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The always superb Nidra Poller writes about the Al-Dura farrago, which despite thorough debunking by many, still lives. From the National Post (thanks to Sr. Soph):
'In the first year of the Intifada, 581 Palestinians and 34 Israelis were killed. This was because the IDF ... is the least moral [army] in the world. I want to remind the entire world that saw how the boy Muhammad al-Dura was killed while the soldiers sat and laughed.' -- West Bank Tanzim chief Marwan Barghouti in the closing arguments of his Israeli terrorism trial in 2003.- - -
Five years ago last Friday, on Sept. 30, 2000, the now-famous Muhammad al-Dura death scene flashed on the world's television screens for the first time, instantly creating a powerful icon of Palestinian suffering. Viewers were stunned at the sight of a man and a boy cringing in fear, allegedly targeted by Israeli gunfire, captured on film by a French cameraman. In the flash of a minute, their tragic fate was announced by France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin: "One more round of gunfire, Muhammad is dead, his father critically wounded."
The news report was distributed to the international media free of charge by the state-owned French channel. Viewers felt as if they could enter into the very heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict and seize its essence. The image of the 12-year-old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers -- or so viewers were told -- was given unprecedented exposure. Muhammad al-Dura became the poster boy of the al-Aqsa Intifada, inspiring a Palestinian death cult, and provoking murderous hatred of Israelis and Jews in the Arab and Muslim world.
But what really happened at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip on Sept. 30, 2000? Close examination of available evidence shows that the al-Dura death scene was deliberately fabricated, and that this fabrication fits into a broader strategy of violent confrontation masked as resistance.
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at October 5, 2005 7:55 AM
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here's the link to the video:http://seconddraft.org/movies.php
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at October 5, 2005 8:16 AM
Far better than reading the relatively brief article in the Post, is reading the full 9-pager that Nidra wrote for Commentary. Search melaniephillips.com's diary and you may be able to retrieve the URL there.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at October 5, 2005 1:16 PM
Waterdragon52:
You might be able to retrieve that URL from the incomparable Melanie Phillips -- or you could get it right here at Jihad Watch. We linked to Nidra Poller's magnificent piece in Commentary on September 7:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/008018.php
Cordially
Robert Spencer
at October 5, 2005 1:20 PM
Spencer:
I made a couple of hard copies when it was first published. The URL now takes you to Commentary's archives which charges for the privilege.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at October 5, 2005 3:55 PM
What I heard and recall seeing from stills, if my memory serves me well, was that the bullet holes in the wall indicate that the shots were fired by someone who was directly behind the cameraman. The Israelis in contrast, were diagonally opposite, so the ballistics would have shown a glancing blow to the wall. Also the man had quite a calm expression, but then became terrified when he turned to look at the camera, as if the gunman was standing right beside or behind whoever was filming.
Posted by: Elephant at October 5, 2005 5:06 PM
The video shows the boy smiling and grinning, and being coached how to act. Upon viewing the video in slow motion, the shots clearly come from behind the camera, not from the Israeli soldiers in front of the boy, to the camera's right. The whole thing is a fake.
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at October 6, 2005 9:13 AM
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