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Massakren i Qana: Konspirationsteorierne florerer
Afdelingsleder Mogens Rukov, som tidligere har gjort sig uheldigt bemærket ved en forvrøvlet kronik i Jyllands-posten om Israel-Palæstina-konflikten, har i dag et indlæg i samme avis, hvor han lancerer en temmelig utrolig konspirationsteori om det israelske bombardement af Qana, der kostede 56 mennesker livet, heraf 37 børn: I virkeligheden var angrebet iscenesat af Hizbollah i samarbejde med Røde Kors, FN og så naturligvis de onde, onde og meget antiisraelske medier.
Konspirationsteorien er tilsyneladende opstået på en række højreorienterede blogs, og er herefter gået sin sejrsgang, som havde der været tale om det sidste nye bevis for UFOers engagement i korncirkler, eller en deliciøs ny konspirationsteori om 11. september 2001.
Og her i Danmark har vi så altså også en Mogens Rukov, som går til biddet - eller, skulle man tro, griber efter de halmstrå, der kan hjælpe ham med at benægte de ellers ret ubestridelige fakta.
Fadi fra KABOBfest gør kort proces med konspirationsteorierne:
Here is the easiest and most dispositive proof. Let's take a look at a photograph that EU Referendum cites. He claims this one was photographed at 4:09 PM ET based on the Yahoo News timestamp. It's quite possible that Richard thinks that the Atlantic is a river, so there must be a trivial, if any, timezone difference. There's a seven hour difference between Qana, Lebanon and the Eastern Time Zone. Thus, that 4:09 PM time that he references would mean the picture was taken at an actual time of 11:09 PM. Simply impossible - there would be no daylight.Læs også opfølgningen her.
Similarly, he shows us that this one was taken at 4:30 PM ET, which would be 11:30 PM in Lebanon. Finally, he points to this photo, which he claims had an original timestamp of 7:16 pm corrected to 6:46 am. The link he provides does not direct us to the right page, however a simple search of Yahoo News (his source for the photographs) leads us to this same exact photo, and the only one of its kind with the caption he copies-and-pastes from Yahoo News. The timestamp is 6:58 PM ET, July 31st. That would place the actual time of the photograph at 1:58 AM, August 1st, a full two days after the massacre.
Of course, this could be Hizballah's version of "Pallywood," right Rush Limbaugh? Clearly, this "rubble" and these "dead children" were actually photographed in a Hizballah studio emulating a daytime setting in Qana. AP, Reuters, and AFP are all in on this scam that took place over three days, from July 30th through August 1st. It's all part of that godless liberal media's war on Israel, the U.S., and democracy.
Og bemærk til slut, at Human Rights Watch netop har udgivet en 50 sider lang rapport om Israels fremfærd i Libanon og konkluderer, at Israel ikke tager nogen hensyn til civile, og at Israel dermed er skyldig i alvorlige overtrædelser af international lov idet de forårsager civile tab i et omfang, der hverken kan forklares som uheld eller retfærdiggøres af Hizbollahs fremfærd, som vi læser i rapportens indledende resumé:
By consistently failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians, Israel has violated one of the most fundamental tenets of the laws of war: the duty to carry out attacks on only military targets. The pattern of attacks during the Israeli offensive in Lebanon suggests that the failures cannot be explained or dismissed as mere accidents; the extent of the pattern and the seriousness of the consequences indicate the commission of war crimes.Tjah - hvis denne form for konspirationsteorier er alt, hvad Israels "venner" kan komme op med, er det svært helt at befri sig for den tanke, at Israel nok var bedre tjent uden dem - når den israelske regering har undskyldt angrebet på Qana, er det givetvis, fordi den godt selv er klar over, at der er et problem.
Fantasterier om, hvordan Hizbollah selv og i samarbejde med FN, Røde Kors, CNN, BBC og alle byhedsbureauerne selv iscenesatte massakren er lidt for ... vel, lidt for gennemskuelige, er de ikke?
Update, 4. august 2006 kl. 19.40:
Peter Pedersen siger:
Hvorfor giver du de helt forkerte dødstal i din artikel ?Æhhh ... fordi jeg ikke følger godt nok med til at få fat på det hele, og fordi det var de tal, som medierne oplyste, dengang det skete.
28 er bekræftet døde, ikke som du skriver 56 heraf 37 børn.
Kilde . Røde kors samt Human rights watch.
I forgårs skrev Human Rights Watch ganske rigtigt:
A preliminary Human Rights Watch investigation into the July 30 Israeli air strike in Qana found that 28 people are confirmed dead thus far, among them 16 children, Human Rights Watch said today.Tragedien viste sig mao. ikke at have haft det omfang, som man troede i de første, forvirrede timer efter angrebet. Hvilket vel endnu engang understreger det gran salt, som man bør tage alle mediernes oplysninger med i en krigssituation: Alle krigens parter har deres egen interesse i at misinformere, og selv hvis vore kilder vitterlig blot er interesseret i at rapportere, hvad der sker, er de meget ofte henvist til at gætte. Jeg burde have taget konsekvensen og i ovenstående have skrevet, at angrebet "antages at have kostet" eller "rapporteres at have kostet" snarere end at videregive tallene som fakta uden at checke dem først. Så jeg må jo se om jeg kan lære det til næste gang ...
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The initial estimate of 54 persons killed was based on a register of 63 persons who had sought shelter in the basement of the building that was struck, and rescue teams having located nine survivors. It now appears that at least 22 people escaped the basement, and 28 are confirmed dead, according to records from the Lebanese Red Cross and the government hospital in Tyre.
Thirteen people remain missing, and some Qana residents fear they are buried in the rubble, although recovery efforts have stopped.