The girl’s mother and her sister were also murdered in the same attack on Khan Younis.
Reminds me of this photo from 20 years ago.
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That might be the intention of some of them. But photos have a powwrful emotional impact. It was the photo of a drowned boy that (temporarily) got Europe to accept thousands of refugees.
How many iconic photos of injustice has the world seen since the war on terror? What has changed? Slideshows of genocide and rape during the Vietnam war horrified people, but it turns out it was only the loud minority. The rest of the US thought it was too harsh to imprison war criminals. And that loud minority? Most of them are defending and supporting subsequent genocides, including the current genocide.
The west has social dementia. It’s why they become so confused and shocked and outraged when the rest of the world remembers the west’s evil imposed on them.
I truly hope something can stop this nightmare even if another one happens shortly down the line. But I guess what I’m trying to say is that as a collective, westerners do not deserve to be “horrified” by images like these. For them, these pictures absolve them of the evil and misery they support because mere acknowledgement of the existence of suffering is the same thing as “resistance.” There was a moment when I thought the allies forcing the German populace to look at the concentration camps and handle the corpses was sufficient to deprogram fascism. But I’ve changed my perspective after reading a post here about how Hitler was Europe’s Jesus. Likewise, massacred Vietnamese were liberals’ Jesus, and now they may do everything their hearts desire.