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Spotlight On L'affaire al-Dura
This is a full transcript of HonestReporting's interview with Mideast analyst and media expert Tom Gross about the Mohammad al-Dura affair. The Mohammed al-Dura case dates back to September 2000 and many people say it actually sparked the second Palestinian intifada, which then lasted for several years.A little boy was supposedly shot and France 2, a state-owned French TV channel, got hold of some film and not only broadcast it, they took the highly unusual step of making copies and handed video cassettes to rivals like CNN and the BBC. France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin said that, first of all, the boy had died and secondly, that Israel had killed this boy. In fact, it later transpired that Charles Enderlin had not even been in Gaza that day he was in Ramallah, and a freelance Palestinian cameraman had given Charles Enderlin the film. Btw, before g(r)om gets into non-sequitur mode about french, let me point out that enderlin is a joooooooooo, and IIRC, he's an israeli binational, having done his military service in the IDF. Almost immediately there were questions about who shot this boy. Later on, there were questions about whether the boy had actually been shot at all. The angle the boy appeared to be shot at did not come from the direction of where Israeli soldiers were stationed. How could Israeli soldiers be responsible for shooting this boy when they werent positioned in the line of fire, people asked? Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-02-26 |
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