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AP, Getty, Reuters Publish Eyebrow Raising Photos of Netanyahu at UN Assembly

Sep. 27, 2012 6:26pm Jason Howerton

The Associated Press, Getty Images and Reuters are facing scrutiny on Thursday after each published controversial photos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on their wire services. The images show Netanyahu making a gesture similar to the Nazi salute while speaking during the U.N. General Assembly — and they’re now going viral.

From the Associated Press:

AP, Getty, Reuters Publish Eyebrow Raising Photos of Netanyahu at UN Assembly

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (Credit: AP)

And Getty Images:

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2012 in New York City. The 67th annual event gathers more than 100 heads of state and government for high level meetings on nuclear safety, regional conflicts, health and nutrition and environment issues. (Credit: Getty Images)

And finally, Reuters:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (credit: Reuters)

There were clearly plenty of shots for these wire services to choose from, so why did they choose to include these photos? Did no one on the editorial staff think the images could potentially offend some people? Here are some of the other photos from the AP and Getty:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (Credit: AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, foreground, of Israel, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Ron Prosor, Israel's UN ambassador sits in as General Assembly president. (Credit: AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (Credit: AP)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, delivers his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting September 27, 2012 at the United Nations in New York. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, delivering his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting September 27, 2012 at the United Nations in New York. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

What do you think about the images of Netanyahu giving what looks like a Nazi salute?

(H/T: Weekly Standard)

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:11pm
Once again the bias of the media is made manifest.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Got that right, Snow!
  
  They just wanted to make Bibi look like a Nazi and reinforce the pro-Arab point-of-view.
  
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- vehoae
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Yes, Snowleopard … even here at The Blaze (no shock, there). Talk about skewed polling questions.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:37pm
  Yes no and undecided … how is that skewed? When you want to skew polls you split the vote you don’t want into two .. this is not done here … however go to ANY liberal website and see that is exactly what they do.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:38pm
  The poll is fine. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
  
  Obama et al have employed the classic “look at the shiny coin” strategy.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
  The media are absolute PIGS. They know he is just making sweeping gestures with his hands and they are creating something that isn’t even there. Why don’t they go after the PLO that sill has the destruction of Israel in their charter.
  
  The AP, Getty and Reuters are a disgrace to mankind!
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
  The only thing they didn’t do is photoshop a small mustache and change his suit color to brown. Maybe they can publish all those pictures of Obama sodomizing the American people……………waiting……………still waiting…………….
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:10pm
  @darmok:
  
  It is ok when team Obama works us over, they care a lot… feelings…
  
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- Jarhead1996
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:17pm
  nah – if they made him look like he was pro-nazi then the muslims should love Israel, considering the muslims raised a full unit of SS troops during ww2 and have openly embraced Hitler in the past.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Fact is, the Zionists did work with Eichmann and the Nazi party. Shoe fits… .
  
  http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/nazisupport.cfm
  
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- jhaydeng
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:44pm
  I give up on this sh##!
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 10:12pm
  The truth is that the Jews lost Israel back 2000 yrs ago..this is how they regained it in the 1940′s
  http://www.youtube.com/watch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9Qm_TejCo&bpctr=1348603720&bpctr=1348799917&bpctr=1348799937&bpctr=1348799942&bpctr=1348799954
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:03pm
  2,734 years ago.
  
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- brewers97
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 1:26am
  Wrong arm.
  Eric Holder and the Fed crew make much more believable Fascists!
  
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- The_Jerk_
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 3:38am
  G_D bless Bibi and the state of Israel!
  
