http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/al-dura-conspiracy-theories/ After ridiculing claims by Jewish right-wingers that the iconic shooting of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura was a hoax, the Jerusalem Post’s Larry Derfner responds to a rebuttal by Richard Landes and Philippe Karsenty with a detailed analysis of what is, and isn’t, known about the shooting. Karsenty is the French Jewish media watchdog who was sued in a French court for claiming the al-Dura incident, which helped fuel the flames of the second intifada, was staged. Karsenty initially was found guilty of defaming the journalist who filed the report, France 2 TV’s Charles Enderlin, but last month a French appeals court overturned the verdict, supporting Karsenty’s right to charge that the incident was a hoax. The upshot? Derfner agrees with Karsenty, the IDF and Jewish observers who say that al-Dura likely was killed by Palestinian fire, not by Israeli troops, but Derfner says there’s no evidence to show the boy’s shooting was staged: In short, the French appeals court upheld Karsenty’s legal right to cry hoax. It by no means upheld the substance of his claim. There are light years of difference between the two. Yet while it’s pure Jewish paranoia to claim that Enderlin and his co-conspirators knew all along that the Palestinians killed al-Dura, and it’s way beyond paranoia to think the Palestinians killed the boy deliberately or that he never died at all. en-us uheilman@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-06-20T;15:41:20-05:00 rl.seconddraft@gmail.com i have responded in detail to Derfners second effort to articulate his position that calling it staged is not only wrong, but morally misguided, at my blog: http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/06/19/derfner-tries-again-a-for-effort-c-for-analysis/ i’m confused as to why you would conclude this post with a quote from derfner’s first article when we specifically critiques t his passage in the first response. i have responded in detail to Derfners second effort to articulate his position that calling it staged is not only wrong, but morally misguided, at my blog:
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/06/19/derfner-tries-again-a-for-effort-c-for-analysis/
i’m confused as to why you would conclude this post with a quote from derfner’s first article when we specifically critiques t his passage in the first response.

]]> 2009-11-19T;22:58:01-05:00 jcbfarkas@aol.com Your article states “it’s way beyond paranoia to think the Palestinians killed the boy deliberately”. Duh!  “way beyond paranoia” to think that people who put bombs on their children and cheer when they blow themselves up in order to kill a few Jews, wouldn “kill a boy deliberately.  If you had any credibility before you made that clearly inane, propagandistic remark, you sure ain’t got none now. Shabat Shalom Your article states “it’s way beyond paranoia to think the Palestinians killed the boy deliberately”.
Duh!  “way beyond paranoia” to think that people who put bombs on their children and cheer when they blow themselves up in order to kill a few Jews, wouldn “kill a boy deliberately. 
If you had any credibility before you made that clearly inane, propagandistic remark, you sure ain’t got none now.
Shabat Shalom

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