Abu Mazen, the Palestinian Authority president, discovered the new situation the hard way. In a speech he gave several days ago, he attempted to make Ahmad Manasra a new symbol of Palestinian resistance, emphatically accusing Israel of the “execution of our children in cold blood.†At the same time, Manasra was being depicted on Arab social networks as the new Muhammad al-Dura, a boy Palestinians (falsely) claim was shot by the IDF during the second intifada in a gun battle with armed Palestinians. But what you can do in Ramallah you can’t do in Jerusalem. It wasn’t long before video clips were posted online showing 13-year-old Palestinian terrorist Manasra with his 15-year-old cousin on a killing spree in the streets of Jerusalem, attacking Israeli civilians with a knife, including a Jewish 13 year old youth on a bicycle who was hospitalized in critical condition. Furthermore, Israel released photographs proving that Manasra was alive and receiving good treatment at an Israeli hospital. An embarrassed Abu Mazen attempted to limit the damage, and an English-language press release issued by his office referred to “the shooting of our children in cold blood.†But even this allegation was quickly exposed when the head of the hospital where Manasra is being treated announced that there were no signs he had been shot.
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This is why the Palestinians are opposed to surveillance video at Al Aqsa Mosque because it then they will not be able to make the scurrilous claims they have made in the past about Muslims being harassed there by Jews and Christians.