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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
At the same time, you have to be careful of biased journalists.
All the story says is that Karsenty's allegation was reasonable and therefore he was not guilty of libel for publicly stating that.
The story makes no claim that the alleged footage of Palestinian children pretending to be shot is related to the events in the other 18 minutes of the video. Chidren in war zones "play" war all the time and it doesn't mean that other footage shot on the same tape is fake. It could be, but this story does nothing to prove that... it only proves that Karsenty has reason to think that and therefore was not libelous.
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There have actually been several investigations into the footage. Most show that it was not physically possible for the child, if he was shot at all, to have been shot by Israeli soldiers.
Misunderstandings with this kind of footage happen all the time; the bigger issue was how France 2 went out of their way to present the video the way they did and how the public ate it up in the way they did.
Tragic for everyone involved.