Phil Weiss (Mondoweiss)
Israel's release of a report [full text here]
asserting that 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura was not killed by Israeli
forces in Gaza in 2000, and may not even have been injured by Israelis,
has had the opposite effect to that which the government intended: The
report is being widely mocked, and several commentators have turned
attention to the staggering numbers of Palestinians children killed by
Israel inside the occupation.
And as we indicated yesterday, The New York Times seems to have been hurt by its credulous coverage of the report. In fact, Robert Mackey at the Times today offers a far more balanced account of the report than the original story.
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