For anyone wondering, this is an actual photo of Israeli soldiers posing with a Palestinian female prisoner.
For context, here is a link to a France 24 news article from 2010 that references this same photo
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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I was hoping they'd mention in the article but they didn't, what the hell is that orange propane tank looking thing with wires sticking out of the top right in front of her?
I'm Iranian, I know those. Many years ago, before gas lines were widespread we bought gas for cooking and heating in those kinds of canisters. You can still find them in use in many places, especially if used with a cooking valve top it is a great portable cooking station for vacations
https://demotywatory.pl/uploads/201802/1517690074_tj5ypg_fb_plus.jpg
This is the biggest copy of this image I could find online, I'm familiar with similar camping stoves, and the bit coming out of the top doesn't look like the attachment for cooking. Possibly for refilling? What an odd thing to pose with though, they look like that meme of US cops standing around that table with a bowl, like 3.5g of weed, and like $24.
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Container color is typically decided by the manufacturer, but in this case, it is probably medical and is most likely oxygen. Or it’s none of those and it’s just a regular propane tank and they thought it would be cool or something.
Googling “orange compressed gas cylinder” gave me results for both oxygen cylinders and propane canisters, so in this case probably propane. The implication is probably meant to be that it’s a bomb, but it’s hard to tell anything conclusively from this photo. The extra bits on top could just be an apparatus for refilling smaller containers, like for camp stoves or something.
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Good old France 24. Protecting the soldiers right to privacy while representing their government.
Bro got banned for this classic ledddit
Oof, the confrontation of cognitive dissonance was a little too strong, I guess.
To be fair, they did make a post with an intentionally incorrect title
Don't even know why that should be relevant, the sub is MadeMeCry and it's just as sad either way.
The actual rules say "titles should be descriptive" and, well, this one certainly does describe something.
I don't think "ham thoroughly soaked in rum being eaten by a fat drunk man, and a short, bald drunk man" is appropriate either, despite also being similarly descriptive.
Rumham!!
It should’ve been you!!!!!!
No need to be fair. Mods choose which rules they enforce based on perceived harm. They're not robots.
This is backwards. The vast majority of people, certainly here on the internet, support the Palestinians. Especially young people, even when you are looking outside of the internet.
Meanwhile, almost everybody seems to have forgotten about the plight of the Ukrainians.
I'm not sure if you're right: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/ -- and that's almost 2 months old, support for Israel has probably not gone up.
Ukraine is getting way too little support though from everyone, that's true. I think what they need is weapons and additional financial pressure against Russia, not like angry retweets and memes. Those are pretty much the modern equivalent of thoughts and prayers.
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I don't think support of the Palestinians was that clear even a few weeks ago. At least in relation to current events. Opinions were in a lot of flux
Eh not sure about that
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Those can't be recent posts on Reddit. Reddit got rid of its award system recently. Not that I don't believe these things happen, I do.
This is why the "4 days ago" type of timestamp is garbage.
2010
2010 is the age of the photo, the post was between the start of the invasion of Ukraine and the removal of awards.
Remember the US government and congress are okay with this organization and send them billions of dollars every year.
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What do you expect when your army is a bunch of 18 year olds doing national service. Ridiculous really. Also how did Hans get into the IDF, amazing.
Isn't that most armies?
Grew up in a city in the US with a massive military presence, like a giant frat party constantly going off.
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