Germany's FAZ Paper Follow-Up on Houla Hoaxby Daniel McAdamsJun. 18, 2012 |
'Woke' Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Gaza Genocide
Report: Blinken Sitting On Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes
America Last: House Bill Provides $26B for Israel, $61B for Ukraine and Zero to Secure U.S. Border
The Guardian on Papua New Guinea Cannibalism: People Were Eaten 'Out of Respect'
Bari Weiss' Free Speech Martyr Uri Berliner Wants FBI and Police to Spy on Pro-Palestine Activists
The mainstream and respected newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has published additional details to bolster its original groundbreaking (but ignored) story that the massacre in Houla was not carried out by Syrian government forces but by the rebels seeking to overthrow that government. The new FAZ report is in German, but thankfully our friends at the Moon of Alabama website have translated several of the most relevant parts. The MoA site points out the very important fact that this journalist is not some greenhorn with an axe to grind. As MoA writes: The author is Rainer Hermann who studied and speaks Arabic, Turkish and Farsi. Hermann also has a PhD in economics and wrote his thesis about the modern Syrian social history. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi and has been reporting from the Middle East for over 22 years.Here are the parts of the FAZ report translated by MoA (fuller translation link below): "The Houla massacre was a turning point in the Syrian drama. There was great worldwide outrage when 108 people were killed there on May 25, among them 49 children. Calls for a military intervention to end the bloodshed became louder and the violence in Syria has since steadily escalated. Based on Arab news channel and the visit of UN observers on the following day, world opinion almost unanimously blamed the regular Syrian army and the Syrian regime's Shabiha militia for the massacre.Read the rest at the MoA blog. Do not expect the narrative to change just because it has been exposed as a hoax. We have seen this movie before, in Srebrenica, Racak, Benghazi, and so on. It never ends well. |