Charles Enderlin (born 1945) is a French-Israeli journalist, specialising in the

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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

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, in August 2009. Enderlin came to international public attention in September 2000, when he provided the

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for a

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report on the killing of 12-year-old boy

Muhammad al-Durrah On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah () was killed in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jama ...

by soldiers of the Israeli army. The event was important at the start of the

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Gaza media battle in French court
BBC News, 13 November 2007. A few months after Enderlin's report, a small group of people in France (Gérard Huber, Philippe Karsenty, Luc Rosenzweig) contested the origin of the bullets that killed al-Durrah and alleged that the scene was staged.Hervé Deguine
Charles Enderlin. Il gagne la guerre du soupçon
, Médias (11), décembre 2006, online version. France 2 sued Karsenty for libel. Karsenty was eventually convicted of defamation in 2013 and fined €7,000.

Biography

Enderlin was born in

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in 1945, and grew up in

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with his divorced mother, his sister, and his grandparents, a family of Austrian

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s who moved to France after the ''

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''. He studied medicine in Nancy, and moved to Israel in December 1968 at the age of 22 to live on a

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. In 1971, he became a journalist with an Israeli radio station. Two years later, he became correspondent of

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, and the next year, senior editor at the news department of ''

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''. At the beginning of the 1970s, he acquired Israeli citizenship. In 1981, he became a correspondent with the French television channel ''Antenne 2'' (now ''

''), 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''. As of 2005, he was also vice-president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He has studied and written extensively on the political and diplomatic process of normalisation between Israel and the

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, 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 12 August 2009. In August 2015, he retired from his post in the Jerusalem office, and was replaced by Franck Genauzeau.

Muhammad al-Durrah reportage and lawsuits

In September 2000,

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of the reported shooting in the

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of a Palestinian boy,

, was broadcast by France 2. Narrating the footage, Enderlin stated that al-Durrah had been targeted and killed by shots fired from Israeli positions. He came under criticism from a number of commentators, including Philippe Karsenty, who claimed that the bullets that killed the boy were not fired by the Israeli army, and that Enderlin had helped stage the scene. France 2 sued Karsenty for libel. Karsenty was eventually convicted of defamation in 2013 and fined €7,000.

Books

* ''Les Juifs de France entre république et sionisme'', , Le Seuil, 2020 * ''Le grand aveuglement : Israël et l'irrésistible ascension de l'islam radical'', ,

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, 2009 * ''Par le feu et par le sang. Le combat clandestin pour l'indépendance d'Israël 1936–1948'', ,

, 2008 * ''The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada and Wars in the Middle East 2001–2006'' (trans. Suzanne Verderber) , Other Press 2007 * ''Les années perdues : Intifada et guerres au Proche-Orient, 2001–2006'' ,

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2006 * ''Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995–2002'' (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)

References

External links

jewishjournal.com Shattered Dreams Book Review

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Biography

Muhammad al-Durrah reportage and lawsuits

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