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Bag’s Take-Away:
Just another fleeting cringe instant for web advertising (movie ad on top of Middle East distress in creating a “share” link).
via NYT: Fighting Escalates Between Israel and Hamas
(photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Another in the growing archive of Palestine/Israel “David and Goliath” shots.
(credit: Abbas Momani/Agence France-Press–Getty Images caption: A Palestinian youth slung a stone at Israeli soldiers during clashes west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Pepper Spray Cop makes it to Israel.
(credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters caption: Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day after Friday prayers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 30, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
See? One Gilad Shalit IS worth over a 1000 Palestinians. Pictures don’t lie.(photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters caption:In the deal negotiated for his release, Israel agreed to free approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Though the numbers may seem lopsided, such events are not without precedent. In 1985, Israel handed over 1,150 security prisoners in exchange for three Israelis captured during the war with Hizballah three years earlier.
(Via TimePhotos)
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