Revisiting Al Durah: the father’s wounds
[Hat tip: commenter “expat.”]
Remember the Mohammad al Durah case? There’s a new court ruling with an angle I’d not heard much about before:
The [French Supreme Court] vindicated a doctor who was sued by al-Dura’s father for saying the wounds he claimed to have suffered on the day of his son’s death were not the result of Israeli fire…
This case stemmed from Jamal al-Dura’s claims he had been wounded during the firefight between Palestinian Authority gunmen and Israeli soldiers in an incident at the Netzarim Junction near the border between Israel and Gaza on September 30, 2000. An Israeli doctor, Dr. Yehuda David, took issue with the elder al-Dura’s claims his scars were the result of wounds inflicted in the shooting, arguing instead they were clearly the result of tendon surgery he had performed on the father years earlier. Al-Dura sued Dr. David and won a judgment in a French court, but France’s Supreme Court has now overturned the decision and validated the Israeli’s argument.
But if you watch the following video, you’ll see that the irony is even greater than Jamal al-Dura blaming Israeli soldiers for inflicting gunshot wounds on him that were really the result of an Israeli doctor operating to save his arm six years earlier—and that’s because the original damage to Jamal was actually inflicted by ax-wielding Palestinians:
It makes one wonder whether Jamal al-Dura was in some difficulty with his fellow Palestinians, and if his cooperation in the shooting incident and its aftermath was a way to get them off his back.
[NOTE: Those interested in the topic, and unfamiliar with my previous writing on it and coverage of the France2 trial, go here and scroll down to find the earliest articles. You can also read Richard Landes’ fine work on the subject of the al Durah incident, here and here.]
Shocking, just shocking.
Curtis: what is most shocking is that probably 95% of the people around the world who have heard of the al Durah incident still have no idea how much mendacity went into it on the Palestinian side.
And what’s even more shocking is that, even if many of them learn different, they will reject the truth as being lies.
Mendacity and Palestinian are redundant. It’s what they do. It’s in their book.
Pulling truth up out of the memory hole… again.
Thanks, neo.
Definitions:
Obomidant: The confidence that comes from the realization that it doesn’t matter what you do.
Islamific: Power feeling of euphoria that come from the realization that it doesn’t matter what you do.
Perception influences reality which becomes selective. So, what else is new? It’s the same tactic pursued by our own left-wing ideologues. That the Palestinians would do it is not surprising, since they are allied with left-wing interests. This is not to say that all people who are nominally left-wing support this… Well, at least not explicitly or knowingly. They have overriding concerns.
I’m sorry. I didn’t intend to make this seem trite. It’s important to expose them whenever their true nature is exposed. They have ulterior motives and they should not be permitted to manipulate reality in order to achieve their goals.
Why do you think Jamal needed some kind of coercion?
Richard Aubrey: I don’t necessarily think he needed coercion. It depends, though; he may have. There is quite a bit of evidence, for instance, that quite a few suicide bombers do it because their family is in trouble with the local authorities, or they themselves are in some sort of trouble and need to clear their names. This wasn’t a suicide bombing, but it was an incident in which Jamal cooperated with a somewhat risky deception, and perhaps (this part is unclear) lost his son into the bargain.
See this about the situation with female suicide bombers, for example:
Neo, that trouble is mostly financial if it exists at all. The families get large payoffs from Iran and PLO/Hamas authorities which can then be used to bribe police and other officials.
But no, I seriously doubt that people will let themselves be turned into living bombs for money alone. The hatred of “the enemy” and the religious conviction that the act of killing yourself in God’s name, taking infidels with you, must be present and strong or they’d flinch and get caught a lot more (as can be seen in the children being coerced into it, a lot of whom are caught and talked into letting themselves be disarmed by bomb disposal experts).
J.T. Wenting: I don’t think you read the link. The trouble can be things connected to honor/shame for the women, such as pre-marital or extra-marital sexual relations, for example.
We already know from the YouTube tape that Jamal al Durah had been attacked by an ax-wielding Palestinian gang six years before the al-Durah incident occurred. The question is: why? Was it just a random attack? Or had he offended someone in some way and this group was out to get him in retaliation? If the latter, he might have needed to do something to placate them (or people over them) in order to avoid further attacks on him or his family.
Mr. Frank,
“Mendacity and Palestinian are redundant.”
Considering that the very idea of calling the Arab settler-colonist land-thieves in Palestine “Palestinians” is a product of Arab/Islamic imperialist mendacity, this is no surprise. This subterfuge was born out of the Arab imperialists’ need to market their ambition of about twenty Arab states (or about fifty Muslim states) to rob a single nation (the Jewish nation, the only true Palestinian nation) of their one and only tiny piece of land in the world. No mainstream publication in the West before 1960 mentions any non-Jewish “Palestinian nation”; it’s nothing but a mask and shiny wrapper over Islamic imperialist aggression.
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