Palestinians in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones (Try Molotov Cocktails Instead)
The Associated Press stringers are at it again. This time, it is the curiously named Nasser Shiyoukhi (the product of a palestinian-Japanese sex romp?) who is not even pretending to feign objectivity.
Here is Shiyoukhi’s photo and caption of Israeli border policemen:
Israeli border policeman take positions during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday Feb. 11, 2007. Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem and the West Bank in a new wave of protests against ongoing Israeli construction near a flash point Jerusalem’s Old City holy site. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Notice how the helmeted and armed Israeli border policemen are clashing with mere stone throwers (not that you should underestimate the damage that can be caused by these stones). But the full picture is only obtained if you go through the other photos, such as this one:
Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails at Israeli border policeman, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday Feb. 11, 2007. Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem and the West Bank in a new wave of protests against ongoing Israeli construction near a flash point Jerusalem’s Old City holy site. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Leaving aside the weird addition of the words “not seen” (which make a cameo in all of Shiyoukhi’s other photos of the incident), I find it odd that Shiyoukhi felt the need to mention only stone throwers – and not molotov cocktail throwers – in the caption to the first picture.
Actually, who am I kidding. This is entirely predictable.
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Let’s pretend to be objective for just a second.
Maybe the photo of the Israeli soldiers does not relate to the photo of the molotov cocktail throwers., ie maybe they are photos of 2 different scenes. So if the soldiers were only facing stone-throwers, it would indeed be “strange” to say that they were facing molotov cocktails. Assuming that the soldiers are facing molotov cocktails at that moment, rather than stone-throwers as the caption states, must be…..um…….I dunno…..biased!?
But that is entirely predictable.
Michael,
These photos are part of the same set by the same photographer. While your scenario is not impossible, it is highly improbable.
Of course, your question is not coming from a place of objectivity, since in your world, there is NO bias against Israel, and NO such thing as Hoocaust denial.
What Shocks me is the fact of how causally they are throwing the bombs. Like kids throwing a baseball or football. If that was my police force I would say they are under direct threat and should be allowed to use lethal force to subdue the situation. The fact that it seems to be status quo to allow this and it is acceptable by the international community baffles me. If you use force be expected to be meet with force(waiting for the come back on this one). If the police shot one of these men they would be on every headline as a murder yet a homicide bomber is still consider a hero by the same people who condemn the same Israel police officer as said murder. If common sense was common every one would have it.
Brian
“same set”
Same street, same time?? Impossible to tell.
Bias may exist, must it must be shown, rather than imagined.
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