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Charles Enderlin Born 1945
Paris, FranceNationality French, Israeli Ethnicity Jewish Occupation Journalist, bureau chief in Israel for France 2 Spouse Danielle Kriegel Awards Légion d'honneur, August 2009 Website Enderlin's blog at France 2 Charles Enderlin is a Franco-Israeli journalist, specialising in the Middle East and Israel. He is the author of a number of books on the subject, including Shamir, une biographie (1991), Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 (2002), and The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 (2007). He was awarded France's highest decoration, the Légion d'honneur, in August 2009.[1]
Enderlin came to international public attention in September 2000, when he provided the voice-over for a controversial France 2 report, now commonly referred to as the Muhammad al-Durrah affair, during which Enderlin reported that Israeli soldiers had targeted and killed a Palestinian boy, one of the key events at the start of the Second Intifada.[2] Enderlin's reporting of the incident was criticized as inaccurate, and the affair sparked a controversy in France about journalistic standards and defamation.[3]
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Biography
Enderlin was born in Paris in 1945, and grew up in Metz with his divorced mother, his sister and his grandparents, a family of Austrian Jews who moved to France after the Anschluss. He studied medicine in Nancy, before leaving for Israel in December 1968 at the age of 22 to live on a kibbutz.
In 1971, he became a journalist with an Israeli radio station. Two years later, he became correspondent of RMC, and the next year, senior editor at the news department of Kol Israel. At the beginning of the 1970s, he acquired Israeli citizenship.
In 1981, he became a correspondent with the French television channel Antenne 2, acquiring the title of grand reporter in 1988 ("grand reporter" is a senior title in the French media). Three years later, he became chief of the Israel bureau of France 2, the new name of Antenne 2. As of 2005, he was also vice-president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in Jerusalem.
He has studied and written extensively on the political and diplomatic process of normalisation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority,[4] and wrote an overview of the negotiations in 1997, published as Paix ou guerre, les secrets des négociations israélo-arabes 1917-1997 (Peace or War, the Secrets of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, 1917 - 1997).
He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur on August 12, 2009 [5]
Muhammad al-Durrah reportage and lawsuits
Main article: Muhammad al-Durrah incidentIn September 2000, footage of the reported shooting in the Gaza Strip of a Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, was broadcast by France 2. Narrating the footage, though not present during the incident, Enderlin stated that al-Durrah had been targeted[2] and killed by shots fired from Israeli positions. Over time, he came under intense criticism from some French commentators, who asserted that Enderlin had no way of knowing, at the time of his report, whether the boy had been killed by Israeli fire, or even whether he had been killed at all.[3] A number of commentators subsequently cast doubt on various aspects of the report, including whether the boy had been shot on purpose or accidentally, by Israelis or Palestinians, or whether the entire incident had been staged without Enderlin's knowledge.[3][6][7] According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, "an aggressive campaign on the Web" asserted that the story was false, and was designed to poison international opinion against Israel.[8]
Books
- Le grand aveuglement : Israël et l'irrésistible ascension de l'islam radical, ISBN 978-2226193100, Albin Michel, 2009
- Par le feu et par le sang. Le combat clandestin pour l'indépendance d'Israël 1936-1948, ISBN 978-2-226-18084-1, Albin Michel, 2008
- The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 (trans. Suzanne Verderber) ISBN 9781590511718 , Other Press 2007
- Les années perdues : Intifada et guerres au Proche-Orient, 2001-2006 ISBN 2213621500 , Fayard 2006
- Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 ISBN 1-59051-060-7 (2002)
- (Le Rêve brisé : Histoire de l'échec du processus de paix au Proche-Orient (1995-2002))
- 1997: Paix ou guerre,les secrets des négociations israélo-arabes 1917 -1997 (éd.Stock)
- Shamir, une biographie (1991)
See also
- Camp David 2000 Summit
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Pallywood
- Proposals for a Palestinian state
Notes
- ^ France 2, August 12, 2009.
- ^ a b Astier, Henri.Gaza media battle in French court, BBC News, November 13, 2007.
- ^ a b c Schwartz, Adi. In the footsteps of the al-Dura controversy, Haaretz, November 08, 2007.
- ^ al-Aqsa Intifada 2000
- ^ (French) Remise de la Légion d’honneur à Charles Enderlin, chef du bureau de France 2 à Jérusalem
- ^ Fallows, James. "Who shot Mohammed al-Durra?", The Atlantic Monthly, June 2003.
- ^ Glick, Caroline. "Prime-time blood libels". Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2006
- ^ Alain Barluet & Stéphane Durand-Souffland. "Intifada : cette vidéo qui déchaîne les passions". Le Figaro, 1 July 2008. "Ne pouvant rester inertes contre la campagne agressive qui se propage sur la Toile, France 2 et Charles Enderlin poursuivent M. Karsenty en diffamation."
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