I have begun working with a large group of image files---mostly news photographs taken in the immediate aftermath of many recent long-range rocket attacks that have been launched against Israel, supposedly by her enemies from across the border in Gaza, which were taken by a certain Edi Israel, and which he maintains on a public web site, where he attempts to market them at a profit, called israelnewsphotos.com. I think a number of them will be helpful in eventually seeing the self-wounding nature of Israel's false-flag attack of almost all of these attacks, the ones Israel is responsible for undertaking, but which then also used as justification for its latest bloody excursion into Gaza territory.
But a group of ten photographs represent something distinctly different, a no-less important aspect to Israeli behavior, which is coming distinctly into focus now. It is a separate tale, which I will tell here now.
Rather than falsely attributing responsibility for bad actions that Israel takes itself against itself, while publicly blaming them on third parties, in order to create rationals and justifications for retaliatory actions that Israel can take against those third parties, like its Palestinian enemies of Hamas
The first 10 images are from a terrible episode which occurred on August 2, 2008, when Hamas and Fatah did battle, "prompting" Israel to open its border and rescue the fleeing Fatah members, nine of whom were killed, with dozens more wounded, we are told, and which we can see with some clarity, in an unprecedented display of Israeli compassion for young Palestinian men of fighting age.
Clearly, Fatah was working as Israel's agents, and the verb I would choose is "necessitating" their salvation from Hamas's bloodthirsty ideological revenge. But it is here that we come up against one of Israel's central moral failings. In attempting to subvert Hamas, the democratically elected government of Gaza, by using the classic Machiavellian tools of intrigue, subterfuge, split loyalties, and such, Israel is responsible for those layers of violence it engendered. What was the deal motivating Fatah? Financial, I'd suspect, and Hamas comes out on top as morally superior to both Israel and Fatah.
You couldn't come up with better pictorial evidence for these levels of nefarious corruption and behind-the-scenes dealings Israel indulged in. It is the only explanation for what we see taking place. And if the seen element is as grotesquely immoral, so that as Israel literally cares not if the world sees, do you imagine the unseen element is more moral and less gruesome in its orgy of violence? That would be the hopeful fantasy of a child.
And Israel insists on continuing with that enforced nudity the larger public first glimpst in the tortures at Abu Gharab. That is not the way I played army man when I was a little boy---whether I was ever Jap or Kraut. The blindfolds are disinformation. These men were being rescued from certain death, not being taken into custody as a cursory look might lead us to believe.
Do you see how much Edi cares? He simply repastes the same caption 10 times---even with a glaring spelling error atop it. (He only misspells his own website's name once.)
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
was added 174 Days Ago and viewed 53 times Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Neither of the two pictures above show a blindfolded man, although the caption tells us differently. The wonderful image below is a hybrid, often proof of authenticity in my book.
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members.photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members.photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles between the Hamas and Fatah movements, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. photo by Edi Israel / israelnewsphotos.com
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Israeli soldiers guiard a blindfolded Palestinian man who had escaped to the border with Israel at a military base near Kibbutz Nahal-Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2008 Photo by Edi Israel / IsraelNewsPotos.com
Hamas comes out on top as morally superior to both Israel and Fatah - you are a joke, sir.
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