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Friday, May 30, 2008

I wasn't originally going to link to Larry Derfner's Jerusalem Post piece (Rattling the Cage: Al-Dura and the conspiracy freaks) ostensibly on the latest Al Dura verdict (ostensibly because it doesn't seem to me Derfner has enough knowledge or has given the matter enough thought to actually write about the issue). Papers publish stuff like this with the intent of shaking things up and generating buzz, outrage and response. Why satisfy them?

On the other hand, Richard Landes, one of the figures slandered by Derfner, has written a substantive response: MOS meets Al Durah Forgery: Larry Derfner Weighs In. Richard gives the shtetl idiot (as one JPost commenter calls Derfner) a good intellectual dissecting. Oh, and do check out the comment thread at the JPost piece. One rarely sees a columnist so unanimously attacked.

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