Today is one of those days where I am simply overwhelmed with stacked-up work - and, therefore, you are getting a URL I want you to imprint on your psyche.
It is the picture of a little boy before a tank - and if you want to know the odds of Palestinians against the Israelis, think of the odds against that little boy in his short life. Just think of this visual image!
A cyber fighter sent me this with the following introductory words:
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Writing from Lisbon, Portugal, the redoubtable A.S. Marques red-flags for me a URL for a most remarkable photograph that, I think we will agree, deserves to be better-known. That of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy facing down a tank.
See:
http://www.newstimes.com/archive2000/nov24/wof.htm
A.S. Marques:
I, for one, don't recall having seen it before.
Truth before our eyes. No need for mythical contexts. Truth is more powerful than all the world's myths put together, and it may even win in the end.
This is indeeed an amazing photo, taken squarely from the side of the boy facing the menacing giant, not necessarily out to kill him personally, but menacing nevertheless and a very real risk. A larger copy would be nicer, of course, but this one is already quite powerful. I don't like lies, historical, biblical or otherwise. However, I will readily agree with Shamir's line that the photo does have a tremendous potential.
The boy was killed with a bullet through the neck a few days later, which increases the true significance of the photo: the boy's courage and the lack of response of the World around him. I don't believe he had got hold of a Kalashnikov in the meantime or that he looked any more like a human walking bomb than he does here...
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Thought for the Day:
"What's ironic is that Communism exists, but not in Russia. It is the West that is Communist, and it doesn't even recognise the fact."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)