But Israeli soldiers do this all the time!

This image has been spreading around the Internet recently and is being used as example of how Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian children.

This would indeed be horrible and a sad indictment of Israel's attitude towards Palestinian children were it not for the rather inconvenient (for the anti-Israel fanatics) fact that the picture is not what it seems.

In fact the soldier in the photo appears to be holding a Kalashnikov AK47 which is not used by the Israeli army or police, they prefer M4 & M16s, but is in widespread usage amongst Palestinian police, terrorist organisations and other of that ilk throughout the world. That's not an Israeli army or police uniform either.

Of course facts don't count for much in the world of those whose wish is to blacken Israel's name and image. There is a war going on in cyberspace, especially on the social networks, and I know which side I am on... Truth and Israel rather than lies and terrorism.


Thanks to Elder of Ziyon we now know that the original of that image is from a demonstration 'done as street theater, apparently in Bahrain, in December 2009 during celebration of the holiday of the 9th of Muharram:'