“The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working”

Or maybe not, the current 'Cause célèbre' of the wingnutosphere is being beaten down by anyone who can read, write and think rationally.

Israel's amen corner (LGF et al) seems transfixed at the moment with trying to excuse/deny/ignore the Qana massacre. So much so that it's started a 'new' kind of revisionism.

No longer are subjects like the holocaust or 9/11 up for 'interpretation', this new breed of right-wing nutjob is now looking to revise history as it happens. Jefferson Morley takes a good look at this subject at the Washington Post.

At a time when American and Israeli public opinion of the war diverge radically from the world opinion elsewhere, the emergence of a right-wing equivalent of the Sept. 11 conspiracy theories is worth noting.

The Qana "conspiracy theory" poses this question: If Israeli shells landed near the building that collapsed between midnight and 1 a.m., why didn't reports of the collapse emerge until about 8 a.m.? One site pushing this question on Tuesday was the Israeli Insider, published by a Tel Aviv company that bills the site as a "an independent, nonpartisan online publication that aims to provide an 'inside perspective' on the latest news, analysis and commentary from and about Israel."

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Nevertheless, the Qana conspiracy theory is apparently being taken seriously in the blogosphere and in Israel. The American Thinker, a popular conservative site, says unnamed major media photographers were "willing" tools of Hezbollah. The EU Referendum blog claims its stories on the subject attracted 115,000 page views in a day, more than 50 times the average. YNet News, Web site of the country's largest newspaper, reported the story under the headline: "Blogs: Hizbullah 'Milked' the attacks."

The most telling part of the piece is this.

As for EU Referendum's claim that a Lebanese rescue worker seen in many photos from Qana was a "Hezbollah official," I e-mailed co-author of the site, Richard North, to ask for his evidence.

"All I have to go on is gut instinct," North replied.

That's not 'gut instinct' Mr. North. That's a lie.

Source: The Washington Post