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When media loses all of its sensibility, do they
expect that the people will as well? By:
So "60 minutes" signed an agreement for exclusive
rights with a couple of amateurs, who have no credentials, even in the eyes of
the Israeli army, and is willing to broadcast their lunatic assumptions to
millions of people all over the world. How
objective and committed to truth is this program? One cannot but lose patience in following their story.
According to Shahaf and Duriel, Jamal al Dura and his son were brought to the
junction in a play designed specifically for the cameras. French TV was invited
to broadcast the play live. The
father and son took their assigned place behind the cement barrel.
An exchange of fire was conducted for the sole purpose of filming. Shahaf
even notes that the father, Jamal, was making deliberate gestures to the TV crew
trying to coordinate the best scene for his son to be killed and himself
seriously injured. Shahaf then
retreats and states that maybe the father did not know that the play would go to
that extent. Then by studying
carefully the holes made by the bullets in the wall and how perfectly rounded
they were, he concluded that another Palestinian group was the one who shot and
killed the boy and that the Israeli Army had nothing to do with it.
In one of the Israeli military camps, a similar scene was prepared and
the incident was re-enacted. Let us look at what Duriel wrote in Ha'aretz two days after
the incident. “The IDF spokesman
deserves a prize for stupidity…Ten minutes after the incident a normal
spokesman for a normal army would have released a categorically formulated
statement saying that, provocateurs opened fire against IDF soldiers, behind the
back of a child, and made sure he would be killed in front of cameras; and after
the boy, they killed the ambulance driver who tried to save him. All this was
done to score propaganda points by depicting murderous behavior on part of IDF
soldiers.” This statement
indicates that Duriel would have attempted to protect or cover for the IDF even
before he started to “investigate” the incident.
Yet "60 minutes" is considering his work as objective and
scientific and is willing to expose its audience to a pre-arranged cover story
with an already declared purpose. There are a few legitimate questions that need to be
answered by Don Hewitt of 60 minutes. Why would Israel refrain from establishing a thorough state
investigation into this incident and depend on two inexperienced scientists to
do so? Why did Israel destroy the
scene of the crime and leave no evidence for a reasonable investigation?
Why did the Israeli army admit responsibility,
but later come up with this Hollywood-like story? In the Ha'aretz article there are some answers, which I
will bring to your attention. Mr. Shahaf, the savior of the IDF, kept calling
for a meeting with General in Command, Yom Tov Samia.
But he was only able to meet with him after the scene was destroyed. Mr.
Shahaf believed that an efficient investigation into this case could only be
conducted in the "Manhattan Project" style. A physicist would be given
the power to choose the staff he needs and investigate. The Manhattan Project,
for those who do not know, was established to investigate and produce the first
atomic bomb during World War II. So Mr. Shahaf, who apparently sees Einstein
when he looks in the mirror, thinks of himself as the savior. This is why no
thorough state investigation was required; Mr. Shahaf is apparently the only one
who is capable of conducting a thorough and scientific investigation. As ridiculous as it appears to many, it did not look the
same for Don Hewitt of "60 minutes."
According to Ha'aretz, "60 minutes" bought the story and signed
a contract for exclusive broadcasting rights.
It is about time for the ones who follow the program and trust that it is
worth seeing, to demand answers to the many questions raised by their
involvement in this weird work. If the producers of "60 Minutes" have
loyalties to Israel, perhaps this should be kept personal.
Ordinary American citizens, should not be constantly subjected to biased
media, especially if the topic is as human and as tragic as the killing of a
little boy who did no harm and presented no threat to anyone.
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The
Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz recently reported that a crew from the well-known
"60 minutes" news program was involved in a re-enactment of the
October 1 gun battle at Nitzarim junction, in which 12-year-old Mohammad al Dura
was killed.