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New Evidence against the Al Dura Fraud
provided by surgeon
by Endre MOZES* - 2007DEC17
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READ BELOW:
1. The BBC Continues Distorted Reporting - Reader’s Letter by Rona HART, Jan 15, 2008
2.
New Evidence against the Al Dura Fraud provided by
surgeon,
Op-ed, Endre MOZES* - 2007DEC17
3. ‘2503 kids not going to school in Sderot
and
Reader’s
Letter to JERUSALEM POST - by Endre MOZES -
September 7, 2007
4. R’s Letter: One more Letter about one more BBC
Bias - Ilana Rosen – August
1, 2007
5. R’s Letter: Let fair reporting and
truth have a front seat – Jack Lynes - MAIL
on Sunday, July 23
6. ‘Understanding For Suicide Killers; Less For Their Victims’ - Walter Leaf
Masterpiece Reader’s Letter To the DAILY MAIL, June 22, 2007
7.
Look in the mirror, Jimmy
Carter - By
Jeff Jacoby (also on our Russian pg)
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In the next frame below;
”From Take-A-Pen’s
“Terror victims are BBC licence-payers,
too” - September 7, 2007,
and many comments, at: http://www.take-a-pen.org/english/Letter_From_London/LetterFromLondon.htm
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See the following Items in our new English Archives:
8. Reader’s Letter:
9. Op-Ed: New Evidence that British
Journalism is Biased against
10. Reader’s Letter to
The Times - About Baroness Tongue - May 7, 2007
11.
12.
Both BBC and Palestinians Acknowledge Biased BBC Reporting -Tom
Gross
13.
- an answer for those who accuse
14.
Human Shields Have
No Rights In A War Zone - Jock Falkson
15.
Reader's Letter: Christians in
16.
Reader's Letter in The Guardian: Britons to Iranian Holocaust Conference
17. Take-A-Pen to House of
Commons' Intl Development Committee
- Evidence
Session, updated June 3, 2007
18. New Amnesty Report condemns Hizbollah War Crimes!
19.
Reader's Letter: to
20.
WATCH OUT for 'Human Rights Watch' and 'Amnesty' cheating! –
Maurice
Ostroff’s letter: A critic's first duty is to get his facts right
21.
Blatant Hypocrisy- Frederick Forsyth - Daily Express
22.
Hezbollah's Human Shields - The
23.
Arithmetic of Pain - Alan DERSHOWITZ,
24.
An Exchange of Letters with the BBC
25.
The BBC pro-Israeli? Is the
Pope Jewish? - Martin Walker, The Times
26.
The Power of Taking Your Pen ! - Outstanding Citizen's Letter
27.
Reader's Letter: Testament of Youth
28. BBC - an
Accomplice to Terrorism? – Take-A-Pen study updated
1) The BBC Continues
Distorted Reporting.
Covers up to Terrorist Hamas - Biased
against
Read factual analysis in Reader’s Letter, by Rona HART, January 15, 2008
Dear Malcolm Balen,
I have just read a report on Ceefax (please see below) and am truly
disappointed to see yet another example of one-sided reporting from the
BBC.
This account makes no mention of the fact that 35 rockets - 19 Kassam rockets
and 16 other types - have fallen on
Four people were injured as a result of the Kassam attacks on Sderot, and other
Israelis were injured elsewhere. A farm hand in
All the above information is available on the web, but not, alas, on the BBC's
Ceefax report of today's events in the
In order words, I cannot get the
whole, balanced picture from the BBC.
The "medical sources and witnesses" seem to be on the Palestinian
side of the
It may be one of the "deadliest days on record" in terms of
casualties, but that is not from lack of trying on the Hamas side, as rockets
are sent daily into Sderot and other Israeli towns, villages and kibbutzim.
In the final paragraph, Ceefax informs us that
Finally, referring to
Please will you regard this as an official complaint, I am really disappointed
that the BBC has fallen to such a level that I cannot rely on its
coverage.
