Comments on: How do you do Al Dura?

By: Always right

Always right — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:48:34 +0000

I don’t think exposing the Truth will matter to people anymore. They’ve made up their minds about their own world view on either sides. To change that (their own view, i.e their own identity) is literally more difficult than changing spots on a leopard.

Even if the new tape is out, (after how many years of the intifada using that as excuse?) how many more “killings and deaths” resulted from that one fake tape? Any one of these “new” deaths could have been used as an excuse for those people. They are not lacking in finding excuses.

It only says a lot about the europeans and their elitists (both governments and their media). Their own citizens willingly let themselves being led by these few, just so that they can have a cozy life, thinking themselves more “progressive” (meaning superior, more advanced than, I guess, us).

By: George Atkisson

George Atkisson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:49:59 +0000

One further thought: At least in France, you could run it as The Dreyfus Affair (part deux), 100 years of open anti-semitism.

You might have to educate the French public about Dreyfus, and there is no Emile Zola to keep the heat on. Sigh. I’m not sure that the general public (French or not) is really interested in Truth and Justice anymore.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:55:56 +0000

This country has had a nice big Tom Harkin knife in its back ever since April 1985.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:02:05 +0000

“The MSM doesn’t even pretend to be objective anymore. They are on the other side.”

They no longer even try to fake it out. The MSM has little interest in a story unless it can help Democrats and hurt Republicans. Tom Harkin would have had to resign form the U.S. Senate if he were a member of the G.O.P. The leftist media would run countless stories on him until he exited the scene.

There is only way one the MSM will do anything serious about the Al Dura trial: show them a way that it hurts the Bush administration. Other then that—they could care less.

By: MarkD

MarkD — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:55:58 +0000

I have no suggestions.

I’ll note the phony attacks on Rush Limbaugh orchestrated by MoveOn, joined by Tom Harkin among others. Tom Harkin, the guy who claimed to have flown combat missions in Vietnam, but didn’t. The one who is still serving in the Senate. The one with no shame, or no sense, or possibly neither shame nor sense. Well, he is an authority on phony.

The MSM doesn’t even pretend to be objective anymore. They are on the other side.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:37:23 +0000

Esbiem is right –the Palis were, during the Second Intifada, running an awful lot of children into the fires which they’d set off.

By: Esbiem

Esbiem — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:47:36 +0000

If young Mohammed wasn’t dead he most certainly will be now.

By: scribe10

scribe10 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:54:26 +0000

Two suggestions:

Get the father of al Dura to admit the truth.

Find the actual Palestinian who shot him, or if he wasn’t shot at all find the child.

By: Skookumchuk

Skookumchuk — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:11:42 +0000

All good comments. Natan Sharansky and Michael Totten have said it – the tape fanned the flames. Once we get incontrovertible proof that it is in fact a fake, then you and Pajamas highlight the consequences of France 2 fanning those flames. That would be an uphill media battle, but still worth it. Ultimately, if sufficient pressure is applied, legal action by Israel against France 2 might result. That would be the new news.

But first we need the tape. And we need the tape to show what we think it will show.

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:59:38 +0000

In a somewhat related vein, it is interesting that at the very time the security situation in Iraq improves according to various metrics, the MSM runs whole hog with the Blackwater story, which is presented as an open and shut case of private security forces running amok.