Monday, December 12, 2011

Karl Vick's Latest Vilification Atrocity

The headline of Karl Vick's latest media atrocity is

How Not to Deal with Non-Violence: A Death in the West Bank

on the death of an Arab protestor who was violently attacking Israel security forces with rocks, and chasing an Army vehicle with intent to cause physical injury.

Here, see the picture TIME doesn't show.

And here's Vick's story:-

...In Nabi Saleh, nothing can be attacked by remote control. Usually, the protesters march toward the soldiers. The soldiers move toward the marchers. Sometimes a rock is thrown first. During lulls, Israeli activists get into the soldiers’ faces, usually asking terse questions, sometimes shouting. On Friday, according to the activists, Israeli forces made the first move, sounding a siren and firing canisters of tear gas high into the air, aimed upwind, to blow toward the demonstrators.

...Activists carry cameras as well, assuring Mustafa Tamimi a well-documented death. In the frames published online, the young man, a distant relative of Bassem Tamimi, is seen standing in the road, just behind an armored truck. The back door of the truck is opened just enough for the barrel of a weapon. The smoke from its barrel hangs in the air. The tear-gas canister is actually visible, caught in midair as it passes the truck’s side-view mirror, halfway between the door and Mustafa Tamimi’s face, which it would destroy.

Look again at that picture. Tamimi is chasing the vehicle, still throwing rocks from fairly close range. See all five photographs.

Do you think Vick is a relaible reporter?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

| think what's key here, in the second picture in the sequence, there's a rock right by the door on the (our) right.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the soldier firing saw a rock coming towards him as he was firing. As he moved to get back into the protection of the truck, he fired wildly.

these are not pebbles.

Note also that B'tselem claims that 13 protesters have been injured by tear gas canisters since "the beginning of the second intifada." Out of how many canisters fired? A few hundred? My guess is that it is a very small percentage (likely less than 1% of all cases). If so 13 cases in all those firings is an indication that great care is taken, not that anyone close to someone who was hit by a canister would take comfort in that.