Soccer Dad

The karate kid meets iwo jima

There seem to be a higher concentration of news service photographers relative to the population in Palestinian areas than any place in the world. So there's a lot of news. Among the most popular images are people waiting for their terrorist friends and relatives to be released, Palestinian policeman undergoing incomprehensible training and "militants" training to attack Israel. (I'm not sure there's a difference between those last two groups.)

The pictures are so obviously staged, I fail to understand why they have any news value. (The number of "militants" training to attack Israel during the ceasefire has seemingly increased. That this is going on is a news story, I suppose, but not the angle the news organizations want to emphasize.)

Anyway what do you make of this?

Looks like a movie poster of "The Karate Kid at Iwo Jima, doesn't it?"

Crossposted on Yourish