In order to show the progress that the Palestinian police are making, news services often provide pictures of them in amusing physical poses and give a caption that they’re undergoing training.
There were a couple of pictures yesterday, that defied categorization. The recently trained (in Jordan) Palestinian police just returned to Jericho and were demonstrating their “martial arts skills.”
First we have this guy. I’ll call him the perfectly parallel Palestinian policeman. (Or in relation to his sparring partner perfectly perpendicular Palestinian policeman.) I’m no expert in martial arts, but I’ve never seen a move like this.
And then there’s this guy. The spreadeagled guy in front, specifically. What happened? Did he spreadeagle too far? I see Paris, I see France …
(see also Elder of Ziyon.)
Speaking of ripping and the Palestinian police, one Steven Smith who was involved in the training really ripped into them in the pages of the IHT.
Many of the Jordanian instructors were pressed into service and simply didn’t have the expertise, equipment, or the time to provide good instruction. A first-aid instructor teaching CPR had never taken CPR himself and taught his students to give chest compressions on the abdomen of a retail store mannequin instead of a CPR dummy.The firearms training failed to include failure drills, discretionary shooting, the use of cover and concealment and weapons cleaning. Only a few students demonstrated skill at assembling and disassembling their firearms. Students firing just 60 rounds of ammunition at close range who could hit the target were pronounced qualified.
The congressional investigators and journalists I saw were steered clear of any training that was substandard as well-rehearsed students put on demonstrations of police skills designed to impress laymen.
(h/t My Right Word)
Well I hope that you laymen were impressed.
I’ll remind you that Gen. Kenneth Dayton was in charge of the training. The Muqata provides a sobering reminder of past accomplishments of the Palestinian police.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
The first photo screams Photoshop. Not only is the move probably impossible to execute, note that the shoelace on his right boot (uppermost in the picture) is pointing in the alleged direction of motion rather than being swept back by his alleged inertia, and he is looking at the camera rather than at his target.
Not to mention – who in heck practices a pick move like on a live target in boots???
Russ,
Wow, I didn’t think that. But you may have a point. Once I looked more closely at it, the “parallel” guy has “haloes” around the tips of his boots imprinted on the sparring partners shirt and arm.
Thanks.
I’m sending this off to Snapped Shot and the Jawa Report.