Posted on 05/21/2008 8:51:34 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
AL DURA UPDATE: "Israel Radio's Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli has just reported that the French Court of Appeals has overturned the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty and has determined that Karsenty did not libel France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin when he reported that the 'death' of 12-year old Mohamed Al-Dura at Netzarim in the Gaza Strip in September 2000 may have been staged, and that it was unlikely that the death was caused by IDF soldiers." Perhaps the Israeli military should start filing foreign libel suits against media outfits that collaborate in fake reporting. There's likely enough to keep quite a few lawyers busy . . . .
This story of the young boy shot by Israeli soldiers while covering behind his father was one of the sparks that set of the bloody second intifada. Many years later, after thousands of deaths, it is now obvious even to the French courts that France 2 used faked material to make this story - that never was. If the boy al-Dura, was killed by anyone then it certainly was not by Israeli soldiers.
Very interesting to see if NYT, LAT , WaPo etc will carry this story on their frontpages. I will not hold my breath in anticiaption.
PING!
Oh wow. Let me contact Philippe and see what he has to say about this!
From your mouth, to Allah's ear, as the saying goes...
I can’t take credit for that idea.........but I like it!
More fake “news” exposed — this calls for an investigation by Dan Rather!
I’m sure that this decision will never get even a small fraction of the attention that the original hysterical Pali-propaganda received.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
This is Philippe in the middle.
So far nothing on the web pages of Le Figaro, Le Monde or Le Parisien.
Maybe they are waiting for the court’s written opinion. /sarcasm
Just damn.
So many people just do not understand what we are up against.
Please, relay our congratulations!
And of course post any news you hear from Paris.
thanks. bkmark
As usual it will be up to the bloggers. Hopefully this story will be all over the net in no time.
We all know the answer. Why should I even ask......
Court overturns al-Dura libel judgment
Excerpts:
The French Court of Appeals on Wednesday found in favor of Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, overturning a lower court decision that he had libeled France 2 and its Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin when he accused them of knowingly misleading the watching world about the death of the Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in the Gaza Strip in 2000.
"The verdict means we have the right to say France 2 broadcast a fake news report, that [al-Dura's shooting] was a staged hoax and that they duped everybody - without being sued," Karsenty told The Jerusalem Post shortly after the verdict was issued at 1:30 p.m. Paris time.
and:
A statement forwarded to The Jerusalem Post from Enderlin said that "the appeals court ruled that Karsenty's words were, in fact, libelous, and that Karsenty failed to prove that the news was staged and/or false." The statement added that the case was nevertheless overturned because "the court believed Karsenty had the right to stridently criticize the [France 2] report, since it dealt with an emotional topic, and that Karsenty's investigation into the matter convinced the court he was bring sincere."
A source close to Enderlin's side of the case explained that "you can get out of a libel suit either by proving you're right, or by showing you were sincere and had some research. The court found the latter to be the case."
The source also said Enderlin and France 2 would appeal the verdict, noting that they had won three out of four instances of judgment in the matter.
[Note to Enderlin: Court cases are not football games.]
But, replied Karsenty, the only appeal left would be to France's Supreme Court.
"If they continue to insist they are correct," added Karsenty, "we will have victims of terror attacks that directly resulted from the [al-Dura] footage sue France 2."
Karsenty also called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who Karsenty sees as "ultimately responsible" for the publicly owned television station, "to take responsibility for the French state's defense of the worst anti-Semitic lie around. It's time to apologize to the world for broadcasting a fake news report that has inflamed the Muslim world and endangered world peace."
French court: Claim that Al-Dura tape doctored isn`t libelous
A French appeals court on Wednesday overturned a libel verdict won by France 2 television over a report about the killing of a Palestinian boy in 2000.
The Paris court ruled in favor of media critic Philippe Karsenty, who called into question the veracity of the report, but it also said that it did not rule out that journalists at France 2 had acted professionally.
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It’s about time Israel fought back in the PR war! They’ve been staying out of it long enough.
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