Al-Dura and the 'public secret' of Middle East journalism

At Pajamas Media, Richard Landes has a must-read article on the staged death of Muhammed al-Dura. The original France 2 tapes are to be played before a French judge this Wednesday, and the entire fraud may be exposed.We may have stumbled here onto the very nature of public secrets and the value of a good reputation: everyone can cheat so long as no one is caught. It’s okay for the insiders to