Sincerely,
Rona Hart
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2)
New Evidence against the Al Dura Fraud provided
by surgeon
By Endre MOZES* - 2007 December 17
More and more experts have arrived at the conclusion during these
years, in
But to prove it, is a different matter.
That is why it is so significant that one more item has been added to
the list of tangible proofs that the France-2 movie and the commentaries about
The new counter-evidence to the Al-Dura film was provided by senior Israeli orthopedic surgeon Dr Yehuda David, interviewed by Israeli TV Channel 10 on December 12 evening. He told to the camera that his attention was called recently to the fact that he had operated Jamal Al Dura, the father of the boy Mohammed, years before the ominous incident at Netzarim on September 30, 2000, where Jamal was allegedly wounded.
Dr David checked this and found full documentation: he really operated Jamal in 1994. The operation was needed because Palestinian thugs had beaten up Jamal brutally, both with blunt tools and with a hatchet, cutting certain tendons, among others on his arm, paralyzing parts of his body. The operation was successful, gave back most of Jamal’s mobility, and was documented as usual. In all these years since September 2000 many skeptics about the authenticity of the France-2 film asked how Mohammed’s and Jamal’s alleged shot wounds and the IDF bullets were never seen, never shown. Now Jamal’s wounds were, but how! Dr David was surprised to see, how pseudo-analysts presented on a propaganda film the cuts of his own operation on Jamal’s hand and the old hatchet wounds on his arms and legs, as if traces of IDF bullets. Photos of these wounds had been in the hospital’s files since 1994! Any expert, Dr David explained, can see at first sight that the exactly straight thin cuts are of surgical origin and no bullet could cause them.
This is further factual evidence against the minuscule remnant credibility of the Al Dura film and the death cult created around it.
An interesting and important new
hypothesis arises. The recently known documented previous brutalization of
Jamal Al Dura by a Palestinian gang may lead to an understanding, why might
Jamal have co-operated in staging the fraud. Jamal Al Durra had been known in
But what, even if the whole Al Dura film
is a fraud, as most experts believe today? Some people ask why to wake up
now this old ghost. Why? because this case is not an airy ghost but an actively
aggressive icon of hatred and murder, which provides pretexts for hate crimes
against Jews and
The Al Dura accusation has turned out
recently to be totally unfounded, possibly deliberately forged.
Professional work and perseverance can turn now this case from the accusation
of the uninvolved to the accusation and at least moral conviction of the
forgers. This may help the return of a more honest global main-stream media we
so badly need. Particularly when about Palestinians and
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* Endre MOZES is founder chairman of Take A Pen, an international, multilingual grass-roots letter-writing network, since 2001.
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3) Reader’s Letter to:
To the Letter Editor September 7, 2007
Sub.: 2503 kids not going to school in Sderot and
Sir, - Re: "Sderot kids to
stay away from schools…” (Shelly Paz, Y. Katz, Sep.3): It is
commendable you remind
I can not avoid integrating this article with the very different
coverage of the same issue by BBC. They regularly downplay the Kassam rockets,
emphasizing that these are ‘home-made’ and ‘relatively harmless’. 12 Israeli
civilians have been killed by Kassams in recent years. This means,
proportionally, above 100 people killed in the
But the worst even the shamelessly biased BBC did recently about
Had Bowen and the BBC been honest they should report about “2503 children not going to school today”.
ENDRE
MOZES, Chairman
Take-A-Pen
Haifa
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4)
One more Letter
about one more BBC Bias
To: The BBC
August 1, 2007
For the attention of Nuala Hyde
Dear Ms Hyde
Thank you for replying to my email.
I do not feel, however that my concerns have
been addressed sufficiently.
Also (I apologise for not mentioning this in my
earlier email), there was a significant snub recently by the
I find this attitude duplicitous, to say the
least. Alan Johnston made his support solely for the Palestinians evident in
each of his broadcasts from
You write " However, it is not always
possible or practical to reflect all the different opinions on a subject.
Editors are charged to ensure that over a reasonable period they reflect the
range of significant views, opinions and trends in their subject
area." I beg to differ. Your brief is to inform the British public
and as such when you screen a news story your main purpose should be to do
this. You do not, and it is evident.
