IDF Hits Reuters Vehicle - Countdown to Lunacy Begins
Slow news day:
Two journalists were wounded by an Israeli air strike that hit a Reuters vehicle near Gaza City on Saturday, doctors and residents said. One of the journalists, who worked for a local media organisation, was seriously wounded. A cameraman working for Reuters was lightly wounded in the air strike, the doctors said.
If they wanted to do real damage, they would have called Adobe to have Reuters's Photoshop license revoked.
Witnesses said the missile struck the Reuters armored car despite the fact it was clearly labeled as a media vehicle, with signs on all sides, including the roof. Sabbah Hmaida, who works for a local news Web site, was seriously wounded in the legs... The airstrike came as Israeli soldiers backed by two dozen tanks, two bulldozers, helicopters and drone planes moved into an area just inside the Gaza Strip near the Karni crossing, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said. The IDF said the troops were searching for explosives planted by Palestinian militants alongside the border fence.
In a village that Israel has to raid in order to kill local terrorists, we wouldn't trust "local witnesses" to tell us if it's daylight or nighttime. Here's the thing: we think that it's plausible that they have an incentive to lie in order to make Israel look worse. Now, in the past, we obviously would believe witnesses if their descriptions were confirmed by journalists' observations. Not so much any more.
We don't really think that this is complicated: these people lie in order to demonize Israel. They lie a lot. They lie shamelessly. And a lot of people have always suspected that they lie, but this time enough smart people took enough time to conclusively demonstrate it.
Listen, you shmucks, the IDF doesn't intentionally target media vehicle. They don't intentionally target UN infrastructure (unless you count roads built for Hezbollah by the UN). They don't intentionally target Red Cross ambulances. No Israel commander wakes up and says "let's go ahead and commit a human rights atrocity", and no Israeli soldier targets assets outside the scope of their mission just for fun. Your dark fantasies of evil Jews aside, it's just not the way it works.
Two journalists were wounded by an Israeli air strike that hit a Reuters vehicle near Gaza City on Saturday, doctors and residents said. One of the journalists, who worked for a local media organisation, was seriously wounded. A cameraman working for Reuters was lightly wounded in the air strike, the doctors said.
If they wanted to do real damage, they would have called Adobe to have Reuters's Photoshop license revoked.
Witnesses said the missile struck the Reuters armored car despite the fact it was clearly labeled as a media vehicle, with signs on all sides, including the roof. Sabbah Hmaida, who works for a local news Web site, was seriously wounded in the legs... The airstrike came as Israeli soldiers backed by two dozen tanks, two bulldozers, helicopters and drone planes moved into an area just inside the Gaza Strip near the Karni crossing, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said. The IDF said the troops were searching for explosives planted by Palestinian militants alongside the border fence.
In a village that Israel has to raid in order to kill local terrorists, we wouldn't trust "local witnesses" to tell us if it's daylight or nighttime. Here's the thing: we think that it's plausible that they have an incentive to lie in order to make Israel look worse. Now, in the past, we obviously would believe witnesses if their descriptions were confirmed by journalists' observations. Not so much any more.
We don't really think that this is complicated: these people lie in order to demonize Israel. They lie a lot. They lie shamelessly. And a lot of people have always suspected that they lie, but this time enough smart people took enough time to conclusively demonstrate it.
Listen, you shmucks, the IDF doesn't intentionally target media vehicle. They don't intentionally target UN infrastructure (unless you count roads built for Hezbollah by the UN). They don't intentionally target Red Cross ambulances. No Israel commander wakes up and says "let's go ahead and commit a human rights atrocity", and no Israeli soldier targets assets outside the scope of their mission just for fun. Your dark fantasies of evil Jews aside, it's just not the way it works.
