Palestinian Tear Gas Libel: The Truth Comes Out

January 20, 2011 15:22 by Simon Plosker

For too long, Palestinian Big Lies have been allowed to become part of the accepted narrative. Too many times, media outlets have reported libelous Palestinian allegations and accusations against Israel, relying on Palestinian “eyewitness” accounts, dismissing Israeli rebuttals and failing to check the facts for themselves.

So it was in the case of a Palestinian woman reportedly killed by tear gas fired by the IDF at a Palestinian demonstration. As the dispute raged, we were particularly incensed by the New York Times’ coverage and some other media that preferred to ignore the damning evidence of a Palestinian libel in favor of taking sides on Israel’s use of tear gas as a means of crowd control.

Now, Israeli media, including the Jerusalem Post, reports on the final conclusions of the IDF’s investigation:

“According to our findings, Abu Rahma died as a result of the medical treatment,” a source in the Central Command said Wednesday.

Medical documents obtained by the IDF show that Abu Rahma received unusually high doses of atropine, a medicine that is commonly used as an antidote to agents such as nerve gas. Israeli gas mask kits used to be distributed to the public with atropine shots inside.

According to the IDF’s findings, Abu Rahma died of complications from medical treatment that had not been connected to tear gas.

The IDF also uncovered documentation indicating that Abu Rahma may have been suffering from cancer and had been hospitalized several weeks before her death.

The IDF probe included an analysis of the demonstration and involved experts from the IDF Medical Corps who examined documents received from the Palestinians.

The Associated Press, a news source relied upon by countless international media outlets, has also reported the IDF’s findings. Even if the New York Times and others are unable or unwilling to send their own reporters to follow up on this story, there is now no excuse. Even the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency has reported the latest.

Will the foreign press publish the IDF’s findings or will this latest Palestinian libel be allowed to become the accepted truth? Don’t let this happen. Hold the media to account by sending your considered e-mails to those outlets that reported on the original story:

New York Times – letters@nytimes.com
Washington Post – letters@washpost.com
BBC – News feedback site
CNN – Feedback
The Independent – letters@independent.co.uk
The Times of London – letters@thetimes.co.uk
The Guardian – letters@guardian.co.uk

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10 Comments → “Palestinian Tear Gas Libel: The Truth Comes Out”

LEON

12:07 am

Jan 21, 2011

ANY NEWS AGENCY THAT DOES NOT REPORT FAIR AND BALANCED NEWS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM ISREAL UNTIL IT CHANGES IT’S POLICY.

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Marilyn Smith

12:57 am

Jan 21, 2011

If Israel shuts these people out, they will get faulty or made up information from elsewhere, just as happened during Cast Lead. At least if they are actually there we can hold them to account when the truth comes out.

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- David
  
  2:02 pm
  
  Jan 23, 2011
  
  Hi,
  
  When they are not there – we can ask – what you are reporting is not true> And can also be exposed as telling lies. Yes !!!
  
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Gerald Lynch

12:49 pm

Jan 21, 2011

In response to Marilyn Smith, how did Reuters report the incident on the Lebanon border in which a Israeli soldier was shot whilst trimming trees on the Israeli side of the border. And did they explain how they and other journalists just happened to at the scene? Were they invited to witness the bare-faced Hizbullah provocational murder? Journalist and mainstream media are extremely biased in favour of the many obvious lies by Hizbullah, Hamas and Palestinians, without any effort at verifying the truth of the matter, the flotilla incident being a prime and recent example of media bias. Only when a genuine effort is made by MSM to present only truthful and verifiable accounts will this sorry press saga be exposed for what it truly is, Palestinian propaganda. How many times do their lies have to be exposed before MSM give a genuine UNbiased report based on factual evidence?

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Lee

12:34 am

Jan 22, 2011

Good idea, Leon. That would eliminate all of the major media outlets. However, there are many of us smaller ones though who do report the actual news. People just need to look around a bit.

