Posted on 09/11/2005 12:20:01 PM PDT by LaPieta2005
DAVID GELERNTER When pictures lie A TV report that helped fuel the deadly Palestinian intifada appears to be false. So how is truth supposed to compete with a video fraud? DAVID GELERNTER September 9, 2005 A 55-SECOND video report, produced in 2000 by a French TV station and distributed free of charge around the world, has caused untold injury and grief to Israeli civilians.
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"Yet the truth of what happened on Sept. 30, 2000, is critical to the way the world works, the way people behave. The pictures we were shown and the story we were told is true or false, not both. Enderlin, France 2 and the larger media establishment have an obligation to tell us which it is. Because lies can kill. Lies do kill. "
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A boy named Mohammed Dura did die in a Gaza hospital that fateful Sept. 30. His face doesn't match the face in the video.
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What did happen? Chances are we will never know for sure. But Poller reports that outtakes she saw show phony battle scenes staged by Palestinians. Painstaking analysis done by students at the Israeli Military Academy found the same actors playing multiple roles: "The injured and dead jump up, dust themselves off, play at offensive combat."
Why does it not supprise me that the French HAD the evidence that it was faked but decided to air it anyway?
"The voice-over reports that the child is dead, yet the rest of the segment — which wasn't aired but survives — shows the child propping himself on an elbow, shading his eyes with his hands. Poller saw the tape."
The Israelis conslusively proved this was a lie with video footage and commentary posted on the Internet some time ago. I viewed it (sorry, I didot save the address.) They pretty much got the whole deception on tape. bGood to see the facts have at least percolated up to Commentary.
Hi.
I remember this video quite well. I was in Israel at the time. When I got back it was all over MSM and has been used in just about every documentary on the infitada and the relationship between Israel and Palestine.
This is no different than the "Jenin Massacre"..
It's fake but accurate. Ask Dan Rather.
This is an important story. The Israelis should blanket the media with this information.
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Posted on 11/03/2004 5:59:47 PM CST by LaPieta
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Just askin'. Any relation to this sotted, Zotted, fool?
Nice pick.
nope.
funny.
Welcome to FR.
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| Posted by Stultis On News/Activism ^ 09/11/2005 6:43:53 PM CDT · 5 replies · 106+ views Commentary Magazine ^ | September 2005 | Nidra Poller Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura AffairNidra PollerThis past June, Wafa Samir al-Bis, an aspiring twenty-one-year-old shahida, or “martyr,” was apprehended by Israeli guards at the Erez checkpoint in Gaza and found to be carrying 20 pounds of explosives in her underwear. The young woman intended to make a last trip to the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, where she had been receiving medical treatment for severe burns incurred in a domestic accident. Her goal this time was to blow herself up and kill as many young people as possible. Asked why she was aiming specifically at children, she replied... |
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