The makings of a propaganda “conspiracy”

From ProteinWisdom.com:

Yesterday, I posted excerpts from a Weekly Standard piece detailing how UNIFIL had actively (whether intentionally or not is more difficult to prove) aided Hezbollah / Lebanon is its recent war with Israel by providing information about Israeli positions, troop deployment, etc.

Now, take that information and combine it with Zombietime’s extensive piece detailing the ICRC Ambulance 782 hoax—and all the other instances of fauxtography bloggers have uncovered from that conflict.

Keeping in mind that international pressure over how Israel was conducting the campaign (eg. allegations of war crimes, claims the IDF was intentionally targeting of civilians, etc) might have forced Israel into accepting a weak cease fire deal, you can begin to see how a cynical disinformation campaign carried out by the weaker actor can mitigate the military and strategic advantages of the stronger actor—