A Comment About

Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism

November 11, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Richard Landes
P.J Latimer
2007-11-10 17:42:52

This article is not only on the money, but it is much worse than the innocent Professor Landes can even imagine. I was hundreds of times in Gaza and the West Bank (1972-2005) and saw many times how Palestinian journalists stage news photo ops there and in Hebron for example. I attended and heard, during critical moments of the so called uprise how accredited journalists of A.P/Reuters were passing real time operative information, including transporting and supplying terrorist elements from a local hospital-used as a neutral command and control office (later one of them was captured and is doing time in Israel for his murderous activities). I cannot imagine a single journalist who can operate in these territories unless he is affiliated, working for and helpful to one of the murderous group. How could Ahmad Jadlalah, a Rueters snapper and a Hamas Royalty from Gaza know when and where to be moments after an Israeli Colonel was wasted in an ambush on a specific road in the early 90′s?
(brother was killed by IDF Sp’l Forces for kidnapping Nachson Waxman IDF (RIP), in the West Bank the early 90′s)
How do they know where to be in order not to get caught in the cross fire? Shooting Qassam Rockets from the local school should give the readers a clue how diabolical it gets. Red Cross ambulance, U.N vehicles, diplomatic passport, foreign media, NGO’s all serve the terrorists’ agenda and it is only the naive West playing shocked at these sudden revelations. The BBC fella who was kidnapped was also one of those very sympathetic voices to the cause. You cannot find in his reporting so much as mild words of criticism of the mindless killing by the Hamas characters compared to his daily onslaught on Israel, where he conviniently go to get his rotten teeth fixed. Even the Ivy League NYTimes bureau chief in jerusalem, a man who could seldom separate his rear from a comfortable chair in the office wrote soft takes in Gaza or reported on the War in lebaonon without once leaving to the North. The collusion is accross the board and it is pointless to single out the poor and uneducated Palestinian photographers who are encourgaed by the so called cultured foreign media to get them the hot takes while at the same time helping their “cause”. The same characters Landes speaks of later went to Iraq and trained many of the locals in faking images and staging great moments, after all they have more experience.