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Sunday, September 1, 2013

The Al Dura Case: White Hats, Black Hats, and Dunce Caps

by RAEL JEAN ISAAC August 28, 2013

The supposed death of 12 year old Mohammed Al Dura on September 30, 2000, captured in the famous video that showed him clinging to his father in terror at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip as Israeli soldiers shot them both, has become the enduring image of the Second Intifada launched by Arafat--which was in part justified by that image in the world's media.

First in line are the Arabs who staged the fake atrocity and the Arab cameraman working for France 2 who took the video and vouched for its accuracy. It's hard to get too worked up about them--this is what Arabs do. It's up to those to whom they feed this material to be wary and if they are taken in, to correct their mistake as soon as they discover it--and fire those who mislead them…. The Paris Court of Appeal--which to France 2's dismay had demanded to see the original raw footage--ruled that Karsenty was within his rights to call the al Dura video a hoax……. In less than a week, French journalist Anne Elizabeth Moutet reports, Le Nouvel Observateur, France's chief left-wing newsweekly, had whipped up a petition going all out for Enderlin and France 2. The petition called Karsenty's solidly documented case a "seven year hate filled smear campaign" and expressed shock at a legal ruling "granting equal credibility to a journalist renowned for his rigorous work and to willful deniers ignorant of the local realities and with no journalistic experience." Three hundred of France's leading journalists signed on followed by six hundred assorted "celebrity intellectuals." ….. As for the French government, clearly to signify support for the al Dura story, in 2009 Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner awarded Enderlin France's highest award, the Legion of Honor......To Read More....
My Take – I would appear that French’s mainstream journalists and celebrities are even more corrupt and stupid than their American counterparts, which I didn’t think possible. As for the French government’s attempt to paint this as an issue of “French Honor”; doesn’t that sound a bit like the Dreyfus Affair and the honor of the French Army? If it hadn’t been for Emile Zola who published an open letter to the President of France titled, "J'accuse", accusing the French army of obstruction of justice and antisemitism at the highest levels for falsely and knowingly convicting Alfred Dreyfus to life in prison at Devil’s Island for a crime they knew he didn’t commit the truth would have never come out. 
How was Zola treated? He was brought to trial and convicted for criminal libel. To keep from going to jail he fled to England where he continued his crusade and was eventually able to return only after the government fell. Much of the anti-Dreyfus public opinion had been created by editorials written against him.... and all of this occurred because he was Jewish. 
The similarities are amazing.  Anti-Semitism, false accusations, false documents, a brave 'journalist', false editorials against him….and the list goes on. False national honor over truth and justice isn’t new in France. Of course that charge can be made for every country on the planet, but French, like all leftists, are filled with self righteous arrogance about…..everything……and that makes it easy and fun to pick on them.

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