How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War
+ Introduction
+ What Supposedly Happened: The Media Accuses Israel of War Crimes
+ The Ambulance With a Hole in Its Roof: Dismantling the Evidence
+ Possible Rebuttals and Explanations of the Apparent Fraud
+ The Media Responds: Attempted Refutations of This Essay by Journalists
+ Conclusion: How a Hoax Became News
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.
But there's one problem: It never happened.
I know this was awhile ago ....