If you open this link
you will find a photo of a 14 year old Palestinian boy
standing with an Israeli soldier who towers over with him with a gun. The kind
of photo you see all the time. There’s worse to come. There are pictures of the
boy being made to strip off his clothes.
Abominable, you think. And if I tell you that as I watched
and saw the story unfold I felt so sad and sorry for this youngster … well. What
possible conclusion can you come to?
Shall I explain?
A poor Arab boy, unhappy, unpopular with his school-mates
was exploited by Hamas. They psychologically abused him until they had
convinced him it would be better to die, a hero and a martyr, than to continue
his miserable life.
At one of those Israeli check-points that we hear maligned
so often, an alert soldier spotted something about the boy’s behaviour that was
suspicious. And discovered that he had a suicide belt strapped to his body. The
boy began to cry. Surprise, surprise, he didn’t really want to die.
Did the Israelis make him walk away, shoot him from afar, “explode”
him? It sounds horrible but it would have been justified. These belts are
notoriously volatile. They are not meant to be taken off so are attached almost
permanently. Did the Israelis take the safe option? They did not. They risked lives to help him remove the belt. (But did they sensibly keep guns
trained on him? They damned well did! Hence the opportunity to take yet another "brutal" photo.)
Now the story is complete: photos of the boy, cowering, surrounded by
gun-toting soldiers. The photo of the boy “humiliated” because he is stripped to his
underwear.
Add a headline – Palestinian boy not allowed to play
football (!) - and there we have it.
How lack of context can twist and pervert
an action into something else. This is what Israel has to contend with all the
time.
The practical explanation here is simple enough, now we know
how it’s done. What I cannot find an explanation for is why?
Why does the press,
which surely can’t ALL be gutter press, out for nothing but a sensational
story, manipulate and fabricate the facts and allow these travesties to be published?
They must know that the
innocents like the boy in this story are powerless to stand up against Hamas. Why
then do so-called responsible reporters misrepresent and debauch the truth, thereby
bolstering the evil regime of Hamas?
Why is their professed sympathy for the
Palestinians so skewed that they actually harm the ones they are supposed to be
defending?
And what the hell did we, the Jews, the Israelis, ever do to make them hate us so much?
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