Charles Enderlin
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Charles Enderlin (born 1945) is a French-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 Legion of Honour, in August 2009.[http://info.france2.fr/medias/Charles-Enderlin-d%C3%A9cor%C3%A9-de-la-L%C3%A9gion-d%27honneur-56553145.html France 2, August 12, 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918101009/http://info.france2.fr/medias/Charles-Enderlin-d%C3%A9cor%C3%A9-de-la-L%C3%A9gion-d%27honneur-56553145.html |date=18 September 2009 }}.
Enderlin came to international public attention in September 2000, when he provided the voice-over for a France 2 report on the killing of 12-year-old boy Muhammad al-Durrah by soldiers of the Israeli army. The event was important at the start of the Second Intifada.Astier, Henri.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7092262.stm 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, [http://www.revue-medias.com/article.php3?id_article=288 Charles Enderlin. Il gagne la guerre du soupçon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081114075130/http://www.revue-medias.com/article.php3?id_article=288 |date=14 November 2008}}, Médias (11), décembre 2006, online version. France 2 sued Karsenty for libel.{{cite news |last1=Magnezi |first1=Aviel |title=French court overturns acquittal in al-Dura case |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4196269,00.html |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=Ynetnews |date=28 February 2012}} Karsenty was eventually convicted of defamation in 2013 and fined €7,000.{{cite news |title=Media analyst convicted over France-2 Palestinian boy footage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/france-2-palestinian-boy-footage |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |agency=Associated Press |date=26 June 2013}}
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, and moved to 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 Radio Monte Carlo, and the next year, senior editor at the news department of Kol Yisrael. At the beginning of the 1970s, he acquired Israeli citizenship.
In 1981, he became a correspondent with the French television channel Antenne 2 (now France 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. 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,[https://web.archive.org/web/20041115005911/http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/alaqsa.htm al-Aqsa Intifada 2000] 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 lang|fr}} [http://www.consulfrance-jerusalem.org/france_jerusalem/spip.php?article2229 Remise de la Légion d’honneur à Charles Enderlin, chef du bureau de France 2 à Jérusalem]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In August 2015, he retired from his post in the Jerusalem office, and was replaced by Franck Genauzeau.Benoît Daragon, France 2: [http://www.ozap.com/actu/charles-enderlin-le-correspondant-de-france-2-a-jerusalem-depuis-34-ans-rentre-a-paris/474965 Charles Enderlin quitte le bureau de Jerusalem où il officie depuis 34 ans, August 15, 2015]
Muhammad al-Durrah reportage and lawsuits
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In 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, 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, {{ISBN|978-2021211658}}, Le Seuil, 2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/02/11/les-juifs-le-sionisme-la-republique_1778035|title=Les juifs, le sionisme, la République|last=Joffrin|first=Laurent|date=11 February 2020|website=Libération.fr|language=fr|access-date=18 February 2020}}
- Le grand aveuglement : Israël et l'irrésistible ascension de l'islam radical, {{ISBN|978-2-226-19310-0}}, 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|978-1-59051-171-8}}, Other Press 2007
- Les années perdues : Intifada et guerres au Proche-Orient, 2001–2006 {{ISBN|2-213-62150-0}}, 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
{{Portal|France|Israel|Biography|Journalism}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=10534 jewishjournal.com Shattered Dreams Book Review]
- [http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/14/sm.14.html Interview With Charles Enderlin]
- [http://c.asselin.free.fr/french/enderlin.htm La haine envers Charles Enderlin, correspondent de France 2 à Jérusalem : Pourquoi ?]
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