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- tzion
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 4:07pm
  @Jerk
  You seem to be speaking of the Kingdom of Israel. Clearly you’re attempting to be misguiding since the vast majority of modern day Jews aren’t descendents of that kingdom. Your entire argument is based solely on the fact that Israel was chosen as the country’s name in 1948. They could just have easily called their country Judea and then the 2000 years Ashes mentioned would be spot on. Modern day Israel was created by the descendents of Judea. If I were to use your argument, I could argue that Iran is not in any way related to Persia.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 4:26pm
  @Jerk
  You argue that Hitler worked with Zionists? As anyone would attest, there are always radicals in every crowd. Your fond of mentioning Stern Gang, also known as LEHI, a group that was so radical they were disliked by almost every single other Jewish organization seeking an independent state for the Jews. Antisemites like the Nazis worked with these radicals, who believed the ends justified the means, in order to portray all Jews as disloyal citizens and justify expelling them or worse.
  
  These radicals were actively opposed by most Zionists. Herzl, for instance, never believed it was justified to force Jews to immigrate. What he wanted was a refuge that could guarantee Jews their freedom. Yet you don’t hesitate to clump him together with radical fringe characters. Unlike you Jerk, most of us judge people as individuals. That’s why most of us oppose Obama for his views and policies instead of the D after his name.
  
  Lastly, your source, as if there was any doubt, is clearly biased. That quote from Ben Gurion, for instance, could just as easily be an expression that he believed that Israel was better qualified for guaranteeing the future of those children than Britain. And quite frankly, he was probably right. Or did you forget that Britain was among the countries that didn’t accept many refugees and even closed off Palestine to Jewish immigration for the duration of the Holocaust. Even the US isn’t guiltless in its refusal to offer even a temporary haven.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 4:31pm
  @Jerk
  This is how Jewish refugees were treated by the rest of the world:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_%28ship%29
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefkure
  
  Why would any Jew put their trust in Britain and the US after seeing those occurrences?
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:10pm
To even pose the question are the photos offensive I find offensive.

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- vehoae
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:29pm
  I agree, Progressiveslayer!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
  I agree .. too bad more people do not know history ….
  
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- Cognitive One
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 12:14am
  Well said and completely agree.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:04pm
A “Nazi salute” is done with the right hand only, never the left, but, diseased minds will think what they will think.

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- ashestoashes
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Last year..the Billy Hollowell of this site reported that Israel was considering a bill that would make it against the law to draw comparisons to Nazism ( I believe it was a $2,000 fine..Maybe they could make it an international law like the Muslims wanting to make it against international law to defame Mohammed..Wouldn’t that be cool? We could all vote on it!!!!
  
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- BHOHG2G
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:34pm
  Exactly what I was going to say. What a desperate stretch.!
  
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poorrichard09
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:04pm
Only the dumb masses wouldn’t know the fascist salute is with the RIGHT hand. What did Lincoln say about fooling some of the people…?

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Kupo
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:02pm
Wrong hand for a Nazi salute.

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John 3:16
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:56pm
The drive by, worthless, prejudice media stinks as much as there communist leader Osama Bin Obama and his big bottom wife Mooshelle the cow.

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momrules
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:52pm
Netanyahu is a man of honor. Something the MSM knows nothing about.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Agree, wish we had a prez like that.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
  The MSM is the true enemy of the Republic at this point. They are trying to make and manipulate history rather than report it. People better wake up and realize they are given a scripted narrative. The media, hollywood….anyone notice that new “Its all for the Kids” teacher’s movie being advertised. Gee what a coincidence. ABC has a group now following Sheriff Joe ……..My god people ……..NBC, ABC, CBS……….in all three the “C” stands for Communism, the “B” for bull sht. …the other letter is just an identification code for the Muslim Brotherhood. WTF……Wake up
  
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- cjbambey
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Concur.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 9:51pm
  hes a traitor to his country.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 10:02pm
  We do!! The un Federal Reserve is the real leader of the world..including the United States..it is said that they or the ones behind them like the Rothschilds who were behind Hitler killing those 13 million people and behind the Bolsheviks who murdered 20 million..that they instigated and funded all of our wars.and as sas in ated all of our Presidents who wanted to go around them and print our own money except for Andrew Johnson on whom an attempt was made but failed..(he got them kicked out until Woodrow Wilson let them back in.) and whom I suspect was behind 9/11 to get us into these wars to finish destroying us..and to usher in the Luciferian NWO.. here are Rockefeller of the unfederal reserve quotes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZklPnVs-Y
  
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- tzion
  Posted on September 28, 2012 at 5:05pm
  @Indy
  Based on what?
  
