We feel the Rod Serling moments of 'something is wrong'.
We know it, but cannot see the evidence .. and we dare not voice it because it is too unbelievable.
And so to the case of Mohammad Al Durah, and the coverage of his 'murder', and the coverage of the coverage, then the Dreyfus circus of France 2, and the incredible Mr. Karsenty.
Today a French court ruled that I did not defame France 2 when I said that its news report was a staged hoax. Because I refused to be brainwashed, I was sued for defamation.
Our victory today was a victory for freedom -- the freedom to think and to speak one's mind; the freedom to question what one is told; and the freedom to disbelieve the solemn pronouncements of others when the individual concludes that his reasoning is correct and that the state and the state-run media -- and all of the institutions they represent -- are wrong.
The al-Dura lie is an assault on our ability to think, to criticize, to evaluate, and finally to reject information -- especially the right to reject information on which we base our most cherished assumptions. One of Europe's most cherished assumptions is that Israel is a vicious Nazi-like entity that deliberately murders Palestinian Arab children. Moreover, polls conducted in Europe have identified Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, greater than Iran and North Korea, Pakistan and Syria. The al-Dura hoax is one of the pillars on which these assumptions rely.
I congratulate this man on a great victory, but the big story is no story.
Search on Karsenty...
Fox News NOTHING. Not even on the web site. Talal's money?
MSNBC - the last story is 9/2007
CNN's search points outward only to CAMERA and those like us.
Yet when this monumental hoax was perpetrated, this world ran to believe the jews were murderers. The media ran to publish that the state of Israel practiced child murder via its army. France 2, in possession of some shred of truth, suppressed it in a formless agreement in purpose with the actual mass murderers of the levant.
Those are the stories of the Al Durah hoax.
The press REJOICED to show the jewish killers, no better than those who murdered them. The world felt lighter to the masses to find this falsity true in deadly silent relief?
And HAMAS, FATAH, and the salafist and khomeinist murderers on this planet knew success in their racist formative document.
There is no publicity over this shame. Not in the industry whose existence is to bring us the 'reality' of this world, and not anywhere in this world.
What we knew was wrong was the way the world treated this. The way the press ran to cover it.
Do we as humans feel triumph in such denigration even when we know it demeans every one of us? Does the world despise the jews so much as to take silent pleasure in the lie, and thus ensure silence for the truth?
3 comments:
Good point, Epa. I hadn't thought of it that way. But, I knew there had to be some reason I didn't really care about the story.
It's a fart in a windstorm.
Sorry to be gross, but uh, that fart thing didn't come out the way I wanted.
In fact, it came out like ...
If they admit knowing about this judgement, it would stop them trotting out the AlDura hoax as a crime against the palestinians in future. They want to keep their hoax alive.
It's like if you accused someone of stealing your wallet, then you find your wallet, but keep quiet about that because, well, the accused can never prove he didn't steal your wallet, and you never did like him...
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