Sunday, May 1, 2011

When will Philip Weiss stop lying?

World famous accidental Jew, Philip Weiss, can not let a lie pass if it will damage Jews and Israel.

French court says Israelis shot Mohamed Al-Dorra’s father
by Philip Weiss on May 1, 2011


://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/french-court-says-israelis-shot-mohamed-al-dorras-father.html#more-42000
A French court has ruled in favour of Jamal Al-Dorra, whose son Mohamed's death by the Israeli army in 2000 was captured by photographers as he died in his father's arms.
The ruling rejects Israeli claims that Jamal was wounded prior to the incident on 20 September 2000

Remember that James Fallows, a distinguished journalist, showed in the Atlantic that Palestinians staged the boy's death to tarnish Israel's pristine image, as Idrees Ahmad reminds me.

Shahaf's investigation for the IDF showed that the Israeli soldiers at the outpost did not shoot the boy. But he now believes that everything that happened at Netzarim on September 30 was a ruse. The boy on the film may or may not have been the son of the man who held him. The boy and the man may or may not actually have been shot. If shot, the boy may or may not actually have died. If he died, his killer may or may not have been a member of the Palestinian force, shooting at him directly. The entire goal of the exercise, Shahaf says, was to manufacture a child martyr, in correct anticipation of the damage this would do to Israel in the eyes of the world—especially the Islamic world.


GuiltyFeat May 1, 2011 at 11:12 am
Philip your headline and the Ahram piece that you quote from is deliberately untruthful. I don’t mind a bit of spin from time to time, but this is explicitly false.
The French court did not say Israel shot Jamal Al-Dorra [I have matched your spelling throughout my response although the name is spelled differently in almost every article that has ever been written!].
The case that has just concluded dealt with al-Dorra’s claim of slander against an Israeli doctor, Yehuda David. David claimed that he treated Al-Dorra in 1994 for an injury sustained in 1992. Al-Dorra sued David for breaching patient-doctor confidentiality and for slander. Al-Dorra’s suit was upheld.


At no point was the French court called on to comment when al-Dorra’s injury was sustained, only when it was not. Similarly, the French court has nothing at all to say about who may have shot the bullets that caused Al-Dorra’s injury.
It’s perfectly fine for you to speculate and to read between the lines, but to boldly state that a “French court says Israelis shot Mohamed Al-Dorra’s father” is simply false.
The story is reported with greater accuracy here: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=383329 where the headline is: Paris court convicts Israeli doctor of slander

I am aware that both sides in this conflict are guilty of spin and propaganda, but you do neither side any favors by buying into the half-truths and twisted words of the partisan press.

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