France 2 TV’s veteran journalist Charles Enderlin, who knows a thing or two about media hoaxes, told a Harvard gathering that Yasser Arafat’s well-publicized blood donation was staged for the media.
Joel Pollak was there and followed up with two questions:
Enderlin said the event had been staged for the media to counteract the embarrassing television images of Palestinians celebrating in the streets after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. . . .
I followed up this extraordinary revelation by asking Enderlin two questions. First, if you know that the story of Arafat donating blood was fabricated, why do you reject any possibility that the shooting of Mohammed al-Dura was staged as well? And second, why did you delete several minutes of raw footage from the Al-Dura tape when you handed it over to the French court in the Karsenty libel appeal?
Pollak’s questions are better than Enderlin’s answers. . . .
UPDATE Jan. 20: Also on hand to spar was Richard Landes.