There is still a widely held view (and not just
in the Jewish community) that the
Ilana Rosen
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5)
Reader’s Letter: Let fair reporting and
truth have a front seat
The Editor,
Mail on Sunday
23rd July 2007
Sir,
In
just eighty five words Lauren Booth (Mail on Sunday 22nd.July) shows
off her two talents admirably. First to display an imagination beyond
compare and secondly as someone able to express in an easy to read and
convincing manner her somewhat warped mind.
Regrettably
her column may be read by some who do not know the truth and may be swayed by
her rhetoric. It is not surprising that an Israeli human rights group should
put a slant on the facts in pursuance of their arguments but that does not
excuse Ms Booth from quoting them without first studying the facts and what may
lie behind them. Her implied accusation that
Ms
Booth was certainly having an 'off day' when she accused
Long
may the likes of Lauren Booth have their freedom to express themselves. And
soon may she find a new agenda where fair reporting and truth have a front
seat.
Jack
Lynes.
Pinner
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6)
‘UNDERSTANDING For Suicide Killers; Less For Their Victims’
A MASTERPIECE of a Reader’s Letter:
To:
The Editor, DAILY MAIL June 22, 2007
From:
e-mail w.leaf@ntlworld.com
Andrew Alexander (June 22) shows understanding for suicide bombers
who kill Israeli families in school buses, cafes and shopping areas, but little
for their victims.
My own understanding comes from studying evidence that Palestinians are taught hatred from
nursery school onwards, with atlases that obliterate
Talk of justification is perverse. Three-quarters of the original Promised
Land destined for “close Jewish settlement” by international agreement became
Jew-free, Arab (Trans)
What
I do not understand is why Mr Alexander should deny the perennially
persecuted Jews of all peoples self-determination. Why may they not live in
peace in their own UN-voted homeland - where Christians, Muslims and Jews have
equal civil and religious rights, unknown elsewhere in the region - after 3,800
years of Jewish presence (despite Islamic invasions, expulsions and riots), when
the 21 Arab League states surrounding Israel already occupy 800 times as much
land?
(Yours
sincerely)
WALTER LEAF
e-mail w.leaf@ntlworld.com
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7)
Jimmy Carter to Guinness Book of World Records
by E.M., Take-A-Pen – www.take-a-pen.org - May 29, 2007
We wrote not long
ago on these Take-A-Pen pages about Jimmy Carter's book "Palestine, Peace not
Apartheid" that it may be a promising candidate for the Guinness Book
of World Records in a special category, by saying three blatant untruths in
a title of only four words: first of all Palestine is not a place or
country anywhere, two: Palestinians and Peace are two words which can not be
honestly said in the same breath, and, thirdly, any hint to apartheid about
Israel is as absurdly untrue as… er…( as to say Jimmy Carter was an excellent
president?)
Now Jeff Jacoby, columnist of the Jewish World Review is also contemplating
about Jimmy Carter's candidacy for the Guinness Book of World Records
in the "Pot Calling a Kettle Black" category.
Several Americans have
already said and written that Carter was probably the worst president the
Jeff Jacoby says now on this point that "It took Americans only
four years to realize what a disaster Carter had been; they booted him out in
1980 by a 44-state landslide. 'The worst in history,' he (Carter) says
of Bush. Look who's talking."
Read Jeff Jacoby's
article here below in English and in Russian
at http://www.take-a-pen.org/russian/index.html
Look
in the mirror, Jimmy Carter
By Jeff Jacoby
Jewish World Review May 25, 2007
Gracious as ever, Jimmy Carter says that when it comes to international
relations, the presidency of George W. Bush has set an all-time low. "I
think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world," Carter
told the
Former presidents
don't usually insult their successors quite so overtly, and Carter's slur, not
surprisingly, drew international attention. Whereupon he claimed that his
remarks had been "maybe careless or misinterpreted" and insisted:
"I was certainly not talking personally about any president." No, of
course not.