The lies of the media have been exposed for decades but no one wants to pay attention unless they are really interested in Israel and/or the truth. Truth today, it seems, is what each person wants to make of it. Most people today are willing to accept as truth anything that is repeated several times by different sources (“tell a lie enough times and people will believe it”). They figure it must be the truth if everybody says the same thing. Even historians are admitting that history is not an “exact” science and that much of what we know is now wrong; it’s what you make of it based on what you know at the time of the discovery. (Besides, the winner always writes the history.) In 10,000 years from now, if the world is still here, when archaeologists do a dig near Disney World in Orlando, they will assume that these people worshiped a large mouse. Each year the Egyptians celebrate their victory over Israel in the Six-Day-War. And their writings say that they won a mighty battle against the Hittites but archaeologists have now found out that the pharaoh and the leader of the Hittites decided to call it a draw as no one was winning, but that is not what Egyptian history says. People are just too lazy to search for the truth but they will argue with you, even when they don;t know the facts. A guy I once worked with came in one Monday and said they Jews were finally building the Temple. I asked him where he got this information and he said his pastor heard it fro a guy who knew a guy … When I tried to explain that if the Jews began to build the Temple that the entire world would know about it, he was adamant that his pastor was right. (His pastor had never even been to Israel.) When I told him I personally worked with Gershon Salomon, who is head of the Temple Mount Faithful, and they were trying to lay the cornerstone for the Temple, he insisted that it had already been done and the Temple was almost built; all this because his pastor said it had happened. He wasn’t interested in the truth.

All we can keep doing is keep putting the truth out there and those who want to hear it will do so; others will believe the lies and look for the flashy things that men do.

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Waerner van der Wal -Holland-

4:13 am

Jan 22, 2011

The Sincere-rightious will go up a (His)L/light (in ‘heart’)! An old Psalms/Mizmor saying. When I looked to world systems, Mankind, none is good, including jews and palestines or dutch or germans..
If my (family)brother, in his youthtime, had a problem and fought with someone, to find truth on what happened and who in most beginning began and apart of that who(all) made it worse(r), to make a check, the schoolmaster or mom, did not just ask hìs friends, due loyalism or so-easy selfmight misuse due ‘image defending’(never creates a truth on itself),
he/she heard of course both versions, then pointed us.., upon that, where any/the Faith could be value-able and has a sense to; a holy G-od/AElohajim(Al-lah/Eilohim root) desires
pure refined unturned truth.. Due temptation to manipulation for the reason to protect own name/image/interest as high-interest, when in US or Dutch or Arab army against public a thing went wrong, a neutral body in the Land with experts -unbound/unwoven of government
influence/strings- (with at a later moment journalists of broadscala) could best do investi-gation. Under Appearance (to others than me!) of Pàrtialness the IDF researched itselfs.., I know some very good but also bad outcomes?! An Israeli-(proIsrael)arab&other(nonjew-nonmuslim) countercheck would even enforce Truth.
Since most prefere or sometimes even ‘worship’ an own (on fantasy must have been build)
rosa-nice truth, most shout ‘liar’ to the “‘other’”, like kids on a schoolsquare, never raised to
adulted contemplating, reflecting or weighing and discerning,.. sincethat Truth is within clouds or smoke, comicly the hardest ‘ówn view’ (fantasy?!)shout is believed first. Supporting an idea or view, arabic, jew, russian, american, chinese, etc. is big business and paid good/well, a threat or smut spot on fame is moneyed-off, often. Unrefined truth is found here, misdrawn by influence and prejustice. A refined heart to God let cares for Gods creatures and finally will be blessed. Often wished-truths are untrue, because selfmade by
its wanters, the Father of that (lied/fantasied) build ‘trueness’, fake, empty.
Since 21 (plm.- a sensus is not precise enough here)% of inhabitants of Jishrael-Phalestin
Area within Israel aren’t with more than 10% (halve) in the Knesseth, it is hard to put a co-stamp on the various rich beautiful Israel Land.. This hinders an enough co-feeling to co-patriotism!: ergo sum, leads by desillusion many non-palestine arabs to anti-israel camp!
If you, in Knesseth, reservate 21% of seats for them with a 3% marge to plus or minus, and let restvotes or/and their percentage-rate fill the rest of this number eventhough not the halve is reached..
So you will have arabic to normal level; loyaltyuestion must be basic key to may-enter ..in Knesseth, when smart the bigparties make a little 2nd ‘waggon’ (a rate), for esp. arabs-bedouines-druz-filestines, eventually(=evt.) with sub-divisions, so they must + can be trained and advocate as arab Israel best amoung.. Phalestines.

