The art of the martyr

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Among the astonishments of visiting Gaza are the ubiquitous portraits of martyrs in public places. Such pictures are, obviously, an essential expression of honor in Palestinian culture.

My response to these portraits was wholly aesthetic, and not moral. I don't know what any of these men and boys did, though some of them evidently died in the January slaughter.

Here (with apologies for the out-of-focus-where's-Waldo style of my photography, notwithstanding which, all these photos are copyright Phil Weiss) is my gallery:

 

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