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Another Big Jew-Killing Lie: Al Durah, France 2, and the Karsenty Case Christopher CookA state-owned media source films a hoax.The hoax involves the killing of a boy. The hoax is designed to inflame passions and start a war.It works. The media source's film creates a war in which many are killed. One side justifies their attacks by saying that the other side killed the boy.The killing of the boy was definitely staged, and a brave citizen points that out.The media source sues to defend their lie and destroy the citizen.They win, but then lose in a very dramatic appeal. Sounds...

A French court has ruled against the director of a media watchdog group who accused French TV officials of complicity in the staging of the infamous Muhammad Al Dura video. Phillipe Karsenty, director of Media Ratings, was accused of "striking at the honor and respectability" of France 2's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Charles Enderlin and France 2 by questioning the validity of footage aired on September 30, 2000, in the first days of the Oslo War, depicting a cowering Muhamad Al Dura being shot while being sheltered by his father near the former Jewish community of Netzarim in Gaza. The footage...