There is a growing tradition fostered by Facebook and Instagram and other image-rich media outlets, to sum up complex an difficult situations with simplistic images that, if they were in words, would be a falsehood. The one I saw today was of a soldier, presumably Israeli, point his gun directly at a child’s head.
In WW2 after the D-Day landings the Allies murdered hundreds of thousands of French civilians trying to drive out the Germans, By war’s end two millions German civilians were dead. Some were murdered deliberately, just as the 76,000 British civilians had been in German bombing campaigns.
The image I refer too does not show a Hamas fighter between the solider and the child. Not An Egyptian politicians refusing to give safety to the child, nor Iran preaching that ever Muslim death is a good outcome in the attempt to destroy another country. It is amazing how easily images lie.
(for numbers of dead in WW2 visit the Imperial War Museum website)
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