Getting the Picture?

I’m struck by the facial expression of the woman with orange sleeves.
As for your bet? I’m being kicked out of my house in violation of moral and probably international law. You’re out front as part of a mocking crowd, having grabbed a front-row position to enjoy my own and my baby’s humiliation. I might very well have shouted out in anguish, and thrown up my arm to push your contemptuous face away.
But of course there’s no way of knowing.

I like the pacifier on Orangesleeves finger.

even the baby might take a swing at her, what gives…?
wonder what the guy at 11 o-clock got on his camera?
the red of the intruder the blue of the defender… colors are moods..

“…without the cameras the confrontation might not have occurred”????? A woman and a baby are being thrown out of their home! Do you really think that the cameras just made everybody want to put on a show so they could get it analyzed on BAGNews?

gutshooters

, who was evicted from her house by Israeli settlers
Evicted from her house? By settlers?
Eviction is a legal process, where someone with a right to the home (such as a landlord, or a bank that holds a mortgage and is foreclosing) forces the residents out.
But do settlers have a legal right to force a Palestinian family from their home? I doubt it.
“Eviction” doesn’t seem to be the right word. There is disagreement about the appropriateness of Israeli settlers displacing Palestinian families, and using the word “eviction” takes side in that disagreement, making it seem as if the settlers have a right to the home, and the Palestinians were removed legally.
And a confrontation has occurred. Someone has been forced out of their home, against their will. Without the cameras that confrontation, and the resentment over it, might not have been documented. But this little scuffle is only a sideshow in the confrontation that this picture is documenting.

The site has the stench of occupation. The occupiers turning on the legal resident holding a child, with the assistance of the military (one, is seen in front of the car) and with the support of occupiers by the Israeli government. The other observers, with the exception of Palestinian women standing by the wall, seem to be part of the obscene scene, enabling the process of dispossessing and grabbing of land. It is obvious this woman does not have any rights, not even the right of being born in Jerusalem. How convenient are the laws written in favor of the settlers? Nazi policy of dispossession could not do a better job.

It looks as though she took the baby’s pacifier. Or she was offering it to the baby.
There is something passing strange in the way peeps think they have a right to get right up in your face if they have a gun or a camera.

My first thought, the executioner (orange female) and the accused (blue lady) are a society of victims but the executioner doesn’t know it.
And from Jean-Paul Sartre “If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat”

If I were being evicted from my house, I’d not want someone in my face documenting a sad and humiliating time for my family. So my sympathy is with the woman who is striking out against the photographers. What seems to be a smug look on the younger woman’s face seems to show her moralistic feelings of righteousness. She doesn’t seem in the least embarrassed to be acting so rudely. She seems to feel it’s her right. “There’s nothing you can do to me, old woman.” Perhaps she feels the family being evicted deserved it. And the other cameras observe this sad drama within the larger sad drama.

This image also perfectly illustrates the problem with the argument that the Israelis should not be expected to stop settlement expansion as long as there is any Palestinian violence.
Settlement expansion means, as we see here, Palestinian families being forced out of their homes so that Israeli settlers can move in. This is, in its own right, violence against Palestinians, and it seems unreasonable to expect people to accept being moved out of their homes against their will peacefully.
I’m also curious for more background information. The caption said that the older woman was a Palestinian evicted from her home by settlers, and that the younger woman is a settler. Is the younger woman one who has moved into the Palestinian woman’s home? How recent was this displacement?
And the wall in the background – is that part of the “security fence” which the Israeli government set up? When it went up, was the Palestinian family somehow caught behind it, separated from their home and unable to return promptly, giving opportunity for settlers to move in?
There is a sense of movement in the picture, the Palestinian woman pushing forward, the settler woman pushing back. It suggests that the disputed home is behind the camera, the Palestinian woman trying to return to it, the settler woman pushing her away. Very evocative.

The anguish in the displaced woman’s face, and the sneer on the younger woman’s face, are both expressions that are going to stay with me for a long, long time.
I hate humanity.