Here is the final segment that Talal abu Rahma filmed of the Al Durahs under fire behind the barrel. We see that Jamal has changed position since the last segment, this time turning to the left (away from his son now lying at his feet). The sequence is shot out of focus. Again, at Time Code Reading (TCR) ...
Very few people have seen or analyzed this sequence. It begins with a short shot of the barrel which now has no one near it. Although the scene is again out of focus and brief, there is no sign of the kind of pool of blood one would expect had the boy bled on his stomach for twenty minutes (abu Rahma), and had the ambulance attendant ...
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by RICHARD LANDES
April 4, 2013 – 7:38 am
Source Al-Dura Verdict: What Prognosis for Civil Society in France?
At 3:00 p.m. on September 30, 2000, everything turned upside down at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip. France2 cameraman Talal abu Rahma — after a day of filming spontaneously staged scenes of ...
Islamism is winning the cognitive war – thanks to manipulative and gullible journalists
By Richard Landes World Last updated: April 4th, 2013
The image that shocked the world
The image the world didn’t see: Enderlin, having already declared the boy dead, cut this final sequence from his broadcast.
Anyone who remembers the halcyon dreams ...
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Philippe Assouline: From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and Palestinian Propaganda’s Manufacturing of Consent
This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post.
It was a defining image of the last conflagration in Gaza. Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian prime minister Hashim Kandil held up a Palestinian child’s corpse to the cameras, his face bloodied, his lifeless eyes a compelling entreaty to the world: “Will you not stand against Israel for killing this child!?”
But ...
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Below you will find listed selected news coverage of the Al-Durah affair:
Israeli Reactions to the Al-Durah Affair: a Chronology of Events
September 30, 2000:
Netzarim – near to Magen 3, an Israeli military outpost in The Gaza Strip, Jamal Al-Durah and his son, Mohammed, seek cover from gunfire and are shot, allegedly by Israelis; the son is killed and the father receives several gun wounds before he is evacuated to a hospital.
October 1, 2000
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Southern Command general Yom Tov Samia first denies fault in the boy’s death, ...
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France2 TV invokes French defamation law, continues legal battle against critic of al Durah reporting
Journalism accountability is at stake as the French broadcasting giant continues its 8 year-old legal battle against Philippe Karsenty
The latest installment of the reporting of the Al-durah incident, dragged through French courts for over 8 years, will play out in Paris’ Appeals Court on January 16, 2013. In 2004, following his call to dismiss two of France2 TV senior staff for their reporting of the Al-durah ...
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Adam Levick fisks the Guardian’s original October 3, 2000 account of what happened at Netzarim Junction in Gaza, ‘Making of a martyr’, thus:
Suzanne Goldenberg begins her Oct. 3, 2000 Guardian account of an incident which had taken place three days earlier, near the Netzarim Junction in Gaza, ‘Making of a martyr’, thus:
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