If "Pot
Calling a Kettle Black" were a category in the Guinness Book of World
Records, Carter would be a shoo-in for the upcoming edition. History's ultimate
judgment on Bush may not be known for some time, but its verdict on Carter, who
vacated the White House 26 years ago, seems clear enough. And that verdict is:
Well, let's just say he would be well advised not to toss around phrases such
as "worst in history" when the conversation turns to presidential
performance.
Christopher
Hitchens this week recalled arguing with Eugene McCarthy, a lifelong liberal
who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980. McCarthy was unapologetic. Carter, he
said, "quite simply abdicated the whole responsibility of the presidency
while in office. He left the nation at the mercy of its enemies at home and
abroad. He was the worst president we ever had."
The worst of the
20th century, at any rate. During the Carter years,
Before long, he was
slashing billions of dollars from the defense budget, cancelling the B-1 bomber
program, and ordering US missiles removed from
Not until the
Soviets invaded
Toward those who
warned that American weakness was dangerously provocative, Carter was scornful
— "simplistic," he said of Reagan in October 1980, "jingoistic .
. . shooting from the hip." Toward tyrants and goons, on the other hand,
he was creepily unctuous. "A great and courageous leader" who
"believes in human rights" was Carter's description of Yugoslav
dictator Marshal Tito. To
Worse yet was the
administration's supine response to the seizure of the American Embassy in
The fruits of
Carter's spinelessness, says scholar Steven Hayward, have been bitter. The fall
of
It took Americans
only four years to realize what a disaster Carter had been; they booted him out
in 1980 by a 44-state landslide. "The worst in history," he says of
Bush. Look who's talking.
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8) Reader's letter:
'CONFRONTING' IS NOT 'JOINING'
The
Editor, DAILY TELEGRAPH via dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
(Sir) Both the headline and the item “
Yours faithfully
(w.leaf@ntlworld.com)
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9)
Opinion Piece:
To: The Times 2 May 2007
To
the Op-ed Editor
Sir,
New
Evidence that British Journalism is Biased
During my week-long stay in
I am responding here to all your writings about the NUJ decision to
boycott
We, Take-A-Pen, are a politically independent, fully volunteer
international grass-roots media-watch network, our volunteers around the world
follow global media in 18 languages. We
sadly found and said it for years that a large part of the British mainstream
media covers the Arab-Israeli conflict and the life in
Our critical remarks sent to the British press about bias, even in
thoroughly documented cases, were rarely considered and honestly corrected,
like in one case by the Guardian, but were typically simply shrugged off, like
by The Independent, or were targeted with legal threats aiming at intimidating
us, by The BBC, the self-appointed champion of free speech.. (Seven threatening
BBC mails can be shown to the Editor upon request.)
It would be tempting to elaborate on, what many analysts say and
demonstrate with hundreds of examples for years, that the BBC News has been strongly
biased. Recently both Arab sources and
the BBC itself declared, for the defence of the kidnapped Alan Johnston, that
his and the BBC's activity in
So today there is no more need for such circumstantial evidences. Finally, the debate 'whether there is a bias in British journalism?' is concluded, the evidence issued by the most authentic forum on the subject, the British journalists themselves.
The National Union of Journalists' decision to boycott
Not much consolation is that parts of the British journalism hate the
Apartheid!? In
fact
Also, we see the
Back to our main issue; the British media's bias: I believe that the
honest silent majority of the British journalism has to work very hard and with
exceptional perseverance in order to cure this severe professional and ethical
illness within; both in order to regain its good name and: for pure honesty.
Respectfully,
Endre MOZES
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data; for the editor only:…)
10)Reader's Letter
(Baroness Tonge's unfounded
accusations of
To: The Editor,
The Times,
letters@thetimes.co.uk
THE CASE IS ALTERED
Sir,
In February, Baroness Tonge accused the Israeli army of breaking into a
Palestinian school at Abu Dis in the West Bank to “beat up” the boys. Accepting
the allegation unquestioningly, she demanded “pressure” on the Israeli
government to investigate.
