On this day 26 years ago, the world watched, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach- whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
The video of a young man in Jantar Mantar standing still and defiantly taking lathi blows and urging the police to beat him more and more is something to behold. The fear among the young seems to be vanishing.
RSS is now scared that it has come on the radar of US Commission on International Religious Freedom. If the US govt decides it can probe records of RSS activities/funding etc under its sanctions regime!
In Iran, pedophiles are hanged, in Cuba they are imprisoned for 30 years, in North Korea they are given the death penalty, but in the United States they become presidents.
Israel:
- bombs Iran
- bombs Lebanon
- commits genocide in Gaza
- violently ethnically cleanses the West Bank
- bombs Yemen
- bombs Syria
Western Politicians: “Iran is the biggest source of terrorism in the Middle East.”
Reuters announced today the launch of the Issam Abdallah Visual Journalist Fellowship, named in honor of the late Reuters visual journalist Issam Abdallah.
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