Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP
This photograph of Israeli children writing on artillery shells bound for targets in Lebanon has caused outrage among many bloggers, not least those from the Arab world.
The debate about the image has, of course, become part of the propaganda war that is running alongside the conflict.
“From the children of Israel, to the children of Lebanon, with love,” writes one Greek blogger, Mavrosgatos, showing the image above a very graphic photograph apparently showing the scorched corpse of a Lebanese child. “These [Israeli] children are raised with hatred instead of milk,” the blogger writes.
How to raise a new generation of sociopaths.
Can you imagine what they tell those children to make them do this? Right from the start they shape their mind into believing that there’s them, the deposit la superior people, and the others who are inferior sub-humans who deserve death just for being different.