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In the Eye of the Beholder

Sitting on the few cushions remaining in the small hilltop house [Hammad's] mother Samya, 42, complied with photographers who clamoured for her to pose with a poster but the house was unadorned with militant propaganda.
Why would 'photographers' want to portray an image that doesn't reflect reality? to demonstrate cold glorification of senseless murder?

β€œHe was a hero and I am proud of Samir but I have suffered from his loss,” she said of her eldest son.

β€œI have seen their soldiers killing our children and destroying our home, making everything bad, so how can I see them sympathetically or kindly?”

The woman is in pain - just like the pain Israelis or Americans feel at the loss of their sons. Or, is that too in the eye of the beholder?

1 Comments:

At Wednesday, April 19, 2006, Blogger Red Tulips said...

The woman's pain is real, no doubt. But her son is no hero, and elevating him as such is repulsive. Suicide bombing - aiming at women and children - is a cruel, cruel tactic to use, and never justified against women and children - who the Palestinian suicide bombers routinely aim for. It is also an unfair battle tactic against a soldier, but at least you can claim some justification if it is only the soldier they go after for.

 

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