As
Lady Tonge’s colleague Lord Steinberg reported, their Foreign Ministry
(unpressurised) looked into the case and the army’s report found no units near
Abu Dis. Nor were the Border Police involved. The Israel Defence Forces have
strict rules of conduct, enforced by courts martial, regarding Palestinian
youths - even when they hurl rocks and petrol bombs, shield adult snipers or
smuggle suicide belts through checkpoints, having been schooled, from
kindergarten through to militaristic “summer camp,” that Paradise awaits if
they blow themselves up.
Baroness
Tonge’s charges were shown to echo allegations by a body called the Camden Abu
Dis Friendship Association. As Dr Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat MP before her
ennoblement, she had been disciplined by her party’s leader, it will be
recalled, for earlier questionable comments on the
Now,
however, an opportunity has occurred for Baroness Tonge to establish her
unswerving interest in protecting Palestinians at school. An unmistakably
genuine case of assault on a Palestinian school has, I see, been reported by
the news agency Independent Media Review last weekend. Gunmen attacked a
UN-funded (UNRWA) school in Rafah,
Baroness
Tonge could, I suggest, underline her integrity by getting her teeth into this
quite unarguable attack on a Palestinian school, witnessed by UN personnel and
journalists (although it happens to be one of the many cases where Palestinians
have assailed Palestinians). Perhaps she could begin by demanding “pressure” on
the Palestinian administration to investigate, and maybe keep us informed of
the results.
WALTER
LEAF
e-mail w.leaf@ntlworld.com
Wembley, Middx
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9/ Reader's Letter:
Published in The
Independent,
Sir: Jack Downey in his
letter (15 March) chides
Since
ANNE KLAUSNER
PETACH
* Published at http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2381035.ece
* Now published at http://www.take-a-pen.org/english/index.html
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10)
Both BBC and Palestinians
Acknowledge Biased BBC Reporting
Tom Gross
BBC Middle East correspondent Alan Johnston has, unfortunately, been kidnapped
by Palestinian gunmen in the
Impartial observers have long recognized that
The Nablus TV news agency also acknowledges this. In a report specially located
and translated for this website / email list, it says: "The Palestinian
Journalists Syndicate has issued a call to release
For more, in Arabic, see: www.nablustv.net/details.asp?newsID=1385&cat=14
The Qatar News Agency also says that Johnston is known for "his quality
and objectiveness": www.qnaol.com/linkit.php?date=2007-03-12&no=0127
Last year a Fox News reporter who had been kidnapped in Gaza was released after
a ransom was paid by the Fox network (although officially Fox denies this).
No one had been charged or convicted of involvement in any of the recent
kidnappings of western journalists and aid workers by Palestinian gunmen.
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Tom Gross - www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000837.html
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11)
Jeremy
Last - 1st of March 2007
www.totallyjewish.com
Majallie Whbee .. saying he was proud of being an Israeli citizen, the
Druze MK also spoke
of his wish to show the world that
Whbee will serve as ceremonial President until next Tuesday, while acting
president Dalia
Itzik is in
Whbee, who rose to the rank of colonel during 19 years in a parachute division
of the IDF,
said: "This is a very historic day and week because it is the first time
that a person from
the minorities has become the president of
"The important thing for us is that it shows that we can be counterparts,
citizens who have
duties and rights. That we actually are a democratic country.
"I think my
appointment is the example and answer
for those who accuse
But he warned: "Those people who have a very bad attitude towards Israel
will continue with
their thoughts nevertheless"
Although he will only hold the position for a week, he said he wanted to use
the opportunity
to try and make some inroads in the peace process, and had already organized
meetings with
the Jordanian and Egyptian Ambassadors to Israel.
"I believe I can increase the confidence of the relations between the two
sides," said Whbee,
who first entered politics in 1995 as an assistant to then Minister of
Infrastructure Ariel
As a Kadima MK Whbee espouses the views of the government and said he was
planning to tell the Jordanian and Egyptian ambassadors that he believed there
"