This week, I came across a story about some photos which were withdrawn from the New York Times after it was found that the photos had been digitally altered.
"In the July 5 edition of The New York Times Magazine, a photo essay by Edgar Martins was run entitled ’Ruins of the Second Gilded Age’, and included the disclaimer saying that the photos were being run ”without digital manipulation”. The problem was that they were indeed digitally manipulated, and rather obviously so."
Next, I came across an article about a telethon in Greece for a Christian hospital in Gaza, supposedly destroyed by Israel.
"A campaign in Greece to raise money to rebuild a Chrisian Palestinian hospital in Gaza allegedly destroyed by Israel appears to be a scam, JTA has learned.
The hospital that was the focus of a campaign, which included the participation of Greece’s president and foreign minister, never actually existed.
For nearly a week in February, Greece’s official state television network inundated viewers with news about a telethon that would take place Feb. 9 to raise money to “rebuild the Christian hospital in Gaza that Israelis destroyed with their bombs” during the Israeli army's operation there in January.
...A JTA investigation revealed, however, that no Christian hospital was on the list assembled by the United Nations and the Red Crescent Society of structures in Gaza damaged and destroyed as a consequence of the Israel-Hamas war in January."
The hospital that was the focus of a campaign, which included the participation of Greece’s president and foreign minister, never actually existed.
For nearly a week in February, Greece’s official state television network inundated viewers with news about a telethon that would take place Feb. 9 to raise money to “rebuild the Christian hospital in Gaza that Israelis destroyed with their bombs” during the Israeli army's operation there in January.
...A JTA investigation revealed, however, that no Christian hospital was on the list assembled by the United Nations and the Red Crescent Society of structures in Gaza damaged and destroyed as a consequence of the Israel-Hamas war in January."
I then read about a Sheikh who denies that Jews have places of worship in Jerusalem. Sheikh Ikrema Sabri spoke in a sermon on Friday about the fact that Jewish rabbis had discussed the dividing of the Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews. He said that noone had the right to give up a single grain of sand of soil from the area . Additionally, he denied that Jews have places of worship in Jerusalem, citing that in over 40 years of excavation work in Jerusalem, not one stone was found to have Jewish origins.
Finally, I read about news sites changing the name of the hospital where President Obama was born.
"If you happened to read online news sites such as United Press International or the popular hoax-busting Snopes.com anytime up until Tuesday night, you would have seen definitive statements that President Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.But checking back now, both sites are suddenly providing an entirely different location, the Kapi'omani Medical Center for Women and Children, also in the capital of the Aloha State."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103465
In conclusion, I would like to end with these words. "Moshe emet vetorato emet. Moses is truth and his Torah is truth."
"The Gemara (Bava Basra 74a) tells of a story where a certain Arab showed Rabba bar bar Chana the site where Korach and his followers were swallowed. Upon witnessing the site they heard from within the ground Korach cry, "Moshe and his torah are true and we are liars."
...Truth is something that survives the test of time. It is something that remains "true" forever and is never subject to change. Something that changes over the course of time cannot be classified as true. Truth, for our purposes is a synonym of eternal."
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