Media Coverage
Israel and Palestine
Israel and Palestine
Are the American media reporting events in Israel and Palestine, or is there something similar to the "liberal media bias"? Is the coverage "fair and balanced"? How can a reader tell if he is getting:
- ad-hoc reporting,
- news (with a semblance of balance),
- analysis (hopefully fair),
- opinion, or
- propaganda (a systematic mis-representation)?
One idea to sort out the truth: Ask
- what is the content (is the headline direct, guarded, innocuous? Is one point of view sandwiche
Saturday, September 27, 2003
AP Wire | 09/27/2003 | Key events in 3-year Mideast conflict [175 Israelis killed; only 1 Palestinian death mentioned]
AP Wire | 09/27/2003 | Key events in 3-year Mideast conflict: "Posted on Sat, Sep. 27, 2003 | Key events in 3-year Mideast conflict | Associated Press
Key events in three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence:
2000
Sept. 28: Ariel Sharon, Israel's opposition leader, visits Jerusalem shrine holy to Jews and Muslims. Clashes erupt; escalate into uprising.
2001
Feb. 6: Sharon elected Israeli prime minister in landslide.
June 13: CIA director George Tenet negotiates cease-fire plan; not implemented.
2002
Feb. 18: Saudi initiative calls for Israeli pullout from all occupied territories in exchange for peace with Arab world; Sharon rejects it.
March 29: After month in which 136 Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks, Israeli army reoccupies towns in West Bank.
June 19: After brief lull in violence, new spate of suicide bombings prompts new Israeli takeover of most West Bank towns.
June 24: President Bush calls on Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader.
2003
Jan. 28: Sharon re-elected in landslide.
April 30: Mahmoud Abbas becomes Palestinian prime minister.
May 1: International mediators present "road map" peace plan; Palestinians immediately accept.
May 25: Israel's government conditionally accepts road map.
June 4: Abbas, Sharon and Bush hold summit to launch peace plan.
June 11: Attack on Jerusalem bus kills 17.
June 29: Palestinian militant groups say they will suspend attacks on Israelis; Israel begins pulling troops from Gaza.
Aug. 19: Suicide bomber on Jerusalem bus kills 22 people, leading Israel to target Palestinian militant leaders.
Aug. 21: Militants call off cease-fire after Israeli helicopter gunship kills senior Hamas leader in Gaza.
Sept. 6: Abbas submits resignation to Arafat, after complaining Palestinian infighting hindering progress on peace plan.
Sept. 7: Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qureia named Abbas' successor.
Sept. 9: Suicide bombings at cafe and army base kill 15 Israelis.
Sept 11: Israel's security Cabinet votes to "remove" Arafat, leaving open questions of when and whether to expel or kill him.
AP Wire | 09/27/2003 | Key events in 3-year Mideast conflict: "Posted on Sat, Sep. 27, 2003 | Key events in 3-year Mideast conflict | Associated Press
Key events in three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence:
2000
Sept. 28: Ariel Sharon, Israel's opposition leader, visits Jerusalem shrine holy to Jews and Muslims. Clashes erupt; escalate into uprising.
2001
Feb. 6: Sharon elected Israeli prime minister in landslide.
June 13: CIA director George Tenet negotiates cease-fire plan; not implemented.
2002
Feb. 18: Saudi initiative calls for Israeli pullout from all occupied territories in exchange for peace with Arab world; Sharon rejects it.
March 29: After month in which 136 Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks, Israeli army reoccupies towns in West Bank.
June 19: After brief lull in violence, new spate of suicide bombings prompts new Israeli takeover of most West Bank towns.
June 24: President Bush calls on Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader.
2003
Jan. 28: Sharon re-elected in landslide.
April 30: Mahmoud Abbas becomes Palestinian prime minister.
May 1: International mediators present "road map" peace plan; Palestinians immediately accept.
May 25: Israel's government conditionally accepts road map.
June 4: Abbas, Sharon and Bush hold summit to launch peace plan.
June 11: Attack on Jerusalem bus kills 17.
June 29: Palestinian militant groups say they will suspend attacks on Israelis; Israel begins pulling troops from Gaza.
Aug. 19: Suicide bomber on Jerusalem bus kills 22 people, leading Israel to target Palestinian militant leaders.
Aug. 21: Militants call off cease-fire after Israeli helicopter gunship kills senior Hamas leader in Gaza.
