PJM’s Nidra Poller has been covering the ins and outs of the Al Dura trial in Paris. Other than Richard Landes, no one else that I know of is devoting this kind of attention to it. The mainstream media barely mention it.
Yet this case is epochal. The photo of young Mohammed Al Dura shielded by his father from Israeli bullets has been sent round the world hundreds of times and helped inspire the Intifada. I remember seeing it on several dozens walls, including the fence of the Jardin du Luxembourg, the last time I was in Paris.
Many have accused it of being a fake. The original videotape rushes were never released by France 2 to determine authenticity, incredible as that may seem because it has been the subject of several trials. (They don’t have disovery in France.)
But a French judge FINALLY demanded the obvious. Nidra was virtually the only reporter there.
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