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The Daily Telegraph had a weird photo of the Prime Minister with an outstretched arm, somewhat reminiscent of a Nazi salute. When I found the photo at Getty Images, it was credited as an Israeli…

Pesach Benson
August 3, 2011
12:00 am

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The Daily Telegraph had a weird photo of the Prime Minister with an outstretched arm, somewhat reminiscent of a Nazi salute.

When I found the photo at Getty Images, it was credited as an Israeli Government Press Office handout and is in fact posted on the Prime Minister’s Flickr stream.

Maybe the photo would be actionable had it been taken by someone on the Big Media payroll. Or maybe the photo’s no big deal.

Yesterday, I was upbeat about Danny Ayalon’s video. Now the GPO distributes this photo to the press corps.

Israeli taxpayers deserve a better Zionist media conspiracy.

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Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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