It is conspicuous that you don’t hear much in the English language press about the manipulated, staged and just fraudulent pictures of the Lebanon-Israel conflict, I thought, after reading about a Reuters photographer, while there is a vivid discussion in The Netherlands on this subject.

But I was wrong. I just had to dig a little deeper. As it seems that the big news agencies, papers are just looking the other way, a lot of very observant others are watching the proces closely.
The last few days there are a detected a few fraudulent cases, but I am sure it is only the tip of the iceberg.

The news of CNN and BCC World seems biased the same way, or I maybe am just watching at the wrong times.

Likewise I am 1000% sure it is the same with the writing press, but there are just no pictures as a proof….

Mixed sources:

Michelle Malkin 1 and 2
Eureferendum
Reuters apology
Slublog
HotAir
GatewayPundit
New York Times correction
TownHall

ADDITION:
Hezbollah’s PR Tactics

As you know I like to cook, but to my sadness I am not a professional cook. :-(

Last weekend I was discussing the forms of pasta with my buddy bacteria. Pasta is a great product to make great dishes with.

We were discussing my idea that a certain sauces are more suitable than others with the different kinds of pasta and indeed taste different. The exact question was whether this is Italian tradition or that pasta in other form really will really taste different while being made of exactly the same material (grano duro).

I prefer to eat my spicy arabiata sauce with (and is most of the time served with) penne, but it will okay with spagetti.
Eating it with tagliatelle is in fact not done and to my opinion not as good as with penne.
Tagliatelle you eat with a good creamy mushroom sauce.

So are we talking tradition or does the form of pasta really make that it tastes different with another (the wrong?) sauce?!

What is happening in the Middle East is extremely tragic for both sides. But to my opinion the Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims seem not to have any problem to sacrifice their people, and for all their children.

Former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir said it quite striking a few times:

On peace, she said in 1957, before the National Press Club in Washington:

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

In a similar vein, she would say:

Peace will come when an Arab leader is courageous enough to wish it.

At a 1969 press conference in London, she added:

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

And on another occasion:

I am convinced, she also said, that peace will come to Israel and its neighbors because the tens of millions of Arabs need peace just as much as we do. An Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.

I’m affraid I can’t add a word…