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OFTEN, IT'S TRUTH-TELLING THAT MAKES A HERO.....

By this standard, PHILIPPE KARSENTY is truly a hero. 

Mr. Karsenty is the founder and president of a media-ratings agency that monitors French media for bias and inaccuracy.  He became interested in the MOHAMMED AL-DURA controversy, in which a young Palestinian was alleged to have been killed by Israeli soldiers, while being filmed for French TV.  After a careful investigation, he was convinced that the entire event had been staged in order to discredit the Israelis defending themselves against the intifada.

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When he reported that France 2 had staged and perpetrated a hoax, the TV station sued for defamation, and won a judgment against him......but every honest person was suspicious because France 2 refused to make available all the film from which their news story had been cut and assembled. 

Finally, a full year later, the raw footage shot by the TV cameraman was released, and it became obvious that Mr. Karsenty had told the truth. 

It is ironic that I, a private individual, had to lecture one of France’s most influential TV stations in order to demonstrate that a child cannot move; lift his head, arm, and leg; stare at the camera; and still be considered “dead” a good 10 seconds after the newscaster tells us “the child is dead.” One need only look at France 2’s own footage to realize that the “death” scene was faked.

On appeal, a French court has REVERSED THE DEFAMATION DECISION and vindicated the courage of a man who stands for truth.

The right to think, to speak, to evaluate, to accept, and to reject the conclusions of others goes to the very heart of what it means to be free.

Now it is time for France 2 to acknowledge that it created and is continuing to perpetuate the worst anti-Semitic libel of our era. It’s the responsibility of the French government and, ultimately, the responsibility of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy — who is, for all practical purposes, the chief executive of French public television — to finally reveal the truth.

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