Media milks Qana building collapse for all it's worth

Make sure to check out the news links at both Google News and Memeorandum to see how the MSM has jumped on the bombing in Qana story like it’s Israel’s version of Abu Ghraib.

Take a look at the number of articles appearing in today’s NYT alone on what happened in Qana:

As I noted yesterday, the ‘outrage’ over what happened in Qana (and there is a debate bubbling up in the air as to what exactly DID happen) is not so much about the fact that civilians were killed, but the fact that they may be dead as a result of an Israeli airstrike. What I wrote yesterday bears repeating again today:

As it’s done in Afghanistan and Iraq, the media has jumped on the “evil US/Israel attacks have killed scores of civilians!!!!” bandwagon, without examining why the civilians (in most instances) were caught in the crossfire in the first place. I suspect the reason why they don’t examine that aspect of civilian deaths because that would mean the angle that they push – which is that the west, in particular the US and Israel, are bloodthirsty empirical warmongers, while those battling them are â€˜freedom fighters’ – couldn’t be credibly pushed.

Now we’ve got ‘leaders’ calling for cease-fires and whatnot in light of what happened in Qana and the ‘outrage’ that it sparked. Now, assuming for purposes of discussion that the deaths in Qana were as a result of an Israeli airstrike (and for any moonbats out there reading, I left out the word “deliberately targeted’ for a reason) this would take us back to the debate John Podhoretz brought up last week on whether or not we can effectively fight and win modern-day wars because of concerns over civilian casualties. That debate, as does the war between Israel and Hezbollah, rages on.

The media, I should note, are just one more in a cast of usual– suspects using Israel’s war against Hezbollah as an excuse to once again slam Israel.

McQ at QandO fisks Robert Fisk’s opinion on Qana. Mr. Fisk is calling the Qana tragedy a “war crime.”

Others blogging about this: Michelle Malkin, Allah, Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive, Real Ugly American, Sweetness and Light, AJ Strata

Prior:

forest hunter says:

July 31, 2006 at 5:58 pm

“Now we’ve got â€˜leaders’ calling for cease-fires and whatnot in light of what happened in Qana and the â€˜outrage’ that it sparked.”

Not to put to fine a point on “it”, but the what happened part isn’t a known. What is known all too well are the motivations from salivating accomplices, such as the lamestream media and hezzbots and thug-huggers in general. Ergo the reason for the “leaders” PC minded crap, relative to how things get done, is unfortunately due to the renewed ululating at standard feverous pitch from the spineless haters of America and freedom in general.

The Real Republican says:

July 31, 2006 at 6:13 pm

Funny how the world is outraged at civilian deaths and not the use of civilian shields.

July 31, 2006 at 6:16 pm

If it bleeds it leads

But if you want my opinion on this issue, I’d suggest people focus more on how much Hezbollah regards human life. Then ask yourself if it’s any surprise they would hunker down in a weapons bunker with scores of women and children with wire photograph…

Severian says:

July 31, 2006 at 8:08 pm

This is something I said at another, less wonderful site:

Something is really fishy about this whole incident in Qana. I just spent some time looking at the photos that have been taken of them removing the “victims” out of the rubble. In particular, one small child, looks to be about 4 years old or so, is being held up and shown, he’s in several pictures. In every single picture, his head is turned the exact same way, and his arms are at the same angles, this is particularly noticeable from looking at his left arm, which is bent at the elbow slightly and the hand bent downwards with the fingers curled.

Every single picture, from the one of him laying on the ground, to him being held up, to him being carried, to him laying in the ambulance, his position is the same.

I’m calling BS. If the building collapsed and he was killed recently, as in just an hour or two before the journalists were called in for their propaganda photo ops. why was he already in deep rigor mortis? Freshly dead people are not stiff, that takes longer than the alleged time from his death till when he was recovered. Looking at the other alleged victims, it’s obvious the same can be said for most if not all of them.

It is becoming more and more obvious to me that this entire tradgedy is a setup. These people were killed long before and somewhere else, and were put in the building and then it was collapsed, or they were put in after it collapsed to generate the maximum propaganda value. This whole thing stinks, and the press and diplomats and “Arab Street” are swallowing it hook, line, and sinker just as they always do. It’s revolting and disgusting, and all too common.

benning says:

August 1, 2006 at 12:11 am

I was wondering why the site was so smoke and dust free. So soon after the bombing! Like it had been sitting there waiting to be photographed for months. Nothing in the air. Clean! It looked like a movie set.

We could be wrong, but …

Park your rocket-launchers next to buildings, fire at the Israelis, watch that building get blownup in retaliation! Frankly, I just don’t care. What goes around comes around. Have the Izlamists figured that out yet? Our own Lefties haven’t!

Baklava says:

August 1, 2006 at 5:50 pm

Questions raised about the staging of Qana