Sept. 6: Abbas submits resignation to Arafat, after complaining Palestinian infighting hindering progress on peace plan.
Sept. 7: Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qureia named Abbas' successor.
Sept. 9: Suicide bombings at cafe and army base kill 15 Israelis.
Sept 11: Israel's security Cabinet votes to "remove" Arafat, leaving open questions of when and whether to expel or kill him.
Thursday, September 11, 2003
ITC approval of ... documentary is a shot across the bows of mainstream Middle East coverage
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Tim Llewellyn: False witnesses | ITC approval of John Pilger's documentary is a shot across the bows of mainstream Middle East coverage | Tim Llewellyn | Thursday January 16, 2003
Since the creation of Israel in 1948, its supporters have been highly successful in ensuring that Israel's version of its and its neighbours' histories has been accepted as received truth. Dents have been made, notably by Israel's own historians as they have had greater access to official documents, in the Zionist myths. But they have usually been hammered out with alacrity, both by Israel and our domestic broadcasters.
Whenever Israel has been exposed as an aggressor - in Lebanon in 1978 and 1982, or during the first intifada of the late 1980s - its media doldrums have been temporary. The efforts of its spin doctors, the US government and media, in conjunction with a weak Arab communications operation, have usually combined to make Israel's broad version of events prevail.
These continue to give the impression of a struggle between equal forces: a beleaguered and misunderstood Israel, occasionally forced into excessive measures to clamp down on 'terror', versus hordes of recalcitrant Palestinians careless of 'western' values and endemically suicidal for obscure religious reasons. 'Equivalence' is at the heart of Britain's misreporting of the crisis.
...
It was not until late one Monday night last year, when the ITV company Carlton put out John Pilger's Palestine Is Still the Issue, that TV viewers were presented with an unalloyed account of the savagery and misery that informs the daily life of the Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory. Pilger is known as an opinionated journalist with an appetite for upsetting authority. But this programme was not "campaigning" journalism. It was a painstaking portrayal of the humiliation Israel's soldiers and politicians visit daily on the Palestinians: not just the deaths, injuries and arrests, but the intrusions of the military into every aspect of a Palestinian's life.
In response, Israel and its supporters went into over drive. Hundreds of complaints flowed in to Carlton and ITV. Carlton's chairman, Michael Green, took the unprecedented step of condemning his own company's output, calling the Pilger documentary "a tragedy for Israel as far as accuracy is concerned".
...
So the ITC ruling is a shot across the bows of both the BBC and ITN news managers, approving a reporter's account of a violation of human rights that mainstream bulletins and current affairs discussions routinely duck. "
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Tim Llewellyn: False witnesses | ITC approval of John Pilger's documentary is a shot across the bows of mainstream Middle East coverage | Tim Llewellyn | Thursday January 16, 2003
Since the creation of Israel in 1948, its supporters have been highly successful in ensuring that Israel's version of its and its neighbours' histories has been accepted as received truth. Dents have been made, notably by Israel's own historians as they have had greater access to official documents, in the Zionist myths. But they have usually been hammered out with alacrity, both by Israel and our domestic broadcasters.
Whenever Israel has been exposed as an aggressor - in Lebanon in 1978 and 1982, or during the first intifada of the late 1980s - its media doldrums have been temporary. The efforts of its spin doctors, the US government and media, in conjunction with a weak Arab communications operation, have usually combined to make Israel's broad version of events prevail.
These continue to give the impression of a struggle between equal forces: a beleaguered and misunderstood Israel, occasionally forced into excessive measures to clamp down on 'terror', versus hordes of recalcitrant Palestinians careless of 'western' values and endemically suicidal for obscure religious reasons. 'Equivalence' is at the heart of Britain's misreporting of the crisis.
...
It was not until late one Monday night last year, when the ITV company Carlton put out John Pilger's Palestine Is Still the Issue, that TV viewers were presented with an unalloyed account of the savagery and misery that informs the daily life of the Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory. Pilger is known as an opinionated journalist with an appetite for upsetting authority. But this programme was not "campaigning" journalism. It was a painstaking portrayal of the humiliation Israel's soldiers and politicians visit daily on the Palestinians: not just the deaths, injuries and arrests, but the intrusions of the military into every aspect of a Palestinian's life.
In response, Israel and its supporters went into over drive. Hundreds of complaints flowed in to Carlton and ITV. Carlton's chairman, Michael Green, took the unprecedented step of condemning his own company's output, calling the Pilger documentary "a tragedy for Israel as far as accuracy is concerned".
