THE LIE THAT STARTED IT ALL

Pallywood, part of the only thriving industry that the Palestinians have thanks to their corrupt, dishonest and thuggish leadership (and I include both Fatah and Hamas here) has been well and truly exposed. From Media Backspin we learn that the now infamous al-Dura incident which triggered off the violence of the Second Intifada was just another Palestinian scam:-

INDEPENDENT BALLISTICS REPORT: IDF DIDN'T KILL AL-DURA

Haaretz quotes from an independent report by ballistics expert Jean-Claude Schlinger. Last week, Philippe Karsenty presented the report to a French court examining France 2 TV's footage of Mohammed al-Dura:

In his report, Schlinger wrote, "If Jamal [the boy's father] and Mohammed al-Dura were indeed struck by shots, then they could not have come from the Israeli position, from a technical point of view, but only from the direction of the Palestinian position."

He also wrote, "In view of the general context, and in light of many instances of staged incidents, there is no objective evidence that the child was killed and his father injured. It is very possible, therefore, that it is a case [in which the incident was] staged." . . .

This is the first time that an independent ballistics expert, not representing the State of Israel, undertook to examine Karsenty's claims.