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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Story Behind the Missile-Drawing Pics

Many are aware of the pictures of Israeli girls writing messages on artillery shells a few days ago. Personally, while not thrilled with the pics, because it seems dangerous to be around an army base in Kiryat Shmona, I was not all that bothered by them: The messages were clearly directed at Hezbollah, not the Lebanese people, and they weren't all that inflammatory either (To Nasrallah, with Love, from Israel). However, it is interesting to hear the story behind the pics (from SandMonkey in Egypt), and one once again has to wonder about the disgusting bias of the foreign press. He asked a blogger named Lisa to check out the story behind the pics, and this is what she said. Excerpt: [bold hers, size mine]
Lisa: kids were in
bomb shelters for days. city is a ghost town. only poor people stayed a new army unit arrived, kids were bored, went out with
parents to look there were TWELVE photographers there and they egged the kids on the kids are low class, not educated, have never met a
Lebanese, just want to live their lives, don't understand why Lebanon
attacked their home, etc. the photographers told them "hey, your cousins in america
will see you!" mostly foreign photographers so the kids, who were bored and restless and had been cooped
up in bomb shelters for 5 days, took the felt markers and drew messages to
nasrallah there were no cries of hatred toward lebanese and a big problem is that the israeli tv does not show dead
lebanese. it shows destroyed buildings, but not dead bodies. so no one has a
face of the dead in their minds. too aware of our own suffering, etc. make sense?

18 comments:

  1. Where exactly were the adults while this was going on, i.e. parents and Israeli soldiers.

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  2. Good question. My guess is they thought "well, they're having fun, it's harmless..." not realizing how it was going to be used.

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  3. They look like they're writing on a friend's cast- bizarre.

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  4. Working Ema said: I'm always hearing on the news about how many died in Lebanon, but none about missiles shot into Israel, because-B"H- they don't kill half as many people as Israel does, OR Lebanon is waaay exaggerating.....

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  5. WE asked me to delete the other part of her comment, hence why it's under my name.

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  6. Really should not let little kids near unexpended munitions. That is issue one. Then the propoganda value. Yikes.

    They are the creepiest photos in some time, and will make fine Alt Rock album covers in 2007.

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  7. I'm assuming that these were "safe" shells to be going near, though as I noted it still troubled me.

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  8. Thanks ezzie!

    so where should I tell you my problems- here or on my blog?
    (it's only two little simple things really)

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  9. I just noticed you posted this. I thought you were too buzy to post. This blog isen't big enough to hold the both of us. gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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  10. Working Ema - Email me (again) :)

    HH - I am! [pet pet]

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  11. Ummm... isn't anybody asking why the messages are written in Enlish? Why aren't they written in Hebrew? These are Israeli kids, right? Even if these kids were immigrants... something's very fishy to me here.
    -OC

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  12. Most are in Hebrew, only the one the photographers focused on is English.

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  13. the photos are odd... a picture tells a thousand words but those words (in this case) are what the photojournalist (and media) wants you to see, no longer can a photograph be seen as the truth.

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  14. I actually saw these a few days ago and decided not to add them to my page, one photo actually showed a lady dressed in pink standing in the background looking on grinning.
    I just don't think it is right to let the kids draw on missiles. Now I have seen the same photos appear on Lebanese blogs saying how bad it is - 'look what they're children are doing'.
    At least we know that the IDF won't be aiming them at civillian homes unlike if they were coming from Lebanon.

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  15. There are tons of pictures of American troops writing messages on their munitions that they're about to drop. They're sending messages to the enemy, not to the Lebanese people themselves. What's the difference here?
    -OC

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  16. Makes one wonder what other pictures ahve been staged, doesn't it?

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  18. La merde Juive ! The jewish zionist crap ! La merda ebrea !

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