Chasing the Truth in Gaza – Fiction, Reality and Outright Lies

It is all too difficult for us to know how to evaluate the images we are being sent, where to stand, how to think

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Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the media war surrounding the military conflict in Israel and Gaza with equal fascination and horror.

Images of bleeding Palestinian children, of tiny corpses, of grief-maddened mothers tell a story. But they tell only part of a story.

Now we have images of sophisticated tunnels, complete with electricity and communications systems, burrowed dozens of feet beneath the ground, built to kidnap and terrorize Israelis. They tell a different part of the story.

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As outside observers, it is all too difficult for us to know how to evaluate the images we are being sent, where to stand, how to think.

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