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Phred
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Associated Press does it again
#5965794 - 08/15/06 11:22 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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From http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/14/mi...ite-cease-fire/
It’s AP, not al-Reuters, but it just confuses everything. Read the headline again:
Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire
What impression does that leave in your mind? That the rockets hitting Lebanon came from somewhere other than Lebanon, right? Which would be Israel. So the head implies that Israel has violated the cease-fire by firing rockets into Lebanon. That’s how I read it.
But that ain’t what happened.
Quote:
Highlighting the fragility of the peace, Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets that landed in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, the Israeli army said, adding that nobody was injured. The army said that none of the rockets, which were fired over a two-hour period, had crossed the border and so it had not responded.
In spite of the misleading headline, it’s Hezbollah firing the rockets. And apparently those rockets, fired in spite of the cease-fire by Hezbollah, didn’t reach Israel. They fell into Lebanon. That’s why they “hit Lebanon.” Last week, they would have hit Israel. And the AP would probably have downplayed that.
The rockets hitting Lebanon despite being launched in Lebanon means, whatever the turbaned mafia don Nasrallah might say, his boys have apparently been pushed far enough north that their rockets can’t reach Israel anymore. Or they’re just firing the short-range junk even though Nasrallah promised to hit Tel Aviv if the IDF hit Beirut. Which the IDF did, while Nasrallah never made good on his threat to hit Tel Aviv.
Even in a post-modern war, that’s a win for Israel. But you won’t get that from the AP’s misleading headline.
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Here's the link to the AP article with its laughable headline --
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2313853&page=1
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Re: Associated Press does it again [Re: Phred]
#5965979 - 08/15/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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That is a weird headline, I read that one too. Israel won round one. Within days they'll be fighting again.
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Re: Associated Press does it again [Re: Buddha5254]
#5965989 - 08/15/06 12:26 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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> Within days they'll be fighting again
Nah, we got a mostly busted oil pipe up in Alaska to maintain the inflated oil prices. No need for violence... for a while, at least.
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Re: Associated Press does it again [Re: Phred]
#5966000 - 08/15/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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> And apparently those rockets, fired in spite of the cease-fire by Hezbollah, didn’t reach Israel. They fell into Lebanon.
Makes me wonder how many of the civilian casualties in Lebanon, during the conflict, were caused by Hezbollah rockets that landed short, rather than by Israeli bombs?
Whatever happened to the claim of Iranian military captured in Lebanon by the Israeli forces? I read something on it one day and then never saw anything else about it.
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Re: Associated Press does it again [Re: Seuss]
#5966318 - 08/15/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Makes me wonder how many of the civilian casualties in Lebanon, during the conflict, were caused by Hezbollah rockets that landed short, rather than by Israeli bombs?
Aren't some isreali ground forces still in southern lebanon? Couldn't it be possible that the rockets didn't land short but went into the area where they were intended?
As far as that headline goes that sure is quite misleading. Maybe they purposely used that headline to capture attention in america since the vast majority of americans are used entirely to pro-isreal propaganda. So something out of the ordinary may be their tactic to get a leg up on their competition. It's clear the article places blame on arabs for the rockets so in the end it is pro-isreali after all. Just seems to be a catchy headline to grab attention.
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Re: Associated Press does it again [Re: Phred]
#5966836 - 08/15/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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LOL that's despicable, and while technically it is the truth, you see their intent. Shoulda said "Hezzbola Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease fire".
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