...
So the ITC ruling is a shot across the bows of both the BBC and ITN news managers, approving a reporter's account of a violation of human rights that mainstream bulletins and current affairs discussions routinely duck. "
US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit
ZNet | Mideast | US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit | ZNet Top by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada June 11, 2003
US media fell quickly into the pattern of ignoring or severely downplaying Israeli attacks on Palestinians, and playing up Palestinian counterviolence as a threat to a budding "peace process."
Yet The Guardian's Conal Urquhart reported that "As George Bush talked about peace with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Israeli soldiers were raiding the refugee camp of Balata and the city of Nablus for the third day running." ("Children shot in third day of Israeli army raids, The Guardian, 5 June 2003)
...
The only US newspaper that we were able to find that reported the events in Balata was Newsday, on 5 June, in a report by the same Conal Urquhart.
The Chicago Tribune's account of the day of the Aqaba meeting was quite different. The paper said, "the day gave rise to hope not only for what happened but also for what did not: There was no major Israeli-Palestinian violence" ... The report made no mention of the three-day long Israeli attack on Balata Camp that caused so many injuries and continued during the Aqaba summit.
...
Yet, when Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, 8 June, killing five Israeli soldiers and losing five combatants themselves, many US media organizations suddenly took notice.
ZNet | Mideast | US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit | ZNet Top by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada June 11, 2003
US media fell quickly into the pattern of ignoring or severely downplaying Israeli attacks on Palestinians, and playing up Palestinian counterviolence as a threat to a budding "peace process."
Yet The Guardian's Conal Urquhart reported that "As George Bush talked about peace with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Israeli soldiers were raiding the refugee camp of Balata and the city of Nablus for the third day running." ("Children shot in third day of Israeli army raids, The Guardian, 5 June 2003)
...
The only US newspaper that we were able to find that reported the events in Balata was Newsday, on 5 June, in a report by the same Conal Urquhart.
The Chicago Tribune's account of the day of the Aqaba meeting was quite different. The paper said, "the day gave rise to hope not only for what happened but also for what did not: There was no major Israeli-Palestinian violence" ... The report made no mention of the three-day long Israeli attack on Balata Camp that caused so many injuries and continued during the Aqaba summit.
...
Yet, when Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, 8 June, killing five Israeli soldiers and losing five combatants themselves, many US media organizations suddenly took notice.
Monday, September 08, 2003
Three timelines for Abbas [spot the obvious propaganda! Ed.]
Chronology of Mideast Violence By The Associated Press -- one Palestinian is killed vs. 180 Israelis over three year time frame!
Chronology of Abbas' 4 Months in Office By The Associated Press 54 Israelis are killed, one Palestinian is killed, and one blows himself up! [B'Tselem shows 200+ Palestinians killed in the same timeframe! Ed.]
So why do you have to go elsewhere to find the facts? Timeline: November 2002 to the present
Chronology of Mideast Violence By The Associated Press -- one Palestinian is killed vs. 180 Israelis over three year time frame!
Here's a look at important events over nearly three years of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence:
- Sept. 28, 2000: Ariel Sharon, then Israel's opposition leader, visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Jews and Muslims. Clashes erupt, widen to broader conflict that buries peace talks and Ehud Barak's government.
- Feb. 6, 2001: Sharon elected prime minister in landslide.
- May 21, 2001: Amid escalating violence, international commission submits report calling for end to violence, never implemented.
- June 13, 2001: CIA director George Tenet negotiates cease-fire framework, also not implemented.
- Feb. 18, 2002: Saudi initiative calls for Israeli pullout from all occupied territories in exchange for peace with Arab world. Sharon rejects it.
- March 29, 2002: After month in which 136 Israelis are killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield to rout Palestinian militant groups, reoccupying Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
- June 19, 2002: After brief lull, new spate of suicide bombings prompts Israel's Operation Determined Path, leading to takeover of most West Bank towns.
- June 24, 2002: Siding with Sharon, President Bush calls on Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as the Palestinian leader.
- Jan. 28, 2003: Sharon re-elected in landslide.
- April 30, 2003: Mahmoud Abbas takes office as Palestinian prime minister.
- May 1, 2003: "Road map" to peace presented to both sides; Palestinians immediately accept it.
- May 25, 2003: Israel's government conditionally accepts road map.
- June 4, 2003: Abbas, Sharon meet President Bush at summit in Aqaba, Jordan, launching the peace plan.
