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Salim Haroon on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008, filed under General, News, OffBeat, Politics.
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In Hebron children starting their day going to school to be faced with a checkpoint.
The soldiers prevent them from passing and gives them orders to go home.
The children try to challenge the soldiers and pass the checkpoint.
Even younger ones try but in vain.
They end up having their classes in the streets by the checkpoint.
What an amazing spirit.
The boys try a little bit harder.
They got shot at,
And some arrested.
Yet in their eyes you see determination and dignity.
Talk about falsifying a situation with pics!!!!!! They were trying to get into the Jewish quarter of the area. Their ’school’ was the other way. This kind of Falsification happens every time a camera is around. And they get paid to cause a raucus. Been there and saw it happen.
If you do not believe me check out the door by the soldier…it has a mezuzzah on it
What a load of crap.
How about some context? So you expect us to believe these people were all marching together to school and were suddenly stopped at a checkpoint and not allowed to pass? Uh, why? Just because? Because guys with guns are bad and just hate it when people get an education?
Oh please.
I especially like the “they got shot at” part… when most soldiers in the pics either don’t have their fingers on the triggers, many of them aren’t even holding the gun in a firing position (like the guy in the 4th photo who seems to be holding the gun by its clip) and there aren’t any pictures of gunfire, or people reacting to gunfire.
This feels like a short story written by a grade school student. “The good man was walking then ENEMIES showed up!”
The thing about kids is that they’re mostly… well, dumb. They’re easily impressionable, easily coerced, and very, very few of them are world weary enough to understand, let alone possess “determination” and “dignity.”
This is complete BS, look at second picture the kid is smiling, as Pam said they are paid to create this drama. And all are random shots from here and there complied over a period of time, just to create a story
Happy pictures and stories no longer sell the news. Editors want something to enrage people, even if it means a little fabrication from time to time.
It is a sad thing when a story about something like this, even with the glaring edits, gets more attention than the good in the world. That is just my opinion, though.
Shoulda been taking pictures of the gaza blockade instead, people being slowly starved by an inhumane fascist regime, It’s like an upscale guantanamo.