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che quella del bambino palestinese ucciso era una balla
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1214132655013&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Al-Dura: The tide is turning
Jun. 22, 2008
NIDRA POLLER , THE JERUSALEM POST
The keepers of the Al-Dura myth were caught off balance by the May 21
appellate court acquittal of Philippe Karsenty, convicted of libel by
a lower court for declaring that the Al-Dura "death scene" was staged.
Had they swallowed the verdict with pained silence, the affair might
have dropped back into limbo. But they went public in what looked like
a desperate attempt to "settle out of court" or, more exactly, settle
without the court by pleading the case in friendly media - at a safe
distance from judges, lawyers, and the defendant.
It began with plaintiff Charles Enderlin reheating, in the meanderings
of his France Télévision's blog, the arguments that had just been
dismissed in the halls of the Palais de Justice. Presenting himself as
the victim of a seven-year slander campaign, he demonstrated - once
again - that there is no journalistic evidence to back up the Al-Dura
report.
If Enderlin had evidence, he would have presented it seven-and-a-half
years ago, when he told the world that Israeli soldiers were heartless
child-killers. He would have presented it in 2005, when he and state-
owned France 2 TV sued three Web sites with the declared intent of
silencing critics. If he had convincing evidence, he would have shown
it to the appellate court. In fact, there is nothing left standing of
the al Dura news report at the end of the 13-page apellate court
ruling (a complete English translation is posted on 
www.theaugeanstables.com
).
The court validated, item by item, all the evidence presented by
Philippe Karsenty.
THIS DOESN'T, however, keep ill-informed commentators from confusing
affirmations with evidence, and reiteration with corroboration. And it
didn't stop several hundred French journalists from signing "An Appeal
for Charles Enderlin" in the upscale left-wing weekly Le Nouvel
Observateur. Deaf to the eloquent reaffirmation of journalistic ethics
stated in the appellate court ruling, they expressed dismay that the
court had granted equal credibility to a scrupulous journalist working
under difficult conditions and to his detractors, who - with no
experience in conflict-zone reporting - were simply trying to
discredit him.
Here is Enderlin's defense in a nutshell: "I'm the journalist, you're
a nobody. I know everything, you know nothing. If you criticize me,
it's slander."
Citizen-readers, overwhelmingly critical of this appeal, have greater
mastery of the issues than the know-it-all press corps.
THE APPEAL set off an unexpected chain reaction. The Al-Dura affair,
which had been kept under wraps by French media, was out in the open
and out of control. The Al-Dura myth-keepers are being countered by
rational, unemotional arguments from prestigious personalities and a
host of voices that have kept silent over the years.
Spurred by the Nouvel Observateur manifesto, Radio Communauté Juive
director Shlomo Malka, who had been avoiding the Al-Dura controversy,
invited Alain Finkielkraut, a brilliant philosopher who always does
his homework, to comment on the case (
http://www.radiorcj.info/
). The
obsessively anti-Sarkozy weekly Marianne published an op-ed by Eli
Barnavi, former Israeli ambassador to France and a darling of highbrow
leftists, who spoke out against the appeal. The tide is turning.
In dragging the case on to France's highest court, as France 2 and
Charles Enderlin have now done, they demonstrate disrespect for the
public service they represent. There is good reason to expect that
President Sarkozy will step in and ask them to clean house.
Though Judge Laurence Trébucq deserves praise for her masterful
treatment of the Al-Dura case, it should never have been dragged into
court. Litigation places the burden of proof on the citizen, allowing
journalists to play fast and loose with information.
The Al-Dura hoax is the most egregious, but certainly not the only,
example of complicity between Western media and hostile, tainted
sources. Once the story, no matter how preposterous, is out there it
is engraved in stone, and those who question it are slandered and
their characters brought into question.
IF ENDERLIN'S colleagues were so quick to close ranks, doesn't it
suggest that they too want permission to relay unfounded accusations
and hide troubling facts from the public?
These same media have been sniping at a president elected to modernize
French society and institutions. They use skewed news reports to make
French people feel poor, miserable and frightened to death; only the
Socialist program voters rejected at the polls can calm their anxiety
and put this uppity president in his place.
A wholly appropriate presidential reprimand of the state-owned network
on the Al-Dura issue would be helpful across the board.
Before the world starts laughing at 300 French journalists who decided
to sink with the ship, it is time to recognize that this is a
worldwide issue. Thanks to a wise judge, the French are knocking the
Al-Dura affair out of the sand trap where it was doing its dirty work
and exposing the lethal equations it generates:
• You murder our children (Al-Dura) in cold blood = our cold-blooded
murder of your civilians. (Shahid attacks) are not an atrocity, but
self-defense.
• We will make sure that you cannot defend yourselves without killing
our children = you cannot defend yourselves.
• Consequently, even though your cause is just and your military is
mighty, you have to negotiate from a position of weakness, accept our
terms and disguise abject surrender as clever diplomacy.
Result: Our hollow triumph will condemn still more civilians to death.
The Al-Dura affair teaches us that it takes something stronger than
hasbara - information - to put a stop to this perverse, murderous
game.
The writer is a freelance American journalist living in Paris since
1972.

 che quella del bambino palestinese ucciso era una balla
e che questi si sono messi in carcere da soli:
http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Minors_in_Custody.asp
e che questi invece si sono suicidati:
http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Casualties.asp
lo sai come fanno i negazionisti a dire che l'Olocausto non c'è stato?
così:
http://www.sissco.it/fileadmin/user_upload/Dossiers/negazionismo/rassegna_stampa/claudio_magris.pdf
complimenti per averci rivelato i tuoi maestri di metodo "storico"