From the Toronto Star:
JERUSALEM—The raw, gratuitous truth of a suicide bomb leaves behind images that until now played only in the minds of those first on the scene — images so extreme that by consensus, in the interest of human decency, the media simply will not show you.
On Thursday afternoon, just hours after the latest such attack killed another 10 bus riders in the downtown Jerusalem district of Rehavia, the Israeli government changed the rules.
Onto its foreign ministry Web site went video the likes of which has never been made public in the more than 100 suicide strikes since the onset of the Palestinian uprising in September, 2000.
Dismembered body parts lay splayed amongst the detritus of what were, moments earlier, elements of everyday Israeli life: a skullcap, a math textbook. Such were the scenes captured by a ministry employee with a handheld video camera.
"Israelis started their morning today having to face shocking pictures of dead commuters — victims of a yet another suicide bomber," said text accompanying the video. "The anti-terrorist fence could have prevented this massacre. ... All those who criticize Israel for building the fence should take a good look at this morning's pictures from Jerusalem."
I'm sure people looking for Internet copies of the video will -- sadly -- create the biggest video Google since Daniel Pearl's murder.
But that shouldn't stop you from clicking this link and reading the whole story.
> I'm sure people looking for Internet copies of the video
> will -- sadly -- create the biggest video Google since
> Daniel Pearl's murder.
I disagree with the tone of your comment. It makes me feel that the only reason somebody would get it is for some kind of "sick fun". I am sure there are a lot of people who download it exactly for this reason (just see the huge interest in the German cannibal case...) But there are other reasons. Yes, I downloaded the Daniel Pearl video, and I still have it. But I didn't get it to watch it over and over, and definitely not because I enjoy it. I have it (and others) to show people who doesn't realise what they are protecting. The problem is that people in the West have no clue how cruel the world outside is. Reading or hearing about a blown off leg, a bloody torso, or a severed head, is completely different from actually seeing one. Until people haven't confronted evil, they don't know what evil is. It is easy to protect the Palestinian Arabs that they are fighting a just war. But once you show the naysayers the pictures, the actual outcome of the Palestinian Arabs' actions, then it becomes far harder to protect them. Images and videos should be shown on news so the world knows whom we are facing.
I have the same problem talking with people who have some kind of "affection" to the Communist ideas (I am from an ex satellite of the Soviet Union). Whatever I say, they just shake their heads and don't believe it since with a sane mind, they just don't make sense. Sometimes I say "really, so you think Cuba is great? Then go and live there *AS A CUBAN* and give up your western citizenship". Of course, nobody will do it. But unless people actually confront evil, especially one they support, they don't know how horrific it is. Showing videos of the immediate aftermath of genocide bombing is one way to force people to face evil.
Vilmos
And what exactly is wrong about millions seeing that disgusting video in all its gore! All those disgusting apologists for the paleos should be forced to watch it every morning before breakfast !!
What the hell is "gratuitous truth"?
