I've highlighted the last two sections because the author comes so close to the correct answer. Like the assertions of an incredible healthcare system in Cuba, heaven on earth being built in Stalin's Russia and Mao's China, and on, it isn't blindness or being uncomfortable with truth. Rather, they don't care about the suffering; their belief system doesn't allow for that doubt and/or as in this case, they bear animosity and malevolence to a particular entity, here the Jew. They literally chose to take at face value the output of those regimes because it aligned with their faith system, their beliefs.This came out yesterday.
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The biggest newspaper in Germany @BILD just exposed what other media outlets are trying to hide: The deliberate staging of Hamas propaganda by photographers in Gaza, that are later sold for tens of thousands of dollars to western media outlets to create a false narrative to demonise Israel and strengthen Hamas.
The article analyses the case of Anas Zayed Fteiha, a so-called “freelance journalist” who works for the Turkish state news agency Anadolu. On paper, he’s a reporter, but in reality, he’s an Islamic propagandist with a camera. That’s obvious from his social media posts, where he proudly poses in combat gear and shares slogans like “Free Palestine” or even “F*** Israel.” Neutrality? Not a chance.
The article shows that many of his photos deliver exactly what Hamas needs: suffering, rubble, crying children captured in perfect lighting. The kind of imagery that instantly sparks outrage against Israel in the West. But where are the photos that show the full picture? For example, the scenes where adult men collect food that’s actually being distributed? Those images vanish into obscurity. Instead, the “emotional shockers” end up in outlets like stern, CNN, BBC, Deutschlandfunk—and even in BILD itself.
And none of this is a coincidence. The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) confirms what experts have been saying for a long time: 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁.
Historian Gerhard Paul puts it plainly: in southern Gaza, Hamas controls 100% of visual output. In other words, any photographer who doesn’t produce what the terrorists want is out of a job. That’s why the suffering is always portrayed one-sidedly, it’s designed to provoke sympathy in the West and stir anger at Israel.
Even historical parallels are drawn: back in 2002, Arafat staged himself in his “fortress” in Ramallah as a tragic hero by candlelight cameras on, spotlights off, pure emotion. Minutes later, he was back under bright lights. Same trick, different setting.
The disturbing part? Major news agencies and media outlets play along. They buy these images without questioning who’s behind them. Reuters defends itself by saying, “Our photos meet standards of accuracy and independence”, but it’s clear that in a place where Hamas monitors every pixel, true independence is impossible.
And now the key question: Why don’t we see revelations like this in other media? Why doesn’t ARD produce a report on how tightly Hamas controls imagery coming out of Gaza? Why doesn’t the BBC acknowledge that many of its sources are actually activists? The answer is simple: because this truth is uncomfortable. It would disrupt the cherished victim-aggressor narrative,where Israel is always the oppressor, and Palestinians are always the helpless victims.
The reality is this: Hamas is waging a double war: with rockets and with images. And in the second war, they’ve already won over half the world, because the media uncritically reproduces their perfectly staged visuals. Anyone who doesn’t see that is blindly walking into a propaganda trap.
@n_huffhines did a version of this by comparing conflicts, some decades old, to the current Israel/Gaza conflict, in a lame attempt to paint it as genocide. No one called him out to note that this particular conflict is simply a continuation of the Arab/Israeli conflict waged for nearly a century now. Huff does the same thing these dishonest propagandists posing as journalists do; support the belief system and damn the injury to the truth. For them, history began there the moment Israel declared independence. Their history omits Islam's fabrication in 7th CE, that the M.East was largely a Christian region until Arab conquest swept up it and swathes of Europe, the 400 year rule of the region by the Ottomans prior to Jewish land purchases of founding Israeli land, the multiple attempts to destroy fledgling Israel even before its independence. They certainly don't talk about the multiple attempts by surrounding Muslim and Arab countries to eradicate them upon independence because that acknowledges why Israel holds strategic land today and would undercut the propagandists' belching about "occupation and apartheid".
They even demand the tiny country provide aid and comfort to their enemy and the population who elected them, as they fight them, as if there is vast historical practice of such lunacy. History is not littered with examples of providing sustenance to your warring enemy because wars are won by making your enemy unwilling to fight any longer.
To the degree famine exists - or does not - who is responsible? And did you correctly perceive the attempts by our own FBI, CIA, judiciary and executive branch to handicap an incoming president, usurp the office of that sitting president, and prevent his election in two subsequent election cycles?
For those just now catching on, it's your own fault you can't see the news under your feet and thus simply aren't to be objectively trusted on matters 1/2-way around the globe. You bought the propaganda before and asked for 2nd helpings; you have no intellectual leverage here.
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