Despite mounting evidence that it was all a fraud, French journalists are sticking by their Mohammed al-Durra farrago. "French TV Sticks by Story That Fueled Palestinian Intifada," from CNSNews.com, with thanks to JS:
Paris (CNSNews.com) - A French journalist and an independent film producer who saw raw, unedited video of the shooting of a Palestinian boy in 2000 said it's not possible for the boy to have been shot by Israeli soldiers, as a French TV report claimed.French state television is standing by its claim that the broadcast is authentic. The broadcast purportedly showed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durra being shot by Israeli soldiers, an event that led to the current Palestinian intifada.
But Denis Jeambar, editor-in-chief of the French news weekly l'Express, and filmmaker Daniel Leconte, a producer and owner of the film company Doc en Stock, say the videocassette is full of staged scenes of faked injuries.
Jeambar and Leconte were allowed by the France 2 network to view an unedited master video cassette of the incident, which took place in September 2000 at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip. Leconte said he is satisfied that the shooting really happened, but he does not believe the bullets that struck the child could have been fired by Israeli troops.
"The only ones who could hit the child were the Palestinians from their position," Leconte told Cybercast News Service. "If they had been Israeli bullets, they would be very strange bullets because they would have needed to go around the corner."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the belief that the current intifada started by Ariel Sharon taking a "provocative" walk on the temple mount, which is heavily disputed territory in 2000, then the next day the first attack of this intifada occured?
The "Intifada" -- just one more stage in what is an endless and relentless Jihad, sometimes using the method of "qital" or combat, and sometimes using soft words and semi-smiles, as at the moment (and possibly for the next year or so) -- began with attacks that predated Sharon's visit to Temple Mount, but that visit was quickly exploited as a welcome pretext by the "Palestinians," as one of their leaders boasted in a speech to co-religionists in Lebanon.
Here is the boast by Faluji about the early planning for the Infidada:
PA Communications Minister Imad Faluji, for example, addressing a rally at the Ein Hilwe refugee camp in South Lebanon, stated that the new intifada had been in the planning for months:
"Whoever thinks that the intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon’s visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is wrong, even if this visit was the straw that broke the back of the Palestinian people. This intifada was planned in advance, ever since President Arafat’s return from the Camp David negotiations, where he turned the table upside down on President Clinton... [Arafat] rejected the American terms and he did it in the heart of the US." (MEMRI, Special Dispatch No. 194 - PA, March 9, 20010
That is really really sick.
REALLY sick.
I am speechless.
Why do people still trust them, this is what I don't get?? Do people really think the current round of negotiations will be fruitful?
With my son by side watching this in the news I remember hugging him weeping and telling him how lucky,how lucky,how lucky we are to be Americans, sheltered from events as this.
This is without doubt the biggest fraud perpetrated by the palestinian arabs aided and abbetted by the highly anti israeli FRANCE2 channel.
But gradually the truth has emerged and france2 now finds itself in a corner. LIke CBS it will close ranks and delay and present any "investigation" as a means of exonerating itself, perhaps claiming that they too were "fooled" in the future when the pressure cooker can no longer hold.
BUt France2 and the other atrocity seeking media. who are well documented at camera.org must share the blame for the murder of this child.
Because if they had not been at hand with baited breath, the horrendous jihadists would NOT have scrificed this young boy to the international media.
What France needs is a modern day Emile ZOLA to expose the guilt that france2 should be experiencing over this awful episode of "intafada, (jihad) history.
The Islamic Claim to the temple mount is a fraud perpetrated by Al husseini in the 1920s.
As all know on this site Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Koran.
But because it is the holiest of holiest site in the Jewish religion, Husseini cleverly manufactured the temple mount as " the third holiest site in Islam.
He knew that he could then appeal to the Islamic beliefs of Jerusalem arabs to mount a jihad against the Jews.
Mere territorial claims would not have been enough to do that.
following his uncle Yassir Arafat and the Arabs claimed the Holy Jewish Temple Mount and Jerusalem based upon one extraordinarily huge lie.
Here's an extract from Clinton's meeting with Arafat on the subject (courtesy of Fiamma Nirenstien)
But at a certain point, Arafat told Clinton that the Temple of Solomon, and Herod later on, was all an invention. He claimed that there was no proof that that area was sacred to the Jews, while the mosques were right there for all to see. He said that the only religion that had any right to proclaim its sovereignty there was Islam.
Clinton became truly angry and told Arafat that he knew for sure that it has been the most important, indeed the only basic, place of worship for the Jews for 2,000 years, while Islam had others. Arafat then asked him where he had heard that, and Clinton looked at him thunderstruck, as if Arafat had asked him if he was sure he even existed. More or less, Clinton's reply went something like "I know. I read it. Everyone knows it. That's the way it is. Stop trying to prevaricate." That story was substantiated by the former president himself.