How Does Hezbollah Deceive the World?

There's a fascinating article over at FamilySecurityMatters regarding the recent capture of Hezbollah-linked terrorists in France that points out some of the inner workings of Hezbollah. One area I found fascinating is the way they control the media and press in Lebanon and also world media outlets through western jounalists they have in their pockets. This, for example, explains the incredible deceitful spin that Hezbollah was able to accomplish in the war with Israel recently. Many of us sat on our asses with our mouths wide open when while Hezbollah had commited the world crime of abducting Israeli soldiers, western media was blatantly siding with Hezbollah in the Israeli war going on in Lebanon. I've excerpted the following here from the article that explains at least some of that:

Hezbollah also possesses an extremely sophisticated international media arm, which – like the terrorist organization’s military and security wing – is heavily financed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the tune of one-billion U.S. dollars annually (in untraceable cash, flown in large bags from Teheran to Damascus, then trucked across the Syrian-Lebanese border into Lebanon).

Various sources in Lebanon are telling us that much of that money goes toward paying off editorial staffs in Beirut as well as buying Western journalists in that country in order to whitewash Hezbollah’s activities. Some of the Hezbollah-paid journalists publicly claim to be opposed to the terrorist organization, yet rarely – if ever – do they refer to Hezbollah’s operators as terrorists: Preferring instead to describe Hezbollah as either a “resistance” group or nothing more than a quasi-religious-political movement.

It’s a clever tactic engineered to deceive the West.

Now, another fine example of this media control by Hezbollah has been the spin surrounding the assassination of Hezbollah star terrorist Mughniyeh. 80% of the world didn't even know who this guy was and although people in Israel and the United States knew some of his cowardly attacks that killed hundreds of Americans and Israelis, the world was shown a picture of some poor martyr. How? Take a look:

This growing deception is working at various levels of the Western media – including the mainstream media, bloggers, and chatroom enthusiasts – which may speak to the marginal coverage of the captured Hezbollah cell in Paris. And we in the U.S. were privy to slowly simmering degrees of this deception over the past two weeks by the way in which Hezbollah’s recently-slain doctor of death, Imad Mughniyeh, was described by some media as a “hero,” even a “great national leader.”
Though certainly not “bought” by Hezbollah, the Associated Press even went so far as to give equal time to those who view Mughniyeh as if he were some mythic “holy” warrior.

We in the West have been played for far too long but the islamists in the Middle East. We have been coerced into sending billions of dollars in aid to the terroristic minions in palestine. We have bought the "rope-a-dope" of Hezbollah's media propaganda machine. We have been fooled by the Iranian sponsored U.N. dialogue.

And it is time to drag the little man out from behind the curtain. Expose the controlling forces behind the western media and let the world view the evil that has been given such a free pass. It's high time the West grows a pair.