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Picture worth a thousand words

When I posted the pictures of Rachel Corrie and the bulldozer, I used the pictures available on the activist website that were spread around to all the news services.

An article in the Jewish World Review points out that the first picture in my sequence, along with the one shown below...

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030316/capt.1047858810.mideast_israel_protester_killed_gaz113.jpg


were juxtaposed with the story worldwide in such a way to make it look like she was standing in clear view when she was run over. In fact, these pictures were taken at a completely different time. Although the testimony of the other activists clearly mention her lying down in front of the blade, the images of her standing in front of the bulldozer seems designed to give the impression to casual readers that the driver must have deliberately run her over.

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