By Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 20, 2005

Six months ago, Pierre Rehov sat in an Israeli jail, interviewing a 16-year-old boy for his newest, forthcoming documentary, Suicide Killers. He wanted to be a martyr, he told Rehov, because “the Jews killed the prophet Mohammed.” Told that this is not in the Koran, the illiterate boy insisted that it is. He wants nothing but to die killing others.

When Rehov’s new film is released later this year, it will be the seventh in a series of documentaries on Israel since Rehov returned to France on Sept. 30, 2000, flipped on the television, and saw photographs of Mohammed Al Durrah. As an experienced filmmaker, he says today, he realized—in the moment—that the “news” of the boy’s death in Gaza’s Netzarim junction had been faked.

Fakery played in the headlines again this week. Mohamed Bakri, the maker of Jenin Jenin, admitted in a deposition that he had faked scenes in his “documentary” concerning Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield in March and April 2002. The incursion came following a wave of suicide bombings that killed dozens and injured hundreds in late 2003 and early 2004. Rehov’s film, The Road to Jenin, is cited in the plaintiffs’ complaint against Bakri. Continue reading “Terrorists in the Spotlight” →

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