Jenin, Jenin

The destructive lies about what happened in Jenin in 2002 have never stopped rearing their ugly heads, but a new film called Jenin, Jenin is perpetuating those lies, ensuring maximum incitement around the Arab world.

After an investigation into claims that a huge massacre took place, the UN confirmed that the accusations were false.

Reports today indicate that the "documentary" is not the product of crazed hallucinations; rather it is the product of deliberate lies. The film's producer, Muhamed Bakri, has admitted in a deposition that many of the violent scenes were fabricated and that the film was funded by the PA: Palestinian Producer - False Film was Funded by PA

A Palestinian filmmaker who produced a documentary alleging Israeli troops committed war crimes in a refugee camp admitted in a deposition last week to falsifying scenes, using inaccurate information and obtaining financing for the project from the Palestinian Authority, WorldNetDaily has learned. Muhammad Bakri, producer of “Jenin, Jenin,” a documentary that claims Israel committed genocide in the Jenin refugee camp in April 2002, admitted in a deposition to inaccuracies throughout his film. The filmmaker is being sued by five Israeli soldiers visible in still footage in the film, which alleges IDF troops killed a “large number” of civilians, mutilated Palestinian bodies, randomly executed and bombed women, children and the mentally and physically impaired, and leveled the entire refugee camp, including a wing of the local hospital. The documentary doesn’t show footage of the alleged atrocities, but in some scenes, faces of the soldiers now suing Bakri were superimposed over “eyewitness testimony,” and it was indicated they had committed “war crimes.” But Bakri, in a deposition obtained by WND, admitted he “believed” selected witnesses but didn’t check the information they provided. “I believed the things that I’ve been told. What I did not believe was not included in the film,” said Bakri. When asked about a scene in which it is implied Israeli troops ran over civilians, Bakri admitted to constructing the footage himself as an “artistic choice.” He also answered “no” when asked if he believed “that during the operation in Jenin, the Israeli soldiers killed people indiscriminately.” In perhaps the most explosive element of the deposition, Bakri admitted his documentary, which was screened in theaters around the world, was financed in part by the Palestinian Authority. He said Yasser Abed Rabu, Palestinian minister of culture and information and a member of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s executive committee, “covered a part of the film expenses.”

Comments

[Jodi]

Fabrications or not, the damage has been done. Thousands of people will watch the film and they will believe it, such is the power of imagery no matter how false the images may be.

I am sure the film will hit our sunny shores next year or so.