UN Employee Wages Media War Against Israel

Since Friday afternoon, Israel has been targeted by over 150 rockets from Gaza. The Iron Dome anti-rocket system has been working well at about a 90% hit-rate, which has kept serious rocket strikes to a minimum.

The Palestinians have been waging the war through their most effective weapon they have -- lying, and using the media to spread their lies. Fake Imagery is one of their fortes.

So...Palestinians have been using this photo everywhere on facebook and twitter to accuse Israel of "war atrocities"


The photo is from 2006, and the girl died in an accident!

So who started the campaign to smear Israel? Honest Reporting has the scoop:

Our guest post from the IDF revealed how a photo, allegedly depicting the results of Israeli air strikes in Gaza in recent days, have been proven false.

The offending photo was originally tweeted by Khulood Badawi.

Khulood Badawi happens to work for the OCHA – the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs where, according to a UN Contact List, she works as an Information and Media Coordinator.

A Google search reveals that Badawi has a history of activism in a range of pro-Palestinian non-governmental organizations, some of them radical and politicized. While this background may not in itself disqualify her from a career with the UN, it is absolutely unacceptable that a UN employee working specifically on dissemination of information to the media and public tweets malicious and false information to libel Israel.

Read it all at Honest Reporting.

More examples of Palestinian Fauxtography at the IDF Spokesman's Blog.

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HolyLand PhotoShop Fauxtography?

The US Library of Congress has a wonderful, cataloged collection of books, photos and paintings from around the world.

They even have amazing collections from the "Holy Land" dating back to the 1890-1900 era.

Note the unique tree in both of these postcards, from Lod (Lydda) and Mount Scopus (Jerusalem)...and please tell me one of these isn't a fake.

[View from Southwest, Lydda (Lod), Holy Land, (i.e. Israel) -- between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]

[From Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Holy Land -- between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]

They have a nice painting as well of Kever Rachel (Rachel's Tomb) Same era.

However, when I compared it to photos, none of them had an old olive tree to the right...only to the left. Maybe it's the angle? I guess it could be.


This is the way I remember Kever Rachel from the 1980s...

With the advent of the Olso Peace Process, the site's security had to be "upgraded"


The peace kept getting so bad, that it turned into a full concrete fortress.





(credits; here, here, here, here and here,)

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