Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I was prepared to put up an outraged post that AP was serving as an outlet for Palestinian propaganda. Take a look at these two photos of the Dimona bombers as innocent, sympathetic kids:
There are others. What must have pushed these young innocents to give up their lives in such a horrible way? Of course, they didn't...as kids. That's just the image the terror groups want to project. Dave at Israellycool notes:
Notice anything strange? The answer is, of course, that these are photos of the murderers when they were just young boys, and not the 20+ year olds at the time of their exploitation.
I have been following the media coverage of the conflict - as well as the palestinian propaganda ploys - long enough to know that this is no accident. The palestinian relatives, either on their own or encouraged by the more media savvy of their people, chose to show the pictures of the murderers as young boys as if to say "Look, how we lost our young sons!" and "They were just boys driven by despair!" And of course AP was there to lap it up and publish the propaganda.
And if you think I am being overly cynical, ask yourself this: when was the last time the foreign press photographers published photos of the adult victims as children?
Yeah, I thought so.
[h/t: Mike Nargizian]
Quite right (assuming they were, as SoccerDad points out in Dave's comments, in their 20's). But there's another twist. Those may not even be the real bombers. Hamas says, and Israeli sources concur, that the bombers came from Hebron, not Gaza and were two guys named Mohammed Herbawi and Shadi Zghayer: Hamas claims responsibility for Dimona attack
What's the truth? We'll find out eventually, but the point is that everyone is falling all over themselves to take the credit.
Remember the ending of that movie Dragonslayer? The dragon is dead and the King is posing with the corpse and the priest is taking credit...why? Because slaying dragons is popular.
Same thing. Killing Israelis at shopping malls is popular. Suicide murder is popular. Not only is there no social sanction, the family is made glorious. The family of a popular hero! (Hence suicide bombing as a hopeful act, not one of desperation.) Who knows which group of bombers were the ones who did it. Maybe both groups dispatched teams but one was caught on the way (an Israeli source is saying this is a common course of speculation right now). The point is that it's a popular act, not one of shame.
It was noted in the other posting on the bombing that press photos of kids distributing candy and flowers in celebration of the act were sporting brand-spanking-new Fatah scarfs. Was this because Fatah knew in advance what their Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade was going to do and was prepared, or was it because some other group (Hamas, PFLP, Islamic Jihad...) did it and some enterprising Fatah politician just thought fast and sent the kids out on the street with scarfs and sweets courtesy of al-Fatah to grab some of the glory?
Does it even matter? Not really.
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Video of the concluding moments of the Dimona event: YouTube video (embedding is disabled). It's in Hebrew. You'll get the picture. You'll also see the images of the little darlings who perpetrated the atrocity...so different than the AP photos. [H/T:... Read More
It looks like Hamas may have been telling the truth when they said they were one of the groups responsible for the Dimona suicide bombing, and that the bombers came from Hebron (West Bank), not from Gaza. (Previous on the... Read More
The saga of the identity of the Dimona suicide bombers continues (see here, here, here, here and here). According to YNet, Egypt says they have the two guys that were dispatched from Gaza in jail: 'Dead terrorists' resurface in Egypt... Read More
How sick is it that these mothers and lining up to pose with pictures of little kids and pretending to be sad and the AP "Photographers" still eagerly take these fake photos when they have to know and perhaps help with the total staging event.
The propoganda just never ends... it's sickening and evidence of a sick sick society.
Al Qaeda tried to take 'responsibility' for the 2003 NYC blackout. These idiots really have no shame.
"Propaganda" seems like thin gruel compared with this ham-handed mass-marketing of suffering. Hitchens called it more appropriately in one of his recent articles the "auctioning of pity" which more or less hits upon the cyncism of both the manufacturers of these images and their disseminators.
Muslims Against Sharia condemn the murderers responsible for the homicide bombing in Dimona as well as degenerate perpetuation of the culture of death in Gaza.
Our prayers are with the victims of this atrocity. We send our condolences to their loved ones.
May the homicide bomber rot in hell for eternity. May his accomplices and animals who celebrated this horrendous act join him soon!
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-suicide-bombing-in-israel-in-year.html
The picture of the woman, she's crying on the outside, but La, La, La, La, Laing on the inside.