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   Richard Dell

   September 7, 2007

   This paragraph from the FrontPageMag report (one of the links) points out the magnitude of this issue, that almost the entire journalistic profession finds inconvenient to its liberal world view and wishes would go away:
   “The Al Durah hoax is reminiscent of the Dreyfus Affair that occurred more than 100 years ago in France. A Jewish army captain was falsely accused and condemned for treason. Many years later, due to the intervention of writer and journalist, Emile Zola, the verdict was overturned and he was released from incarceration at the notorious Devil’s Island. But, the day Dreyfus was publicly relieved of his office, his honors ripped from his uniform, and his sword broken in two, thousands upon thousands of Frenchmen gathered to chant and cry hysterically in the lovely boulevards of Paris, “Death to the Jews!” A young Austrian journalist was there to report the story. At that moment, he knew that the Jews of Europe were doomed and that it was imperative that they leave the continent. His name was Theodore Herzl and the year was 1894. Less than 50 years later, his words proved prophetic. Seventy-five thousand French Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis and their French collaborators, and more than 6 million Jews died in Europe as a whole. It is a sad footnote to the Dreyfus Affair that France is the country that breathed life into the Al Durah hoax.”
   It is important for two big reasons: it killed the “peace process” for at least a generation; and it shows a shameful collusion among an extraordinarily large group of international journalists in victimising Israel and pouring petrol on a highly inflamed situation for the sake of a good story and their own smug self-righteousness. Whatever happened to shame? An utter disgrace.
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