Reuters looked more pro-Islamic than IHH this week. IHH, a Muslim terrorist group funded by Turkish government, released photos of its guerrillas fighting Israeli soldiers on the Marmara. In one photo, a blood-stained Israeli soldier lies on the ground while a terrorist approaches him with a knife. The Turkish government’s terrorist offshoot had no problem publicizing the fact that its ‘peace activists’ were well-armed lambs. The terrorists are so certain of the world media’s anti-Israeli bias that they saw no need to edit the photos.
Well, Reuters did—and cropped the knife out of the photo. The cropping could not have been aimed at painting the IHH terrorists snowy white: the soldier is shown wounded. More likely, the knife was indeed cropped out to concentrate on the soldier. Reuters was not whitewashing the terrorists.
Yet, the fact that the editor considered the knife unimportant speaks volumes about Reuters’ intentions. In this sort of sensationalist reporting, truth is not the objective and is easily cropped out. It does not matter that the terrorists were well-armed. Reuters expected its audience to be interested in two facts: that evil Israelis took over the ‘aid’ ship and that the Jews suffered because of the incident. Who cares that the truth is in the details?
Speaking of details, note that the terrorists were able to hide the photos from Israeli interrogators who thought they had confiscated all the materials. Under pressure from Obama, Israel deported all the attackers instead of jailing them. Contrary to official reports, the search and interrogation of them was apparently cursory.
The soldier’s green camouflage also raises questions. The Sh-13 commandos who took over the Marmara are dressed in black.
