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And what does the filmed news report show? The answer is staring us in the face, cinched by the collapse of France-2’s four-year concealment of its lack of evidence. As even Charles Enderlin has tacitly admitted, the al-Dura report was not some brief excerpt from a longer stretch of filmed reality but a scene with no depth, no duration, no origin, and no continuation. The 45 minutes? Gone. Abu Rahmeh’s 27 minutes? Gone, too. We are left with approximately a single minute of Jamal and Muhammad al-Dura filmed in continuous time.As they say, read it all and then come back and tell me what you agree with in the report and what you find hard to believe. Posted by shanti at September 7, 2005 10:17 AM
In that minute, the two crouch behind an upended culvert and contort their faces in fear. Guttural screams are heard, but they do not come from the man or the boy; they come from men standing within range of the France-2 cameraman’s microphone. Jamal bobs his head. Muhammad stretches out at his father’s feet. Then, in the brief portion that was carefully edited out but that can be seen in the outtakes, the boy changes position several times, using voluntary muscles that only living people can activate.
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Can I say OUCH? Can we all say “media whores”? This is seriously disturbing.. nice of you to bring this out :)
Posted by: Sriram at September 7, 2005 11:15 AM
Sriram, it is the media who are whoring themselves out to every nutcase cause they can latch on to. We cannot really blame those that are taking advantage.
Posted by: shanti
at September 8, 2005 11:23 AM
Not to be mistaken, but the point was that the media is a whore. sorry if that conveyed something else :) Peace!
Posted by: Sriram at September 8, 2005 2:01 PM
Point taken :) Initially I thought you were referring to the Palestinians who staged the fake death.
Posted by: shanti
at September 8, 2005 2:37 PM
Ha ha.
“Nor did such behavior accord with what one knew about the ethics, discipline, and skill of IDF soldiers.”
Its fairly clear that the author is a Israeli sympathizer. I dont swallow the Palestinan version either. Every one of them has an axe to grind. It was the same IDF that slaughtered thousands of Lebanese in an invasion of Lebanon, that stood still while the Lebanese Christians slaughtered the Palestinans.
Frontpage magazine is a rabid pro-Israeli magazine. When the Indian government claims 700 muslims died in Gujarat, its a probably a lie. When Arundhati Roy claims 2000 people died, its also a lie. All these organizations and people have vested interests. Very few can be believed outright. In India for instance, India Today can be believed most of the time. Outlook is a rabid left wing magazine that cannot be trusted.
Before you post articles apologizing for the IDF, i would heartily recommend “By Way Of Deception” by Victor Ostrovsky, an Ex-Mossad officer. Ostrovsky gives in chilling detail how Mossad manipulates European news sources. They assasinate pro-palestinan dissidents and blame it on rival palestinan factions via the european news media. Its a tough taks given the level of anti-Israeli feeling. But they still manage it.
Posted by: Karthik at September 13, 2005 9:33 AM
Karthik,
One thing at a time - the article is from “Commentary Magazine” - not Frontpage.
Secondly, any examples of anything like that happening after the Lebanese invasion for which Israel is still excoriated?
Do you really believe that the IDF would kill deliberately a little boy in full view of admittedly unsympathetic journalists and photographers?
Posted by: Shanti at September 13, 2005 6:57 PM