Photo of journalist carrying dead son in Gaza spurs online grief

Al Arabiya ^ | November 15, 2012 | By AL ARABIYA STAFF

[Obadiah]

Geez, we’re slipping. Took 50/51 posts before I saw what I was looking for in this thread.

[Fledermaus]

ROFL

[Excellence]

Eleven-month old? Where is the rest of it? Mine weighed 20# at six months!

[dfwgator]

I think it was Golda Meir who said, “there will be no mideast peace until Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews”.

Her other quote was, "We can forgive you for killing our children, but we shall never forgive you for making us kill yours."

[Josa]

This might sound cold but this might have been that child’s only opportunity for an eternity in heaven. The child is blameless and has not yet reached the age of accountability. While tragic to lose a child, I feel consolation that the child is likely very now in the arms of Jesus. Had he/she grown to adulthood, that would not be the case.

[moovova]

“He was hoping his kid would grow up to be a suicide bomber and get to kill other Jews.”

It’s Not Too Late!!!

Quick, grab a baby carriage, fill with C4...rest baby gently on top...head for the local market!

[hosepipe]

Mess with the BULL..... you get the horns....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Too many photo shopped fake photos from the last war to make me care.

[SaraJohnson]

america will git on the wrong side of this for sure

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Dang whiteys! Killin’ the brown peoples of the globe for nothin’! /s/

[ColdOne]

When I saw this photo yesterday I didn’t say a thing....Now I will.

I remember many TV shots and photos of Jews dead on buses that had been blow up by same Hamas lovin’ folks. Yet had this been his dead girl would he have been so sad? How do I know his dead boy is even in that white sheet?

Also remember Saddam used to have dead children in morgue have the body’s place at a site after US would bomb a it. I do not care or believe the enemy anymore.

By the way if his child is really dead, why not show his body, yes gruesome....they have no problem when they kill Jews do they?

[Rappini]

This reminded me of the time the Palestinians were carrying a guy on a stretcher that they said was killed by the Israelis he fell off and got back on the stretcher

[publius911]

What kind of idiot keeps his children in a war zone?
This so-called correspondent was aware of where he was, down to the houses where the koranimals lobbing rockets into Israel hung out.

He killed his own son by acquiescence to evil.

[Mercat]

I’m calling BS. That bundle isn’t big enough to hold an 11 month old baby. Maybe a six month old. This was staged.

[mbarker12474]

Those who say baby sack of potatos say big lie.

Here is picture of actual baby with Kenyan Hawaiian Palestinian mother:

Now you infidel believe!

[andy58-in-nh]

I think there is little question that the Hamas forces in Gaza initiated this round of violence against Israel. They do so because the world, sadly now including the United States government, has at best taken a position of moral equivalence between the sides and at worst, blames Israel for protecting itself through selective retaliation rather than the Gazan forces who practice indiscriminate violence.

That said, a dead child is a dead child, and a grieving parent is a grieving parent.

It is not an occasion for tasteless comments, as some here have made. The fact that radical Islamists promote a twisted culture of death does not make its children any less innocent. They are God's children too, and deserve better than to be slaughtered as a consequence of their culture's illness.