Why is that innocent Palestinian “medic” packing a Kalashnikov assault rifle?

The number of civilians killed in the recent Gaza conflict is dropping almost as fast as Hamas’ credibility.

During the conflict, the Palestinian Authority wailed that Israel was slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians. One of them was supposedly an “innocent” medic named Naim. And the international press dutifully reported every word as truth.

“Following the clashes,” the Israel Defense Force announced, “the Palestinian press reported that Naim was killed and that he was a medic with the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Gaza CLA, however, produced photographs of Naim posing holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a Kalashnikov assault rifle that had been posted on a Hamas Web site.”

Turns out the non-combatant casualties were substantially lower than officlal Palestinian sources had previously announced. Perhaps as much as 2/3 lower.

Please note that Naim is posing with his Kalashnikov on what appears to be the Palestinian equivalent of a baseball trading card.

We’ll give you one Moshe Dayan card for a hundred Naims.