Is Anthony Albanese going to issue a public apology now?
The prime minister used a caucus meeting in the second week of the post-election parliament to dismiss allegations by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s embassy in Canberra that images of starving children in Gaza were Hamas propaganda.
The odious Labor ‘elder statesman’ Bob Carr, also a regular apologist for communist China, likewise thundered about “terrible, terrible photos of babies with their vertebrae showing through their starved skin”. Carr hysterically compared Israel to Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Mao’s Great Leap Forward, which murdered upward of 45 million Chinese.
Except…
The New York Times has issued a clarification over the publication of a photograph of a child in Gaza whom the newspaper – and other media outlets – claimed was suffering “severe malnutrition,” after it emerged the emaciated boy had been diagnosed with pre-existing health conditions.
The photograph showing toddler Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq wearing a plastic bag for a nappy while being cradled in his mother’s arms, was run on the front page of the NY Times with the headline “Young, old and sick starve to death in Gaza.”
As it turns out, though, the NYT, which once won a Pulitzer for publishing outright lies denying the Holodomor in the Ukraine (it’s never handed the prize back), was once again failing the most basic test of journalism and reprinting obvious propaganda without question.
David Collier, a London-based independent journalist and activist, told the Australian he “felt sick” when he first saw the photo, but quickly grew suspicious about the way it was used to illustrate hunger problems in Gaza. He said Muhammad’s mother appeared healthy, as did the boy’s older brother who was seen in other photos.
“It is the basic role of a journalist to verify and check the facts before he writes a story, so the question is, is the image an honest image or a dishonest one?” he said.
It’s Pallywood. Of course it’s dishonest. The only time these scum have told the truth is when they livestreamed to the world their appalling atrocities on October 7.
In this case, the truth behind the Pallywood propaganda is that the child has cerebral palsy and suffers from hypoxaemia (low oxygen in the blood), possibly linked to a suspected genetic disorder inherited in an “autosomal recessive pattern”.
Inbred. He’s inbred – as so many ‘Palestinians’ are. One-third of marriages in Gaza are between “first degree relatives” (cousins, parents, siblings or offspring).
How did the world’s media fall for such an obvious lie and fail to do the most basic fact checking? Because they want to believe it. Anything to pander to Hamas and denigrate the Jewish state.
Consider, after all, this curious phrasing from the UK PM:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday AEST announced the UK would follow France’s lead in September and recognise a Palestinian state “unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”.
In other words, it’s nothing to do with the merit of a ‘Palestinian’ state in and of itself, it’s solely about punishing Israel.
Meanwhile, don’t hold your breath waiting for the Israel-hating Labor politicians to come clean and apologise.
