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May 22, 2002  PICTURE
GALLERY:
A Dog's-Eye View of the Middle East and Beyond
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"From the lowly perspective of a
dog’s eyes, everyone looks short."
Chinese
Proverb
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(Israel, West Bank,
Afghanistan) — Do you ever wonder what dogs think
about these crazy humans who seem to be so involved with
driving tanks and launching giant sticks? We can only
guess. As the Middle East Crisis and other violent
conflicts rip through Southwest Asia, the silent observers—the
dogs—form an eerie, omniscient presence.
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"Phew. For a minute, I thought it was
Animal Control. OK, everyone... as you were."
Armored personnel carriers pass by stray dogs during the
daily curfew imposed by the Israeli army in the West Bank
town of Nablus. (Photo: 5 Apr. 2002, Pavel Wolberg / AP)
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"And they tell me I'm not supposed to dig
holes!"
A stray dog looks on as International Security Assistance
Force Peacekeeper Lance Cpl. Aaron Hayward, of Bury St.
Edmonds, England, keeps evening watch over crime-plagued west
Kabul in Afghanistan. (Photo: 6 Apr. 2002, Suzanne Plunkett /
AP)
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes,
a
quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that
basically dogs think humans are nuts."
John
Steinbeck (1902-1968)
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"Ah, now there's something worth fighting over."
A cat walks under an Israeli tank stationed inside PaIestinian
leader Yasser Arafat's compound in the besieged West Bank city of
Ramallah. (Photo: 5 Apr. 2002, Jerome Delay / AP)
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"OK, that was a little too close."
Palestinian militants were blamed for this Quassam rocket
attack that hit an Israeli town in March, miraculously
leaving this one terrier unscathed.
As
Christopher Walken said (playing the role of Gabriel, the Angel of Death in
the 1997 film The Prophecy II):
"Try not to hit the
dog."
(Photo: AFP)
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