Media Fall For Cheap Palestinian Pope Photo-Op

Let the politicizing of the Pope visit to the Holy Land begin.

After it was revealed that the Palestinians would do everything they can to politicize his visit, they scored another one today due to the media’s gullibility for cheap photo-ops.

In any report about his visit from now on, you’ll be bound to see one of these images:

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The Pope stopped and prayed in front of the security barrier, with “profound” graffiti lining it.

The PLO couldn’t have hoped for a better image.

This whole photo-op is obviously prearranged.

Here’s an image of the same place, a few ours earlier, with Palestinian Arabs spray painting some graffiti slogans:

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When Israeli forces caught them, they chased them away.

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It appears even though Israeli police erased the first graffiti with white paint, it was soon after spray painted again, just for the Pope.

This obvious cheap propaganda is made very clear with this tweet:

So there you have it, the PLO is in full pope mode, and the media swallowed it.

Update: Well look who joined the bandwagon. BBC’s disgraced former Middle-East correspondent Jon – I fell for Palestinian anti-Israel propaganda – Donnison, falling for Palestinian anti-Israel propaganda.

13 thoughts on “Media Fall For Cheap Palestinian Pope Photo-Op”

  1. Natan Epstein

    So apparently “price taggers” are one sided…. The pop was afraid of price tags from the Jewish side… But the Arab sand bastards are allowed…. Twisted world

  2. Probably the pope should have asked where all the Christians of Beit-Lechem have disappeared instead of participating in a dirty publicity stunt.

  3. Jim from Iowa

    I agree completely that the Palestinian Authority is being manipulative and highly political in arranging this photo-op. So what else is new? The Palestinians have made clear they are not yet serious about negotiating a just peace with the Israelis and apparently believe they can obtain their own state through international sanctions/pressure on the Israelis. We’ll see how successful this strategy is in the next few years. Not sure what the Roman Catholic Church gains by the Pope’s willing participation is such an event.

    1. People offer complaints whenever the Pope visits the Near East. The Holy See has had an affection for wheel-spinning for about five decades now. This is nothing exceptional.

      A point of personal privilege: it’s the “Catholic Church” or the “Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”. Catholics in the Near East are seldom Roman-rite; they are Byzantine-rite, West Syrian-rite, East Syrian-rite, Alexandrian-rite, &c. They are loyal to the Pope but are under a separate canon law and have a different liturgy and their parishes are not under the authority of the Roman-rite ordinaries.

  4. FWIW, on that side of the wall, there is no Israeli police.
    So it should be PA police.
    And , here is the “true” picture…..(Photoshop works)

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