience in killing unarmed people in large numbers, who daily provide intelligence and encouragement for murder sans conscience. Yet countless millions of people appear to be neither unduly dismayed nor particularly alarmed by the prospect that the EXACT SAME REGIME will soon be in a position to brandish nuclear weapons at whom- or whatever happens to provoke it. n nIn lieu of a sense of urgency at the prospect of catastrophe, Obama's movable-goalpost approach to Iran appears, oddly enough, to be drawn from the ancient paradoxes of Zeno. If Iran, the guidance provided us by the State department for several years now seems to suggest, is, say, this far from having a bomb, why then we may wait until it is half again further along from "this far"; and naturally before that demarcation is reachable, we may refrain from action until Iran is half again further on, and so on ad infinitum et nauseam. Now Zeno believed, as apparently does our lounge-lizard president, that the sequence of half-and-half-again steps may be repeated indefinitely, which is to say, for an infinite amount of time, without any threat ever actually materializing. So what's to worry? n nOf course, Zeno (5th cent. BC) believed such folly before the invention of the calculus (AD 17th cent.), which proved conclusively that an infinite series may actually sum to a finite value. On the other hand, WE do not have the luxury of waiting 22 centuries to discover that Iran actually will possess a weaponized, deliverable nuclear device in fairly short order, even though the jug-eared clown in the White House appears willing to wait that long and longer.
From the reaction of Europeans, the slaughter in Syria doesn't seem to troubling. Their penchant for pouring out into the streets in the hundreds of thousands to protest whenever Israel is forced to defend itself from genocidal murderers does not seem to be in evidence when it comes to dead Syrians. Nor is even their old Maoist habit of plastering political billboards over buildings on display for dead Syrians. Perhaps if Israel had to defend the Golan Heights from Syrian invaders and killed some Arabs then maybe it would spark an outpouring of enraged protest from Europe's righteous guardians of justice and human rights. But as long as Arabs kill Arabs and no Jews are involved no one in Europe nor for that matter at the United Nations will be overly wrought.
The fuss about the photos is bizarre. It would be Nazi salute except that its the wrong arm and it isn't high enough and everybody knows Bibi is not doing a Nazi salute. Doesn't even rise to paranoia, its just crazy. n nActions have consequences. Bibi knows American politics VERY well, he knew full well that his decision to make a speech during a photo-op in June 2011 would poison his relationship with the President. The decision not to meet publicly with Netanyahu this month in NY was likely "punishment", not just directed at Bibi (who apparently talks frequently with the President and key aides on the phone) but also at other visitors to the WH: play by the rules or you'll pay the price. I'm betting ANY American President would do the same. Also consider that it would be political malpractice for any president to give a visitor who has once before embarrassed the president another chance 40 days before election day!
I am surprised that the UN, which is *supposed to be* so sensitive to all cultures and religions and the rest, didn't understand that it might have been wiser to schedule the Iranian speech for a day other than the one they did. Which makes me think it wasn't accidental and perhaps that was part of why Bibi N made his public point. n nNow I have to ask: Is there any way we can borrow him for, say, 8 years? Get him a Hawaiian birth certificate and, well, you know….
This creepy little man peaked with the adulation heaped on him by our bought-and-paid-for Congress. Now he has managed to expose himself as an overreaching fool. Ross Perot had better charts and a kind of folksy charm.
Well, he's not creepy to most, and certainly not little. He is a former special forces commander, you know, who saw quite a bit of action. n nIt is rather you who sound little, shrunken, and bitter, Grumpy Old Man. I say that in all honesty.
"former special forces commander…who saw quite a bit of action." n nDid not know that, but it explains a lot. One has to be realistic, both ways, when one knows what the real world consequences of political decisions can be. There is a lot to be said for having such people in the government.
The little man got full of himself when most of our Congress kissed his ring. That, however, was when he peaked. Now he's managed to expose himself as rather silly. At least H. Ross Perot had charts with content and a certain folksy charm.
Photography is and always was the importaint branch of the anti-Semitic propagandaJust remember Gobbels. Look at Nettanyahu and Liberman`s photo even in the Jewsh Haaretz. nIn JPost the leftist photographer jeered at the rightist politics for years.
I still remember the day that the Boston Globe ran pornography on page B-3….