Wednesday, January 14, 2009
News Time and Place: Palestinian Protest
Posted by Joeff Davis @joeffly on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
This week’s Time and Place photo was taken at 12th and Spring Street during a protest against the Israeli killing of civilians during their invasion of Gaza. For me the girl in the photo has a look on her face that says “Why?” which matches the tone of the sign behind her. Here in Atlanta there have been protests almost daily against the Israeli action in Gaza. It seems so unbelievable that hundreds of people have been killed so needlessly, how can life be considered so worthless? Maybe I am just naïve, but it seems this action in Gaza will create generations of more war.
To view more photos of this event, visit Sideshow.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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As opposed to the generations of war created by Arab's teaching their children that Jews eat Arab babies and that Israel has no right to exist.
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Joeff - Please do yourself a favor and research the Arab-Israeli conflict a little more, instead of buying the Palestinian sobstory hand-over-fist. From the time of Israel's creation (under a UN mandate) they have been continuously attacked by nearly every Arab nation. Against all odds they somehow cling not only to nationhood, but a reasonably free and functioning democracy as well as a firstworld economy. Yes, they have made mistakes and responded "disproportionately" from time to time, but they are dealing with a group that calls for their eradication, bombards continually with missiles (sometimes from schools and mosques!), and uses every inch given to them to weaken and destroy Israel. All actors have blood on their hands, but the extreme demonization of Israel is jaw-dropping.
I personally have trouble with the reported death of over 300 children. Please forgive me for my idiocy.
You miss the point of the photo and the statement. No logical person would dismiss the actions of Gaza militants as acceptable and Israel is not being "demonized." At least not here. The point is that hundreds of children are dying. Civilian children, who are not pointing guns or rockets at anyone, are dying. The only naive thing is overlooking the fact that actions like this only create more terrorists. And more death.
If the choice is to allow unguided rockets fired by an enemy to rain down on civilians or "create terrorists", I would say the only logical choice is to "create terrorists". That argument has been made since we arrived in Iraq. Seven years later I have to ask where are all these terrorists that we have created? No one here wants children to die, but when cowards, I mean terrorists, hide in schools and use them as human shields, children die.
DaleC, If you actually have to ask "where are all these terrorists," then you really haven't been paying attention.
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