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Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting
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dsharavi
May 19, 2013, 12:05:53 PM5/19/13
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 Sivan 10, 5773
Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting,
Israel claims
Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
By Mitch Ginsburg May 19, 2013, 6:20 pm
Muhammad al-Dura, the Palestinian child who appeared to have been
shockingly killed at his father’s feet in Gaza on September 30, 2000 —
an iconic image that helped fuel the Second Intifada — was not harmed
by Israeli forces and did not die in the exchange of fire, according
to an Israeli government report released Sunday, three days before a
French court rules on a related matter.
“Contrary to the report’s claim that the boy was killed, the
committee’s review of the raw footage showed that in the final scenes,
which were not broadcast by France 2, the boy is seen to be alive,”
the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy report stated
regarding the television report.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who tasked the ministry with
assembling the report in 2012, said the accusations aired on France 2
were “a manifestation of the ongoing, mendacious campaign to
delegitimize Israel.”
Minister of International Affairs and Strategy Yuval Steinitz called
the accusations baseless and said the affair was “a modern-day blood
libel against the State of Israel.”
Sunday’s determination that the footage shows no evidence of the boy
having been killed came days ahead of an anticipated May 22 ruling in
a Paris Court of Appeals, in which France 2′s bureau chief, Charles
Enderlin sued Philippe Karsenty, a French Jew, for defamation.
Karsenty wrote publicly that Enderlin should be fired for his
broadcast of the confrontation at the Netzarim junction, which
Karsenty called “a media hoax.”
Enderlin could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.
The 55 seconds of edited footage, filmed two days after Ariel Sharon’s
visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, contributed to the October
2000 protest in which 13 Arab citizens of Israel were killed and
quickly became the defining image of that Palestinian uprising against
Israel.
The picture of Dura, apparently dead across his father’s knees, was
shown for days on Arab and international TV stations and was cited as
inspiration by both Osama bin Laden and the killers of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Israel initially did not dispute that IDF troops had inadvertently
killed the child. “It could very much be — this is an estimation —
that a soldier in our position, who has a very narrow field of vision,
saw somebody hiding behind a cement block in the direction from which
he was being fired at, and he shot in that direction,” Maj. Gen. Yom-
Tov Samia said at the time.
Only months later did the army complete an investigation that it said
showed with certainty that, if Dura was killed, it could not have been
from shots fired from the IDF position.
Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting,
Israel claims
Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
By Mitch Ginsburg May 19, 2013, 6:20 pm
Muhammad al-Dura, the Palestinian child who appeared to have been
shockingly killed at his father’s feet in Gaza on September 30, 2000 —
an iconic image that helped fuel the Second Intifada — was not harmed
by Israeli forces and did not die in the exchange of fire, according
to an Israeli government report released Sunday, three days before a
French court rules on a related matter.
“Contrary to the report’s claim that the boy was killed, the
committee’s review of the raw footage showed that in the final scenes,
which were not broadcast by France 2, the boy is seen to be alive,”
the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy report stated
regarding the television report.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who tasked the ministry with
assembling the report in 2012, said the accusations aired on France 2
were “a manifestation of the ongoing, mendacious campaign to
delegitimize Israel.”
Minister of International Affairs and Strategy Yuval Steinitz called
the accusations baseless and said the affair was “a modern-day blood
libel against the State of Israel.”
Sunday’s determination that the footage shows no evidence of the boy
having been killed came days ahead of an anticipated May 22 ruling in
a Paris Court of Appeals, in which France 2′s bureau chief, Charles
Enderlin sued Philippe Karsenty, a French Jew, for defamation.
Karsenty wrote publicly that Enderlin should be fired for his
broadcast of the confrontation at the Netzarim junction, which
Karsenty called “a media hoax.”
Enderlin could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.
The 55 seconds of edited footage, filmed two days after Ariel Sharon’s
visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, contributed to the October
2000 protest in which 13 Arab citizens of Israel were killed and
quickly became the defining image of that Palestinian uprising against
Israel.
The picture of Dura, apparently dead across his father’s knees, was
shown for days on Arab and international TV stations and was cited as
inspiration by both Osama bin Laden and the killers of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Israel initially did not dispute that IDF troops had inadvertently
killed the child. “It could very much be — this is an estimation —
that a soldier in our position, who has a very narrow field of vision,
saw somebody hiding behind a cement block in the direction from which
he was being fired at, and he shot in that direction,” Maj. Gen. Yom-
Tov Samia said at the time.
Only months later did the army complete an investigation that it said
showed with certainty that, if Dura was killed, it could not have been
from shots fired from the IDF position.
The Peeler
May 19, 2013, 12:24:50 PM5/19/13
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On Sun, 19 May 2013 09:05:53 -0700 (PDT), dsharavi <dsh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Sunday, May 19, 2013 Sivan 10, 5773
>
>Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn�t die in 2000 shooting,
>Israel claims
>
>Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
>killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
Don't believe a word these Jewish person say, Deborag! <G>
wrote:
>Sunday, May 19, 2013 Sivan 10, 5773
>
>Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn�t die in 2000 shooting,
>Israel claims
>
>Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
>killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
drahcir
May 19, 2013, 12:57:06 PM5/19/13
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>Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn�t die in 2000 shooting,
>Israel claims
Please include links where required.
>Israel claims
http://www.timesofisrael.com/second-intifada-icon-muhammad-al-dura-didnt-die-in-2010-shooting-israel-claims/
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The Peeler
May 19, 2013, 1:55:31 PM5/19/13
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On Sun, 19 May 2013 19:51:36 +0200, The Rectu, the resident,
psychopath of sci and scj, FAKING his time zone, again and
IMPERSONATING his master, The Peeler, wrote:
>On Sun, 19 May 2013 09:24:50 -0700, The Rectum, the resident psychopath of
>sci and scj, FAKING his time zone again and IMPERSONATING his master, The
>
>Why, The Rectum? Could it be she is a stupid Semite? <BG>
She IS, psycho! <GB>
psychopath of sci and scj, FAKING his time zone, again and
IMPERSONATING his master, The Peeler, wrote:
>On Sun, 19 May 2013 09:24:50 -0700, The Rectum, the resident psychopath of
>sci and scj, FAKING his time zone again and IMPERSONATING his master, The
>Peeler, wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>>Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
>>>killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
>>
>> Don't believe a word these Jewish persons say, Deborag! <G>
>
>
>>>
>>>Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF
>>>killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
>>
>
>Why, The Rectum? Could it be she is a stupid Semite? <BG>
She IS, psycho! <GB>
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