I have now seen several photographs of the scene with the man I thought was getting up. His position is more or less the same in them all, suggesting rigor mortis.

I apologize to my readers and to the Washington Post (if the photo editor did check before running the picture) for jumping to a hasty conclusion about this picture.

The evidence for and analysis of extensive staging at Qana, in particular the effort to get the most photogenic pictures of dead bodies and agonized ambulance workers is to be found [1] here (hat tip Robert Schwartz). We also found extensive evidence of [2] directors in Pallywood.

I thought there were no men killed at Qana. This sure looks like a man as do several others.

No doubt this is a tragedy. It’s the meaning of the tragedy we need to plumb… so that such tragedies do not repeat. The danger of misunderstanding is that many more will happen.