Phyllis Chesler wrote to me to ask why I didn’t post her articles all the time. I replied that in fact I post many of them. So she urged me to post her interview of Philippe Karsenty a hero of our time. So I did.
Philippe Karsenty is a tall, handsome, charming, and very determined gentleman.
Karsenty, a 41-year-old former stockbroker, media analyst, and founder of Media-Ratings, came to America on a lecture and media tour shortly after his interim victory in a Paris courtroom in the matter of Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy allegedly killed by Israeli army gunfire.
The state-owned TV channel France 2 sued him for defamation when Karsenty insisted its airing of a very brief portion of the 27 minutes of raw footage constituted a blood libel. The event occurred on September 30, 2000 at the Netzarim Junction and al-Dura became the Face that launched more than a thousand Islamist riots, anti-Israeli petitions, and successful and intercepted Palestinian suicide bombings.
This past September, almost seven years later, a Paris judge finally ordered that France 2 turn over the film to the court by November 14. The trial itself is set for February 27, 2008.
Karsenty recently visited me one afternoon and he returned two days later to speak at a gathering to honor him at my home. Among those I invited was a direct descendant of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (my friend and neighbor, Gilles Dreyfus).
Shalom Ted,
Are there common denominators in this article and many other articles ?
Is it “perhaps” that American Jewish organizations active in France have other priorities ?
Only when the political order of battle is understood can the pending fall of Israel be prevented.
Is time of the essence ?
Kol tuv,