But did the tardy retraction of the smear receive anything like the play accorded the initial defamation? Heck no! Not even close. Not even an infinitesimal fraction of the emotional manipulation of last November. The truth merited no notice. Guiltless Jews make no story. Bad Jews make a good story.

BBC Gaza correspondent Jon Donnison showed just how good in the November 24, 2012 BBC broadcast of “From Our Own Correspondent.” Two days later his story also debuted in the BBC News website magazine, under the headline “Gaza baby only knew how to smile.”

“Standing in what is left of his burnt-out home this week, Jihad showed me a photo on his mobile phone,” Donnison recounted. “It was of a cheeky, chunky, round-faced little boy in denim dungarees, chuckling in a pushchair, dark-eyed with a fringe of fine brown hair pushed across his brow.” But, Donnison added without a hint of British understatement, “Also on Jihad's phone is another photo. A hideous tiny corpse. Omar's smiling face virtually burnt off, that fine hair appearing to be melted onto his scalp. Jihad’s sister-in-law Heba was also killed. ‘We still haven't found her head,’ Jihad said. His brother, Ahmad, suffered massive burns and died of his injuries in hospital several days later.”

Donnison didn’t merely commiserate with a workplace colleague. He also went to unmistakable lengths to demolish educated assessments, voiced soon after the incident, that this carnage was Hamas’s handiwork.

Donnison’s unsubstantiated premise was that Hamas mostly fired mortars early on in the fighting. “Mortar fire,” he then conjectured matter-of-factly, “would not cause the fireball that appears to have engulfed Jihad's house.” How could the uninitiated abroad challenge the seeming expert’s verdict?



http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=307352

anyone here to own up to the mistake of assuming the original story was true. This isn't the first time something like this has happened (Israel getting the blame only to find out the whole thing was not their fault) and all I saw was self righteous bullshit from the Pro Palestinian people. You know what I'm saying. It's the exact same as those on right wing boards assuming Trayvon Martin was guilty. Wash, rinse repeat.

was a rehash of something you referred to as an "oldie but goodie", strange reference to the death of a Palestinian baby but what can I say
but I noticed you reposted the OP here again so I'd thought I'd help you out and comment

Lol