Via Tablet’s Adam Chandler. At first glance the background footage in this BBC report appears to show injured Palestinians stumbling away from Israeli military strikes. But watch a little closer starting at about 2 minutes into the video, and see if you can spot the inconsistencies. Here’s one to start you off: keep an eye on the supposedly wounded guy on the ground in the tan jacket who’s carried off by a group of men around 2:10 into the clip. Watch him pop back up a few seconds later in the footage, milling around off-set with a bored look on his face:
Chandler makes two other interesting catches. He adds:
With devastation raging in the Middle East right now–especially in Syria, where, according to reports, the death toll has now eclipsed 37,000–that the BBC would air footage that is so blatantly staged insults the victims of violence in places like Kiryat Malachi in Israel and Homs in Syria, where civilians were deliberately targeted today.
It’s unclear whether BBC produced this footage itself or through a stringer, but either way they should have saved it for the blooper reel. If history is any indication, we can expect a lot more of this in the coming days.
It is almost funny if it were not so craven. I remember a film clip I saw when the Palestinians were trying to play up Israeli atrocities in Jenin. They were carrying what looked like a dead or critically injured person a stretcher. Unbeknownst to them, a helicopter above was also filming. They went around a building to where they thought they were no longer being filmed and the guy jumped off the stretcher. When they saw the helicopter above, they all ran. I also recall many years ago when an Israeli soldier was captured and killed a staged demonstration by, I believe, Hamas with 1000s of people watching. They mimiced the soldier by showing him crying and calling for his mother with the crowd laughing. Despicable. I saw these clips once on the news and never again. And don't forget the Al-Durra incident. You would think all Palestinian filming and reporting would be extremely scrutinized by now, but no.
oh yes, Jenin! the pro-Pal left still talks about the "horror" of that day, which as you say never happened. it's the concept of The Big Lie. n nI think of the photo of the little Palestinian boy being cradled in some relative's arms: he'd supposedly been killed by the IDF. problem was, that exact same photo was used as an example of "collateral damage" in at least 2 different incidents, separated by a period of years (eg Cast Lead AND Lebanon). n nit is amazing to me that the "human rights" crowd doesn't see this and say "oh. wait. maybe there's more to the story than this Palestinian-as-victim thing." but it doesn't.
Than there was the "corpse" in a bier, carried by a bunch of stumbling bumblers, that kept on falling off and jumping back into the coffin
I like to remind people that one reason why America didn't believe that the Holocaust was happening was because people still remembered how Britain had used its physical control of the TransAtlantic cable during WW-I some 25 years earlier to send anti-German propaganda. That the Germans were pitchforking British Babies and such — which was proven to be totally false. n nSo no one believed the true stories of the Holocaust. n nIt's the story about the boy who cried "wolf" too many times, and then when there really was one, he got eaten…
that the BBC would air footage that is so blatantly staged insults the victims of violence in places like Kiryat Malachi in Israel and Homs in Syria, where civilians were deliberately targeted today.r nr nBut of course. Jews are not permitted human rights and in conflicts where Jews are not involved there is no interest in discussing the matter.r nr n#2 r nEd__EdD,r nIn the case of Israel there is no limit to the number of times for Arabs to cry wolf for the media to question it.r nPallywood, Fauxtography for Reuters and others in 2006, operation Cast Lead in Gaza and so on as it is all in the script.