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Mr Karsenty was kind of ridiculous today. First he tried to fill the court room with his relative as the room was quite small. The judge decided then to move to a bigger room that could sit everyone. All the journalists could enter to witness. Trying to convince the audience with a very confused explanation of the death of Muhammad Al Dura, he was laughable. The verdict to come will shows how good he was at trying to convince with racist ideas that would make palestinians actors playing in a big comedy as if their life wasn’t a tragedy

Reality is always confusing. An invented story is a narrative with neat beginning, middle and conclusion. We all know that life, especially on a battlefield, can never be as simple as the story told by Enderlin. If Karesnty’s presentation was “Trying to convince the audience with a very confused explanation of the death of Muhammad Al Dura” then it was no more than expected from such a reality.

Palestinian life is tragic because that’s how they choose to live it. It doesn’t have to be a tragedy. They could choose peace and compromise and move on to a very good life. But instead they prefer to play with their staged appeals to pity and continue to try killing as many Israelis as they can, much surprised that they cannot get away with it intact..:

http://contentious-centrist.blogspot.com/2007/12/argumentum-ad-misericordiam-i-was.html

The naturally anonymous “Parisian” again offers not a stitch of real evidence that the Al Dura tape is authentic - only ad hominem attacks on Karsenty. Karsenty personally is, of course, not the point. Who cares what he is like? What is the point is the authenticity of the tape and whether it was staged. If France 2 were so sure of it, they would long ago have released the uncut version to the public. But they have not.

There is too much blood that’s passed under the bridge for Karsenty to be vindicated even when Enderlin has practically admitted backing facts he knew to be dubious. Imagine the libility to France 2 and Enderlin if justice truely would be served here. The higher “truth based” on “fantastic lies” will preval here I am afraid — all for the greater good of course.

Let’s remember folks that we are dealing with the French legal system which is to law what French war tactics are to warfare.

I am wondering if, in spite of the judge’s apparent surprise at Enderlin’s feeble answers, if the court were always inclined to find in Enderlin’s favor. Perhaps the government quietly weighed in to influence the outcome. France2 is government owned. In addition, if a decision were made in favor of Karsenty, it would have political repercussions that would be unwelcome to the French government.

I understand that the discrediting of the story of Israeli murdering Al Dura, of the story of the family blown up on Gaza beach, etc., doesn’t change the reality of the Israeli occupation. I know that humiliations are visited upon Arabs every day in the West Bank. But it’s best to see what was faked and what was exaggerated or distorted, to better see the true lay of the land, to better see and understand who’s guilty of what, and to what extent.

Also, one cannot escape the fact that, as regrettable as the occupation and the fence are, they are inextricably tied up with Israel’s need to defend itself. The Palestinians are not just fighting for their rights, they’re fighting to eliminate the Israelis’ rights. They’re fighting to eliminate Israel.

If al Dura’s ‘death’ didn’t occur at the hands of the evil Israelis, if the entire concept of these events was faked from the beginning, if Enderlin and France II participated knowingly in this fraud, then all the many gallons of blood and tears of the past eight years belong to THEM.

And it appears this is the case, that Enderlin cannot explain and will not show the original uncut footage. He is a weasel, and this is an outrage.

The perfect outrage is that none of us have seen the tape, nor has the judge!

Has anybody actually proven that Muhammed ad-Dura is dead? According to what I’ve read, the film actually shows him sitting up after he was supposedly “killed.”

Dave, this film clip was only a pretext for the Oslo Terror War Arafat started, just as Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount was used as a pretext. The Palis plotted the whole outbreak in advance, and simply used whatever pretext came along at the right time as an excuse to start ramping up the murdering.

Israel tried to hand back all the territory captured in 1967 two months after the war, except for East Jerusalem, in exchange for genuine peace and recognitiion. The Arab response was the Three No’s of Khartoum: no negotiations, no recognition, no peace. Basically the Palis have continued this policy. What was Israel supposed to do, withdraw unilaterally? We’ve seen in Gaza just what that gets them.

If the Arabs/Muslims stopped attacking Israel and trying to kill the Jews they would have nothing to fear from Israel. I suspect every Arab knows this, but they refuse to stop trying to kill the Jews out of outraged, gigantically swollen vanity.