A picture released by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) June 27, 2002 shows what they allege to be a photo of a Palestinian baby dressed like a suicide bomber. The IDF said they found the photo during a search in a house of a wanted Palestinian man from Hebron, where Israeli army tanks and helicopter gunships have been poundeding a Palestinan police building. REUTERS/HO/Israel Defence Forces ---- "When I grow up....." "oh wait...I won't be growing up, I'm about to be blown to baby bits"
i saw this earlier this morning....almost posted it...but decided it would be more fun to see how quickly someone else would!
I saw that too, but was too stunned. Can't we just nuke them all so they don't have to worry about blowing themselves up?
the people who took the photo said it was merely a joke, done at a party and being blown out of proportion.
Palestinians sure know how to make good jokes . Judging by the kid's eyes, he's thinking "What the f*ck is wrong with my family? Their all dressed in black with hoods and holding AK-47s. Instead of giving me toys, they give me sticks of TNT to play with. Who are the "Jews" they keep referring to and why the f*ck am I being pre-selected to be the first baby suicide bomber." Oh...but were only kidding...it's a joke...hahaha(but those are real explosives). One of the Palestinian personnel in the leadership equated it to British parents dressing up their kids in soccer uniforms. It that isn't the most flawed and worst comparison I've ever seen. One huge difference....soccer players aren't blowing up and murdering innocent civilians. Militants make me sick...all they do is talk tough rhetoric, blow sh*t up, create hatred, and now dress their babies up as bombs. Joke....I don't think they know the meaning of the word.
I think you need to try walking a mile in someone else's shoes before you insult and generalize a group of people and claim to know the scenario. I'm sure I would be thrilled having my family thrown out of my home and living my entire life in a refugee camp comprised of tents, run-down shelters, bad sanitation and uneducation, a breeding ground for disease of the body and mind. Because you are a Palestinian, whether you are Christian or Muslim, you cannot get a job, and you must carry "papers" wherever you travel, you have a curfew in the evening in which you will be shot if you don't follow and your family members are constantly killed by Israeli forces. You cannot vote, you do not have the basic principles that we live by: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Your people comprise the larges refugee base in the world. Tanks are STILL TODAY tearing down more houses to make larger Israeli settlements with Jewish immigrants coming from Russia, eastern Europe and America. You do not hate Jews, but do you hate Israel and its policies, YES. Does that mean that you go out and kill yourself, NO. In every population, every individual that faces this form of adversity will react in different ways with both sides having an extreme. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip became Occupied territories in 1967, but they did not start the resistance (with rocks) till the 1990's when they realized that the world would not help them. Now after all this time why should they even believe the world? We always hear the Isreali Military Approved news syndication, and profess anything else as terrorist propaganda. The Saudi Prince made a proposal for peace and treaties signed with every Arab nation if Israel gave a state to the Palestinians comprised of the occupied territories. Why wasn't this accepted?? Because of settlements that continue to grow to this day. If Israel really wanted peace as it alleges then it would not continue building settlements. The "peace process" is a sham on the Israeli side, and their ultimate goal seems to be to expel or kill of the rest of the palestinians and turn the occupied territories into parts of Israel. Yet in this slanted world we live in, they are the evil ones.....
Didn't we already go through this when we saw pictures of a few Palestinians celebrating after 9/11, only to find a couple of days later that it was staged and not at all representative of anything? I'm sure if you took a picture of a few people at Halloween dressed as Osama bin Laden, we could also make some wonderfully inaccurate generalizations about us Americans too.
the world is full of injustice....sending children in as suicide bombers is never justified....dressing your own baby up with bombs and explosives may be acceptable in that culture...it's reprehensible to me...you can talk all you want about the evil israelis, and on many points i will agree with you...none of that makes right what it is clearly wrong.
i thought about this....of course it may be a fake...i'm assuming it's real at this point until told otherwise.
Umm....you talking to me? I didn't make any generalization about any group of people. I just said militants make me sick for all the bad things they do...including now dressing up their babies as suicide bombers and calling it a joke...which is my opinion. Did I say something that was untrue? I don't believe I did. If your saying if I was in their shoes, then I would dress my baby up as a suicide bomber....I don't believe I would just like most Palestinians probably don't do this. It's nuts and how anyone finds that funny...I don't know. Yes, you can take this opportunity to tell us all over again about the injustices on the Israeli side and I do believe they bear a responsibility in this mess and are a part of the problem. They seem to kill innocent cilivians left and right...then call it a mistake. I agree that Israel is creating their own problems by continuing settlement building and the way they conduct themselves. I am certainly not pro-Israeli. But, I'm not pro-Palestinian either. Palestinian suicide bombings are so horrendous that the Israelis just point to this as their excuse for everything they do. Palestinians also have a certain arrogance with the way they conduct themselves that puts off the international community. If I had it my way, then I would stay out of this mess. But, my government continues to give large amounts of military and financial aid while condoning everything Israel does as "Israel has a right to defend herself". To an extent, this is correct. I also call this unwavering and blinded support for anything Israel does and I perceive this as a green light for anything Israel chooses to do....which in my opinion is wrong. If it were me, then I would take a more hard-line stance with Israel to produce results...something our government refuses to do. The worst our government will do is "call for" something to stop if they don't like it. Palestinians certainly have the right to defend themselves. However, suicide bombing is something I will never agree with....that is not self-defense...that is cold-blooded murder. Now, if Palestinians were fighting against Israeli soldiers and not targetting civilians on buses and restaraunts, then that is entirely different. They would then be fighting the military and occupation. That is not what their doing, though. It's not because they can't or don't have the weaponry...it's because they think they can make the most impact by killing civilians with suicide bombers. Ask Hamas...they said it themselves. Update: Oh....and I do believe it is fake as well. But, I wouldn't put it past them to go this far(making it real). I still think it is one of the most disgusting things I've ever had to witness.
Wow, some folks will go to any lengths to apologize for the obscene actions of alledgedly oppressed people. First of all, the THOUSANDS of Arabs who celebrated the September 11th attacks were caught on film by several news agencies. The Palestinian Authority slandered the Reuter's news crew by alledging the film was fake. You don't have to dig very deeply to find out the truth about that incident, unless of course the truth does not agree with your politics. http://cjonline.com/stories/091101/ter_arafat.shtml http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20010911/15741.html http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm The family who dressed their baby as a suicide bomber have admitted that it was a "joke". http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12012737,00.html Excuse me for not finding the humor in this situation.
First of all, the THOUSANDS of Arabs who celebrated the September 11th attacks were caught on film by several news agencies. The Palestinian Authority slandered the Reuter's news crew by alledging the film was fake. You don't have to dig very deeply to find out the truth about that incident, unless of course the truth does not agree with your politics. http://cjonline.com/stories/091101/ter_arafat.shtml http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20010911/15741.html http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm Ummm, what does any of this show? These are articles are exactly the overreaction on 9/11 referred to above. The first two were published on 9/11, the last is not even relevent to what I was talking about. A couple of days after these articles, we learned that this was not at all representative of the majority of Palestinians' views. That was my point. Are there ridiculous people in the Palestinian areas? Absolutely. Should we judge everyone there based on the actions of these nuts? I would hope not. The family who dressed their baby as a suicide bomber have admitted that it was a "joke". http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/...2012737,00.html Excuse me for not finding the humor in this situation. Lots of people in America dressed up as Osama less than 2 months after 9/11 (Halloween). I guess we should judge all Americans by those few also?
anyone seen the Eminem video "Without Me"? he didn't just dress up, but made lots of $$ off of it... now what does that say about Americans?
