Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Charles points to this Getty Images gallery of photos of Hamas during the recent Palestinian elections. Aside from the noticable fact that the Hamas candidates' faces would break if any of them cracked a smile, I also find images like this notable:
Notable for the fact that commonplace images like this utterly demolish the idea of Israel as the sort of monstrous terror state, portrayed on sites like Electronic Intifada as keeping the Palestinian Arabs living in a state of constant fear, ducking Israeli bullets and having their lungs wrecked by tear-gas. In spite of the fact that Israel has complete conventional military control of the area, and these rockets are designed for no other purpose than to kill Israeli civilians (Jew or Gentile, BTW - they don't discriminate), the Israeli military machine sits and does nothing.
Of course, the killers of Hamas know to keep children in close-proximity at all times. They know their opponent's humanity and sense of responsibility in the world community (/spit) - even as they have none and feel none.
Oh, and file this one and others like it in your "Palestinian child abuse" folder: