The alleged killing of Muhammad al-Dura by IDF soldiers was nothing more than a libelous fraud.
Unfortunately, it was a fraud that helped touch off the so-called al-Aqsa intifada and, because it somehow fit with Arab expectations about the behavior of IDF soldiers in the occupied territories, it probably undoubtedly inspired the murder of hundreds of innocent Israelis.
You won't be surprised to learn that a Frenchman was behind the whole thing.
(Via Michelle Malkin)
UPDATE: In an L.A. Times piece, David Gelernter calls the above article "conclusive." He concludes:
How can cautious, painstaking truth compete with brazen video lies? If the report turns out to be just what it looks like, a despicable fake, who will produce another 55-second video telling the truth? Which TV stations will broadcast it? Where does Israel go to get its reputation back? What will it all matter to grief-stricken Israelis whose children, husbands, mothers and fathers have died in acts sparked by the Dura story?
The rational response is to insist fiercely on the transcendent importance of truth. Yet today we often hear that there is no truth. There are only competing narratives, we are told, all equally true or false.
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.
I have no doubt that France-2 will be issuing a complete mea culpa. Any. Damn. Minute.
watch this in action...incredible
http://seconddraft.org/movies.php
Posted by: huh | September 20, 2005 at 08:08 PM