France2: Free the Secret Muhammad al Durah Tapes
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France2: Release the Secret Muhammad al Durah Tapes!
People around the world who depend on the media for reliability, accuracy, and transparency in reporting, demand that France2 release the unedited video tapes ("rushes") that its Palestinian cameraman, Talal abu Rahmah, sent them on September 30 and October 1, 2000 from Gaza.
On September 30, 2000, your Middle East correspondent Charles Enderlin, broadcast a story about Muhammad al-Durah, a 12-year old Palestinian boy. Using the footage and the testimony from his cameraman, Talal abu Rahmah, Enderlin reported that Israeli soldiers had targeted and killed the boy. That allegation of deliberate murder spread instantaneously around the world.
Extensive doubts have emerged about almost every claim of this explosive report, and they raise serious questions about both the journalistic integrity of the cameraman and the professional judgment of his employer, your correspondent Charles Enderlin.
As a result, the raw footage France2 received from Talal abu Rahmah represent key evidence in this crucial case.
But instead of releasing the tapes, your institution has responded to criticism of your correspondent's broadcast by suing French citizens for defamation and keeping the tapes secret for nearly seven years now.
If France2 reports the news responsibly and uses reliable cameramen, you have nothing to hide. Show the tapes and let the public judge.
Whatever political or religious beliefs we hold, whatever we now think about what happened on September 30, 2000, we, the undersigned, believe that all the victims and all of their loved ones on both sides of the terrible war for which Muhammad al-Durahs image served as the icon deserve that this evidence at last be shown.
We, the undersigned, respectfully, but firmly, request that France2 release all the tapes for September 30 and October 1, 2000 for public inspection immediately.
France2: Release the Secret Muhammad al Durah Tapes!
People around the world who depend on the media for reliability, accuracy, and transparency in reporting, demand that France2 release the unedited video tapes ("rushes") that its Palestinian cameraman, Talal abu Rahmah, sent them on September 30 and October 1, 2000 from Gaza.
On September 30, 2000, your Middle East correspondent Charles Enderlin, broadcast a story about Muhammad al-Durah, a 12-year old Palestinian boy. Using the footage and the testimony from his cameraman, Talal abu Rahmah, Enderlin reported that Israeli soldiers had targeted and killed the boy. That allegation of deliberate murder spread instantaneously around the world.
Extensive doubts have emerged about almost every claim of this explosive report, and they raise serious questions about both the journalistic integrity of the cameraman and the professional judgment of his employer, your correspondent Charles Enderlin.
As a result, the raw footage France2 received from Talal abu Rahmah represent key evidence in this crucial case.
But instead of releasing the tapes, your institution has responded to criticism of your correspondent's broadcast by suing French citizens for defamation and keeping the tapes secret for nearly seven years now.
If France2 reports the news responsibly and uses reliable cameramen, you have nothing to hide. Show the tapes and let the public judge.
Whatever political or religious beliefs we hold, whatever we now think about what happened on September 30, 2000, we, the undersigned, believe that all the victims and all of their loved ones on both sides of the terrible war for which Muhammad al-Durahs image served as the icon deserve that this evidence at last be shown.
We, the undersigned, respectfully, but firmly, request that France2 release all the tapes for September 30 and October 1, 2000 for public inspection immediately.
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- In the name of journalistic integrity, release the tapes!
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- E. Hanover, NJ, USA
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- Arlington, Virginia USA
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Madeleine Cohen O
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- France's history of anti-semitism is well-known and sickening.
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- give us justice
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- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Bill S
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- Indiana, U S of America
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- Paris
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Adrien S
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- So long as this perversion continues, France2's existence as a self-respecting form of media is rendered null and void, as the truth aimed at representing becomes distorted
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- Canada
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Michele F
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- USA
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Gita F
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- What do you have to fear? Show the truth!
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Daniel R
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- What is there to hide?
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- Williamsburg, Virginia USA
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Rosanne K
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- If France2 has nothing to hide, it should not object to releasing the al Durah tapes. If not, then "J'accuse."
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- As a specialist in the Islamic world who has worked with many French experts and humanitarians, I expect you to support the search for truth. Al Durah should not be a new Dreyfus case.
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Jayne J
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- This is too big an issue to be hiding important information.
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- Cary, NC
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Richard S
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- help clean up media corruption
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- France
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- Washington, DC, USA
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- Paris
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- Athens, GA, USA
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Gila W
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- Rendre public lпїintegralite de ces prises de vue ne peut que servir le premier objectif de France2 : la verite.
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- Traductrice
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- France
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mordechai G
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- We must stand up for truth and not for evil propaganda by Arab terrorist organizations
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- Los Angeles CA
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Dan S
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- Los Angeles, USA
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Annette L
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- Paris, France
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Rodney M
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- "Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."
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