- June 11, 2003: Attack on Jerusalem bus kills 17.
- June 19, 2003: Bombing at grocery store in Sde Trumot in Jordan Valley kills one Israeli.
- June 29, 2003: The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement declare immediate suspensions of attacks against Israel, and Israel begins pulling troops out of Gaza.
- July 7, 2003: Suicide bomber in house in Kfar Yavetz kills one Israeli woman.
- Aug. 12, 2003: Two bombings - at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ariel and a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rosh Haayin - kill three Israelis.
- Aug. 19, 2003: Hamas suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus kills 22 people, causing Israel to intensify military campaign to crush Palestinian militants and target their leaders in helicopter missile strikes.
- Aug. 21, 2003: Palestinian militants call off 2-month-old unilateral cease-fire after an Israeli helicopter kills a senior Hamas political leader in Gaza with a volley of missiles.
- Sept. 4, 2003: Abbas asks parliament to either support him or strip him of his post, saying infighting is keeping him from making progress on U.S.-backed peace plan.
- Sept. 6, 2003: Abbas submits his resignation to Arafat, who accepts it, according to a Palestinian official.
Chronology of Mideast Violence By The Associated Press -- one Palestinian is killed vs. 180 Israelis over three year time frame!
Chronology of Abbas' 4 Months in Office By The Associated Press 54 Israelis are killed, one Palestinian is killed, and one blows himself up! [B'Tselem shows 200+ Palestinians killed in the same timeframe! Ed.]
So why do you have to go elsewhere to find the facts? Timeline: November 2002 to the present
Chronology of Mideast Violence By The Associated Press -- one Palestinian is killed vs. 180 Israelis over three year time frame!
Here's a look at important events over nearly three years of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence:
- Sept. 28, 2000: Ariel Sharon, then Israel's opposition leader, visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Jews and Muslims. Clashes erupt, widen to broader conflict that buries peace talks and Ehud Barak's government.
- Feb. 6, 2001: Sharon elected prime minister in landslide.
- May 21, 2001: Amid escalating violence, international commission submits report calling for end to violence, never implemented.
- June 13, 2001: CIA director George Tenet negotiates cease-fire framework, also not implemented.
- Feb. 18, 2002: Saudi initiative calls for Israeli pullout from all occupied territories in exchange for peace with Arab world. Sharon rejects it.
- March 29, 2002: After month in which 136 Israelis are killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield to rout Palestinian militant groups, reoccupying Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
- June 19, 2002: After brief lull, new spate of suicide bombings prompts Israel's Operation Determined Path, leading to takeover of most West Bank towns.
- June 24, 2002: Siding with Sharon, President Bush calls on Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as the Palestinian leader.
- Jan. 28, 2003: Sharon re-elected in landslide.
- April 30, 2003: Mahmoud Abbas takes office as Palestinian prime minister.
- May 1, 2003: "Road map" to peace presented to both sides; Palestinians immediately accept it.
- May 25, 2003: Israel's government conditionally accepts road map.
- June 4, 2003: Abbas, Sharon meet President Bush at summit in Aqaba, Jordan, launching the peace plan.
- June 11, 2003: Attack on Jerusalem bus kills 17.
- June 19, 2003: Bombing at grocery store in Sde Trumot in Jordan Valley kills one Israeli.
- June 29, 2003: The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement declare immediate suspensions of attacks against Israel, and Israel begins pulling troops out of Gaza.
- July 7, 2003: Suicide bomber in house in Kfar Yavetz kills one Israeli woman.
- Aug. 12, 2003: Two bombings - at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ariel and a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rosh Haayin - kill three Israelis.
- Aug. 19, 2003: Hamas suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus kills 22 people, causing Israel to intensify military campaign to crush Palestinian militants and target their leaders in helicopter missile strikes.
- Aug. 21, 2003: Palestinian militants call off 2-month-old unilateral cease-fire after an Israeli helicopter kills a senior Hamas political leader in Gaza with a volley of missiles.
- Sept. 4, 2003: Abbas asks parliament to either support him or strip him of his post, saying infighting is keeping him from making progress on U.S.-backed peace plan.
- Sept. 6, 2003: Abbas submits his resignation to Arafat, who accepts it, according to a Palestinian official.
Irresponsible to print Hanania
Irresponsible to print Hanania, Daily Herald September 1, 2003
I am shocked and appalled at the column the Daily Herald allowed to be printed on Aug. 18.. It was written by Ray Hanania and headlined 'Revenge is not the answer to Israel's atrocities.'
