Here's the Thing About the Anti-Israel Media: They Lie - Hezbollah Hides Among Civilians Edition
There is a world in which facts actually help to shape the directions that arguments take. That world is obviously not the world of mainstream liberal journalism, where major liberal outlets publish articles with titles like "The 'hiding among civilians' myth":
Israel claims it's justified in bombing civilians because Hezbollah mingles with them. In fact, the militant group doesn't trust its civilians and stays as far away from them as possible.
Unbelievable! Can it really be true that Israel really is just a bully on the warpath, seeking to maximize civilian casualties? That would be awesome - the Middle East conflict would become really easy to understand, and it would be really obvious who the good guys and who the bad guys were. Israel would be caught flat out lying.
Except that Hezbollah does hid among civilians. And that someone has finally smuggled out the incontrovertible evidence that - and we've never let this hackneyed phrase on this blog before, but in this case it's justified... someone has finally smuggled out the incontrovertible evidence that the liberal media doesn't want you to see:
This is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
It seems that every week, there's another absurd, demonstrably false argument in the liberal press - and it seems that all those mistakes turn out to be ones that slander the IDF or excuse for Israel's enemies. Last week it was the Guardian's breathless, too-good-to-be-true "Hezbollah is not connected to Syria or Iran" contrarian wisdom qua terrorist apologism. It was too good to be true because it wasn't true.
Now it's this Salon "Israel is just lying about Hezbollah using human shields so they can murder civilians" garbage. And don't email us with the usual "there is no liberal media - these are diverse outlets" nonsense. Salon provides the talking points for every leftist, self-styled sophisticate who needs something to spout as his own informed-but-contrarian wisdom at middlebrow art shows. When arguments are premised on lies, there can be no room for debate. These people have strayed very, very far off the reservation - yet they still demand (hell, they feel entitled) to make policy recommendations about things that actually matter.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Israel claims it's justified in bombing civilians because Hezbollah mingles with them. In fact, the militant group doesn't trust its civilians and stays as far away from them as possible.
Unbelievable! Can it really be true that Israel really is just a bully on the warpath, seeking to maximize civilian casualties? That would be awesome - the Middle East conflict would become really easy to understand, and it would be really obvious who the good guys and who the bad guys were. Israel would be caught flat out lying.
Except that Hezbollah does hid among civilians. And that someone has finally smuggled out the incontrovertible evidence that - and we've never let this hackneyed phrase on this blog before, but in this case it's justified... someone has finally smuggled out the incontrovertible evidence that the liberal media doesn't want you to see:
This is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
It seems that every week, there's another absurd, demonstrably false argument in the liberal press - and it seems that all those mistakes turn out to be ones that slander the IDF or excuse for Israel's enemies. Last week it was the Guardian's breathless, too-good-to-be-true "Hezbollah is not connected to Syria or Iran" contrarian wisdom qua terrorist apologism. It was too good to be true because it wasn't true.
Now it's this Salon "Israel is just lying about Hezbollah using human shields so they can murder civilians" garbage. And don't email us with the usual "there is no liberal media - these are diverse outlets" nonsense. Salon provides the talking points for every leftist, self-styled sophisticate who needs something to spout as his own informed-but-contrarian wisdom at middlebrow art shows. When arguments are premised on lies, there can be no room for debate. These people have strayed very, very far off the reservation - yet they still demand (hell, they feel entitled) to make policy recommendations about things that actually matter.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
