For those of us who dared to hope that truth, let alone justice, might finally be served in the Al-Dura hoax, the Court of First Instance in Paris has delivered a big disappointment.
A French court has ruled against the director of a media watchdog group who accused French TV officials of complicity in the staging of the infamous Muhammad Al Dura video.
Phillipe Karsenty, director of Media Ratings, was accused of "striking at the honor and respectability" of France 2's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Charles Enderlin and France 2 by questioning the validity of footage aired on September 30, 2000, in the first days of the Oslo War, depicting a cowering Muhamad Al Dura being shot while being sheltered by his father near the former Jewish community of Netzarim in Gaza.
Disappointing, ridiculous, but hardly surprising. Karsenty will, of course, appeal. More on this later...
