Richard Landes has just released a new major production at Second Draft: Gaza Beach Tragedy. Direct download or stream, here. The film runs about 10 minutes.

This is bold material. It's difficult to look at. There is a personal tragedy here, but the questions remain as to what use that tragedy was put and who caused it. One immediate takeaway while watching is the brutality with which the Arab media treats its audience. Contrast to Western media which still avoids showing the full scope of the horror of 9/11 - Arab media shoves as much blood and agony into your face as inhumanly possible. Western media has its purposes...Arab media another, and they are at odds. What those cross-purposes are should be obvious.

One more point of emphasis I'd like to pull from the film (and the investigations that went on when this happened) that can't be repeated enough: Palestinian doctors, against usual medical practice and at risk to their patients, removed whatever shrapnel they could get to before passing on the wounded victims to hospitals in Israel, where the shrapnel that Israeli doctors managed to remove (that PA doctors couldn't get to) could not have come from Israeli artillery. The site of Palestinians intentionally messing up the family's belongings in order to make a more effective scene is also remarkable.

Landes has an important introduction at his blog, here: Second Draft examines another Pallywood Production: Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief

Here is the film: