September 30, 2000, Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip.
State-owned France 2 TV channel reports the shooting of a
Palestinian youth, Mohamed Al Dura and the wounding of his father
Jamal, "targets of gunfire from the Israeli position." Jerusalem
bureau chief Charles Enderlin intones, "the child is dead, his
father critically wounded." The accusation enflames the news
stream, ignites a wave of Jew hatred unlike anything known since
the Shoah. Blood libel. Israelis are branded as child-killers. A
war of atrocities, the "Al Aqsa Intifada," is unleashed against
Israeli civilians, Jews by the thousands are attacked in France and
throughout Europe. Is the "death of Mohamed al Dura" a news
broadcast? Or is it a staged scene, the creation of a myth, a
lethal narrative launched in a war of conquest disguised as the
pathetic cries of helpless victims. How did a crudely fabricated
video leap into Western media from a Palestinian source and
circulate without encountering a critical eye? Astute observers did
in fact notice incongruities in the fleeting images of the alleged
incident. They have investigated, analyzed, reported on their
findings. But it takes something more than rational exposes to
counter an explosive myth."
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