I will post an extensive discussion of what went on at Kafr Kana and the implications of our media’s coverage of it shortly. I am delighted to see the work done so quickly by so many of those with critical intelligence, asking some very hard questions on the web. In the meantime, I want to make a few short points worthy of consideration:
1) That Hizbullah would trap children in a building so that their deaths could provide a PR victory at a crucial moment should suprise no one. This is a death cult, after all. What is interesting is that the Western ideologues for whom life is so precious, should immediately howl their rage at Israel. The moral disparity between the two parties in conflict thus becomes reversed in the moral equation of Western progressives: the people who show contempt for human life win the PR battle against those who risk their own soldiers’ lives to prevent civilian casualties among an enemy population.
2) The media, which only the day before, had congratulated itself on not getting fooled by Hizbullah’s cheap tactics, fell into the trap the following day. And in so doing, they not only forsook all their professional principles of critical evaluation and honest reporting for the sake of a lugubrious scoop, but they gave a victory to the very forces that oppose the freedoms that allow them to do their work. Like some salivating Pavlovian dog, they rush to pictures of dead babies pour out their humanistic sympathies without a thought to the implications of their credulity.
3) The most terrifying implication of the media’s stupidity here is that they make the death-cult policy of victimizing one’s own a worthwhile strategy. Ha-Aretz had a political cartoon yesterday of Nasrallah and an Iranian mullah watching TV, and the latter says to the former: “See! I told you there was nothing to worry about.” This issue actually gets at the heart of the problem with the “progressive” sympathies with the Palestinians: by embracing the scapegoating “victim narrative” in which Israel is the aggressor and the Palestinians (now the Lebanese) are their victims, we do not support the victims, we support their leaders who victimize them in pursuit of goals inimicable to everyone but the most belligerent and cruel, and then blame Israel for their suffering.
“He who is merciful to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful.” It happened again yesterday.
UPDATE: For an excellent survey of the blogosphere on Kanagate, see Daniel1360, Hezbollah’s War Crimes: The Human Shields of Kana and their MSM Deniers.
http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2006/08/01/307754-questions-on-qana
Here are some points on Hizballywood at Kana-Yaakov has put out some good questions on Kana in the above link.
Comment by Gershon — August 1, 2006 @ 6:20 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_Massacre
This isn’t the first confrontation with Hezbollah in Qana. See the above link. Anyone have any evidence of other events staged by Hezbollah involving civilian deaths.
Comment by Gershon — August 2, 2006 @ 6:54 am
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