Who is Ray Hanania? What are his credentials? How did he get the opportunity to spread his vicious lies in your newspaper? I am not sure where to start. I believe the headline is the best place. What atrocities? How can your paper be so irresponsible as to have a headline that is so misleading? Your paper has the ability to form people's opinions. You have a responsibility to know that and be aware of that it all times. Some people read these headlines and that is all they read.
Israel's atrocities? A country that wants to live in peace side by side with its neighbors and has offered to do so many times? A country that has given up so much and so many concessions to achieve this? Only to be answered with targeted murder of innocent men, women, and children?"
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I know your paper will probably hide behind the fact that this article was on the "Opinion Page." That does not clear your paper of its responsibilities. Here is an idea - in addition to an Arab perspective and an Israel perspective - why not add an al-Qaida perspective and a U.S. perspective. That makes about as much sense. Stop supporting terrorism and the murder of innocent people.
David Pearlman, Lake Zurich
[Mr Hanania's weekly Friday column by the editor was introduced to put some balance into the Daily Herald's reporting. Now it seems to be a bi-weekly column! Do I hear monthly? annually? Ed.]
Irresponsible to print Hanania, Daily Herald September 1, 2003
I am shocked and appalled at the column the Daily Herald allowed to be printed on Aug. 18.. It was written by Ray Hanania and headlined 'Revenge is not the answer to Israel's atrocities.'
Who is Ray Hanania? What are his credentials? How did he get the opportunity to spread his vicious lies in your newspaper? I am not sure where to start. I believe the headline is the best place. What atrocities? How can your paper be so irresponsible as to have a headline that is so misleading? Your paper has the ability to form people's opinions. You have a responsibility to know that and be aware of that it all times. Some people read these headlines and that is all they read.
Israel's atrocities? A country that wants to live in peace side by side with its neighbors and has offered to do so many times? A country that has given up so much and so many concessions to achieve this? Only to be answered with targeted murder of innocent men, women, and children?"
...
I know your paper will probably hide behind the fact that this article was on the "Opinion Page." That does not clear your paper of its responsibilities. Here is an idea - in addition to an Arab perspective and an Israel perspective - why not add an al-Qaida perspective and a U.S. perspective. That makes about as much sense. Stop supporting terrorism and the murder of innocent people.
David Pearlman, Lake Zurich
[Mr Hanania's weekly Friday column by the editor was introduced to put some balance into the Daily Herald's reporting. Now it seems to be a bi-weekly column! Do I hear monthly? annually? Ed.]
Revenge is not the answer to Israel's atrocities
Revenge is not the answer to Israel's atrocities -- Daily Herald Ray Hanania Posted August 18, 2003
Suicide bombers are not martyrs defending themselves, but killers targeting civilians. Their goal is revenge and to inflict pain on Israeli society because of Israel's government policies.
I don't agree with Israel's government policies. They are wrong, excessive and they violate the fundamental rights of innocent people. Some of them might even constitute war crimes. Still, that doesn't justify suicide bombings.
...
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas can't control Hamas at this time because reason is not easy to achieve during these highly emotional times. He needs to win over the public's support, and draw them away from their emotion-driven need for revenge."
Revenge is not the answer to Israel's atrocities -- Daily Herald Ray Hanania Posted August 18, 2003
Suicide bombers are not martyrs defending themselves, but killers targeting civilians. Their goal is revenge and to inflict pain on Israeli society because of Israel's government policies.
I don't agree with Israel's government policies. They are wrong, excessive and they violate the fundamental rights of innocent people. Some of them might even constitute war crimes. Still, that doesn't justify suicide bombings.
...
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas can't control Hamas at this time because reason is not easy to achieve during these highly emotional times. He needs to win over the public's support, and draw them away from their emotion-driven need for revenge."
US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit
ZNet | Mideast | US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit | ZNet Top by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada June 11, 2003
US media fell quickly into the pattern of ignoring or severely downplaying Israeli attacks on Palestinians, and playing up Palestinian counterviolence as a threat to a budding "peace process."
Yet The Guardian's Conal Urquhart reported that "As George Bush talked about peace with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Israeli soldiers were raiding the refugee camp of Balata and the city of Nablus for the third day running." ("Children shot in third day of Israeli army raids, The Guardian, 5 June 2003)
...
