camera never lies?

It's sometimes suggested that the camera never lies.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one from Associated Press (you may need to click http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040207/481/xem10102071449 to see it) demonstrates how a single picture can tell a thousand lies.




It was carried on the wire services today (7th February 2004) after another in a long series of Palestinian Arab political protests next to the security fence, this time in east Jerusalem. I'll be surprised if any newspaper or magazine picks it up for publication because it gives a too-clear view of how ordinary people are being manipulated in what they see and hear about Israel's struggle against Arab terror. If you do see it printed, I hope you will let me know.

It's sometimes suggested that the camera never lies. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one from Associated Press (you may need to click http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040207/481/xem10102071449 to see it) demonstrates how a single picture can tell a thousand lies.

It was carried on the wire services today (7th February 2004) after another in a long series of Palestinian Arab political protests next to the security fence, this time in east Jerusalem. I'll be surprised if any newspaper or magazine picks it up for publication because it gives a too-clear view of how ordinary people are being manipulated in what they see and hear about Israel's struggle against Arab terror. If you do see it printed, I hope you will let me know.

Suicide is a weapon that's used more and more in these difficult times by murderous Moslem terrorists in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in the United States, in Indonesia. But it's only in the context of Israel's struggle against Palestinian Arab terror that we hear the press call this the result of their desperation. Everything I have learned about Palestinian Arab terrorists since my daughter Malki was murdered tells me that desperation is the last word you should apply to them. These people are jubilant, triumphal, ecstatic at the moment of performing their satanic act of mass murder.

The next time you hear about their desperation, think about this image of an Arab woman crying on demand for the gathered paparazzi. We and all our neighbors are being manipulated by photo editors, journalists and reporters in the field.

A small suggestion: if you want to do something concrete and constructive about this, please visit http://www.kerenmalki.org/Doing_Something_Positive.htm

Good wishes,
Arnold Roth
(Australian father of murdered Melbourne girl, Malki Roth.....blown up at the Sbarro Restaurant....)