Wag The Dog - not just a Hollywood movie

WorldNetDaily: Terrorists' 'poster boy' exposed as media fraud :

"In 2003 an independent journalistic investigation concluded that the al-Dura affair [the alleged 30 September 2000 murder of a 12-year old Arab boy by the Israeli military] was actually a piece of Palestinian street theater, similar to the dramatic Palestinian funeral processions that were observed after the Israeli incursion into the Jenin refugee camp. During that public spectacle, a martyred 'corpse' twice fell off the stretcher, only to hop back up and retake his place in the procession. (The Palestinians had claimed 3,000 deaths in Jenin – the actual toll turned out to be 52.)"

Read this story, read David Gelernter's piece in the LA Times, read David Kupelian's book "The Marketing of Evil." But, for all that, watch the movie Wag The Dog - you won't think about public relations the same way again. And, besides, its a wonderful film with DeNiro and Hoffman, backed up by Heche, with Harrelson, Macy, Dunst, etc. in a set of wonderfully cast supporting roles.