What Does It Take To Become A Photojournalist in the Middle East?

If you have ever considered becoming a photojournalist in the Middle East, you are probably wondering about the exhaustive training that is required.

After all, it's not easy to find the right scene and the people necessary to be in it. It requires a practiced eye in order to set it up just right so that you send the right message.

Take this picture for example:

As photojournalists gather around, an anti-WTO protester throws rocks over
a fence towards police guarding the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun
 Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003.(AP Photo/Victor Ruiz)

It's not easy to stage these sort of spontaneous shots!

You're probably wondering how those photojournalists acquire all of those skills.

I'll tell you.

Video Review Of Gazan Casualties Faked By Hamas During Operation Pillar of Defense

It can be difficult to keep up with the Gazan casualties from Operation Pillar of Smoke faked by Hamas. Here is a helpful video that reviews a few of them.

Palestinians Post Old Photos To Impugn Israel's Meticulous Self-Defense

In response to the onslaught of rockets being fired out of Gaza at Israeli civilians, Israel has been conducting surgical strikes aimed at taking out the Palestinian terrorists and avoiding civilian casualties.

In response, some Palestinian Arabs have posted fake photos, claiming to depict Israel as retaliating against Gazan civilians.

Israellycool writes about 2 such cases in Liars, Liars:

Revisiting An Example Of Palestinian Fauxtography

This Fan Page DOES NOT belong to any Religion. We are not here to insult other Religion. The main aim of this PAGE is to spread the Truth about what is happening in Palestine to all the Human Beings.
Freedom Will Come To Palestine, from their Facebook page

If the goal were actually to tell the truth, then this group has obviously failed miserably.

This particular fraud was already uncovered back in June, but it bears repeating: