The AP actually changed its boilerplate to the truth for a change. Look what I found in a tongue-bath for Al-Manar, a.k.a. Hezbullah TV:
During the conflict, which began July 12 after Hezbollah killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two in a cross-border raid, the station routinely aired reports on guerrilla rockets strikes on northern Israel and ground battles with Israeli troops.
Wow. They usually completely omit the part about the three soldiers who were killed.
But then, of course, you read a little further and you find the usual crappy editing job by AP. Here’s a hint, schmucks: The Protocols are forgeries.
He said contingency plans to face such a situation were made several years ago, after the U.S. decision in December 2004 to place the station on its list of terror organizations. Earlier that year, the station was blocked from satellite programming in Australia and had to struggle with France to keep it from taking similar measures after its transmission of an anti-Semitic miniseries was denounced by Jewish lobby groups.
The series – “Al-Shatat,” Arabic for “The Diaspora” – was based on “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” – the 20th century anti-Semitic text purporting to describe a plan to achieve Jewish global domination – and depicted among other scenes the killing of a Christian child on the orders of a rabbi so the child’s blood could be added to matzos for Passover.
And of course, what tally would be complete without the “they won simply by surviving” meme?
Regardless of who won on the battlefield, employees at Al-Manar are confident they have won having survived the war.
I suppose that means the South really won the Civil War, then. It’s still here.
Yes. And they OMIT the opening rocket and mortar barrage on the towns, villages and farms along Israel’s northern border used to create the ambush that brought out the soldiers.
Well, Meryl, four of the last five presidents have come from the South, and the one who didn’t had a VP from the region. Maybe we did win the war after all. :)
Seriously, media types do seem enamoured with “longevity,” don’t they? For example, Castro gets lionized for having outlasted XX American presidents. Now, this is because he’s a dictator, but that doesn’t really matter! I notice this in other areas, largely when there’s really nothing else to recommend the cause/side/group/person that the reporter sympathizes with.
The South didn’t win the Civil War, but Southerners have long memories and often a defeat spurs people on as no victory can. I say this as a Southerner and a friend of Israel. :)
Noreen,
You a troll?
It’s a year since the Jews left Gaza and the Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses (those $100 million a year producers of fruits and vegetables) amongst other things left to them by “philanthropists”.
If you are worried about the division of land then go back to 1948 and ask why 5 Arab countries went to war against Israel, and the armistice of 1949, to lose the greater proportion of the land the UN offered the arabs (not the then as yet un-created Palestinian people)?
She slipped through the moderation net. Please don’t continue the conversation. She’s breaking the No Israel-bashing rule, and will doubtless be banned soon.
“Noreen” is done, and her comments deleted. The comments policy is clearly marked on every post, and if you need a refresher, click on the post I wrote that declares this a No Israel-Bashing Zone.
The Google satellite map the troll linked was highly suspect, because it’s not a link to Google—it’s a link to a photo uploading service to a jpeg that says it’s a Google satellite map.
And voila: I found the picture, on an anti-Israel site.
Say bye-bye to the troll.
Damn. If only the Union had finished the job, I wouldn’t have had to spend two years of my life in Sumter, SC.