Mideast Conflict on Yahoo! News Photos


The caption to this picture reads “A Palestinian boy holds a toy gun and wears a mask while pretending to shoot at U.S. tourists on a street in Jerusalem’s old town August 18, 2006. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly”

Kids playing war. We all did that when we were young, no big deal. But how does Mr. O’Reilly determine that these particular kids are pretending to “shoot at U.S. tourists”? Is there the slightest chance that this caption is more of the propaganda that the media is being accused of providing?

I’m both amazed and sickened.