It has been said that wars have no taboos, but do wars justify the fall of credibility?!
Israa al-Fass
It has been said that wars have no taboos, but do wars justify the fall of credibility?!
A Syrian opposition website posted that "one thousand man" of Hezbollah fighters were killed in Syria and that photos of them will be published in a series of ten episodes. The website in question wouldn't be even known if it weren't for the "petro-dollar" networks that circulated its story.
In a statement of the editor in chief of All4Syria website (Kollona Shorakaa, We Are All Partners in English) to Elaf, he stressed that "the number of those killed of Hezbollah is documented in photos," adding that the goal behind publishing the news and images is to put the party in face of its popular audience.
In promotion for the news, Elaph went on to say that "Syrian opposition members predicted that this post will create confusion within Hezbollah ranks."
What about the photos of those 'killed' and what confusion was caused?
In the first episode, the opposition website posted eighty photos of Hezbollah members who were martyred while fulfilling their Jihadist duty. The comment of Alhadath news website on the posted story was very interesting:
"The Syrian opposition member Ayman Abdulnoor said that he will publish photos of one thousand martyrs of Hezbollah, but he posted only eighty photos of the martyrs whose identities were already announced by Hezbollah. In addition to that, several names and photos have been repeated within the same episode," it said.
Alhadath news documented how All4Syria used the image of martyr Ali Shabib Mahmoud (Abu Turab) twice, once under his true name and the other signed as the "field commander Ali Hamoud."
Perhaps this was not by mistake, but deliberately done especially when posting the photo of martyr Hasan Merhi twice, firstly under his own name and secondly under the title of 'field commander'!
We Are All Partners Martyrs
Apart from the lapses of the mentioned website, a question arises: What confusion was brought about by "this photo-documented news"?
"They say 1000 .. we say 1001 #we_are_all_martyrs" was the first reaction translated in the video circulated on YouTube made by Ali Zein.
Perhaps the video was a green light to launch an extensive campaign on social networks, where a number of young men started deliberately to use the unified hashtag: #We_are_all_martyrs.
Facebook also witnessed significant interaction when several activists pictures shared photos of a number of martyrs with the hastag. Here below a number of comments is listed:
Ali Khraybani
Do you want to know the number of our martyrs? Are you guessing?... #We_are_all_martyrs!
Ali Shoieb
1000 martyrs. No, #we_are_all_martyrs
Ammar Hamad
Do you know who you are fighting?
Whatever the number of our martyrs will be, we will keep saying: #We_are_all_martyrs
After us, women will say: #We_are_all_martyrs
After them, our children will say: #We_are_all_martyrs
Even after we get martyred, every stone and every grain of our soil will utter: #We_are_all_martyrs
Rawaat Al-Nisyan
The night was rainy and thunderous, and still it is. What are those men - who crawl under darkness to build a pure honor for us - doing in such circumstances?!
#We_are_all_martyrs
Khalil Harb
Our life is to be as we want. We want to survive a bit, not for anything but to respect Resurrection after death. They extracted what the philosopher had said once: "Death means nothing to us since it does not exist where we are. Death means nothing to us since we do not exist where it is." They arranged their dreams in another way and slept standing!
#We_are_all_martyrs
Faisal Al-Ashmar
Today, tomorrow and everyday. #We_are_all_martyrs
Ali Fawwaz
Honor took its threads from us to weave its own dress, may some people wear it to cover up their shame and disgrace. #We_are_all_martyrs
Mohammad al-Ameli
We do not count martyrs, we envy them. #We_are_all_martyrs
Hamza Sh
Resistant .. to remove the decay of minds and takfiris. #We_are_all_martyrs.
Edited and translated by E. al-Rihani
