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Debunking the "human shields" propaganda

category international | arts and media | other press author Friday August 04, 2006 16:09author by Phuq Hedd Report this post to the editors

Counterpunch examines the media war waged against Hizbullah

In Counterpunch, Aug 4th 2006, Jonathan Cook reports on Human Rights Watch's analysis of civilian casualties inflicted by Hizbullah and the IDF and concludes that indiscriminate media reporting is perpetuating at least two inaccuracies: that IDF strikes are "targetted" with Lebanese civilian deaths being a result of Hizbullah using them as human shields; and that Hizbullah attacks are deliberately targetting civilians.

The former point is arrived at by analysis of specific case studies covering an estimated low of 500 Lebanese deaths. The latter examines several of the known locations of Hizbullah rocket attacks and concludes that at least some of those rocket attacks are specifically aimed at Israeli military installations.

Worth reading for anyone that wants to think about the relative moralities of the situation and doesn't want to blindly accept the passive Western media's retailing of spin from highly-censored Israel.

Jonathan Cook: War of Media Deception, Counterpunch Aug 4th 2006

Related Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/cook08032006.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Cook     gordi    Fri Aug 04, 2006 20:58 
   Which is completely irrelevant     Phuq Hedd    Fri Aug 04, 2006 21:08 
   Phuq Hedd,     gordi    Sun Aug 06, 2006 09:14 
   Main point is that the media is not reporting on their censorship     Phuq Hedd    Sun Aug 06, 2006 14:10 
   The Israeli propaganda machine     Phuq Hedd    Sun Aug 06, 2006 14:20 
   imperialist propaganda manual issue 1002     CG    Mon Aug 07, 2006 02:04 
   is in the pudding my friends     The proof    Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:42 
   Euphemisms     Jimmy From Ballygomartin    Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:25 
   Hezzbollah denies targetting civilians?     Grigor    Tue Aug 08, 2006 01:53 
 10   Proof is in the Pudding, Israel and the US are terrorists, period..     blaise    Tue Aug 08, 2006 02:09 
 11   Blaise     Pat    Tue Aug 08, 2006 02:18 
 12   Truth Be Told     Not a Useful Idiot    Tue Aug 08, 2006 05:06 
 13   Israeli lies are in fact, a fact, useless one     blaise    Tue Aug 08, 2006 06:28 
 14   Blaise     gordi    Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:42 
 15   Blaise, you make wild statements with no proof     Phuq Hedd    Tue Aug 08, 2006 15:46 
 16   Where's the outrage?, wheres the Protest?     G. Orwell    Tue Aug 08, 2006 17:31 
 17   anti-semite is hardly a come back against ethnic cleansing     blaise    Wed Aug 09, 2006 02:42 
 18   Why do people confuse anti zionist with anti semite     Paul R    Wed Aug 09, 2006 15:59 
 19   Advocating suicide bombings? Afraid not Gordi     Topper    Wed Aug 09, 2006 17:31 
 20   Qana     A. Cynic    Wed Aug 09, 2006 20:12 


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