The al-Dura Deception (grace, attend, America, Jerusalem, Israel)

[Jayhawker Soule]

This, from the Jerusalem Post, deserves to be very carefully read and monitored ...

Middle East and media expert Tom Gross, who attended last week's court hearing, told The Jerusalem Post that after seeing the footage he was surprised that France 2 was standing by its claim that Israel killed al-Dura.

"France 2 told the court that this was all the raw footage they had. And yet when they played it for the court, we didn't see even one instance during the 18-minute film of an Israeli soldier shooting. And we didn't see the boy Muhammad al-Dura die," said Gross. "Enderlin has acknowledged that Palestinians were playacting various injuries for the cameras at Netzarim Junction that day. So for Enderlin, who wasn't then in Gaza, to broadcast that this boy was killed, and killed by Israel, was a potentially very inflammatory thing to do."

"As we know," added Gross, "al-Dura's name was then screamed by a mob who lynched two Israeli reservists in Ramallah a few days later. Al-Dura was referred to by Osama bin Laden in his post-9/11 video. And al-Dura's picture can be seen in the videotape of Daniel Pearl's beheading."

A report by Hugh Schofield in the UK's Sunday Herald echoed some of these themes: "The most startling new evidence to emerge is that at the moment when millions of television viewers were led to believe Muhammad al-Dura had died, the boy was in fact alive. The last frames [of the court-screened footage] - which come after the heart-rending sequence that concluded the broadcast version - show him lifting his arm and looking towards the camera.

"What this proves is, of course, open to endless interpretation," Schofield went on. "The fact he moved does not mean Muhammad al-Dura did not subsequently die, and no evidence has ever been produced to suggest he is alive. And if he died, the arguments over who shot him remain unchanged. But the importance may be greater for the actual libel case, which centers on Karsenty's charge that the report 'disgraces France and its public broadcasting system.' If the judge thinks Enderlin played fast and loose with journalistic rules in order to make his report more dramatic, he could well decide Karsenty has a case."

Please read the entire article.

[Jayhawker Soule]

If you have not read this, please do so ...

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by From the Post

Karsenty claimed that France 2's lawyers "spent their time [during the screening] building a human shield with their bodies to prevent people from watching the tape. It was ridiculous."

That alone speaks volumes.

[Scuba Pete]

This is almost unbelievable Jay. I have seen this very thing in America where the truth is distorted to create "hype" around a story. It's not nearly this egregious. though.

[gnomon]

Thanks for posting.

It's disturbing.

[not4me]

Oh my God!!!
This is horrible...terrible....outrageous...

that after seeing the footage he was surprised that France 2 was standing by its claim that Israel killed al-Dura.

The question is, Gross, why all this fuss? As if he is the first or the last Muhammad Al Dorra that Israel killed/will kill and being taped!! Subhan Allah!!

[EiNsTeiN]

Originally Posted by Jay

This, from the Jerusalem Post, deserves to be very carefully read and monitored ...

Middle East and media expert Tom Gross, who attended last week's court hearing, told The Jerusalem Post that after seeing the footage he was surprised that France 2 was standing by its claim that Israel killed al-Dura.

"France 2 told the court that this was all the raw footage they had. And yet when they played it for the court, we didn't see even one instance during the 18-minute film of an Israeli soldier shooting. And we didn't see the boy Muhammad al-Dura die," said Gross. "Enderlin has acknowledged that Palestinians were playacting various injuries for the cameras at Netzarim Junction that day. So for Enderlin, who wasn't then in Gaza, to broadcast that this boy was killed, and killed by Israel, was a potentially very inflammatory thing to do."

"As we know," added Gross, "al-Dura's name was then screamed by a mob who lynched two Israeli reservists in Ramallah a few days later. Al-Dura was referred to by Osama bin Laden in his post-9/11 video. And al-Dura's picture can be seen in the videotape of Daniel Pearl's beheading."

A report by Hugh Schofield in the UK's Sunday Herald echoed some of these themes: "The most startling new evidence to emerge is that at the moment when millions of television viewers were led to believe Muhammad al-Dura had died, the boy was in fact alive. The last frames [of the court-screened footage] - which come after the heart-rending sequence that concluded the broadcast version - show him lifting his arm and looking towards the camera.

"What this proves is, of course, open to endless interpretation," Schofield went on. "The fact he moved does not mean Muhammad al-Dura did not subsequently die, and no evidence has ever been produced to suggest he is alive. And if he died, the arguments over who shot him remain unchanged. But the importance may be greater for the actual libel case, which centers on Karsenty's charge that the report 'disgraces France and its public broadcasting system.' If the judge thinks Enderlin played fast and loose with journalistic rules in order to make his report more dramatic, he could well decide Karsenty has a case."

Please read the entire article.

Why?
I mean, why publishing such an article?...And I'm not talking about you Jay..
Those who write such articles are exactly like those who write articles about holocaust denial..(i.e. meaningless stuff)

El Dura is ONE of hundreds of kids killed, so whether he was killed or not won't change the fact..

It's meaningless to pop up such topics now!

I dont like talking about meaningless history!

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by EiNsTeiN

It's meaningless to pop up such topics now!

Meaningless? If al-Dura was staged it will stand as a fabrication fully comparable to the "Protocols of Zion." To suggest that such an act in 'meaningless' is despicable and unpardonable.