Imagine you're a soldier facing sniper fire from across the border. In the heat of combat, you see someone with equipment that is either a gun or a camera. You have only moments to determine if the figure is hostile, and make life and death decisions.
Despite all that, imagine the outrage if Karamallah Daher – the Reuters photographer who snapped this picture — had been shot.
An Israeli soldier takes position at the Lebanese-Israeli border during a tree-pruning mission near Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon, August 4, 2010. The Israeli army moved a crane back into a tense frontier zone with Lebanon on Wednesday to complete the tree-pruning mission that led to the deadliest violence along the border since a 2006 war. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
What do you suppose was going through this soldier's mind as he looked at Daher through those binoculars?
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