The “Poisonous” balloons story ..
Posted by N10452
I read the article in Naharnet yesterday and honestly found it a bit ackward that Israel would drop 8 balloons to poison people, but again this is Israel and it has done much worse stuff during the war and in the previous years, so i expected anything even though sending poisoned balloons seems stupid, but anyway it turns out our Lebanese media didnt do their job properly.
From Haaretz:
An Israeli promotional campaign involving balloons caused panic among Lebanese civilians Saturday when the wind carried them over the border into southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese media reported that some civilians were hospitalized after inhaling the gas in the balloons.
However, the photographs published on the Web site of Hezbollah’s TV station Al-Manar show green balloons from a promotional campaign for Ha’ir, a Schocken group newspaper.
I will believe the Haaretz version to be honest.
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1. JoseyWales | January 28th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I read the Naharnet story too. Did not make any sense and Nahar did not even bother to give background or comment by anyone knowlegeable. Horrible journalism by our “best” paper.
2. Omar | January 28th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Add to that the fact that ManarTV reported that the words on the balloons is the Hebrew word for “caution” (Haza’er).
Arutz Sheva reported Sunday that ManarTV mis-read the name of the newspaper (which is Ha’ir) as Haza’er (caution). Just goes to show how propaganda is being used to fuel the flames of hate.
3. Amir in Tel Aviv | January 28th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Ha’ir (the city, in Hebrew) is a Tel Aviv local newspaper, that usually was distributed for free.
Last week they changed the concept, and now it cost 5 Shekels. They launched a campaign to promote the move.
See the new Ha’ir logo in their site:
http://www.6382020.co.il/refto.asp?id=2432&refto=http://www.6382020.co.il/BannerMl/shoken/page.html
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4. djuan | January 28th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
good post ….
5. annoubine | January 29th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
and why the hell they are inhaling the balloons ?i guess they are addicted huhuhu!!!
6. Roula | January 29th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
wilooo ma32oul u believe Israel and u don’t believe lebanese and what ur eyes saw.
7. Arze | January 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
and they say today’s LF are not with The israelis !
8. Ranndy Smith | January 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
How The HELL can wind blow balloons all the way from Israel to Jnah and Saleem Slem in Beirut? That’s just retarded.
9. zi | January 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Does Al-Manar TV have any credibility..?
It feeds people such obvious hate propaganda its ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-XeaIn06g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2eWo-c_vlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkjOmBiThOY
Does anyone actually believe what they see on Al Manar?
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