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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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.

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  1. Jon says:

    good to see that the settlers have finally started flipping the bird as it were to the journalist ass hats

  2. GabysPoppy says:

    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.

  3. LB says:

    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…

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