More 'Pallywood' Presented by BBC as True

[Teddy Bear]

I am going to predict that the following story presented by the BBC as fact, will turn out to be another Pallywood attempt by the Palestinians to demonise Israel.

Video 'shows shootings of Palestinian protesters'
Screengrab of a video purportedly showing two teenage Palestinians being shot dead by Israeli security forces at a protest on 15 May 2014
DCI said Nadim Nuwara (left) was filmed by CCTV cameras shortly before being shot

A human rights group has released a video it says shows two teenage Palestinians being shot dead by Israeli security forces at a protest last week.

Defence for Children International (DCI) said the footage proved Muhammad Abu Thahr and Nadim Nuwara had posed no threat and been killed unlawfully.

But the Israeli military said the video had been edited and did not document the "violent nature" of the incident.

It also questioned a claim that live ammunition had been fired at the boys.

A senior Palestinian official meanwhile said Israel's "use of excessive and indiscriminate violence" against protesters constituted a war crime.

'Zero danger'
Palestinian medics said Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, and a third teenager were shot in the chest by live rounds at a protest in the West Bank town of Beitouniya on Thursday.

During the protest - on Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, when Palestinians mark the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 - several dozen Palestinians threw stones towards Israeli troops deployed outside Ofer military prison.

Defence for Children International said the two-minute video of the incident that it published had been edited from six hours of surveillance footage from fixed CCTV cameras at a Palestinian-owned business.

Palestinian protester uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli troops near Ofer prison (15 May 2014)
Dozens of Palestinian protesters threw stones towards the Israeli troops at Thursday's protest
No Israeli troops can be seen in the video, which begins with a youth throwing a stone from the end of a street, beside a row of shops.

Seven minutes later, according to the timestamp, a youth wearing a backpack is seen slumping to the ground.

An hour and 13 minutes after that, a second youth collapses as he walks away from the area, his back turned to the scene of the earlier confrontations.

An Associated Press cameraman and a photographer who were at the scene confirmed the footage was of the two shootings.

"The images captured on video show unlawful killings where neither child presented a direct and immediate threat to life at the time of their shooting," said Rifat Kassis, executive director of DCI-Palestine.

Brad Parker, a lawyer for DCI, told the Reuters news agency that he could not rule out the possibility that the two teenagers had been involved in earlier violence at the scene, but noted: "At the exact moment they were shot they weren't active."

Palestinian security forces carry the bodies of Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, during their funerals in Ramallah (16 May 2014)
A senior Palestinian official called the killings a "deliberate execution"
Under the Israeli military's rules of engagement, troops can use live ammunition only if they feel their lives are in danger.

An Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem, said the video supported the findings of its own investigation, based on witness accounts and medical records, which indicated that the Israeli troops had used live ammunition "in conditions where there was no feasible justification".

Spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said the troops had been "in zero danger".

The Israeli military said the video "is edited and does not document the full extent of the event nor does it reflect the violent nature of the riot".

Spokesman Lt-Col Peter Lerner also said it believed only "riot-dispersal means", including tear gas and rubber bullets, had been used.

"However, there are still question marks around this incident and there is an ongoing investigation. In parallel, a military police investigation has also been opened," he told Reuters.

Now the video linked to in the article is this one


You will notice that there is no evidence in it to show the claim that it was Israeli soldiers who shot these youths. Considering that passers-by had no reservations about coming immediately over to these 'victims', if they truly were, makes it very suspect. Purely to demonise Israel.
It wouldn't surprise me, as we have seen so often before, that these 'poor victims' miraculously turn up alive and well.

[thehighlandrebel]

He wasn't shot. Have a look at the c**t 'falling' to the ground, gently lowering himself in case he got hurt, and look at the bystanders, all in perfect position to crowd round him when the Pallywood director gives the nod. I mean if bullets are flying around and someone got killed right in front of you would you amble over with your mates and crowd round him?

No Oscars for this one I'm afraid Mr. director.

[Teddy Bear]

Good to see you as always matey, hope your recent voyage went well.
I notice as well in so many BBC articles following Israel launching a reprisal attack for attacks emanating from the Palestinian territories, they will nearly always have something like this included:

A spokesman for Gaza's health ministry told the Associated Press news agency that a girl had been slightly hurt. The ministry also said a seven-year-old boy had died from injuries sustained in an Israeli raid earlier this week.

It's invariably Palestinian health officials that are quoted, and never an attempt by the BBC to verify these claims, or correct articles when their found to be false. You'd think that if these medical people were so above board that Abbas's wife would not have needed to go to a Tel Aviv hospital recently for some surgery on her knee.

[Teddy Bear]

As I predicted, here's the video to show that these 'murders' were nothing but a scam, to which the BBC is happy to go along with.

Unfortunately it's not a format I can embed here.

[thehighlandrebel]

It breaks my heart to see all them dead bodies in Gaza especially since the BBC remind me about them over and over again, day after day.

[Teddy Bear]

I see the eminent Pamela Geller posted this video. It would be good to know its source, as well as a translation of what's being said. Perhaps Memri will produce something.

You can imagine the BBC reporting the deaths of these 'freedom fighters' or 'civilians', depending on the theme of the day, and having a laugh about the movements, yet still reporting seriously about their 'demise'.

[thehighlandrebel]

From my limited Arabic I think they're saying Jeremy and Orla are asking you to stay still for five minutes till they get some footage.

[Teddy Bear]

[thehighlandrebel]

I posted a youtube clip above which has been removed.
However, here is another one showing the appalling deaths of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli aggressors for the consumption of the BBC and the other unbiased MSM outlets.

[Teddy Bear]

Hey THR Always good to see you back safely from your voyaging.
Charmbright was wondering what you thought about a particular story a few weeks ago. I figured you were away at the time.

