Does footage on the news depicting the violent confrontations between Israel and Palestine disturb you?

Would it disturb you even more to learn that footage depicting the "Palestinian struggle" is routinely faked? How about learning that this footage is represented to you on the news as actual events?

The documentary Pallywood is an 18-minute exposition that illustrates Palestinian media-whoring at its best. Here's a few highlights:

• A supposed corpse, dropped by pallbearers, gets up and walks back onto the board they were carrying him on.
• A youth throws a rock, then (all in one continuous shot), plays the part of a victim who needs to be carried to help -- without anything wounding him in the meantime.
• Civilians direct soldiers on what to do for the camera.
• A doctor who has just delivered a baby coaches the father on what to say to a reporter when pretending that he'd been prevented from reaching the hospital and had to deliver the baby himself.
• A man claims his hospital was hit by 12 tank rockets -- yet there is no damage to the hospital.
• A supposed casualty lying in the road makes a cell phone call.
  
• The NY Times falls for it.
• 60 Minutes falls for it. 

(from The Big Picture)

My beef is not with the Palestinians (I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole), but, as usual, with the press.

Do you think even a single "journalist" bothered to do even a second of research? Why would they, when they are the same people that pushed their way in front of firefighters and police when the World Trade Center went down. This time, however, blood is directly on their hands - many have died because of the images they pass off as facts.

Take some time today to turn off the news, close your browser, and think for yourself.