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Thursday, September 2 2004Grisly front-page Times photo
"We acknowledge that the picture is unusually violent and grisly. Our editors thought long and carefully before choosing it for the front page," the paper said in a statement Wednesday morning. "They concluded that the picture was an appropriate way of depicting the horror of the latest violent turn in the Middle East, with 14 civilian victims and an apparent end to a six-month period of relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians." While most such photos draw attention to the macabre injuries themselves, this one seems to capture the larger pathos of the civilian victim, and the utter horror that is terrorism -- the sign underneath her outstreached arms is an advertisement for buying a multi-use bus pass: '2 Free Rides with the New Punch-card'
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» Sickening destruction of people from Cheeseorgy CommentsThe Times made the right decision. The picture is worse than words than can describe. But up until now the media has given very sterile coverage to Palestinian war crimes. LET the world understand that people are being destroyed here. Let the world see the horror of these attacks. To see these are people like anyone else being massacred. I commend the Times for making this decision. I would like to see someone trying to excuse this war crime with this photo in their face. http://stage.co.il/media/largefiles/doribenisraelkario299562.wmv Horror Reality - Terror in Israel A harsh video portraying the human cost of Palestinian terror. Help spread this. Maybe the world needs these pictures,to really see what terrorist attacks are like,and to wake up to the danger of Terror. Maybe the world needs these pictures,to really see what terrorist attacks are like,and to wake up to the danger of Terror. Thank God someone's publishing the pictures, after all, they published the "horrific" pictures taken at Abu Ghraib... which fades into insignificance with a reality like the bus bombings! It is about time. The west did not accept the reality of the death camps until the actual liberation of the camps. The West had to see the horror, upfront and personal, only then could the West grasp the truth of what stared back. Who is she, who was she? I am so shattered by this image, yet I am glad it was printed, front page. To see that delicate small hand hang lifeless out that window, the blood trailing down the side of the bus, it is heartbreaking. Tear your eyes away for a moment to the left, see the charred remains of a headless body. The mental scar will never heal, remember that there are so many victims that cannot be show because their bodies are so mangled and weep. All I can say in conclussion is IT IS ABOUT TIME THE WORLD SEES THIS!! SHE WAS A CHILD, NOT AN ENTITY AND DAMN THEIR SOULS TO HELL FOR CELEBRATING HER DEATH! The first time I saw this photo, I was shocked and offended. My little cousins and other children are seeing this too. Then I realized that although I am still shocked and offended, that is a good thing as is running this photo. I mourn the loss of this life cut short but too often we are inundated with stories from Israel and become cynical and hard about the terrorist bombings and deaths. This photo jars us back to realizing that suicide bombings kill people indiscriminantly and here is the photo to prove it. Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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