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‘Any journalist who enters Gaza becomes a fig leaf and front for the Hamas terror organization’

07Jan09 – 12:55 pm

…so says Daniel Seaman of the Israeli government press office. Writing in the New York Times, Ethan Bronner postulates that this attitude may have its roots in Israel’s 2006 conflict with Hezbollah. Then, domestic and international journalists were given pretty much free reign, and now many in the IDF see this as a contributing factor [...]

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Propaganda and censorship in Gaza

05Jan09 – 1:04 pm

Rachel Shabi in the Guardian points out the role of Israel’s recently-created National Information Directorate in the portrayal of the conflict in Gaza. The Directorate was set up after an inquiry in to the second Lebanon war in 2006, with the aim of co-ordinating the message going out to international media. But propaganda and censorship [...]

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