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AUGUST 11, 2014, 8:09 AM

What does it say about you, your perspective, and your cause when you use lies, falsehoods, threats and slander to make your point?

That is the question I have been asking about social media images of Syrian wounded being use as “evidence of Israeli atrocities” in Gaza. One particularly disgraceful image showed an Israeli family of 5 that had been murdered in a terrorist attack, claiming they were Gaza residents slaughtered by Israel.

It is the question I have been asking myself when it finally came to light that the reason we were not seeing images of Hamas terrorists or the locations of missile sites in school, hospitals, and civilian population centers was because Hamas has been threatening and intimidating reporters.

Read more: Guns and Social Media; Two Things That Some People Shouldn’t Touch | Daniel M. Cohen | The Blogs | The Times of Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/guns-and-social-media-two-things-that-some-people-shouldnt-touch/#ixzz3As4mFIlF 
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