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Excerpt from "Incitement,
lies, and videotape" by Andrea Levin
The Jerusalem Post June 8, 2001
NBC's Martin Fletcher was immediately accused of "forgery and
manipulation" (by the Palestinian government) when he presented a rare look
on May 8 at the overt Palestinian recruitment of their own children to sacrifice
themselves as martyrs. Using video footage taken from Palestinian television
(provided by the monitoring group, Palestinian Media Watch), Fletcher reported:
"They are using a stunning tactic - commercials on Palestinian TV asking
children to drop their toys, pick up rocks, and do battle with Israel. They are
even using actors to recreate the most famous image of the uprising - one that
shocked the world - 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura dying in his father's arms,
caught in the crossfire of a confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians.
The commercial shows al-Dura in paradise urging other children
to 'follow him.'"
Children are seen in the Palestinian video putting down their toys to choose
martyrdom. Death is presented as serene and happy, a place of sunlit green
fields and reunion with friends. (In segments not shown on NBC, but
broadcast as part of the "commercial" on Palestinian television,
"paradise" also reveals al-Dura frolicking at a beach, at an amusement
park and flying a kite in a tree-lined meadow.) Fletcher also takes the NBC
camera to Gaza where children assembled in military-style ranks in a schoolyard
are challenged to set aside their fears. They shout: "We ask Allah to
destroy the Jews." Children are seen training for military confrontation.
Why have members of the media, with but a few admirable exceptions, failed to
report systematically on the avid and pervasive Palestinian campaign to raise up
new generations devoted to the destruction of Israel? Why is Arafat
almost invariably given a pass by the media on his outrageous and inflammatory
lies about Israel and calls to war?
Is it because of Palestinian intimidation (over the last eight months reporters
have repeatedly been beaten, "detained," and threatened by the
Palestinians), or perhaps because of media reluctance to break from the herd
mentality that dominates Middle East coverage and chooses to portray Israel as
the "heavy?"
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Whatever the explanation, none is acceptable. There is only the unacceptable
result: media dereliction and silence.
(The writer is president of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
in America.)
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