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As the Israelis continue their push into Gaza; as they continue an offensive military campaign against Hamas, born of the need to protect Israeli civilians from rockets fired by Hamas jihadis, it is almost impossible to gather accurate information regarding the conflict, at least not from the mainstream media. The accounts advanced by mainstream news sources are so devoid of balance -- and, thusly, devoid of a whole and honest truth -- that their product reaches a caliber of propaganda not seen since the disinformation campaigns of the Third Reich. Goebbels would be envious.

It is next to impossible for someone seeking a full accounting of daily events in Israel and Gaza to divine them from the one-world media sources. This is because their coverage serves as an encore to the one-sided reporting they provided during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon.

During the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict of 2006, the mainstream, one-world media routinely purchased pictures for publication from photographers sympathetic to Hezbollah. Two widely exposed incidents of disingenuous and/or staged photography proved to be the benchmarks. In one incident a wailing Arab women was repeatedly photographed standing in front of different war-torn buildings, each said to be the remnants of her house. In another, an Arab rescue worker spent the larger portion of a day carrying around a dead child who had been recovered from the rubble of a building hit by Israeli artillery fire. He would pose, his face wrenched in despair and urgency, for any photographer who would ask. Reuters was eventually confronted with the photographs and they reluctantly admitted that they hadn't vetted the photographers prior to running with the pictures. Incidentally, the Arab rescue worker has turned up in several pictures from the current Israeli-Gaza campaign.

While many will argue that these are isolated incidents, this declaration flies in the face of the facts when one takes into consideration that Hamas and Hezbollah have active propaganda arms. To catch a glimpse into this world of deception all you have to do is to watch the short films Pallywood (web site) and Al-Dura: The Making of an Icon, (web site) which expose how Palestinian propagandists manipulate an eagerly accepting and agendized one-world media.

And while the one-world media bemoans the fact that the Israelis have refused to allow the international press into Gaza to cover the conflict, they have no problem accepting the accounts of those who have manufactured the propaganda of the recent past, reporting it as fact. To say that responsible journalism is dead is a gross understatement, especially when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Yet, the one-world media continues to "report" on the "poor Palestinians."

The "Poor Palestinians"

In 2006, elections were held in Gaza and the West Bank -- the Palestinian "territories." The result of the 2006 elections saw the Palestinian people handing a decisive victory to Hamas. Hamas (Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia) (web site) was formed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and is, to this day, dedicated -- by charter -- to the establishment of an Islamic Palestinian State that encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and the eradication of Israel and her people. Hamas won a majority 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats and, thus, became the dominate political force in the Palestinian Authority...by mandate of the Palestinian people.

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