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While the killing of an innocent person is terrible, we must be careful in assuming that the story with these photos is in fact the real story.

As I read the captions and looked at the pictures, psychologically, I was appalled when I saw the last picture. I looked back up at the sequence...ok, this happened, then this, then this...and he's dead and noone's around him.

I wanted more info, so I looked up his name and found this article: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/saleh.htm

This put things more into a perspective that made me wonder if the photos shown, with these captions, do in-fact represent how things actually went down. The story the Israeli police gave does have an element of uncertainty about whether or not it was fabricated, just as the captions shown with the pictures have the possibility of being fabricated.

We all want the truth, and the lesson we can get from this is that someone's lying. Whoever is lying is not helping do anything but undermine and destroy their cause. If the guy had a bomb, he should be punished. The first policeman there should have been able to feel his torso and determine this. Was he pretending that he had a bomb out of foolishness, just trying to scare the cops? If he was stripped to remove a faulty bomb, or to verify that he didn't have one, that's fine.

It would have been better to send him to prison, whatever the case, but if he did have a bomb (even a fake one), don't you think some of those cops get tired of dealing with that stuff and just might crack? How many detective shows have you seen where someone has another at gunpoint, cops are everywhere, and the final standoff ends in the person having enough guts to put the gun down? ...but haven't we all seen ones where the person shoots anyway?

Only those involved, along with God/G-d/Allah, knows what really happened there. We should all do the best we can at determining the truth as best we can, and ACCEPTING the truth, whatever it may be.

If you put a cat in a corner and try to attack, what will it do?

I wished it was an eye-for-eye case Nathalie but it isn't.

All of this ends when the strong understands that he cannot get rid of the weak and that he has to get down of his high towers and sit down into an agreement for living in peace that is fair for both in an equal share. Unless this occurs, the weak will always keep stiring fire into the air.

where does this end? eye for eye, and this will take us to complete destruction. we should not tolerate inhuman actions, never, but there must be another way to respond and re-act.