I've adapted the original photo from;
www.flickr.com/photos/effarania/3163126714/
Where it is correctly attributed to Fadi Adwan of Getty Images. My apologies for omitting this originally, and thus abusing his copyright.
www.flickr.com/photos/effarania/
who has assembled some wonderful photos from the Gaza front lines.
If you believe the slogan you are probably stupid enough to ignore genocide..
This photo was taken on January 4, 2009.
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Mina'sPhotos (41 months ago | reply)
This is dreadful.... it stirs something inside me that I can not describe.
It's just sick and unforgivable.
looking through your eyes (41 months ago | reply)
powerful photo!
AWESOME! seen in :
"Photographers Gone Wild" Post 1 Award 3
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
I must make very clear that this not my own photo.
The original came from:
www.flickr.com/people/effarania/
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z50rc (41 months ago | reply)
I know you want to get the message across but does this really belong in the "Rusty & Crusty" Group ?
I think not.
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
To tell you the truth, the very same story has been happening for 60 years.
That should be "Rusty and Crusty" enough.
Angel_SinClaudicar (41 months ago | reply)
Its terrible!
Peace in Gaza!
Sean Smith Photography (41 months ago | reply)
Hate to see anyone get hurt on either side, but thats life, this photo drives the point home that choices of others can lead to serious outcomes that can bring unnessesary pain to others not involved, may peace come to both sides...
jaffa48 [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
Israel is the Evil of our times ....israel was created by means of Terror .
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itza-mna (41 months ago | reply)
alas, peace cannot be reached if the stupidity of religion prevails over human rationality
Quim Abella Art Gallery (41 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Perro Mundo - Mondo cane - Dog world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
The Saw B-alsharaf.com ● G.W.L.K © OWNER (41 months ago | reply)
Wonderful picture - صورة رائعة
Thank you for adding This photo in - شكرا لإضافتها في
www.flickr.com/groups/we-love-kuwait/
--Tico-- (41 months ago | reply)
War in itself is Wrong, but it is so much more Wrong when innocent civilians are caught up in it. Hamas targets civilians because it doesn't have the military means to confront a superior Israeli army. Israel doesn't purposefully (?) target Palestinian civilians but evades any responsibility when inevitably their aggressive military campaign takes innocent civilian lives.
People always think there is no way out, but that's not true. I have a perfect plan:
1) The UN assesses the number of available Israeli and Palestinian soldiers. Any surplus on either side (my guess is that it is Israeli) is sent home (for future reproduction) to get even numbers.
2) The UN assesses the available military means from both the Palestians and the Israelis. The Palestinians give away some of their suicide vests, stones and improvised rocket launchers and the Israelis give away some of their cluster bombs, fighter jets, unmanned military drones, nuclear arms, tanks, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft artillery etc.
3) The UN now instructs some unbiased UN forces from Belgium to make sure each side gets a proper training of the newly arrived weaponry.
4) The UN assigns a desolate place as a battlefield where both forces are being transferred to, together with their weaponry.
5) The UN gets both sides to agree that the winner can remain in Palestine and the loser gets Belgium; after all Belgium is a divided place too with the Dutch speaking part happy to be evacuated to the Netherlands and the French speaking part emigrating to France.
Soldiers like to fight, so we shouldn't object if they want to do just that and die for it. What we, the non-fighters object to is that those that want to live a non-fighting life get caught up in the middle.
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
Tico bassie
www.flickr.com/photos/tico_bassie/
This is not a simple war between two armies.
It's a long-term project by a very small bunch of pseudo-religious nationalistic colonists to subdue a place where they confined about a million (1.5 million now) refugees from the land they took over, 60 years ago.
Take away the US's massive subsidy of arms and money, and Israel would just be another shitty little country in the Levant
Read this-
www.richardsilverstein.com/
or this
www.juancole.com/2009/01/have-bush-and-neocon s-ruined-it-...
and don't make facile comments.
--Tico-- (41 months ago | reply)
It might surprise you, but in fact we will probably agree on a lot over this issue. The current situation in Israel is a long chain of cause and effect, but regardless of the reasons why Hamas has come to power, it is unacceptable that it's fighters fire rockets to Israeli cities. Of course many aspects of the Israeli policy towards Palestine are also unacceptable.
I have found that a relatively powerless person like myself needs a different way than mere anger to be able to cope with it. That is why I have chosen to "absurdize" the situation. Of course I realise that
That is exactly the point of my charicature: if only it were and it could be fought over once and for all, then photos like the one here would be history!
Haya Al-Omran [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
God help them
Thank you for adding This photo in - شكرا لإضافتها في
www.flickr.com/groups/we-love-kuwait/
~$EEKER~ [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
Ahhh.... the hypocrisy of you all, sitting in front of your computers in your cosy little homes passing your scathing judgements on all the world that you know nothing about. Hating Israel for doing nothing different than the United States has done in the name of "peace". tico_bassie says that soldiers like to fight. I hope that this statement was included in your attempt to "absurdize" the situation because it did not reveal any of your intelligence.
Smallislander, it is apparent that you need these threads of agreement to make you feel as if you are, "opening our eyes to the tragedies of war", when in fact you are only revealing ill-placed smallmindedness. But alas! You are entitled to your opinion. A shame that you don't feel that Israel is.
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
$eeker - I visited the Middle East regularly for over 20 years, including Israel, and lived in Lebanon and Jordan:
Before I did so, I too believed Israel could no wrong. I was soon shocked out of that naive idea.
Believe me, it is no fun to see the building across the street (a totally harmless library) blown up in front of your eyes, with three old scholars killed outright.
