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TWO FEMALE POLITICAL leaders – including the most powerful woman in Europe – have been photoshopped out of an historic image of world leaders showing solidarity after the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
The ultra-Orthodox Israeli daily newspaper HaMevaser, or The Announcer, ran a front-page image of Sunday’s rally through Paris – minus German chancellor Angela Merkel and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
In the original photo, Merkel was positioned between French President Francois Hollande and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
But in the version which went to print, the head of the EU’s biggest economy and most populous nation was wiped from the record.
Hollande and Abbas, who was labelled a hypocrite by Hamas for attending the rally, were instead left standing shoulder-to-shoulder.
Similarly Hidalgo, behind a decision to grant Charlie Hebdo honorary citizenship of the capital following the massacre, was magically disappeared from her spot next to European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker.
The image also featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who got to keep his place.
But Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was cropped out of the picture’s far left with only her hand remaining in shot.
Orthodox Jewish title have previously been criticised for editing female leaders out of photographs on the grounds of “modesty”.
In 2011, Brooklyn paper Di Tzeitung’s apologised for its decision to remove then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton from an image of US officials monitoring the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
It said it had a “long-standing editorial policy” of not publishing womens’ images because its readers believed “women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like”.
An estimated 1.6 million people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against the actions of the Islamic extremists who killed 17 people in attacks on the offices of the satirical paper and a kosher grocery store.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and British Prime Minister David Cameron were among the world leaders who marched in the rally.
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I look forward to it.
Mise eire should be shown also.. A masterpiece solely on irish.
Excellente! I’m old enough to remember it as a young kid. It was a zillion times better than the shite Rebellion
Rebellion seriously fell flat. What on earth were RTE thinking..
……RTE (ministry for propaganda) were trying to take the fight out of us ! by making a wishy washy version of the rising that inspires no one, less we might look at our current rulers and re-run the rising and restore the democracy we once had.
They should bring back the original quick silver quiz show. It would be priceless.
Wanderly wagon too
And Forty Coates… Between that Wanderly Wagon and Bosco it’s pretty obvious the creators were out their nut on the mushies.
Aw, loved those shows as a child. Terrified of Whilomena the Whirligig Witch and Sneaky Snake.
Stop the lights !!!! What about Murphy agus a chairde ????
The TG4 documentary series, 1916 Seachtar na Cásca is with getting hold of. Really well researched and highly informative. It’s better than that nonsense Rebellion. Also, the 1916 documentary RTE just aired was also excellent.
*worth getting hold of.
Excellent, way better than crappy “Rebellion”.
What really is needed is a Blackie Connors spin off or Glenroe Nights.
Better call Blackie.
Boss
Its actually very good and theres no one from love hate
Have been watching episodes of the Riordans recently. Once you get past how dated it is, there really are some great scenes in it.
And get past Gabriel Byrne in a donkey jacket and wellies.Same with Bracken… If RTE had their way one of our finest actors would still be typecast as a farmer/farm labourer.
As a kid I hated the Riordans, it’s only with hindsight I realise how good it actually could be, and funny at times too.
Bracken was class, The wanderer son returns to face the Rich man that dove his father to his grave. Top Notch
Dàithi Laca
Rasher
Everything they Do Is Crap . Should just Scrap the Station
Good to see your degree in definitives is serving a purpose
Have you seen Insurrection Stephen?
Is it in HD?
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