Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Media analyst convicted over France-2 Palestinian boy footage

Philippe Karsenty convicted of defamation after accusing state television network of staging video depicting boy being killed

The Guardian,
France 2 footage showing Muhammad al-Dura crying beside his father in Gaza in September 2000
France 2 footage showing Muhammad al-Dura crying beside his father in Gaza in September 2000. Seconds after shots hit the wall over their heads, the boy was fatally struck in the abdomen. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images

"A French media analyst has been convicted of defamation for accusing a state television network of staging a video that depicted a Palestinian boy being killed in a firefight between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces.
The footage more than a decade ago galvanised anti-Israeli sentiment, and shaped perspectives of the Middle East conflict during the second Palestinian uprising. The al-Dura case has long stirred emotions in Israel, tapping into a larger sense of the Jewish state being victimised in the media.
The footage by France-2 broadcast on 30 September 2000, showed the terrified boy, Mohammed al-Dura, and his father amid a furious exchange of fire in the Gaza Strip. It then cut to the motionless boy slumped in his father's lap. The report blamed Israeli forces for the death....."

1 comment:

joe anon 1 said...

jews do not commit crimes.

those jewish warriors were firing at a wall that presented an existential threat the the jewish state of the jews.

ad dura poppa threw his son into the line of fire to make the eternal victims into aggressors.

have palestinians no shame.