Nor is it fun to see Israeli fighters swoop low over your apartment, and release rockets intended for refugee camps behind you, and then for your daily cleaner to tell you about the loss of her son in that raid.
Nor is it fun to be chased up a street in Jerusalem by a mob of club-wielding Israeli police, because you happened to be strolling in the wrong place at the wrong time.
None of these incidents happened to me during a time of 'war'.
If I were you, I wouldn't compare the US's and Israel's 'peace' activities. Think Fallujah - how much were you told about what happened there?
Most of the rest of the world doesn't share your ill-informed opinions.
~$EEKER~ [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
But I am me and so I do compare. I have carried out US 'peace' activities and what we did was no less devastating. My ill-informed opinions come from a battlefield, not tourism. As long as there are men, the killing will never stop
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
$eeker - I don't know where your 'peace' activities took place on the battlefield, or when.
So far as I know, the US, with its immense expenditure on 'Defense', has not won a war since 1945 (except Grenada and Panama)
Soldiers obey orders; not their consciences. That was the standard response by Nazis at Nuremberg.
~$EEKER~ [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
The true casualties of war are the innocent. Both sides are guilty of that offense in all wars. It is all wrong... don't you see?
~$EEKER~ [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)
But just as we have the right to argue our opinions here, so does Israel have the right to choose it's response to an enemy, that had the right to choose it's response to an enemy. Deadly cycle
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
$eeker - "The true casualties of war are the innocent"
This was the message I tried to convey using a front-line photo by someone else.
'Men' don't fight wars on the most densely-populated area on earth from F16s, Apache helicopters, unmanned drones, white phosphorous, and cluster bombs.
'Sderot' is the photogenic victim town often quoted by Israel as being the major civilian target of 'Hamas rockets'. Rocket attacks on Israeli army bases nearby are not reported.
Read this, and get real:
Even in Sderot, Israelis Say No to Endless War
www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-horowitz/even-in- sderot-israe...
Not many know that Sderot was founded in 1950 on the razed remains of a Palestinian village, specifically so that Mizrahi (Oriental) Jews could be settled there, in the front line of the Zionist project.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot
If you ever meet one, ask a Mizrahi (Oriental Jew or Sephardi, ie Israeli Jewish nigger) how he feels about his Ashkenazi rulers.
Alessandro Sole (41 months ago | reply)
Hello just saw this and i'm with you
My heart goes with the innocents people that are been killed in these dark days.
one day and the hammer of justice will fall heavily on the guilty, i hope for this.
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
I feel that anything that can be done to publicise the awful obscenity of this one-sided and ruthless war is worthwhile.
I saw things like this in the Beirut refugee camps in 1974-5, long before the Israeli-sponsored massacre in those camps in 1982. So far, the guilty seem to have prospered.
nasirrehmank (41 months ago | reply)
Plz not trying to so much professional can any one feel that how pain full time she got, plz behave like a human being.
smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
I feel for this child, very, very much.
It is not her fault that her people voted freely for a government the Israelis don't like.
It is not her fault that her elder brothers may be trying to show defiance by shooting off firecrackers into the Negev desert, wherever they can.
She is the one who has been wounded, and she is the one every Western (and a lot of Eastern) government officials should be looking at, and saying:
'Why could we not keep this innocent child safe?'
amicotech (41 months ago | reply)
leurs crimes seront graver dans nos memoires
israel=terrorisme
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smallislander (41 months ago | reply)
This is one of the images I'm most happy to have posted, because it may have changed some perceptions
Thanks, all.
The original isn't mine; it came from: Rania Effa at:
www.flickr.com/photos/effarania/3163126714/
Who has been doing a fantastic job of documenting this slaughter at:
www.flickr.com/photos/effarania/
Where it is correctly attributed to Fadi Adwan of Getty Images. My apologies for omitting this originally, and thus abusing his copyright.. He deserves full credit for this photo. I don't.
And believe me, this carnage was carried out just to increase tthe votes for some parties in the February 10th elections in a certain shitty little Levantine country.
i'm muhammad added this photo to his favorites. (35 months ago)
punkrooster (30 months ago | reply)
where is the article for this? i think i have seen this picture. if its the same little girl, her parents were shot in the head by American soldiers at a checkpoint when they failed to stop i think. her and her sibling(s) were in the back of the car. thats not her blood, it her parents
smallislander (30 months ago | reply)
I took this photo, at the time of the Hannukah Massacre, from a Flickr account, and later added a correct attribution, to Fadi Adwan of Getty Images. I don't know the original article it illustrated.
It may well be a stock photo used in a different context at the time.
If it was American soldiers who did this (presumably in Iraq) then that is just as hideous a crime. War deaths amongst Iraqis have been about 1000 times as many, in 6 years, as in 3 short weeks in Gaza.
If only for this reason, perhaps the Israelis are somewhat justified in thinking the Goldstone Report was unfair to them. Why pick on us when others are committing bigger crimes?
In any case, I stand by my re-titling. Too many children (or their parents) have been massacred in both locales, and the use of this photo as 'propaganda' against these horrendous wars is, in my opinion, quite justified.
I could have shown many more photos of Gaza child victims, but this one seemed to epitomise the situation.
punkrooster (30 months ago | reply)
its not the girl i was thinking of. this is> i went back and found the article
news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_galler y/05/middle_...
smallislander (30 months ago | reply)
Thanks for your trouble - it can't be the same girl if two different photographers from the same agency were on the scene, competing (hardly likely).
Although I stole this photo from someone else, it is well up amongst my 'most views'. I hope it stays that way.
enhaka92 (24 months ago | reply)
sad
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