Tel-Chai Nation

Melanie Phillips took a look at how, years after scandals like the Mohammed al-Dura fakery, the MSM continues to accept false blood libel reports about Israel, and here for the sake of Hamas propaganda:

Dramatic evidence was produced this week to illustrate the hijacking of the Western media by Hamas in its attempt to turn Israel into the pariah of the world and accelerate the destruction of the Jewish state.

The German publications Bild and Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed that Western media outlets had been publishing images purporting to be of starving Gazans but which were in fact staged and manipulated by Hamas as part of its propaganda offensive to blacken Israel’s name.

Bild showed how a widely circulated picture of apparently desperate Gazan women and children holding out empty pots for food had been staged. Photographs taken from other angles revealed the Gaza photographer, Anas Zayed Fteiha, orchestrating the tableau by getting the women and children to pose beseechingly with their pots being offered not toward the food site but toward him.

Fteiha, whose pictures have been published by CNN, the BBC and Reuters, has a record of posting hatred toward Israel and the Jews. He has also worked with the Europe Palestine Network, which says it conducts “global actions in Europe,” portraying hardship in Gaza while promoting “resistance” against Israel internationally.

As an activist posing as a journalist, he is far from alone. Süddeutsche Zeitung found that many of the Arab photographers operating within the Gaza Strip have Hamas connections. A historian and photography expert, Gerhard Paul, told the paper that, in southern Gaza, “Hamas controls 100 percent of image production” to generate Western sympathy while inflaming anger toward Israel.

In other words, major Western media outlets have been perpetrating a systematic journalistic fraud on the public by promoting as the truth images generated by a jihadi terrorist group intent on exterminating Israel and murdering Jews.

Even without the German papers’ investigation, the deceit has been obvious enough to anyone whose grip on reality has not been loosened by hatred of Israel.

What's also repulsive is how MSM sources keep employing these charlatans in any capacity. All because the hatred of the management overwhelms all sense of realism and rationale.

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