Closed Window(s)/Door(s) problem; black-white thinking with no space for spectra between
is caused by protectionism by only-arab and only-ivrit(hebrew) signs.. aswell idem mono-
language learning,. Although in Israel and (nutral) ‘Westdistrict of Jordanriver’ learning each-others neighboor languages is comeing up.

English in brackets, little, we do too in Holland besides dutch, helps tourists and a second degree feeling co-citizen, to an european or american, an arab is no immigrant but also of ha-eretz,.. So by english(to learn at both sides, besides each tongues, edifies understanding in socially many ways; better seeing is creating better moral. By this and friendship, dutch and english won germans to leave natzismthoughts! Beat hate by smart-(clever)love). They first then can see and get known Israeli truth too and learn that IDF is very sincere in much, generally, of course blacksheep are ‘everywhere”! Hate and (often desdrawn/fantasized) prejustice went moreover away since dutch, belgian, germans, czech and poles learn neighbour lan-guages and history from more angles and helicopterviews without pre-educated pre-program-med background influence, near most nutral.. School-exchange -to oneanothers area and to a third nutral country- did much too. Folk from Northern-Ireland(Ulster) learned in Holland for first time to forgive each other and to discover (similar) joy and (be)love!

In Germany, near SE of Holland, in a village some hearts were ‘touched’ spiritually, I think by God and sincerity.., the rebuild some jewish homes and requested humble, gently, self-shamefull some jews to come back, the almost whole little germanvillage kneeled and ask-ed forgiveness, ..harmony both sides came-in and florished. Synagogues in that land when terror threatens nowadays are protected by german heavy weaponed policeing/guarding sol-diers and commando’s, one wouldn’t dare to believe in 1932. Times & Things càn change,
if we extend for love that embrace also the – sincered – other.

External sources or ideas reaching forth to extend, enforces truth, co-makes harmony on
little scale. I learned in New York, Amsterdam, Tunis, jews and arabs could be good neigh-boors, .. but also found out, also in Israel in areas, not few! If they need not to make sepa-ration states outside Israel why it cannot live like in Amsterdam, together; there are more
strong diversity Confederations, with still keeping/holding ‘own’ ‘Culture+’; Canada, Switzer-
land (4 very dif. etnic ‘Nations’ and still one -confederative- too).. In Injil/Tenakh/Old-testa-ment we find in Isaha 19 a (a-)WayMap of arab-isru confederation, not my words; read it..

Musica bona; now in Ulster, due exchanges of women and schoolfolk to classes in Holland
and elsewhere, ‘another thinking’ (not enarrowed) is growing, ..to more real peace, dispites
scarces and wounds, often in each family at least one; but love is stronger than hate, only sin (thora) learns to hate, only by G’d an enemy is washed away.
The holy books (Jewish and Christian and Arab Bible’s; Tenach, HolyTestaments, Kuran)
have examples of harmony, of unreasonable wrongs, victories and losts on own and other
sides; God made and beloved all, wrote plus did let wrote or say for honesty sake; the
balance of that holy Journal or Newspaper is often more reality, while it shows/reveals also own wrongs (enstrengthen! -character-) and at end let glory and peace be pòssible for all,
from who(se) a God sees he is doing fair and walking plan of sincerity or (in fact) Messiah,
who first had to come invissible, unliked, beaten and (killed)die-ing at half-life before to come on a victorious horse, everyone should recognize and give honour to/for; so could he testify us our-all behaviour,.. So a second time come?! Yes to me. As Isaha and Psalms give clues; a virgin (ao’l-ima, no-birthen give-ster=no-mother -too-; hebrew) shall become pregnant -from Above (heaven)might-, forsaid more than an Angel(os) (littl. high Servant of King/God) it be, ..G’d/AElohaim self?! (gospel of John/Yochanan 10:30).
Abraham(Ibrahim) will see all his children (8), Ishmail, Israel and those 6 of Ketura, happy
as one people in Messiah Kingdom -see Isaha/Yeshayahu 19-, in their folks.

