Monday, March 14, 2011

Should The Pictures of the Fogel Family Victims Been Released?

Minister Edelstein said yes and Minister Herzog said no.  I took a middle course.

I did not publish the pictures of the terror victims but did provide the direct link.

But there are discussions out there.

One at Wikipedia.

And there's this story at Ynet:

Foreign bloggers vow to report other angles

Among the unfamiliar faces that arrived at the West Bank settlement of Itamar following the massacre of the Fogel family were members of a group of American and Canadian bloggers who arrive in the Holy Land upon an invitation from the Foreign Ministry, and sought to cover the Israel beat from an angle that is different from that of the foreign media.

Chuck DeVore of California...explained that Israel is depicted around the world as Goliath, while the Palestinians are presented as the underdog. He cited a Los Angeles Times article, which reported that the attack on the Fogel family came as revenge for the uprooting of olive trees and the burning of Palestinian cars by settlers. "The LA Times implied in their article that the Jews instigated their own killing," Devore later wrote in a Twitter message.

...Claire Berlinski, an American Jew who lives in Istanbul, Turkey called on the Israeli government to take a more aggressive approach towards the publicizing the attack. She said that releasing powerful material, such as the photographs of the attack victims' bodies, to the international media will help change the attitude that prevails in the international community towards Jews.   Tim Mak, a Canadian residing in Washington, D.C., on the other hand, claimed that Israel invests too much in English-language press.
The bloggers' host in Judea and Samaria, David Ha'ivry, stated that he would have preferred to receive the group during "normal days," in order to show them Samaria's thriving development, education and agriculture fields. "It's good that they saw that the settlers are not Satan, as the foreign media presents them, and sometimes as the Israeli media presents them, as well," he added.

Ha'ivry, who directs the Samaria Liaison Office, said he contemplated releasing the pictures of the slain children, and finally decided to do so after the pictures were approved for publication. "If the heads of the state acted responsibly, we would not have needed such abject means of justifying ourselves to the world."

And this story.


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

no...because it is the arab way of doing things...for they have no concept of kavod hames

because the left has now taken to using it to condemn israel...but never said the same against the arabs who have done it for years

there was no point in releasing the pictures....it will not change jew hate to love

Juniper in the Desert said...

I do not think the terrible pictures of the murders should EVER have been released, for the following reasons:
The enemy will gloat over the pictures. They are worse than animals and take great delight in the sight of blood that they have spilled! Why give them the satisfaction? I have a picture of the arab murderers of those 2 Israeli soldiers, being cannibals with their body-parts.
Those pictures show the private agony of innocent people and children. What right do we have to show this, as if it was some porn on TV?? I understand the agony of the family,but the enemy is the opposite of them, they have no concept of any kind of honour or decency.
I agree with the above person. It will make no difference, except to expose Jews pain even more, to the pervert sadists.

aparatchik said...

IMO it shows a lack of respect for the dead.

Morey Altman said...

This is what I wrote a few days ago:

Photos of the Itamar victims are beginning to make the rounds and so this issue is one I've had to consider in its larger context. I'm not going to look at the photos, not because I cannot but because the dissemination of images of bloody corpses is a deliberate strategy of death cults and apocalyptic, totalitarian regimes that know they can provoke powerful emotions rather than engage in reasoned debate. Instead, I will take a few moments throughout the day to look at the smiling faces of the family members, happy and content with their lives and their decision to live in the Jewish heartland. That decision was not a mistake, and I don't want to feel that it was, a possible emotional response to the photos. Today, I will dwell on the adherence to a faith that brought them joy, and not the one that ended it.

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