This is certainly an interesting turn of events. Check out the caption to this photo on the newswire this morning. I won't reproduce the whole thing here, for obvious reasons, so allow me to highlight the key phrase:
...Israeli police are holding the body of Abu Dheim until his family agrees to hold a low-key funeral without media coverage...
I've long railed against
media-driven funerals, and have repeatedly accused the press of
encouraging this type of behaviour (even when
said "funeral" is
purely for show).
This, however, is the first time I can recall seeing the State of Israel actually try to take
pro-active measures to
stop these propaganda-driven parades of
crocodile tears. It's definitely a positive development, even if Israel
is being a bit inept in its approach to the subject.
After all, if Israel were
half as "ruthless" as its ever-paranoid detractors
think it is, don't you think it would've done something a bit more... well,
ruthless? For instance, if I were the "ruthless dictator" type, I would've burned the body, mixed the ashes in with some good, old-fashioned lard, and delivered it back to the family in a can of Crisco.
With a bow on top.
With that alternate in mind, don't you think that the Palestinians should show a
little bit of appreciation that someone in the Israeli state still thinks that "playing nice" with people who
want to eradicate them will somehow make people like them?
Intifada
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