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WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
Report: 12-year-old Palestinian boy's martyrdom 'staged'
French media complicit in perpetuating 'myth' of Mohammed al-Dura
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Posted: March 5, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The "martyrdom" death of 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Dura at the
hands of Israeli soldiers – which received widespread international news
coverage and spurred on the current intifada, inspiring countless "suicide
bombers" to attack Israel – was actually a "staged" piece of street theater,
according to an in-depth report in the current issue of WND's monthly
magazine, Whistleblower.
The entire world was transfixed as news broadcasts played the sensational
video footage of the 12-year-old Palestinian boy and his father, pinned down
in crossfire between Arab snipers and Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza's remote
Netzarim junction on Sept. 30, 2000. The image of the boy crouching in terror
behind his father, both of them struggling in vain to protect themselves from
Israeli gunfire, only to be shot – the boy apparently dying in his father's
arms – became immortalized in posters that were later plastered up and down
the streets of the West Bank and Gaza.
Although the Israeli military initially assumed responsibility for the
incident, it soon became apparent that the IDF could not have shot the boy,
due to a large barrier between the Israeli military outpost across the remote
junction and the location of the boy and his father.
Now, a just-completed, long-term journalistic investigation conducted in
France concludes that the Mohammed al-Dura affair was actually a piece of
Palestinian theater – similar to the dramatic Palestinian funeral processions
last April after the Israeli incursion into the Jenin refugee camp. During
that public spectacle, a martyred "corpse" twice fell off the stretcher, only
to hop back up and retake his place in the procession. The Palestinians had
claimed 3,000 deaths in Jenin – the actual toll was 52.
The groundbreaking investigation and its conclusions are spelled out
in "Contre-expertise d’une mise en scטne" published by ֹditions Raphaכl, and
translated into English for Whistleblower by Nidra Poller. In the book, Gי
rard Huber, a psychoanalyst and permanent Paris correspondent of the Israel-
based Metula News Agency, reports on the investigation conducted by a team of
journalists, including Huber and Stיphane Juffa, Metula's editor in chief.
"What really happened at Netzarim junction?" asks Huber. "One thing is
certain: Given the position of the protagonists during the firefight it is
impossible that the child was hit by Israeli bullets. Mohammed al-Dura was
not killed by Israelis. And the bigger question remains: Was Mohammed really
killed?"
Street theater
Whistleblower cites stunning reports of Palestinians playing to the camera,
including Israeli commentator Amnon Lord's account of the larger scene at
Netzarim Junction when al-Dura was supposedly shot to death. He
describes "incongruous battle scenes complete with wounded combatants and
screeching ambulances played out in front of an audience of laughing
onlookers, while makeshift movie directors do retakes of botched scenes."
Palestinian journalist Sami El Soudi echoes Lord's observation, who discloses
that "Almost all Palestinian directors take part more or less voluntarily in
these war commissions, under the official pretext that we should use all
possible means, including trickery and fabulation, to fight against the tanks
and airplanes the enemy has and we don’t. … Our official press reported 300
wounded and dead at Netzarim junction the day when Mohammed was supposedly
killed. Most of the cameramen there were Palestinians. … They willingly took
part in the masquerade, filming fictional scenes, believing they were doing
it out of patriotism. When a scene was well done the onlookers laughed and
applauded."
"It is incredible," says Huber, "how many people were calmly filming the
battle of Netzarim on September 30th, 2000. Not only professionals – some of
them standing no more than ten meters away from the al-Dura incident – but
amateurs as well.
"The rushes [video clips] are full of surprising incongruities: Children
smile as ambulances go by. A 'wounded' Palestinian collapses and two seconds
later an ambulance pulls up to take him to the hospital. It looks as if the
driver had been cued in, knew in advance where the Palestinian was going to
fall, or was waiting in the upper right hand corner just out of the
photographic field ready to zoom in on signal (there is a scene like this in
the France 2 report.)
"In another rush we are startled to hear a Palestinian shouting: 'It's a
flop! We have to do the whole thing over again!'"
The French close ranks
Even more disconcerting, says the Whistleblower report, is the fact that
France 2, the news organization that broke the story of Mohammed al-Dura's
supposed "martyrdom" at the hands of Israeli soldiers, adamantly refuses to
release all the raw footage taken by its Palestinian cameraman. For instance,
journalist Charles Enderlin, who narrated the original story of the shooting,
claims his employer, France 2, holds onto images of the child’s death throes –
which he says he took out of his report for ethical reasons – because they
were just too terrible to view.
To this day, says Huber, it remains unproven whether Mohammed al-Dura is dead
or alive.
Meanwhile, every French television station to this day refuses to broadcast a
film by German director Esther Schapira, titled "Three Bullets and a Child:
Who Killed the Young Mohammed al-Dura?" Nominated for best TV documentary in
Germany, it also concludes Israelis did not kill the boy. Although she
understands why the Palestinians are not interested in further investigation,
Schapira, a staff filmmaker for German public television, wonders why the
West should be so resistant to a solid, impartial investigation.
And French author and Whistleblower translator Nidra Poller asks some probing
questions about the French media's behavior:
"Of course the Palestinians won't allow any investigation on the evidence
they hold," Poller tells Whistleblower. "However, France 2 is not the
Palestinians. It is a public service TV station in a democratic country. And
Huber makes a convincing case for the collusion of France 2 in this stunt.
"How is it possible that France 2 refuses to cooperate with the
investigation? If they have nothing to hide, wouldn't it be to their interest
to come forth, even partially? Would the American media sit back and allow
this kind of enormous question to remain in the box? If CNN cheats, does Fox
News back them up? Well, that's what happens in France."
"The truth," says Huber in the Whistleblower report, "is, first of all, that
the child shown on the screen is not dead. He plays dead."
But what about Mohammed al-Dura's funeral?
"The badly wounded corpse of a child was shown by doctors at the Shifa
hospital in Gaza," says Huber. "[That] child was dead, but he is not the
child seen in the famous TV newscast."
The sensational 5,000-word report by WND Managing Editor David Kupelian,
titled "Mohammed al-Dura martyrdom a media myth?" is published in the March
edition of Whistleblower.
