Posted by
JPS on Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:30:30 PM
There's been a fair amount of discussion lately regarding whether or not pro-Hezbollah individuals were using (abusing really) dead children and other victims from the war in Lebanon as propaganda fodder; especially as it relates to the recent Israeli bombing in the town of Qana. The so-called "Green Helmut" guy (pictured below) seems to appear an awful lot whenever people die in Lebanon as a result of Israeli actions. This picture seems particularly damning in and of itself in that what could possibly be the reason for holding a child's dead body up like that except as a photo-op.
But many, particularly on the left, are ready to defend the reporting as straight-forward, free from the taint of manipulation. OK, fine. Let's grant that a picture like this does not represent proof of journalistic manipulation. Perhaps Green Helmut is helpfully displaying this child's body to a gathered group of grieving parents in the hopes that one will be able to identify it. A slightly plausible, and gruesome, method but let's grant that all the same.
Allow me to call your attention to the following video. If you still harbor any doubts, and I mean ANY, as to the motives of Green Helmut, you owe it to yourself to watch this. It absolutely puts the lie to anyone who claims this guy is up to anything other than total pro-terrorist propaganda designed for consumption by a gullible (that's the charitable version) mainstream Western media. As far as I'm concerned, any major news media organization that ever publishes another photo where this guy is within 1000 feet of it is engaged in propaganda; pure and simple. Is it asking too much for our own media companies to wake up!
Green Helmut as Film Director