Martyr on the Wall

The AP has published this photo of a palestinian woman, having to restore order in her simple house after those mean IDF soldiers turned everything upside down.

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A Palestinian woman restores her back a room after Israeli troops raided a house in the Al Ain refugee camp of the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, March 10, 2008. According to Palestinian and Israeli sources 21 people were arrested during the overnight operation. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

But while AP photographer Nasser Ishtayeh clearly has an agenda, he’s (perhaps carelessly) left a clue that would suggest where the woman’s sympathies lie (and therefore why her house was justifiably “raidable”).

Unless you think the picture of the young man in a military jacket is just art.

3 thoughts on “Martyr on the Wall”

  1. My two year old would make more of a mess in a minute than the IDF seem to have done. If the best propaganda shot is someone carrying a cushion from one room to another you really have to wonder what the point they are trying to make is.

  2. I wonder if she sewed his murderous bomb belt by hand? I wonder too, if the apartment she lives in was provided as an ‘upgrade’ courtesy Saddam Hussein in exchange for the life of her son?

    Status symbols are so telling. Civilized people are happy to display (hopefully, quite a bit more discreetly) awards given their children for creative accomplishments/rites of passage: religious ceremonies; children’s artwork;graduation certificates; wedding photos etc. .

    Paintings of your child that celebrate his mass murdering tell their own evil story.

    There’s a far deeper mess in her house than a few toppled items put to rights can address.

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