Okay, I have been digging. It's literally a random photo from "cute Muslim toddlers" online photo stocks that have been circulating for many years. We need an actual investigation of all the data of the "killed" children. Hamas and @nytimes are literally trolling the world
Update: after going over the posts, the old posts don't actually say the girl was killed. I looked closely and they are jus postings of cute children from 2016 and 2017. So the child in this image may be a young teenager now. Theoretically speaking, it could be that the
Last update: The photo is most definitely a fake photo which could be traced to work of photographer in West Bank's Ramalah from Oct 2015. My original post was inaccurate that the photo was used before in a previous conflict, its still fake! m.facebook.com/59517523725781…
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The entire issue of the fake photo in the dead children lineup is only meant to point out the clear anti-Israel media bias that got so bad in places like NYT that it can unwittingly gulp down any propaganda from antisemitic terrorist organizations without due diligence fact /1
check. The media is getting disgusting. Such behavior is an insult to the decency of both the living and the dead and endangers the legitimately horrified feeling one should get from the idea of dead children. Having said all of that, this is not meant at all as a way to push /2
aside the fact that a war did happen in which innocent children lost their lives thanks to the terrorists organization Hamas that is dehumanizing both Palestinians and Israelis with its using of one population as a shield and the other as a target. I wish journalits would stick/3
I feel awful we are forced to look at pictures of children and then wonder if they are real stories or fake instead of just feeling the tragedy. But this is the price we pay for presence of deception and lies. The Arabic media and internet world is literally an ocean of deceit /1
Pictures of children and adults are deceptively used with lies in order to emotionally manipulate Arab and Muslim crowds into supporting certain political causes or hating other people. Growing up in Egypt, there were pamphlets like that all the time. Claiming that /2
Cokecola is buying bullets of Zionist soldiers to kill Muslim babies and all kind of other stories with pics of dead people. People would casually volunteer to stage photos meant to inflame religious senses. Before, I thought as globalization does its work, such behavior
When I was a child, I loved Lord the Rings. It was like a Bible to me. I didn't know why, but I just loved it. The older I get the more I discover why I loved it, and discover the absolute literary genius and moral uprightness of Tolkein. The book was like a Bible to me because/1
it is indeed a modern reworking of a major Biblical theme, the insatiable sickness of power-hunger at the heart of men. The ring which symbolizes the absolute power with which so many men and women are obsessed is a ring for a reason, it can not be shared, it cannot be /2
diffused, and it seduces anyone even good people. Even Gandalf, the symbolic representation of wisdom and prophecy, is tempted to take it to use it for good, but he knows that absolute power corrupts absolutely and the fantasy of absolute power has to be destroyed. The same /3
An incredible number of humans have an ugly sickness called power and domination hunger. They will do anything to have power over others and dominate them. If one weapon fails in making us dominate others, say white supremacy, we will throw it out and pick critical theory /1
This happens everywhere. In the ME, when Arab nationalism failed in making Arabs dominate, it was thrown out and then we grew beards and picked up Islam. We started asking for power not in the name of Arabness but in the name of Allah. The same freakin' thing happened in /2
the USA. After moral supremacy failed and many couldn't dominate others because of race, moral supremacy, wokeness, and critical theory were picked up. Those ideologies are nothing but tools of the same old domination but through different means. You cant miss the sick /3
One of Judaism's founding stories is that of the sacrifice of Abraham. In this story, the grand author thought to do an extremely complex process, to affirm the value of sacrifice yet to negate the concept of human child sacrifice at the same time. To reverse the cognitive /1
culture and affirm human life as a value to which one makes sacrifices and not the other way around. Given the Canaanite historical context, this was revolutionary since child sacrifice was common in Canan. This was one of the early contrarian positions of Judaism against the /2
"mass culture." The monotheistic solitary position against paganism and the high price that comes with it became an indelible character of Judaism and the Jewish people. Millennia later, and we are stuck in the same situation. Israel insists on affirming the value of life to /3
Gradual and consequential cultural changes throughout the last decades created a clear shift in American-led global culture from a word-based culture to symbol and image-based culture in which doing politics through symbols is becoming more expedient. American culture is /1
starting to gradually resemble that of the Middle East. As such a shift moves further, Palestinian symbolism will become more intelligible to wider segments of Western societies than arguments for Israel. Pro-Palestinian activists, and even Palestinians, are already /2
capitalizing through the strategic deployment of symbolic values such as the name of George Floyd, or symbolic references such as BLM, equality and so on. If such a trend continues it will be extremely difficult to try to make any empirical or fact based arguments for the/3