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 most telling part of the piece is this.
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."
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.That's not 'gut instinct' Mr. North. That's a lie.
"All I have to go on is gut instinct," North replied.
Source: The Washington Post
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