Sunday, December 9, 2007
They will if the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center gets its way:
On September 30, 2000, two days after the beginning of the Second Intifada, French television broadcasted worldwide footage showing the Palestinian child Muhammad al Durrah, crouched behind his father. The footage depicted al-Durrah and his father seeking cover during a gunfight near the Nezarim junction . In the footage, Enderlin attributed al-Durrah's death to the I.D.F despite the face he was not at the scene.
The images as seen in the broadcast, add to Enderlin's voice cover, caused a great shock worldwide, a wave of condemnations against the State of Israel and an increase in anti- Israeli violence in Israel...
The government of Israel has been extremely timid in this regard, so it'll be up to the citizens to do something.
This is a difficult issue as policy though, no? I can hear the slippery slope arguments now. And yet, it is in fact the function of law and regulatory agencies, including executives, to manage those slippery slopes and determine when an entity has stepped over the line, i.e. to take responsible action. And action here seems entirely warranted.
But given the tempers of the times, would Israel's Supreme Court countenance the action? Would Israel's own fourth estate, w/o going into apoplectic convulsions? Etc.