Time to take a stand against Israel?
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Well here is what Freedom House had to say about the IDF and the press in the occupied territory:
"Israeli security policies and military activities also continued to restrict Palestinian media freedom in 2010. Israeli journalists have been prohibited from entering the Gaza Strip since 2006 under a military decree that cites journalists’ personal safety. This ban was extended to all foreign journalists from November 2008 to late January 2009, when a ceasefire ended an Israeli incursion into Gaza. However, Israeli journalists are still barred from entering. In June 2010, Israeli commandos arrested and detained 18 international journalists during a raid on a Gaza-bound activist flotilla that was attempting to bring goods into the territory to protest an Israeli naval blockade; nine people were killed and dozens injured during the operation. Many of the journalists were detained in Israeli jails and released after a few days, in some cases without their possessions or travel documents. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least six journalists had their equipment either confiscated or destroyed by IDF soldiers. In addition, detained photographer Issam Zaatar, of the Qatar-based satellite television station Al-Jazeera, reported that Israeli soldiers destroyed his camera and broke his arm on one of the ships and later subjected him to a lengthy interrogation. An ensuing debate over the initiation of violence during the raid played out in Israeli print and internet-based as well as international media outlets, with CPJ decrying “Israel’s editing and distribution of footage confiscated from foreign journalists.”
Israeli security services continued to harass and detain reporters during the year, and were repeatedly accused by local and international press freedom organizations of targeting journalists for assault and arbitrary detention. Soldiers fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades at journalists covering events throughout the West Bank, particularly those from Palestinian news organizations and from Al-Jazeera. Soldiers also confiscated journalists’ equipment on a number of occasions in 2010. Freedom of movement is restricted by the Israeli checkpoint system, which requires military permission for passage into Israeli territory and often hinders travel within the West Bank. In addition, the IDF has increasingly restricted coverage of the regular protests near the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank by declaring such areas “closed military zones.” According to the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), there were 218 “violations of media freedoms” in the territories in 2010 (up 26 percent from 2009), 139 of which were committed by the Israeli security forces and settlers, and 79 of which were committed by the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza or by Palestinian militant groups."
https://freedomhouse.org/report/fre...tories-and-palestinian-authority#.VXWb2FL3aJK
"Israeli security policies and military activities also continued to restrict Palestinian media freedom in 2010. Israeli journalists have been prohibited from entering the Gaza Strip since 2006 under a military decree that cites journalists’ personal safety. This ban was extended to all foreign journalists from November 2008 to late January 2009, when a ceasefire ended an Israeli incursion into Gaza. However, Israeli journalists are still barred from entering. In June 2010, Israeli commandos arrested and detained 18 international journalists during a raid on a Gaza-bound activist flotilla that was attempting to bring goods into the territory to protest an Israeli naval blockade; nine people were killed and dozens injured during the operation. Many of the journalists were detained in Israeli jails and released after a few days, in some cases without their possessions or travel documents. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least six journalists had their equipment either confiscated or destroyed by IDF soldiers. In addition, detained photographer Issam Zaatar, of the Qatar-based satellite television station Al-Jazeera, reported that Israeli soldiers destroyed his camera and broke his arm on one of the ships and later subjected him to a lengthy interrogation. An ensuing debate over the initiation of violence during the raid played out in Israeli print and internet-based as well as international media outlets, with CPJ decrying “Israel’s editing and distribution of footage confiscated from foreign journalists.”
Israeli security services continued to harass and detain reporters during the year, and were repeatedly accused by local and international press freedom organizations of targeting journalists for assault and arbitrary detention. Soldiers fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades at journalists covering events throughout the West Bank, particularly those from Palestinian news organizations and from Al-Jazeera. Soldiers also confiscated journalists’ equipment on a number of occasions in 2010. Freedom of movement is restricted by the Israeli checkpoint system, which requires military permission for passage into Israeli territory and often hinders travel within the West Bank. In addition, the IDF has increasingly restricted coverage of the regular protests near the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank by declaring such areas “closed military zones.” According to the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), there were 218 “violations of media freedoms” in the territories in 2010 (up 26 percent from 2009), 139 of which were committed by the Israeli security forces and settlers, and 79 of which were committed by the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza or by Palestinian militant groups."
https://freedomhouse.org/report/fre...tories-and-palestinian-authority#.VXWb2FL3aJK
Just two years ago, Israel proper was downgraded from "free" to "partly free."
Freedom House considers legal and political influence on the press. They don't consider whether there is an international narative a nation tries to premoted. In other words, widespread propaganda does not affect rating, only restrictions on the press.
As noted in the prior post, the occupied territories are where press is severely restricted. This is where bad press is likely to originate.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/israel#.VXWbyVL3aJK
Freedom House considers legal and political influence on the press. They don't consider whether there is an international narative a nation tries to premoted. In other words, widespread propaganda does not affect rating, only restrictions on the press.
As noted in the prior post, the occupied territories are where press is severely restricted. This is where bad press is likely to originate.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/israel#.VXWbyVL3aJK
NickleDimer
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Yeah, I dropped the subject when I saw that World War III and a second Holocaust would immediately result from the U.S. joining in a U.N. Resolution that was critical of Israel. Discussion over!
NickleDimer
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Are Christians even on the "being genocided in Iraq and Syria" radar? Are they a main party to the long term turmoil there?
Certainly the media is not overtly portraying the genoicde happening to Christians. 60 minutes did a good job of reporting it a few months back
ISIS has been going after them @ a Hitler like focus.
Noticed you are a big Obama supporter. the man gets an F in my book on this. Doing absolutely nothing to help this minority religion
ISIS has been going after them @ a Hitler like focus.
Noticed you are a big Obama supporter. the man gets an F in my book on this. Doing absolutely nothing to help this minority religion
I am cleanwave. In fact, just yesterday 80 Christians were captured by ISIL in Libya. Meanwhile, BO declares we have no policy as ISIL continues to surround Bagdad bringing back memories (for those of us old enough to remember) of the fall of Saigon.
NickleDimer
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So it is your position that the US military should be used to protect Libyan and Iraqi citizens at the drop of a hat?
NickleDimer
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Well, they haven't been wrong on foreign policy yet. I don't think they are gonna start now.
NickleDimer
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Who is pumping him up? I started a healthy thread about how he's destroyed the economy and looking forward to the eventual GoP prez.