ISRAELI WEDDING OF DOOM

An Israel hater makes much of the photo above as evidence of the militarization of Israel. The full description of the Yahoo News photo is as follows:

Israeli bride Reut Unger poses for a wedding photographer next to an Israeli army mobile artillery piece at a staging area near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005. Widening its five-day campaign against Palestinian militants, Israel for the first time fired artillery shells into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and shut down 15 West Bank offices suspected of distributing money to families of suicide bombers from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Reut Unger might well be a bride but she isn't exactly striking a pose. I mean really, shouldn't she be stradding that cannon? And, what's the deal with the very un-wedding-like footwear. Hell, for all I know Reut ducked in behind that armoured artillery for a pee during wedding practice – from the look of the terrain, there isn't a tree for miles. And, where's the rest of the wedding party.

The photo below – it appears immediately before the photo above in the Yahoo slide show sequence – gives a much better visual summary of the Israel-Palestine situation:

Palestinian militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade shoot in the air as they celebrate in the former Jewish settlement of Sanur Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005 on the 5th anniversary of the Intifadah, or uprising which erupted on Sept. 28, 2000, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then Israel's opposition leader, visited the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, also known to Jews as Temple Mount. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

No matter how you look at it, it's all about Israeli provocation.