Sunday, August 21, 2005
Al Dura lives on in the pages of the New York Times in this piece by a Palestinian Arab talking about how images of the Gaza pullout are playing on Arab television:
Live From Gaza: A New View of Israel by Daoud Kuttab
...Surprisingly, the coverage on Arab news networks has reflected these contradictions. One Arab reporter on the scene asked his anchor back in Dubai, "Did you see the soldiers crying?" Another network countered such images with an interview with the parents of Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old boy who was photographed dying in his father's arms in 2000 and whose image has become a symbol of the intifada. But for the most part, the language on the broadcasts has been accurate and straightforward...
One of my previous posts on the controversial al Dura video is here.
And how's this for an equivalency:
...The Gaza evacuations also produced many interesting comparisons. Many Palestinians compared the kid-glove treatment given to the protesting settlers (who will be handsomely compensated) with the violent response to even peaceful Palestinian protests. And the much-shown clip of an Israeli father lifting his young daughter into the faces of emotionless soldiers reminded many of Palestinian mothers lifting their young sons in the air and publicly calling on them to avenge the deaths of a brother or a father...
Get that? A parent using their child to appeal to a sense of mercy and guilt reminds Palestinian Arabs of their own use of their children to pursue a life of bloody murder. Good grief.
Update: Other reactions at The American Thinker and Mediacrity.
It's sad how twisted these people's minds are. But, then again, they consider people who go walk into bus stops, cafes & subways & blow themselves up "martyrs".
What you've gotta love about Muslim culture is the absolute imperviousness to mere facts.
Jenin, Muhammad Al Dura - doesn't matter how definitively you prove it never happened, even their university professors continue to believe it.
and it works both ways. Prove that ancient Jewish kingdoms existed or that there was once a Temple on the Temple Mount - and these gurs continue to deny reality.
You've got to admire that degree of sheer stubborn refusal to accept the proven.
Well said Anna. Remember, they learned from the best. The influence of Nazis who fled to Mulsim countries after WWII is not only apparent in their military, but in their media also. Tell the big lie often enough, and loud enough, and it become truth.