Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones..
A picture courtesy from Reuters shows AFP’s Palestinian photographer Hazem Bader (R) holding his bleeding head after he was hit by a stone hurled at journalists by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 31, 2008. Bader, 42, was taken to a Hebron hospital with his head bleeding. He was given eight stitches to the forehead and was to spend the night in the hospital. He was among a group of journalists who had gone to the house of a Palestinian that was damaged by settlers after Israeli security forces dismantled a nearby illegal Jewish outpost.
Oh, now the foreign press photographers see stones as a dangerous weapon that can seriously injure or even kill people?
Funny, because when the stone-throwers are palestinians, they are portrayed as heroic defenders acting against the odds. And I have certainly never seen a photo and caption such as the above, showing and describing the damage inflicted on an Israeli hit by a palestinian-thrown stone.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
good to see that the settlers have finally started flipping the bird as it were to the journalist ass hats
Makes you wonder how the press would report the fight between David & Goliath today. TIKKUNHAMAS would probably describe it as some "Likudist Kahane scum" ambushes a peaceful Palestinian.
and then some american politician would come and say that you don't have to support the likud's pro-slingshot use in order to be a good jew…