About That Viral Photo Of An “IDF Soldier” Standing On A “Palestinian Girl”
Aussie Dave | Feb 01, 2012 | 18 comments
The following photo, purportedly of an IDF soldier standing on a palestinian girl, has been going viral on Facebook and other social media.
Many already suspected this not to be the case, since that is not what an IDF uniform looks like, and the weapon – a Kalashnikov AK47 - is not IDF issue. Plus the IDF already denied its authenticity last year, after an investigation.
But in order to put this libel to rest once and for all, I can confirm the photo is not of an IDF soldier and palestinian girl. Rather, it is of actors playing an IDF soldier and palestinian girl during street theater in Bahrain, taken in December 2009 (hat tip: EoZ)
If you come across this pernicious lie, you can now point people to the truth.
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Beat me to it! Nice job. Speed is important in these types of blood-libel situations (“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Twain), so kudos for posing this quickly.
It is amazing how many times I have seen this libel. At least I have links to the source, thanks to Elder.
I just tweeted this w/ links back here and to EoZ.
https://twitter.com/#!/ZionistShark/status/164809785944973312
Good man..ehh..shark
Come to think of it, who wants to send the photo to Silverstein and see how quickly he posts it?
Looking forward to DB™ applying his patented pretzel logic (as witnessed in the recent DroneGate™ http://www.israellycool.com/2012/01/31/the-backflip/), to prove that it was actually the Mossad operative, dressed up as a Bahraini street theater performer, dressed up as an IDF soldier.
It’s TOO perfect.
Reminds me of the “logic” of a famous character played by another anti-Israel buffoon, Wallace Shawn:
WAIT ‘TIL I GET GOING!!!!
This is why this site is worth its weight in macaroons. The moist kind with the chocolate drizzled on top. I’d kill for one right now.
If you do, just don’t blame it on the IDF.
According to the previous article, they’re stepping into their own sh*t.
I just received an email about this today from my brother, asking how we can refute this lie.
Kol hakavod to all you bloggers on digging out the truth.
this i’m sure was posted here months ago and received comments? what has taken the high speed web so long and has/did receive plenty of attention at the time.
even though it did not pop up in archive search here.
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What the IDF is doing in Palestine could have been dramatized in the Bahrain? I don’t think so the reality and this drama has no difference.
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