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.
