This Ongoing War: A Blog: 27-Jun-06: Gazans and explosives

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

27-Jun-06: Gazans and explosives

For us Israelis, the cold-blooded way Palestinian terrorists do their disgusting work right in the midst of their home towns, streets and beaches is beyond comprehension.

Here at home on our computer we have dozens of published photographs of Palestinian gunmen firing at Israelis from inside circles of gawking children - perhaps their own nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters or children.

It's sickening to an extent that's matched only by their crocodile tears (our apologies to all crocodiles) when Arab children are injured by Israeli fire directed at the gunmen who operate from residential areas and children's playgrounds.

The news media's fascination with the fairly-obviously-staged video of a Gaza girl shrieking at the sight of her dead family two weeks ago has caused a lot of people to stop and think again about what's real and what's fake. Fake is not a word to throw around easily when people are lying dead on the ground and little children are wailing inconsolably. But sometimes fake is the only word.

And in case that's hard to swallow, here's a picture taken today and put out on the news wire by Associated Press. The caption says

Palestinian militants set up an explosive device into a mount of sand in preparation for a possible Israeli army ground operation at the Jebaliy refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday June 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Wesam Saleh, MaanImages)

Children all around. Beach sand loosely covering a lethal explosive device. Thugs performing for the cameras. All in the name of defeating a not-yet-present Israeli enemy. Just another day in a fifty-eight year-old "refugee camp". (Similar pictures here and here.)

What we want to know is who's going to prevent the highly-probable accidents from happening in this particular Gaza sandpit while Wesam Saleh and his performing terror stooges sit around waiting for the Zionist enemy to show up?

Update: Just to illustrate the point about how the cold-blooded manipulation-of-images game is played, the ever-hostile AFP photo agency has conveniently republished the heartrending snaps of the orphaned Gaza beach girl in the past hour. Go here to see.

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