Zombietime Exposes the Red Cross Ambulance Hoax (and Even More Fauxtography Examples)

All the world may or may not be a stage, but it’s looking more and more like all the news from the Mideast is indeed staged.

ZombieTime has the definitive post on how the WORMs (Worn-Out Reactionary Media, known to most as the formerly Mainstream Media) have been played by, co-opted by, or co-conspirators with (take your pick) Hezbollah and the Lebanese Red Cross (not necessarily in that order) in The Red Cross Ambulance Incident (HT Allah at Hot Air; final update at post). I believe it will come to be seen as THE definitive case study in media manipulation that comes out of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

There is no substitute for reading the whole lengthy, thoroughly researched, and devastating post. ZT believes that it turned world sentiment against Israel and changed the course of the conflict:

The ambulance incident, however, was anything but trivial. The media accused Israel of the most heinous type of war crime: intentionally targeting neutral ambulances which were attempting to rescue innocent victims. If true — and it is almost universally accepted as true — then Israel would lose any claim to moral superiority in the conflict. The commanders who ordered the strike should be brought up on war-crimes charges. As it is, the worldwide outcry over Israel’s purported malfeasances grew so strident that the country was pressured into a ceasefire. The media’s depictions of Israel’s actions so influenced public opinion that Israel felt compelled to end the fighting right at the moment it was starting to gain the upper hand. And as a result, Hezbollah has now claimed victory.

There’s little doubt now that it was all a hoax. I anxiously await the retractions (not).

Once again, as I have stated before, what we’re seeing is nearly an entire industry that is seemingly willing to go to any length to please its Arab-state paymasters, even if it means a total loss of long-term credibility.

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Related:

• Kevin Sites reports (6th para; HT LGF) that he can’t take pictures without written Hezbollah permission.
• The BBC matter-of-factly admits staging a photo (HT e-mailer Larwyn). Ace thinks that’s progress because they admitted it.
• The Boston Herald editorialized Sunday — “Better no pictures than phony ones”
• EU Referendum: “The very strong indications are that the body of baby Hashim was uncovered early in the recovery effort by two Red Cross workers and subsequently re-buried so that it could be ‘discovered’ by ‘Green Helmet’ in a way that maximised the propaganda value.”