Via BlondeSense blogger Peter of Lone Tree comes the photo below, posted on a darned fine conspiracy theory site out of the UK. To allow readers here at Big Brass Blog to draw their own conclusions, I used Adobe Photoshop to remove a title on the photo and what appears to have been a hand-drawn red arrow pointing to the feature of great interest. This is supposed to be a shot of Hamas fighters; however, depending upon how you interpret that curious feature, this picture might be telling a story even more chilling than one about what was supposedly a band of masked Hamas militiamen chasing Gaza residents of Beit Lahia from their homes.
Was the feature Photoshopped in? From what I can tell analyzing the photo at various degrees of magnification to look for artifacts of image superimposition, probably not. It appears to me (and I emphasize, 'appears to me') to be part of the original subject.
The most compelling argument, by the way, against the legitimacy of this photo is not technical but, instead, logical: Would the gentleman in the picture have been too stupid not to notice this, himself (or too brazen to care)?
Is the feature what it seems to be? That's your call. Consider what you see, the source of the photo, the context in which such a photo would have been taken, and on-going military operations in and around Beit Lahia.
For geography hounds in the reading audience, Beit Lahia (otherwise spelled as Bayt Lahiyah) is not far from the northern border between Gaza and Israel.
The Dark Wraith awaits any observations from interested readers.
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Was the feature Photoshopped in? From what I can tell analyzing the photo at various degrees of magnification to look for artifacts of image superimposition, probably not. It appears to me (and I emphasize, 'appears to me') to be part of the original subject.
The most compelling argument, by the way, against the legitimacy of this photo is not technical but, instead, logical: Would the gentleman in the picture have been too stupid not to notice this, himself (or too brazen to care)?
Is the feature what it seems to be? That's your call. Consider what you see, the source of the photo, the context in which such a photo would have been taken, and on-going military operations in and around Beit Lahia.
For geography hounds in the reading audience, Beit Lahia (otherwise spelled as Bayt Lahiyah) is not far from the northern border between Gaza and Israel.
The Dark Wraith awaits any observations from interested readers.
