Breathless HuffPo Headline About Gazans Eating Grass Contradicted By Rest Of Headline, Linked Picture, Reality (Plus: Anti-Semitic Comments Ensue Anyway)

This really does set a new standard for vicious unblinking stupidity. The overnight HuffPo frontpage:

What a perfect photo to go with the headline: a child with two plates of food, a shelf of spices against the wall, and a full sink in the background. But don’t get hung up on visual forensics. Down that road lies the UN’s complaint that Gazans have enough food but not enough fruits and vegetables (a complaint they made right after Hamas banned Israeli fruits and vegetables). So forget the jarring visual. Just meditate on the headline for a second. Ready? Now: how the hell are Gazans getting high-end drugs if they can’t even get food? Do these geniuses think it’s easier or cheaper to score regulated narcotics – narcotics that according to the story Hamas “has made efforts to control” – than it is to get food? Come on. This takes less than 5 seconds of thought.

Of course the solution to this little conundrum is that Gaza is actually well-stocked with goods. All kinds of goods. Anything that can be bought is smuggled in via the underground tunnel network that the Palestinians run on Israeli electricity. Computers, cell phones, cement, furniture, whatever. Here are some illustrative photos for over-excited anti-Israel partisans: food and clothing and widescreen TVs and even live cows. Seriously. Anything.

Now one HuffPo commenter did realize that the headline was a problem. The solution?

The narcotic is one thing the Israeli occupiers will allow to get smuggled thru the blockade. No accident, I am sure. Tear down the Apartheid Wall, you Israeli criminals !!

Well obviously. I’ve got some more choice selections from the HuffPo comments section below the jump. This is just a sample from pages 3 and 4. I couldn’t go back any further.

Israel is not a democracy and never was. It was always a military state and shows no signs of changing. It exploits the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis to justify eradicating the Palestinians.

Israel is the most evil state in the world. I really enjoyed when Candace Bergen said it should no longer exist on Boston Legal .

They show no signs of being human, actually. But that is beside the point. Israel is the occupier of Palestinian territories. They control the borders, the food and energy supply, the medical care, they control schools, they control the flow of water.

God will only put up this chit for so long before He intervenes, one way or another.

G*d bless AIPAC, ADL and all the other US perpetrators from ‘The Israel Lobby’ and supporters of the IDF, the same people who blackmailed the US into the Iraq war… for the attempted re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto strategy against another defenseless people and their democratically elected government!

IT’S THE JEWISH LOBBYISTS DEARIE! WE PAY A HUGE MONTHLY SUM TO ISRAEL SO THAT THEY CAN ARM THEMSELVES AND FIGHT – IT’S A DISGRACE. WE NEED THAT MONEY HERE AT HOME – LET THEM FIND THEIR OWN WAY AND HAVE HARD TIMES.

“Jewish lobbyists”? I thought they were Israel lobbyists. Didn’t Walt and Mearsheimer say you have to keep them straight to avoid coming off like a vulgar anti-Semite?

References:
* UN: Gazans Have More Than Enough Food, But Lack Of Fruits And Vegetables Is A Humanitarian Crisis [MR]
* Hamas Blocks Israeli Food Shipments, Intentionally Starves Gaza Civilians To Create A Humanitarian Disaster – Again! [MR]
* Gaza’s Booming Economy – Underground Mall System, Hundreds Of Supermarkets, Latest Fashions (Plus: New Gaza Tunnel Wasn’t For Smuggling) [MR]
* New Data Confirms Old Data: Blaming Israel For Gaza’s Medical Collapse Is A Vicious Lie [MR]
* More Photos from the Gaza Concentration Camp [IndyMedia]
* Wide Screen TV in Gaza [Solomonia]
* Photo from Getty Images