When Your Cause is Just, You Don’t Need Fake-Out Photos

VARDA EPSTEIN

The Israel Defense Forces blog just exposed the truth behind a photo that went viral on Twitter with over 300 retweets; the top tweet for the hashtag #Gaza . The photo depicts a bloodied little Gazan girl, lying dead in her father’s arms with her heartbroken mother looking on. The caption alleges the girl was killed during one of yesterday’s retaliatory IAF strikes. This is a LIE: the photo originates in 2006 and is unrelated to any Israeli action whatsoever. Reading about this, only one conclusion can and should come to mind: when your cause is just, you don’t need fake-out photos.

A Gory Fake-Out

They, the Gazan Arabs, want you to think that Israelis are monsters. But think about it: what kind of person has the imagination to concoct such a gory fabrication? And as long as you’re thinking along those lines, is this a person you want living in your neighborhood?

Israel threw 8,000 of its own people out of Gaza as a little experiment. You want a state side by side with the Jewish State? You want peace? You want self-rule? Here is a chunk of our land: knock yourselves out.

Side Dish of Irony

You want to order a side dish of irony with that? The number of rocketsthat have been launched from that territory—the very same territory from which we unilaterally threw out 8,000 of our own people in 2005 for the sake of peace—is over 8,000. In other words, just over one rocket launched per Jew we threw out of our own territory for PEACE. How’s that for symmetry?

And as awful as that reality is, especially for the former Gush Katif people who now live in caravillas and have no shelter from the barrage of rockets under which they currently find themselves, you won’t find fake-out photos emanating from the Israeli side of this conflict. Because—no buts about it—the Israelis are the good guys.

Israel is the one who sacrificed 8,000 people for peace and got 8,000 rockets instead.

Israel has no need to resort to false propaganda because her cause is JUST.

But you won’t read about it in CNN.

And that’s a fake-out, too.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-your-cause-is-just-you-dont-need-fake-out-photos/