UPDATE on Pulitzer Photo

I assume this AP story is meant to make Nili look like a crazy kook, but I greatly admire the strength of her faith. How can you not?

AMONA, West Bank - The photo caught the world's attention: a lone 15-year-old girl holding back a wall of riot police moving in to demolish Jewish homes illegally erected in the West Bank.

Speaking for the first time since The Associated Press image won a Pulitzer prize this week, the girl, who would identify herself only as Nili, said God was on her side during the confrontation.

"In the photo you see me — one person as it were — against many. But that's only an illusion," said Nili, now two weeks shy of her 17th birthday....

"Behind the many stood one man — Olmert," who ordered the demolition.

"Behind me stood the Lord Blessed Be He, and the people of Israel."

As for whether or not those Jewish homes were "illegally erected," I can't remember, but I feel fairly certain that MK Effie Eitam wouldn't have risked life and limb in defense of an indefensible position. (And even if they were illegal, it wouldn't excuse the government's brutal response.)

MK Eitam at Amona

Comments

[Hope]

Wow, she is a beacon of strength, courage, and faith among Am Yisrael.

[scp]

This photo works on sooo many levels. Notice that "the many" are on the Left, and that the one is on the Right (Ahem). ;-)