http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=128.149.22.60
http://www.nwtools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=128.149.22.60

It would have been more credible of course had you not just thanked yourself for posting a link under Xeni’s name. No, thank YOU!

Bottom line: The IDF, irresponsible parents and to some degree foreign reporters are to blame. The IDF shouldn’t allow children anywhere near ammunition for starters. I could reverse one of the popular arguments of the average islamophobe and claim that IDF uses civilians as human shields. But oh wait, only Saddam did that. Gotcha.

I also like how the ‘debunking’ labels these girls as poor and dumb essentially. Yeah, that’s no prejudice or anything.

But above all else the argument presented as the “truth” behind the story shows a dramatic double standard that its proponents seem impervious to. Basically, how many pictures haven’t we all seen of Palestinian kids or whatever with guns and suicide belts, mock-ups or some such? But of course THEY weren’t staged and the kids weren’t egged on by parents and reporters. Gotcha. If Israel looks bad there are ample explanations. If Arabs look bad it’s because they are ‘evil’. I suggest you examine your own inconsistency before trying to hard to gloss this one over. It’s the fundamental attribution error at work people.

So thanks but no thanks. I’d rather support ‘terrorists’ any day of the week. As for who is the biggest tool, aside from those supporting Israel, I’d rather like to think of the Palestinians, Lebanese as tools to destroy Israel and effectively the largest US bridgehead in the region. If there is anything I’ve learned it is that humanitarianism gets you nowhere. You have to think like the Kissingers and Brzezinskis out there. Hopefully in the end it will somehow benefit those under Israel’s jackboot. If not, just write it off as a ‘domino theory’ or some such and claim that those were different times.

Oh and Metafilter offers a far better analysis with commentary.