tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post2806200994463557265..comments2024-02-04T20:44:05.770-08:00Comments on Jewish Facts From Portland: French Anti-Semitism Very Much AliveNadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141940009976831016.post-45478432206050872782013-06-28T08:56:12.035-07:002013-06-28T08:56:12.035-07:004. Doctor: Here’s Why Mohammed al-Dura Really Died...4. Doctor: Here’s Why Mohammed al-Dura Really Died<br />by Maayana Miskin <br /><br />The Israeli doctor who won a libel suit victory in the Mohammed al-Dura case regrets that he was unable to help French media analyst Philippe Karsenty to do the same.<br /><br />Dr. Yehuda David won his case in France’s Supreme Court in 2012 after being accused of libel for revealing that Jamal Al-Dura, Mohammed al-Dura’s father, had lied. Karsenty lost his own Supreme Court case this week, and was convicted of defamation for accusing French state television of deliberately staging the hoax.<br /><br />In an interview with Arutz Sheva, David repeated his assertion that the Mohammed al-Dura shooting video was fake, and revealed what he believes was the child’s real cause of death.<br /><br />“Mohammed al-Dura’s father assisted Israel. Hamas murdered one of his children. Then they demanded that he bring a different son – Rami al-Dura – and make it look like IDF soldiers were murdering him,” he declared.<br /><br />“That child who was supposedly killed by the IDF is alive to this day,” he added.<br /><br />David has previously noted that Mohammed al-Dura is on record as having been admitted to a Gaza hospital several hours prior to the alleged shooting involving the IDF.<br /><br />He expressed regret that he had not been present to help Karsenty in his libel suit. David explained his own winning strategy when facing France’s highest court.<br /><br />“It’s a totally political trial. That’s why in my trial I fled from politics and focused on scientific proofs based on medical documents,” he recalled.<br /><br />After an initial conviction by a lower court, “I changed my strategy and focused on the science. That was Karsenty’s mistake, that he waged a political war with a political court,” David asserted.<br /><br />He expressed regret that he had not been called to testify on Karsenty’s behalf, as the doctor who proved in court that Jamal al-Dura’s supposed bullet wound scars were actually scars from surgery performed by an Israeli doctor – himself.<br /><br />“That was [Karsenty’s] fatal mistake, that he didn’t use me. He had a winning card, I introduced him at one point to the man who was commander at the IDF position, his testimony was also golden – but he decided to go it alone, and that is why it didn’t work,” he said.<br /><br />While he was not a part of the Karsenty trial, he still may be part of its aftermath, David revealed. “I will read up on the verdict, and if necessary I will raise the banners again” and go back to France to defend Israel, he explained.<br /><br />“It is completely unacceptable that any country accuse us of murdering a child when we didn’t do it,” he concluded.<br />Nadene Goldfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com