Maybe the bombs that destroyed the home of the 8-year-old girl in the southern Lebanon village of Ayta Chaeb, quoted by an AP reporter from her hospital bed in Tyre, were autographed by little Israeli girls. Maybe they were decorated with hearts and Stars of David. Maybe they said “from Israel with love.”
The Jerusalem Post confirmed the authenticity of the photos of Israeli children autographing shells destined for Lebanon. More collateral damage: the corruption, the militarization, of the young. The photos, making the rounds online, brought to my mind, in their sweetly innocent horror, pictures from a book called Without Sanctuary. This coffee-table book from hell, published six years ago, is a stunningly graphic compilation of old lynch mob postcards from the American South, some of which showed little white children dressed up in their Sunday best, smiling at the camera while a black man dangled from a tree limb or lamp post several feet away.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Huffington Post on those bomb-decorating photos
I think this issue was disposed of some time ago:
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