Happy wonderfull Jishrael(Isaac[and his son Jacob later as 12tribe father]) and Jishmael [as
12 tribefather too, both have 1 daughter, mirrorly, harmonius] were lifetime Friends and joy-ed those Days and cryed together in each other arms when their common Father died and buried him together. Alone in some texts of all 3 monotheistic(incl. bible where Christ in soe streamings is in fact temp.split-off the ‘Creator-Father’) religions.. are some enimity feeding passages, if you read rough, .. by context an put in the whole([general]line) we see
clearance that God splits each people to halve, one sincere to come in Light of Heaven and later phase New Earth, and one to Dark of [S]he[o]ll – (fireful-prison) -; ‘eternal’..
so, not etnity or race but heart counts, no generalization.. Could discerned whole-contex translation will refine more (..to) truth! Polution in any form from dus, air to mind makeing old world to die, only sincere heart finds truth where it is as a pearl in the heart of, namely a shell or.. by name ‘sincerity-integrity-graceful’.. Rough, looting, violentic.., make unclean,
unkosher or unhallal and so can never earn heaven by inocent blood, God hated its spoil of!

“Truth” is a conditioned enforced opinion of fragments of a story, intrepretated roughly,
-like a good archeolog and writer above- or [independently my view here] .. found by a
sincere heart as a pearl, not everyone can understand beneath level of higher spiritual
seeing, what only meet the sincere – one who does not want/like to kill but save to integrity
as mend by God. HR is not a blind support for Israel, it tries make balance and reveal
the good heart (intention) of IsraeL for all inhabitants. Like in Holland or a land, all more than 188 nationalities are welcome and defended by army, police,.. only here both-wayish non-racism – and so reality harmony-ism. Harm to Israel is harm to all in her,
.. then.. -whether- Bless or Curse, to Israel, is to receive it (reflected like price) back, may
be 1, 2, 3 or 7 fold, because.. God, your Creator and programmer and ‘presetter’,
said so.. Acquaint to this Law do so, it opens your Heart-eyes for truth, discern of real bad and good on both sides! In Israel bad of israeli’s can be prosecuted and arabs can get high medical and school or social care, in many arab lands arabs get not this good facilities, if scarcely, only on low quality often, many bad are protected and coruption is “blessed”,..

If we see splitter as outsiders in Soccer-football match, at Israeli or -referee, let us too try to see if there’s one in our own eye -unhoped that it can be a broad one-, that deforms “own” truth, missing depthsight, missing the propaganda(untruth made to truth as PR/advertise)
.. at our desired sides, equally if Israel or Arabian or non- or westhern,.. Respect, in finest blend/shape, its roots, reflects to all dimensions and sides integrity, so it cannot be conta-minated by unworthy lies as meazel unto leprous spots. An inkdrop, as tiny, can spoil the whole water, making it dark, by a liquid we can let look it “transparant”, ‘again’, but not our eyes but -by holy fire- proven knowledge can show still ‘death’ is in the Glas(ses).

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LEON

6:44 am

Jan 24, 2011

IN RESPONCE TO GERALD LYNCH: PERHAPS THE JOURNALISTS IN LEBONON WERE FORCED OR EVEN THREATENED TO REPORT AS HISBOLLAH ORDERS. THE SAME COULD BE SAID FOR THE FLOTILLA FIASCO.IT SEEMS LIKE RUTERS IS A KEY PLAYER IN THIS TYPE OF PROPAGANDA. AS LEE SAID , IF A LIE IS TOLD ENOUGH TIMES IT EVENTUALLY BECOMES THE TRUTH. WITH ALL THE LEGAL MINDS IN ISREAL I WOULD HOPE THERE IS SOME KIND OF LAW THAT MIGHT EXIST TO PROSECUTE THESE TYPES OF OUTRIGHT LIES.

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Gerald Lynch

11:04 am

Jan 24, 2011

Agree entirely Leon, but media will have to be separated from their corporate owners first. while there is more money to be paid peddling lies nothing will change, corporations have no conscience, only a lust for ever-increasing profits. And yes, Reuters is habitually caught out lying about Israel, if we could dig down deep enough we would probably find Arabic?Islamic ownership. Their perfidious reporting taints all their reportage.

Waerner, long posts like yours, most likely to put people off reading them, however well you make your point.

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