re: #116 Cato the Elder

If the photo editor thought it was a fucking gun barrel, that would make the cropping even more suspicious, wouldn’t you say?

And the soldier is lying there with a bleeding wound to his groin. Where do you think that wound came from? A knife, perhaps?

And the cropping was done so the knife is just barely cut out of the picture. If the editor wanted a really dramatic shot, he would have cropped it in nearly the same way, but included the knife, to emphasize the potential connection between it and the wound.

Not doing so is about the best prima facie evidence of bad faith and an agenda that you could want, short of a statement by the editor.

I’d still like more information about what exactly happened on this ship.

The picture shows at least four people overpowering an IDF soldier, one of whom has a knife in his hand, though not gripped in an aggressive way. It seems like the intent was to take hostages and hold them for some kind of ransom? Obviously they weren’t attempting to kill these IDF, as 4 vs 1 with a knife could easily be deadly if that was the intent.

So they captured the IDF, brought them below deck, and tragically nine people died during the hostage recovery. It’s a FUBAR situation, but not exactly a massacre at a sit in, or something.