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lildrummerboy
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:50pm
This is disgusting..ok clearly this is an attack ad..Obammy dislikes the Jews, because of his professor friend and will do anything to male Bibi look bad. But he’t not man enough to face him. He is a coward as most liars are.

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CindyJo
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:49pm
I watched the speech and what I would like to know is , what is , ‘the know how’ that’s in every cell phone and computer that he spoke of?
As for the pics , the progressive minions will use whatever they can.

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- Wayner
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:03pm
  The know-how is probably in just about everything we use… The know how was in the invention of the atomic bomb (Einstein and Oppenheimer)…. How did the US manage to build them so fast and the brilliant Iranians have been attempting it for years…. Maybe Bibi was also letting the world know that Israel has all the technology needed for any kind of weapon.
  
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misteryuck
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:49pm
The Left…. So predictable… So delusional… So deceptive…

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DarkJello
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:48pm
I fully expect many deaths over these “offensive” pics. That is the new low standard set by team Obama. Death to anyone and everything that is mean, rude, or insensitive.

/sarcasm

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usafaux102
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:48pm
why did I click on this?

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Your bored?
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:47pm
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The leftist liberal media is in bed with Satan.
There’s a “special” place in H*LL for the media.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Lets hope………
  
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JohnLarson
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:46pm
Israel runs open air concentration camps so the salute actually works…

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MarieC
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:43pm
Why is this even an issue? Anyone with any common sense knows that he was not using the Nazi salute….that’s just stupid…

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Ellie
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:41pm
I would have liked the option to vote: These photos shouldn’t have been used specifically because he was obviously not doing any kind of salute.

Should not have been used not because they were offensive, but because they are misleading

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drphil69
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:40pm
ROTFL… how dumb would people have to be to believe Netanyahu is a Nazi??

YES LIBERALS ARE THAT DUMB!!

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- Cemoto78
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:56pm
  Yes they are that dumb, just take a watch of this specimen and her explanation of Obama phones…this will make you sick
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:13pm
  Yeah..and how dumb would it be to think that Nazi’s choose our Presidents…insane..just insane
  
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kalli
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:36pm
It is known fact that AP and Reuters are in the tank for obamanation, and of course, would publish this photograph to slime the Prime Minister.

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MDDAWG
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:34pm
Most journalists have been co-opted by the left through their upbringing adn subsequent university education. They want to portray Bibi in the worst light.

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CK1911
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:34pm
Hey Associated Depressed and Getty Lee: It’s not even the correct fuc$king arm. If you are going to insinuate that he’s making the gesture, at least get it right. Morons.

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MastrSSG
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:33pm
That poll is bizzar I don’t think people are reading the actual questions

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GoodStuff
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:33pm
The media is the enemy. What’s new?

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kennycannon
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:31pm
Anyone know where we can listen to the whole speech by him?

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:40pm
  @KENNY Watch at: cspan.org
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:30pm
Oh, good grief!

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- Irememberamerica
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 7:18pm
  It is never ending the stupidity, good grief does sum it up!
  
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Patriot_Against_Evil
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:30pm
Malcom X is Obama’s dad who was the leader of the Nation of Islam. He was a community organizer and he started a worldwide movement to bring social justice, destroy capitalism and has millions willing to die in N Africa, Asia, Latin America, etc. and would take their complaints to the UN. Dying for Allah is their highest HOPE and Malcom wanted CHANGE and that is the dream from his father!!! There’s your HOPE and CHANGE!!! Malcom wanted CHANGE through any means necessary through the ballot or the bullet but it will be more like through the ballot or suicide bombers.

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