In the morning -- when all the camera crews and newsmen were awake the enemy rushed them to the scene of *staged* devastation.
And waited for the echo chamber to start up.
Woldstar's post was aid and assistance to the enemy. It may be a volunteer post, but her post is the agitprop that was "over the top".
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html
Someone else has taken the time to analyse the images...
"Whatever else, the event in Qana was a human tragedy. But the photographs do not show it honestly. Rather, they have been staged for effect, exploiting the victims in an unwholesome manner. In so doing, they are no longer news photographs - they are propaganda. And, whoever said the camera cannot lie forgot that photographers can and do. Those lies have spread throughout the world by now and will be in this morning's newspapers, accepted as real by the millions who view them."
That is a despicable statement. And I will note that the post I most strenuously objected to was removed by the mods, so I am pleased they agreed with me.
And given your posts over this matter, we have nothing to discuss. Most of us understand fully why Wolfstar posted those photographs; it's lamentable that you seemingly do not.
Bvw, you most definitely are NOT right. Your blind hatred is precisely what's wrong here and elsewhere. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that aids the enemy in asking for prayer for the souls of dead children, no matter whose children they are, or in using photographs widely available via legitimate news sources.
In fact, if memory serves, I did a photo thread for the children of Beslan. I'd done a graphic photo thread on the victims of the 9/11/01 terror attacks. I am a firm believer -- very firm believer -- in pulling back the veil to reveal the true human costs of war. I've been among those disgusted with how our own news media has soft-pedaled images of the 9/11/01 attacks.
I made it quite clear that this thread is not about placing blame (there are plenty of threads available to do that), but about pausing for just a moment to express compassion for the loss of babies and young children. When we can no longer do that, we have lost something far more precious than our lives and our freedom. We have lost our humanity.
I am no peacenick nor an apologist for radical Islam. I want to see the Islamofacist movement crushed utterly wherever it exists in this world. But I'll be damned if I cross a line into such hatred and venom that the deaths of small children -- Israeli, Lebanese, American, Russian, British, any nationality -- will fail to touch my heart.
Judging by the majority of posts on this thread, few here on FR either understood my point or simply didn't agree with it. That's what discussion is for, to bring such issues out into the light of day -- frankly, where they reveal who and what we are as a people. I tried my best to respond to most with kindness and understanding, and to a few (such as yourself) with the dismissiveness they deserved.
Although I can't say I'm surprised, I must say the cold-heartedness expressed by so many on this thread is truly stunning. The thread is filled with defensive rationales for how the tragedy could not be what it seemed. Was the Qaran tragedy a set up? Maybe. Perhaps likely. The thread also has a number of posts which say the person simply does not care about the deaths of these children. Some people even expressed a degree of pleasure because the kids are dead -- because they are Muslim and would grow up to be suicide bombers. In many Muslim homes, the exact same thing is said when Israeli and/or American children are killed.
And so it goes...
Do such tragedies happen in war? Yes, of course! I detest so-called precision warfare, preferring to get it on furiously so as to end it totally and as fast as possible. Those who wage guerrilla warfare -- which is what the Islamofacists are doing around the world -- love indecision in their enemies. I think it is a mistake for us and for Israel to wage a "soft" war. But those are the mistakes of the adults. The small children are innocent.
So again, this thread was not intended for such discussions. There are plenty of other threads and plenty of time for such discussions. The question examined in this thread is actually much larger than the war in the Middle East, because it examines our own humanity.