The only US newspaper that we were able to find that reported the events in Balata was Newsday, on 5 June, in a report by the same Conal Urquhart.
The Chicago Tribune's account of the day of the Aqaba meeting was quite different. The paper said, "the day gave rise to hope not only for what happened but also for what did not: There was no major Israeli-Palestinian violence" ... The report made no mention of the three-day long Israeli attack on Balata Camp that caused so many injuries and continued during the Aqaba summit.
...
Yet, when Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, 8 June, killing five Israeli soldiers and losing five combatants themselves, many US media organizations suddenly took notice.
ZNet | Mideast | US Media Ignores Israeli Violence After Aqaba Summit | ZNet Top by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada June 11, 2003
US media fell quickly into the pattern of ignoring or severely downplaying Israeli attacks on Palestinians, and playing up Palestinian counterviolence as a threat to a budding "peace process."
Yet The Guardian's Conal Urquhart reported that "As George Bush talked about peace with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Israeli soldiers were raiding the refugee camp of Balata and the city of Nablus for the third day running." ("Children shot in third day of Israeli army raids, The Guardian, 5 June 2003)
...
The only US newspaper that we were able to find that reported the events in Balata was Newsday, on 5 June, in a report by the same Conal Urquhart.
The Chicago Tribune's account of the day of the Aqaba meeting was quite different. The paper said, "the day gave rise to hope not only for what happened but also for what did not: There was no major Israeli-Palestinian violence" ... The report made no mention of the three-day long Israeli attack on Balata Camp that caused so many injuries and continued during the Aqaba summit.
...
Yet, when Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, 8 June, killing five Israeli soldiers and losing five combatants themselves, many US media organizations suddenly took notice.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots them
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots them By Chris McGreal in Jerusalem, Friday May 9, 2003
The Israeli military yesterday began obliging foreigners entering the Gaza Strip to sign waivers absolving the army from responsibility if it shoots them. Visitors must also declare that they are not peace activists. "
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots them By Chris McGreal in Jerusalem, Friday May 9, 2003
The Israeli military yesterday began obliging foreigners entering the Gaza Strip to sign waivers absolving the army from responsibility if it shoots them. Visitors must also declare that they are not peace activists. "
Photographers Say They Were Beaten by Israeli Police
Photographers Say They Were Beaten by Israeli, Police Men Claim They Were Threatened JANUARY 22, 2003
NABLUS, West Bank -- (AP) Photographers for The Associated Press and the French news agency Agence France-Press (AFP) were beaten by two Israeli border policemen as the journalists tried to photograph troops driving quickly down the street Tuesday with two Palestinian teens clinging to the hood of their jeep."
Photographers Say They Were Beaten by Israeli, Police Men Claim They Were Threatened JANUARY 22, 2003
NABLUS, West Bank -- (AP) Photographers for The Associated Press and the French news agency Agence France-Press (AFP) were beaten by two Israeli border policemen as the journalists tried to photograph troops driving quickly down the street Tuesday with two Palestinian teens clinging to the hood of their jeep."
Israel and the Occupied Territories - Annual report 2003 -- Reporters Without Borders
Publishes a list of press issues
Publishes a list of press issues
Reporters Without Borders publishes the first worldwide press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders publishes the first worldwide press freedom index -- Reporters sans frontières - International: ""
The attitude of Israel (92nd) towards press freedom is ambivalent. Despite strong pressure on state-owned TV and radio, the government respects the local media's freedom of expression. However, in the West Bank and Gaza, Reporters Without Borders has recorded a large number of violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which guarantees press freedom and which Israel has signed. Since the start of the Israeli army's incursions into Palestinian towns and cities in March 2002, very many journalists have been roughed up, threatened, arrested, banned from moving around, targeted by gunfire, wounded or injured, had their press cards withdrawn or been deported.
Reporters Without Borders publishes the first worldwide press freedom index -- Reporters sans frontières - International: ""
The attitude of Israel (92nd) towards press freedom is ambivalent. Despite strong pressure on state-owned TV and radio, the government respects the local media's freedom of expression. However, in the West Bank and Gaza, Reporters Without Borders has recorded a large number of violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which guarantees press freedom and which Israel has signed. Since the start of the Israeli army's incursions into Palestinian towns and cities in March 2002, very many journalists have been roughed up, threatened, arrested, banned from moving around, targeted by gunfire, wounded or injured, had their press cards withdrawn or been deported.
