Here, a boy tries to attract attention by feigning a leg injury, but since he can generate only minimal interest as he lurches across the street, he ‘miraculously’ recovers his gait and walks off camera.
This performance is truly over-the-top. Note the long running jumps performed for effect and resolving into an acrobatic somersault, all performed for no apparent reason but to call the attention of cameramen and the traditional bevy of rescuers that characterize the staged scenes. Note the controlled roll, executed close to the ground. If the runner had been shot he would have either dropped like a sack or executed an uncontrolled face-plant. There is no blood whatsoever on the runner at ...
Continue Reading → ShareThe action in this scene is completely anti-climactic. A man bicycles lazily by in the foreground. A boy wanders by with a red knapsack. The “victim” bounds under his own power into the ambulance. A few people start towards the ambulance as they see the back door open, but the expected ‘action’ never seems to gather any momentum so everyone simply moves along. Nothing to see here. No one in the scene conveys any sense of imminent danger of being ...
Continue Reading → ShareThis footage is meant to show the evacuation of a man with a serious head injury, but it raises significant questions:
1) The “wound” does not produce anywhere near the amount of blood that would warrant the summons of an ambulance and the mad rush to evacuation.
2) Notice how the man with a head wound sits high and firm, rather than slumped.
3) The “rescuers” inexplicably rush the man back in front of the very Israeli position which is supposed to be ...
Continue Reading → ShareAll of the sound and fury in the previous clips starkly contrasts with the scene in this one, which shows what happens when someone suffers a genuine injury. Note the utter lack of commotion. No flurry of photojournalists. No crowd trying to ‘get in on the action’. Here, the blood on the inner right thigh from the lower body wound is obvious at the end of the clip as the injured man is loaded on a stretcher.. The limpness of ...
Continue Reading → ShareDirectly in front of the Israeli position, a swarm of young men -who all seem completely unafraid of being shot by the Israelis -summon a host of cameramen and a U.N ambulance as they rush to “evacuate” another young man.
The “rescuers” unceremoniously bowl over the evacuee in their exuberance – but pick him up and succeed in bundling him into the ambulance. Note how the evacuee raises his hand high for the camera, with his index finger pointed upward throughout ...
Continue Reading → ShareThis footage was shot by a Reuters cameraman situated behind the Al-Durahs by the barrel. It shows the broader context to Abu Rahma’s limited focus when filming the Al Durahs as they sit behind the barrel.
We can hear gunfire in the background but it does not seem to be coming from the Israeli position judging from the behavior of people exposed to the Israelis. Gazans milling around directly in front of the Israeli post without apparent concern for their safety. ...
Continue Reading → ShareDam Bursts at Al Dura Trial Nidra Poller
28/09/2007
Paris: Many have accused the photo of young Mohammed Al Dura’s father shielding him from Israeli bullets of being a fake, but the original videotape from which this photo was drawn was hidden from view by France 2. Yesterday a French judge finally ordered the channel to produce it. PJM’s Nidra Poller was one of the few journalists witnessing this stunning turning point.
Maître Bénédicte Amblard, representing Charles Enderlin and France 2 in their ...
Continue Reading → ShareThe Al Durah blood libel
Melanie Phillips
This article first appeared on November 14, 2007 in The Spectator.
I am in Paris where I have attended the Court of Appeal special session called to witness the 27 minutes of hitherto unseen footage of the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah which the court had required France 2 to produce. For readers who are unfamiliar with this scandal, I wrote about it here, here and here.
Suffice it ...
Continue Reading → ShareJonathan Rosenblum
Originally published in the Yated Ne’eman newspaper, January 25, 2013 and posted online on the writer’s website
A trial of major importance took place last week in Paris, and my guess would be that even among American Jews best informed about matters relating to Israel few are aware of it. I refer to the fourth round in the legal battle between Charles Enderlin and France 2 on one side and media critic Phillipe Karsenty on the other. ...
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