Een prima ICH artikel met
mogelijkheid tot vertaling:
The Fraud of the White Helmets: Hollywood
buys into yet another lie
By
Philip Giraldi
I
actually forced myself to watch the documentary The
White Helmets, which is available on Netflix. It is 40
minutes long, is of high quality cinematographically speaking, and
tells a very convincing tale that was promoted
as “the story of real-life heroes and impossible
hope.”
It
is overall a very impressive piece of propaganda, so much so that it
has won numerous awards including the Oscar for Best Documentary
Short this year and the White Helmets themselves were nominated for
the Nobel Peace Prize. More to the point, however, is the undeniable
fact that the documentary has helped shape the public understanding
of what is going on in Syria, delivering a Manichean tale that
depicts the “rebels” as always good and Bashar al-Assad and his
government as un-redeemably evil.
It
has been reliably
reported that celebrities like George Clooney, Justin
Timberlake and Hillary Clinton really like the White Helmets
documentary and have promoted it with the understanding that it
represents the truth about Syria, but it is, of course, not the whole
story.
The
film, which was made by the White Helmets themselves without any
external verification of what it depicts, portrays the group as
“heroic,” an “impartial, life-saving rescue organization” of
first responders. Excluded from the scenes of heroism under fire is
the White Helmets’ relationship with the al-Qaeda affiliated group
Jabhat al-Nusra and its participation in the torture and execution of
“rebel” opponents. Indeed, the White Helmets only operate in
rebel held territory, which enables them to shape the narrative both
regarding who they are and what is occurring on the ground.
Because
of increasing awareness of the back story, there is now a growing
movement to petition the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
to revoke the Oscar based on the complete and deliberate
misrepresentation of what the White Helmets are all about.
Hier de link naar het volledige artikel:
The Fraud of the White Helmets
Zie ook: ‘Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….‘ (en zie de berichten onder de links in dat bericht)