We complain about mass media aiding and abetting Palywood myth building. But here is an example of mass media creating a myth without any participation of the Palywood. From Fox news site of October 9, 2010:
Wow, one would be inclined to ask, which one of them leaders appears to be a murderous bastard?
Then you click on the link leading to the article. And both Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 3 catch up with you:
Settler Leader Drives....
So it's not an "Israeli leader", strictly speaking. And then comes the lede - Exhibit 3 and makes that "Settler Leader" kind of even smaller:
The leader of a well-known settler group,...
Yeah, it was a good one, Fox News...
Now you can watch the whole incident recorded by an accidentally (as usual) present video camera, not to mention multiple accidentally present photographers. But I have promised not to mention Palywood...
Cross-posted on Yourish.com
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By the way the boy jumped up after being hit and practically forced into the car to be taken to the hospital, it's hard to believe he suffered
head trauma and lower body injuries, as reported by hospital officials.<span>
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<span>not that I like taking the settlers side, but we know how these stonings can get. the police should arrest either the parents of the teens or whoever send them to do it.</span><span> Unless of course, the driver wasn't in real danger, then the investigation should focus on has he done it intentionally? </span>
<span><span> </span>the Palestinian 'caste' system* enables them to sacrifice those who wouldn't amount to anything so why wouldn't they use them as cannon fodder? They raise them to sacrifice their lives for the sole purp</span><span>o</span><span>se of killing others</span><span>.</span>
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<span>*those not belonging to the ruling faction in their respective regions, those not smart enough to graduate from Uni and those who are seriously religious which makes them comfortable targets for mind washing. </span><span></span>
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Ever hear of Errol Philips, Snoopy. I got this in email today:
<span><span><span><span> <span><span>What is a Tea Partier ...In its most simple terms that even the pseudo intellectuals from Harvard can understand] .... A Concerned Citizen that no longer will remain silent and furthermore, demands a seat at the table .... and that is not negotiable. [EP]</span></span> <span></span> <span><span>What the ruling class just can't seem to get is that the Citizens do not need nor do they have to ask for their permission to run their Candidates. </span></span> <span></span> <span></span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span><span>Errol Phillips</span></span> <span><span>An Independent Unaffiliated Jewish Conservative</span></span></span>
Looking at the tape, I see that it was an ambush setup with the "children" in front to deliberately be put in danger with adults behind them to throw stones an make videos of the affair.
<p><span>I'm sorry. I just watched the vid (where you can also see a photographer who just happened to be there) and I have to say - serve that kid fucking right (he got up and all...) I'm sorry but he was asking for it (you can erase this hideous comment if you like) the driver did infect stop after impact but was answered with more stones. anyway another link:</span> http://cifwatch.com/2010/10/09/at-the-guardian-pictures-can-indeed-lie/ </p>
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<p><span>it reminds me of that time on Yom Kippur when an ambulance was called to our neighborhood following a bicycle crash (two 11 year olds down a hill) and the way to asaf harofe hospital passed nearby to a religious neighborhood (not Kfar Chabad they're O.K.) and the driver had to speed because of stone throwers, but he had an empty lot to avert to so it ended fairly O.K.</span></p>
Uhu...
In this case, this was a prepared trap, pure and simple, as many a viewer thinks.
True, Sabba Hillel, it tallies with what I see. It is just that I wanted the post to be about one point only - the Fox's strange set of headlines.
Never heard about him. Will check, thanks.
Funny, I see no mention of the rocks in the headline. Now it had to be short, certainly, to fit the space, but the rocks would seem to be an important element. Unless you're trying to, uh, evade the issue.
You might call this suicide by rocks (as in suicide by cop) except the kid didn't die. The video camera stakeout, however, was ingenious. These settlers need to hire videographers to follow them around. Or something.
It's not only the headline. They write: "Silwan is an East Jerusalem Palestinian village where a handful of Jews decided to make it their home."
Somebody should tell them that the "handful of Jews" are in fact returning to their homes, since Silwan was built for Yemenite Jews in the 19th century, and ethnically cleansed by arabs. Journalists shoud take mandatory history lessons. Or at least google-is-your-friend and what-about-the-other-side-of-the-coin lessons. Thank God for bloggers!
You don't have to be sorry, Shira. The kid that were hit were less guilty than those that coached them, though...
Yeah. In any case, when you are driving and rocks hit your windshield, it's hard to concentrate on keeping to he rules of the road...
Somebody should, but nobody will.
"These settlers need to hire videographers to follow them around. Or something."
The problem is that Palywood editors will still be able to cut out the relevant pieces and claim that their heroes were wronged... Like here:
http://cifwatch.com/2010/10/09/at-the-guardian-pictures-can-indeed-lie/
So the settlers should get their own forums and websites, and promote them like crazy. Surely they aren't digitally illiterate.
Uh, you just did, actually.
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