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Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Report re-ignites war of words over death of 12-year-old al-Dura in Gaza in 2000 by claiming the incident was staged In a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead. With the youngest of his 11 children at his side, he took his hands from his face, laid them on the marble slab and looked up, a bitter as well as a bereaved man. "Israel says my son isn't dead. Can you imagine how this feels for a father who has lost his child? They have all the technology tools in the world. He's not dead? Then bring him to me," he said. The long, acrimonious war over the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura in September 2000 was reignited this week with the release of an official Israeli report attacking a 55-second television broadcast, aired on that day 13 years ago, for what it said was distortion, falsehood, fabrication and incitement to terror. ...
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Latitude: Revisiting the Alleged Killing of a Palestinian Boy by Israeli Forces	22.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Latitude: Revisiting the Alleged Killing of a Palestinian Boy by Israeli Forces
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Muhammad al-Dura and Israel's obsession with the propaganda war	21.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
A report suggesting the death of the boy may have been faked was all spin, disregarding Palestinian testimony If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a horrifying new nadir. An Israeli report has concluded that Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian whose death in 2000 in Gaza was captured by a French public TV channel, was not killed by Israelis – and may in fact not be dead at all . Back then, a short film of Muhammad and his father, both caught in a shootout, trying helplessly to shelter against a barrage of gunfire, was narrated by French Channel 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin and relayed around the world, turning the boy into a symbol of the brutality of the second intifada and the Israeli occupation. Now, Israel says those same images are yet more proof of a global campaign to delegitimise Israel – and are, additionally, ...
Al Jazeera deletes its own controversial Op-Ed, then refuses to comment \| Glenn Greenwald	21.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The bizarre behavior by the media giant reflects brewing tensions as it seeks to enter the US television market Last Tuesday, Al Jazeera English published a lengthy Op-Ed by Columbia professor and Middle East scholar Joseph Massad entitled "The Last of the Semites". Massad's argument was obviously controversial: he highlighted the shared goal between the early Zionist movement and Europe's anti-Jewish bigots (namely, the removal of Jews from the continent), detailed the cooperation between German Nazis and Zionists to facilitate the departure of Jews out of Europe (the existence of that cooperation is not in dispute, though the extent of it very much is ), and highlighted the extensive disagreements among Jews themselves over the wisdom and justness of Zionism (large numbers of European Jews were insistent that they did not want to, and should not have to, leave their homelands for a distant land that was not theirs). Predictably, numerous commentators - largely the ones who have spent years ...
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'No proof' Israel shot Gaza child	20.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
An Israeli government investigation concludes a French news report in 2000 which blamed Israeli troops for shooting dead a Palestinian child was baseless.
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Israeli inquiry says film of Muhammad al-Dura's death in Gaza was staged	20.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Report says video of 12-year-old cowering with his father amid a gun battle shows no evidence he was killed by Israeli fire A film of a 12-year-old boy crying and cowering beside his father as a gun battle raged around them in Gaza has been challenged by an official Israeli report that suggests that the entire event may have been staged. The images, which became a symbol of the second intifada , contain no evidence that the child was injured or killed by Israeli fire, a committee of inquiry into television coverage of the death of Muhammad al-Dura concluded. But the committee's conclusions were rejected by France 2, the French public television channel that broadcast the report, its reporter Charles Enderlin, and the boy's father, Jamal al-Dura. All said they were ready to co-operate with an independent international investigation into the incident, and Enderlin and Dura added they were willing to undergo polygraph tests. The image of father and son crouched behind a barrel as bullets ...
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Lens Blog: Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza	20.5.2013	NY Times: World
A new report by the Israeli government called into question a well-known image of a Palestinian boy and his father, caught in the crossfire of a gun battle in Gaza.
Israel Casts New Doubt on Muhammad al-Dura Episode	20.5.2013	NY Times: Middle East
Israel Casts New Doubt on Muhammad al-Dura Episode
Israel disputes French TV claim on boy's death	19.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Israel disputes French TV claim on boy's death
Israeli government report disputes French TV claim about Gaza boy's death in 2000	19.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

Prominent youth activist detained in Egypt (Cached)	11.5.2013	Durango Herald
CAIRO x2013 Egyptx2019s prosecutor general on Friday ordered a prominent youth leader detained for four days pending an investigation into accusations he incited anti-government violence, a security official said, in the latest case of a pro-democracy activist being held over similar charges.The detention sparked a wave of anger...
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rallies to protest Israeli airstrikes in Syria, detention of cleric	10.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rallies against Israel	10.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rallies against Israel
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Palestinian killed in Gaza by targeted Israeli air strike	30.4.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Palestinian killed in Gaza by targeted Israeli air strike
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Israel allows journalists to visit West Bank jail, following Palestinian criticism	15.4.2013	Washington Post
OFER PRISON, West Bank — Put on the defensive by the recent deaths of two Palestinian prisoners in custody, Israeli authorities opened the gates of a West Bank jail on Sunday to foreign reporters, providing a rare, though controlled, look at conditions behind bars. ...
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John Kerry returns to Middle East amid lowered expectations	7.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Obama administration aims to get Israeli-Palestinian 'peace process' back on track but there are few grounds for optimism It's a journey that John Kerry will come to know well. The plane descends either from the west, over the glittering Mediterranean sea and the bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv, or from the east, across the stark biblical landscape of the West Bank. From there it's uphill – literally and, perhaps, metaphorically – to west Jerusalem, the seat of the Israeli government, and to Ramallah, the home of the Palestinian Authority. The US secretary of state is expected to make this journey many times in the coming months of grinding shuttle diplomacy between the two sides of the 65-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He will need stamina, patience, resourcefulness, determination; a strong sense of history, a clear grasp of the present, and a vision of the future; plus an instinct for when to tread delicately and when to diplomatically bang heads. Kerry is in the Holy Land this ...
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Op-ed stirs row over Palestinian rock-throwing	5.4.2013	AP Top News
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A newspaper op-ed piece by an Israeli writer has revived an emotional debate surrounding Israel's 45-year rule over the West Bank and east Jerusalem: Do Palestinians who throw rocks at Israelis exercise a "birthright" of resisting military occupation, as the author argued? Or is stone-throwing an indefensible act of violence?...
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Op-ed stirs row over Palestinian rock-throwing	5.4.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Op-ed stirs row over Palestinian rock-throwing
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Thousands in West Bank protest deaths of 2 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israel	5.4.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops	4.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Clashes come as militants fire rockets at Israel for third day, sparking fears of fresh wave of violence after five months of calm Palestinian protesters clashed with soldiers after thousands of mourners turned out for the funerals of a 64-year-old cancer-stricken prisoner and two teenage boys shot dead by the Israeli military, the latest sign of the increasing turbulence gripping the West Bank. Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel for the third consecutive day in a move that threatens to trigger a fresh cycle of violence after almost five months of calm since the eight-day war last November. Following two Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight on Wednesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that the country would not tolerate renewed rocket fire. "If the quiet is violated, we will respond strongly," he said. The unrest in the West Bank and resumed rocket fire from Gaza will complicate efforts by the US secretary of state to bring both parties back to the negotiating table ...
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