Little Green Footballs

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

LGF losing its vigilance

Charles Johnson has uncovered another example of French perfidy: a Paris Match photographer taking pictures of an Iraqi resistance group firing a missile at a DHL cargo plane (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9072_Our_Allies_the_French). The picture appears on Yahoo News. But Charles failed to say anything about the next picture in the slideshow, which shows a nine-year-old Palestinian boy who died in the southern Gaza Strip after being shot in the head by the Israeli army (see below). Presumably you just overlooked that one, eh Charles?





NB: As it now turns out, the boy, Hani Selim al-Rabayah, was not shot by the IDF at all, but by his brother, according to CBC. What is interesting is that, once this became known, the story was suddenly newsworthy to the Little Green Racists: Sudden rejoicing in death and comments a la 'Palestinian shoots Palestinian. All is well, cliches confirmed.' (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9117#c0007) Had initial reports of the boy's assassination by the IDF remained true, it would not, of course, have been of interest to LGFers and chief Charles.

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