Here's a new story that will probably interest you and is certainly relevant to this topic. It was picked up by James Delingpole at Breitbart about some discoveries made by a blogger who we have included here quite a few times - Thomas Wictor.

(more links available on the actual article)

CLAIM: THE 4 PALESTINIAN BOYS KILLED ON THE BEACH WERE NOT BLOWN UP BY ISRAEL BUT MURDERED BY HAMAS

by JAMES DELINGPOLE

Remember the story of the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli ordnance in Gaza?

Of course you do. It was the one that set the tone for the entire media coverage of the summer's Israel-Gaza conflict. Here was the evidence - or so it seemed - that wanton Israeli aggression was leading to the needless deaths of innocent civilians, in this case four boys who had been playing football moments earlier and now lay in bloodied rags on the beach.

The story was reported by the Independent, the Huffington Post, Reuters, Channel 4 News, the Times, the Telegraph, NBC News, CNN, the Washington Post, and others, none of them questioning the premise that Israel was to blame for the deaths of the children.
And why should the media have doubted it? The entire sorry event had, after all, been witnessed by numerous members of the international press corps, among them NBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, who tweeted that he had been playing football with the boys just minutes before the Israeli ordnance struck.

But did they actually see what they think they saw? Not according to a US-based weapons expert who has conducted a forensic analysis of what happened on the day, pieced together using Hamas propaganda footage, film from various international TV networks, and still photographs, and who has drawn a conclusion which could hardly be more different from the Hamas/mainstream media narrative.

His name is Thomas Wictor and if his theory is right then those four dead boys were not, after all the victims of Israeli missiles, but were murdered by Hamas in one of the most complex and ingenious "Pallywood" propaganda stunts ever staged.

If this sounds implausible - another wacko, 9/11-style conspiracy as some will no doubt suggest - then consider the evidence.
*The victims were not, as some media reports claimed, "scrawny fishermen's kids" but members of a powerful family prominent in support of the Fatah Party - Hamas's arch-rivals. In other words, Hamas had every reason to consider these children expendable.

*A curious facet of the photos of the mangled corpses released by Hamas for propaganda purposes is the lack of bleeding from the boys' deep and multitudinous wounds. This suggests that they had been dead for some time before the alleged Israeli explosion ripped them apart. Wictor theorises that they were probably executed by Hamas the day before and that the corpses were then blown up in an explosion arranged by Hamas the next day.

*This theory would accord with the three explosions variously reported by eyewitnesses. At least the first of these was definitely Israeli - most probably a rocket fired, Wictor argues, from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), as a result of false intelligence supplied by a Hamas triple agent. The third explosion, he suggests, was most likely the one staged by Hamas to mangle the bodies and cover the evidence.

*So far, so very conspiratorial. But Wictor has the pictorial evidence to back all this up. His speciality is flamethrowers of the First World War - an interest which has honed his skill in reconstructing historical events from very close analysis of grainy war photographs. Earlier this year, he used this skill to demonstrate, again through forensic study of camera footage, that another alleged Israeli massacre in a Gaza market place was in fact caused by Hamas. It is, of course, quite possible in this latest case that his suspicions are misplaced. Before they write him off as a crank, though, his potential critics will have a lot of explaining to do.

*Perhaps the most compelling detail of all is the footage showing the first reporter to arrive on the scene - Alex Marquardt of ABC news - running towards the site of the first explosion. He (and many others) are clearly shown running past the exact spot where the mangled bodies of three of the dead children were found later. But the spot is empty: no blood, no bodies, just sand. Had they been there, they would have been impossible to miss.

*This is one of many clues which leads Wictor to infer that the bodies were placed there later, once the beach had been cleared by the numerous Hamas operatives who stage-managed the stunt. Several of them are clearly visible in the footage, including a man in a purple shirt who appears to be in charge of the operation, plus various spotters and heavies. One of their tasks, according to Wictor, was to distract the press with red herrings - an allegedly wounded man being carried off in a different direction; the three wounded boys whom various members of the media - including the Guardian's Peter Beaumont - reported tending afterwards in a hotel.

*The boys we see running in film footage and photographs may, Wictor suggests, have been decoys. There is also strong reason to believe that some of the media footage of the boys running along the beach was in fact shot the day before the incident and then spliced in by dishonest TV crews.

Whether Wictor's surmise is correct or not it certainly accords with what we know about Hamas's highly sophisticated propaganda operation. Hamas will never be capable of defeating Israel militarily but it has long since been an expert at beating it in the international court of public opinion - which is why, of course, stories like the four little boys supposedly murdered by the heartless Israelis while playing a game of football are so invaluable to its cause.

Hamas's job would be a lot harder, though, if it weren't for the willingness of most of the world's mainstream media to buy into its lies. This is another of the threads which runs through Wictor's fascinating commentary on what he calls Hamas Operation Four Little Martyrs. In their failure to acknowledge the threatening restrictions that Hamas placed on their reporting, and in their manipulation of film footage, some Western media organisations have cheerfully been doing Hamas's dirty work for them.

Whether you agree or disagree with Wictor's theories I urge you to read for yourself his fascinating timeline reconstruction. He is the Sherlock Holmes of the internet and if he is right on this, then his findings are dynamite.

[thehighlandrebel]

Thanks Teddy. Missed that story but it's pure Pallywood grandstanding.
It's galling that Al Beeb are always ready to broadcast Hamas lies and propaganda knowing it to be fake but never once have I seen them apologising when the truth comes out.

[Teddy Bear]

What you say shows that they are very aware of the power they hold to control what people think. Until such time as they are confronted by those who really know the truth and the facts, and are unable to use their spin to worm their way out of it, they will continue to present their lies as the reality.