The Power of One [2007]


This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award. Photo’s citation reads, “Awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.â€?

The Power of One [2007]

Photographer:Oded Balilty (Associated Press)
Source: www.photojournalism.org

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40 Responses
riri says:

Wow. she must be uber strong. or haxing

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am"  
omniphiliac says:

What a propaganda stunt. Here’s what’s really going on:

The Israeli army returns to continue the destruction in South Hebron.

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Qawawis and Towani south of the city of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, uprooted trees and demolished houses on Thursday midday.

icahd.org/en...

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 1:36 am"  
fungi says:

wtf hax for sure

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 5:02 am"  
hoang says:

i think it sends a very powerful message.. but i agree with omniphiliac with they said it’s propaganda.. that can’t really be true

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 8:59 am"  
Josh says:

how is this a propaganda stunt? The website you quoted is from Isrealis that oppose these actions and this woman could be a supporter of this cause. Whose propaganda is this then?

Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 9:01 am"  
Truck says:

Why don’t they just walk around the fence?

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 4:41 pm"  
Little Timmy says:

They’re riot shields not fences, but still, how strong is that little Jewish lady??

Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 4:06 pm"  
elim says:

what a lame…. they don’t really push (not yet) plus they don’t wanna hurt here? especially in fromt of phorographer. And in the end every picture with political meanning is a propoganda as propoganda is the absolute product in political media.

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 at 9:38 pm"  
Alex B. says:

We souldn`t look at the picture in “hax”/fizic way, may be propaganda, in that case we should ask ourselfs “what this mean” .. to us .. to them ..

Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 2:14 pm"  
Migs. O. says:

Wow… She’s thinks that she’s superman.

No, seriously, that’s a heck of a spirit.

Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 4:02 pm"  
Chris says:

What a hero! An illegal settler of what amounts to someone else’s land, and she’s brave enough and strong enough to defend the object of her theft. I want to be like that when I grow up *eye roll*

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 2:39 am"  
Geckin says:

Maybe this was taken just before the lady gets thrown away by the policemen

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 4:14 am"  
Dfrag says:

Dude, that’s totally a wall hax0r. obvious

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 7:55 am"  
JEW! says:

I see you have no idea what happend there
that was legal area of israel
but the settlers there doesnt agree to evacuate from there home
they know that wouldent improve the situation between the israelis and the phalestins
and as we see today all this area is used by the phalestins to throw bombs on israeli cities.

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 3:42 pm"  
tony says:

what a visual metaphor.
its the people versus the oppressing elitists.
they try to intimidate us into submission and cause the majority to leave apathetically and insist its for our own good. while only a few stand up for the rights we have, only to be outpowered while the rest loathe and whimper in fear.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007 at 12:39 pm"  
Luka says:

What a pile of BS. Israeli riot police not being able to remove single woman? Had she been Palestinian she would be beaten and hauled away if she tried such thing.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm"  
KraX says:

“that was legal area of israel”

there is no legal area of Israel

btw. nice foto

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 at 6:06 pm"  
james says:

What a shame for israle soldiers

Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 3:02 am"  
anonymous says:

Anyone know what happened to the woman?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 am"  
ben swain says:

THIS IS MY WIFE

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 5:32 pm"  
brett young says:

WE WERE IN LOVE

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 5:35 pm"  
James says:

obviously, that happened for a second ONLY! This is the power of photography!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 1:21 am"  
Martin Aguero G. says:

That beautiful picture reminds me that in tough times it is the fighters who overcome adversity.

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 3:56 am"  
End Arab Occupation says:

Arab countries ejected over one million Jews from the 1940s through the 1950s, twice as many as the Arabs who fled the creation of modern Israel. Arabs now occupy their homes, their farms, their businesses, their olive tree groves, their lands, as well as Jewish religious shrines in Israel. Yet those Jews have received no compensation from the Arabs, they have no “right of return” to their former homes, they were stuffed into temporary camps like Bat Yam that ended up being their homes. Thise who criticize Israel without simultaneously criticizing the Arab occupation of Jewish lands and religious sites are racists.

Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 4:02 pm"  
me says:

end arab occupation: what a crock of lies. Stop spreading lies and hate.

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 6:27 pm"  
Peter says:

A lot of people seem to think this is fake.

What it clearly is is simply great timing by the photographer, the lady isn’t holding that wall of police back- the photo was taken just as the wall of police hit her giving that impression

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 9:24 pm"  
janime says:

Ive done research- the picture was taken seconds before the woman was trampled.

Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 4:16 am"  
Sablicious says:

It never fails to amaze me how ardently people fight for that which ultimately stems from something as absurdly fictitious as religion… : /

‘99.98% of the world’s population are idiots’ -Sablicious

Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm"  
Lee says:

Why Don’t They Just Walk Around The Thing? Than Making The Woman Look Like ” The Hulk “!!!!!

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 pm"  
Ali says:

Some ignortant ass holes just love making fun of people who are unbelievably poor, do your research first then flap your shit hole, this picture was taken one second, ONE SECOND before she was trampled by those “security forces.”

She defends her right to live in a land where she does not want to be bothered, and you fucking pathetic ass holes are making fun of this whole situation? Useless waste of life.

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 3:07 am"  
wangtron says:

she owning

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at 4:50 am"  
James Steve says:

If this is what they do with an israeli woman…imagine what they would do with the palestenians…

Well i have pics of what they do…

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm"  
Andrew says:

Nice pic. But it is ruined… I cannot help but think, why didn’t they just go around?

Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm"  
Moti says:

The picture catches a moment during a struggle. Seconds after the picture was taken the women fall back and trampled. BTW, few of those policemen were afterwards punished for use of unnecessary violance against those citizens. There are pictures for that part as well but those were less interesting.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm"  
Brittany says:

There is only one or two people pushing so it’s not really that amazing.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm"  
george says:

omniphiliac demonstrates the Muslim propaganda inspired by Gebles. For a person who lives in Israel his comment to this photo looks rather stupid and funny but I am sure that many of the readers actually believed him because they don’t have a clue about what is really going on. After all, when you watch channels like the BBC you can really believe that Israel is committing a holocaust in the Palestinian, killing millions at least. And the funny part is that in Sudan there is a true holocaust and no one gives a f##k since the Christians being slaughtered there don’t have oil like the Arabs.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm"  
Jimmy says:

omg, i thought this was photoshopped like the 9/11 tourist photo,…unbelievabe.

Just amazing.

Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm"  
Tia says:

I agree a bit with george, however I might add that not everything is black and white…the world is filled with gray! Remember there are two sides to every story. In my humble opinion both the Jews and the Palestinians have strong cases for their ideologies.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 3:41 am"  
Wisdom Hunter says:

Simply amazing…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 3:22 am"  
Wells says:

I think this happened in the disengagement from Gaza. Israel gave up the Gaza strip in 2005, forcing all Jewish occupants to move out. This woman probably didn’t want to leave, and this is one of the things that happened. I can’t imagine riot police in the west bank, that’s more of an army thing.

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm"  

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