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Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 9:44:38 am PDT

The family of the baby suicide bomber has confirmed that the photo is genuine. “It was a joke. A JOKE. What are all you Westerners so upset about?”

A Palestinian journalist in the Hebron area said she did not believe the picture was a fake and expressed surprise at the furor it caused in Israel.

"I can find you many, many photos like this," she told DPA. "Many kids imitate adults and wear toy masks and guns, especially during marches. It's not strange at all.

She added that she had seen children as young as the one in the photograph wearing similar costumes.

"In our society it happens a lot. It's a kind of phenomenon," she said, adding blue eyes were also not rare in Hebron.

See? No big deal. Not strange at all.

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J Lichty Fri, Jun 28, 2002 7:51:53am

I think it is their attempt at the Jedi mind trick:

Dead Jews, baby-murderers, these aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.

Eric the CR Fri, Jun 28, 2002 7:52:34am

Here is the SkyNews report:

[Link: www.sky.com...]

CmdrNacho Fri, Jun 28, 2002 7:57:37am

"Many kids imitate adults and wear toy masks and guns, especially during marches. It's not strange at all."

Kids imitating adults is one thing and a different issue onto itself. A child barely old enough to walk being dressed by his parents as if he were going to blow himself up and murder innocents is a slightly different matter.

Perhaps the parents thought they could get an advance payment on some of that martyr loot...

Eric the CR Fri, Jun 28, 2002 8:01:31am

Line from the above report:

"The photograph was taken some time ago at a party when someone dressed up the cutest baby as a suicide bomber," one relative said.

So they were having the Avon lady over for tea and deceded to have a spontaneous "cuttest suicide bomber" contest?

Coming next to Palistan!

For teens: Tiger Dead-Beat with pictures of the cutest boys to ever blow themselves up!

For adults: Miss Palistan Beauty Pagent, the winner (virginity required) gets the honor of becoming one of the "72" for some lucky martyr!

Where Monty Python when you need him?

Eric the CR Fri, Jun 28, 2002 8:02:49am

Don't mind the spelling -- I can't type and spell at the same time...

Robert Crawford Fri, Jun 28, 2002 8:23:12am

Well, Eric just added ANOTHER movie to my list to watch this weekend -- "Life of Brian".

Laurence Simon Fri, Jun 28, 2002 8:25:47am

Wait... um...

Is this another Charles Grodin trick or something? He and Andy Kauffman can be so confusing sometimes with their discomfort performance style, you know.

J Lichty Fri, Jun 28, 2002 8:44:57am

The Skynews article originally linked by the CR, reads more like a Palestinian propoganda piece.

One would expect any editorializing by a reporter would be to the tune of "this is horrible" "how can a society even view this as a 'joke'" type nature, however in true birtish media fashion, it is once again a platform for decrying the desperation of the palestinians.

The picture went around the world and became a symbol of despair for all those who want peace in the Middle East.

Sky then of course takes the opportunity to make sure that people know that the Palestinians have no choice but to engage in suicide bombings:

the tactic of suicide bombing is highly successful, and is perhaps the only tool the Palestinians have to fight the heavily-equipped Israelis.

The we finally get some acknowledgement that the suicide bombings actually have human consequences, as Sky notes that 26 Israelis have been killed this month in "back-to-back" suicide bombings.

Finally, Bush had the gall to make his demands of the Palestinians at the G8 summit.

[D]espite reports of a serious rift between Britain and Washington over President Bush's call for Yasser Arafat to stand down.

Good ole' two-step Tony Blair. Tells his wife one thing and Bush another.

Way to go sky, another fine piece of British journalism.

Eric the CR Fri, Jun 28, 2002 9:17:52am

Also, the Meaning of Life...

About SkyNews --its owned by Rupert Murdoch and is a sister channel to Fox News. Go figure!

Robert Crawford Fri, Jun 28, 2002 9:24:14am

Hmmm... I remember the "Crack Palestinian Suicide Squad" from Life of Brian, but don't remember anything quite as appropriate in Meaning of Life.

Besides, I've already got "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles" on the list in honor of the British theater company that decided to put on "The Bellringer of Notre Dame" so as to not offend hunchbacks.

Eric the CR Fri, Jun 28, 2002 9:34:46am

Robert,

You know I wasn't even trying to be that clever. I've only seen Life once and it was a while back. I'm a Flying Circus/Quest(required in college)/Meaning man myself.

I will rent that movie as well...

Robert Crawford Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:30:57am

Well, the capital punishment scene is worth the rental. To me, at least.

Michael Glazer Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:34:26am

I love how liberals still haven't learned from Martin Luther King

"Do not judge one on the color of thier skin but rather by the content of thier character"

amir Fri, Jun 28, 2002 11:55:56am

Could be the entire suicide bombing campaign was JUST A JOKE ?

C'mon, guys, we were only kidding. You fell for it ?

Joseph Alexander Norland Fri, Jun 28, 2002 2:32:29pm

I saw the picture which is the subject of this thread while I was working on reason #92 why the Palestinians should NOT have a sovereign state. Well, this picture is worth 1000 reasons. How can Israel ever tolerate a sovereign state at its borders, when this is the way its citizens are being indoctrinated?

Autonomy - yes; sovereignty - never.

zulubaby Fri, Jun 28, 2002 4:28:37pm

Best one I've heard so far...

From MSNBC.com

“People dressed this child up as a suicide bomber just as in people in Britain might dress a child in their favorite soccer team’s strip,” said Palestinian Labor Minister Ghassan al-Khatib.

Yes, it's exactly the same

zulubaby Fri, Jun 28, 2002 4:29:09pm

[Link: www.msnbc.com...]

Evan_the_Bored Fri, Jun 28, 2002 7:55:05pm

Thanks zulu. Ya kinda wish the Pals would get their stories straight, don't ya? The officials delare the pic as a forgery, yet the parents insist that it's real!

Good G-d, the lunatics are running the asylum!!!

zulubaby Fri, Jun 28, 2002 11:09:50pm

Another heartwarming story of a mother's love for her son.

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

Evan_the_Bored Sat, Jun 29, 2002 12:02:27am

A terrific article by Reuben Chapple of New Zealand on the REAL Yasser Arafat. Stop what you're doing and check this beauty out:

[Link: www.pastornet.net.au...]

Well?

Evan_the_Bored Sat, Jun 29, 2002 1:21:40am

Something:

[Link: microsites.nme.com...]