A bit unhinged, but some interesting stuff on the al durah bloodlibel (proving once again that you CAN get away with lying to the whole world).
By now, everyone knows about the infamous "Mohammed a-Dura" incident. This was the event in which a French television crew staged a fake death of a Palestinian boy, pretending to be shot by Israeli gunfire in a firefight with terrorists, dying in his father's lap like a Palestinian Pieta figure taken down from the cross.
Nope, not "staged by french teevee"; actually, it was run-of-the-mill paleos street theater to fuel the propaganda machine (Youths throwing stones into thin air, acting as if they were wounded, gunmen pretending to be in firefights while the nearby israelis were not even acting hostile,...), covered by a paleo stringer of a french (jewish, leftist, peace-activist and IIRC, israeli binational) journalist, which got a life of its own, probably beyond the paleos' wildest dreams, thanks to the complicity of the State-owned France 2 teevee channel (think galouzeau "de villepin" & shirak).
He became the overnight symbol of Palestinian "martyrdom," a child gunned down by Israel. The Iranians made him a state icon and Arab students at Israeli universities display him in their pro-terrorism campus activities. Of course, in the sense that it was all fake, a-Dura really WAS indeed the appropriate symbol for Palestinian "martyrdom."
The entire a-Dura Gaza incident was staged and faked by the France 2 television crew, as the media later proved and as a French court officially declared.
I'd say, enderlin aired that knowning at least tacitly it was probably fake coverage by his stringer (as demonstrated by the raw footage of pallywood follies), in true peace-activist journalist fashion, and commented by attributing the shootings to the israelis... BUT, it snowballed, became enormous, and from there, french politics went in (STATE-owned France 2 gave away the rights to the footage), and he became involved in the cover-up, if only so not to show he was an interested party, as was his stringer.
Among those helping to expose the lies was a young French Jew named Phillippe Karsenty. He was then sued by the French TV station for "libel' but eventually won in court. For details, see this. This did not stop the usual Jewish leftists from denouncing Karsenty. Leftist Larry Derfner from the Jerusalem Post said that Karsenty and people like him are mentally ill and are equivalent to the 911 "deniers," those who say the US government itself blew up the WTC buildings. Derfner did not issue an apology after the French court declared Karsenty was entirely correct.
By now, numerous excellent articles have exposed the whole story. In French, the best may be this. In English, this may be the best.
But there is one aspect of the case that has NOT been widely exposed. That is the collaboration by Prof. Raphael Walden with the French television station's fraud and cover-up. Walden is a far-leftist anti-Zionist medical doctor with specialty in surgery, at Tel Hashomer hospital. He is active in the pro-terror anti-Israel propaganda group "Doctors for Human Rights," a group once run by anti-Semite Neve Gordon and which does not believe that Jews should be entitled to any human rights. He is also the son-in-law of Shimon Peres and often described in the press as Shimon Peres' personal physician. He signs all the usual leftist proclamations . His email is (at link)
Ben-Dror Yemini this week described the role of Walden in the French forgery in his weekly column. Walden prepared a professional medical report that backed the lies and fabrications of the French TV station and the attempt to "prove" the Arab propaganda version of the a-Dura shooting, based on the injuries to a-Dura's father. Only problem is that the good doctor never examined the a-Dura father and based his expert conclusions on some paperwork he got from a Jordanian office. A different Israeli doctor who DID examine the poppa, Dr. Yehuda David, discovered that all the injuries the father was claiming to have suffered when his son was pretending to be shot were in fact injuries from at least 8 years earlier.
More about Walden's toadying for the French TV station and his attempt to defend the lies about the a-Dura "killing" can be read here, by an Arab propaganda news service.