Just Boys
AP have published photos of yesterday’s suicide bombers heinous murderers, as well as photos of their relatives holding their photos:
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 explodation.
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.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
What is the possibility that they really sent boys and were lying that the bombers were in their (early) 20’s?
I realized that the guys in the photos were quite young. I thought it was possible that their handlers used their smaller size to smuggle them more easily into Israel.