Al Dura Affair : Our Modern Zolas (on the David Frum’s Diary)

22/11/2007

De quoi mettre du baume au coeur de mon ami Stéphane Juffa, auquel m’a opposé jadis une polémique douloureuse. Il mérite amplement cet hommage, qui prend toute sa valeur en ce qu’il est relayé par David Frum [*], dont la réputation n’est plus à faire. (Menahem Macina).

[*] Voir David Frum "L’affaire al-Dura".

November 21, 2007

David Frum’s Diary

From a Frenchman working in Toronto...

Thank you for taking up the cause or truth and decency in the al-Dura hoax.

It would help even more if you mentioned not only Richard Landes - who did a good work publicising the affair in the English speaking world, but did not uncover any original material - but those who actually brought up the proof of the hoax, namely:

1) Israeli scientist Nahum Shahaf, the first one to state that the tape was a hoax (admittedly only on the base of an analysis of the pictures themselves)

2) Most of all, the investigative team of the Metula News Agency (or Mena), a French-speaking Israeli press office with strong sources in the Arab world. The Mena’s incredibly brave correspondent in Gaza, Sami el-Soudi, was the one who interviewed the doctors who had examined the body of a dead child of the name Muhamad al-Dura that day, and showed that the hospital’s registry indicated the body came in four hours before the film was shot. Sami, together with the Mena’s editor-in-chief Stephane Juffa, collected all of the images of the movie that is now shown on Richard Landes’s website.

Kudos to Richard Landes for his work. But more kudos to the ones who brought the proofs to light.

Mis en ligne le 22 novembre 2007, par M. Macina, sur le site upjf.org