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Photo of Hamas terrorists parading Shani Louk’s body wins top award, sparking outrage
New York Post ^ | March 28, 2024 | Emily Crane

Posted on 03/28/2024 5:37:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A sickening image of Hamas terrorists parading a slain woman’s near-naked body through the streets of Gaza has been awarded a prestigious photo-of-the-year prize — sparking fierce outrage from those who slammed the win as “an outrageous desecration of Jewish life.”

The grim photo featuring Shani Louk’s body was among a collection of 20 images that helped the Associated Press secure first place in one of the Pictures of the Year International award categories earlier this month. The awards, which are run by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, are self-described as being the world’s oldest photojournalism competition.

News of the AP’s win in the “Team Picture Story of the Year” category prompted widespread backlash on social media, with some slamming the accolade and the use of Louk’s image as an “outrageous desecration of Jewish life.”

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To: Eagle Forgotten

Thank you for those comments from her father. Just on reading the headline I figured that it was a good photo to be selected. Not that the photo is all that good - but it sure tells a story. Or at least the beginning of a story that is still being told.


41 posted on 03/28/2024 10:22:23 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: frank ballenger

Didn’t the Supreme Court overturn that law?


42 posted on 03/28/2024 10:46:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: buwaya; wardaddy

Are you an academic?

Usually your sort of poor judgement is found in people who live sheltered lives.

That killing took place in the middle of urban combat in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. Combatants don’t get arrested, they get shot. Combatants purposely not wearing uniforms get executed. We did exactly that in WWII with German soldiers in the US.


43 posted on 03/28/2024 11:01:38 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

I had no idea that was the back story of that famous photo. Thank you.


44 posted on 03/28/2024 11:06:56 PM PDT by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: Pelham; buwaya; ChronicMA; DesertRhino

The sole survivor of Lém’s alleged killing of Tuân’s family was Huan Nguyen; aged nine at the time, he was shot three times during the attack that killed his family and stayed with his mother for two hours as she bled to death.

In 2019, he became the highest-ranking Vietnamese-American officer in the U.S. military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.

- Wikipedia


45 posted on 03/28/2024 11:19:44 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: griswold3

True. Sad but true.


46 posted on 03/28/2024 11:38:58 PM PDT by Menes
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To: Uncle Miltie

Find all four of those savages and kill them.

Then kill their families.

Every last one.

L


47 posted on 03/29/2024 3:53:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Pelham

I am not an academic, I am a retired engineer/engineering manager.

As such I am accustomed to making dispassionate analyses - in my world of building and running complex systems (me and my colleagues were very much of the the tribe of “those that do”) this is essential.

This is a case of a passionate reaction. In my professional world that must be avoided like the plague. It gets in the way of trouble-shooting, design and implementation of solutions. And vastly more so in an emergency.

Kiplings poem “IF” is the core of us -
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if-—


48 posted on 03/29/2024 5:59:08 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
As I said, the Vietnamese officers reaction was, on a personal level, completely understandable. However, it still was not according to the laws of civilized nations. The terrorist was already in custody and available to face formal justice.

The mindless mantra "We're better than that" doesn't apply in a hot war; that is, unless your objective is to get your arse kicked ... kicked hard! Cheers!

49 posted on 03/29/2024 6:31:12 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: glennaro

We are certainly not “better than that”.
We think what we think, and those thoughts in themselves are sins. Thinking about shooting that creature is already a sin, and a fit point to bring up in confession. I have no aspiration to become sinless.

The point of it all is utilitarian. It is a matter of habitual discipline, directed, in war, to specific political goals. Victory matters more than anything, more than personal passion, more than personal survival. One captured, non-dangerous terrorist more or less matters not at all, he is an irrelevant cipher, a number in a prison camp. If one makes the creature a martyr he is no longer a cipher, and that detracts from your goal of victory.

We are not machines. Under the strain of fatigue, fear and tragedy we can let passion direct us. But that submission to passion is still a failure.


50 posted on 03/29/2024 9:01:11 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: nickcarraway

Not just one law. I didn’t know at first. Some upheld, some curtailed.
Here is a Freedom Forum summary.

https://www.freedomforum.org/son-of-sam-laws/


51 posted on 03/29/2024 4:19:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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