News Wires Disseminate Anti-Semitic Libels

Here is the AP actively disseminating a ludicrous anti-Semitic libel:

In this photo released by the Hezbollah?s media office, green balloons with Hebrew writings were found in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007. Mysterious balloons drifting in from Israel to Lebanon are unnerving people, with some south Lebanon villagers reportedly feeling ill and authorities warning residents against touching them. Hebrew on the balloons reads ?Ha-Ir? which is the title of a Tel Aviv weekly magazine. (AP Photo/Hezbollah Media Office, HO)

Notice that the AP is now involved in distributing propaganda that they receive from the Hezbollah media office. The balloons are hardly "mysterious." They contain a single Hebrew word, the name of a newspaper that released them as part of a marketing promotion.

Here is the version of the DFP, the largest news wire in Germany:

Israel Planes Dump "Suspicious Green Balloons" On Southern Lebanon

Israeli planes violated Lebanese airspace Saturday and dumped green balloons over the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanese security sources said.

This is pure fiction. A check of any Israeli newspaper could have uncovered the truth, as could a simple phone call to the newspaper Ha-Ir.

Lebanese troops cordoned off the area around the coast of Tyre and prevented people from touching the "suspicious balloons" after reports indicated that some people were poisoned when they did.

The 'reports' were from the same kinds of sources that were exposed innumerable times staging false news during the latest Lebanon War.

According to a hospital source in Nabatiyeh, similar green balloons were dropped over the market-town of Nabatiyeh, 54 kilometres south of Beirut.

Five people suffering from nausea and dizziness were brought into hospital after they touched the "suspicious green balloons," the source said.

Israel violates Lebanese airspace on a daily basis despite the fact that the attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon by the radical Hezbollah movement have stopped after a beefed-up UN force along with the Lebanese Army were deployed to the area in accordance with a UN resolution.

Of course, neither news source reports on the ubiquity of anti-Semitic libels throughout the Muslim World.

Why do they do it?

1. Almost no Muslim source will state the truth about anti-Semitic libels.

2. There has been a successful campaign throughout the Muslim World to demonize Jews in order to justify genocide.

After one anti-Semitic publication by the French news agency AFP, I predicted "This highly dubious charge will likely lead to the murder of Jews." The following day, the news was announced that Ilan Halimi was tortured to death, with the complicity of dozens of Muslim neighbors. There were acid burns on 80% of his body, multiple stab wounds and severed body parts.

3. Israel routinely drops leaflets from airplanes prior to military maneuvers to warn civilians to leave the area. If the population can be spooked into avoiding reading them, perhaps Hezbollah will win the propaganda victory of pinning another 'war crime' on Israel.