The boy - no older than five - was on a hospital bed. It must have happened very recently because there was still colour in his face. His eyes were closed and his expression - he can't have seen it coming, thank God - was serene. You might almost have imagined him asleep, if it weren't for the fact that his body was in bits: head and severed torso; an arm; legs and lower body; entrails.
Whoever did this, I thought, is really, really sick.
But I didn't mean the Israelis - who, I imagine, were the people I was expected to blame. Rather, I meant the sicko who scooped up the boy's remains while they were still fresh and insisted on laying them out, like some grotesque jigsaw, in order to snap them artfully for a propaganda shot. And also, all the sickos out there who have been reposting photos like these all over the internet in order to make what they seem to imagine is an unarguable point about Israel's war on Hamas.
"Oh, it isn't Israel's fault for blowing this small child into bloody rags, it's the PALESTINIANS' fault for daring to display these images that harm Israel's image! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN!" -- Nodding Yahoo
I would puke my guts out at this tripe but I can't afford to buy a replacement keyboard right now.
"Oh, it isn't Israel's fault for blowing this small child into bloody rags, it's the PALESTINIANS' fault for daring to display these images that harm Israel's image! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN! ISRAEL IS THE VICTIM HERE AGAIN!" -- Nodding Yahoo
I would puke my guts out at this tripe but I can't afford to buy a replacement keyboard right now.