Photographs as Weapons of War in the Middle East. A Palestinian woman reacts upon seeing her destroyed home on August 1, 2014. (Suhaib Salam/Reuters) In 2003, my Atlantic colleague James Fallows performed a huge public service. He painstakingly reviewed the evidence and concluded that perhaps the single most iconic anti-Israel image did not in fact document an Israeli action at all. Muhamed al-Dura was, we were told, the name of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers, as he crouched against a concrete wall beside his helpless father. This image still defines the conflict for millions in the Muslim world.
It was cited by Osama bin Laden as justification for his crimes. It now appears that the boy cannot have died in the way reported by most of the world's media and fervently believed throughout the Islamic world. The man who did most to bring the al-Dura image to the world, Charles Enderlin, is one of France’s most esteemed journalists, a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Arslan : La retape. La retape. Arslan : Just Walking. Just Walking. Arslan : Mohammed Gelati. Mohammed Gelati. Arslan : Papotages. Papotages. Arslan : Le signe. Le signe. Blurred genius: the photographs of Francesca Woodman.
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