News and Politics | January 06, 2009 | 57 comments

Israel puts media clamp on Gaza - NYTimes.com

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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We knew this, NOW the NY Times is spewing out against it...so it seems. Barring the media from covering this has only one reason..Israel is hiding one of the most horrific humanitarian crisis ever that it has brought down on the Palestinians people, as reported by many humanitarian organizations, most recently the Red Cross
Here's the article:

Three times in recent days, a small group of foreign correspondents was told to appear at the border crossing to Gaza. The reporters were to be permitted in to cover first-hand the Israeli war on Hamas in keeping with a Supreme Court ruling against the two-month-old Israeli ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.

Each time, they were turned back on security grounds, even as relief workers and foreign nationals were permitted to cross the border. On Tuesday the reporters were told not even to bother coming.

And so for an 11th day of Israel’s war in Gaza, the several hundred journalists here to cover it wait in clusters away from direct contact with any fighting or Palestinian suffering but with full access to Israeli political and military commentators eager to show them around southern Israel, where Hamas rockets have been terrorizing civilians. A slew of private groups financed mostly by Americans are helping guide the press around Israel.

Like all wars, this one is partly about public relations. But unlike any war in Israel’s history, in this one, the government is seeking to control entirely the message and narrative for reasons both of politics and military strategy.

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57 comments // Israel puts media clamp on Gaza - NYTimes.com

  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • Daily support on Hamas shows one thing. They are doing a good Job brain washing people and minds... Minds are weak!

      It is either that, or the world has gone mad!

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
      Mahatma Gandhi

    • 3 years ago
  • ilmor
  • priapproved
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      priapproved  

    • lol @ highroller & ilmor. You guys do realize you're not going to get a response from the pro-Israel current trolls. After all, how do you respond to this? Seems like Israel is covering up a genocide. Does anybody remember who else did this? Starts with a N, rhymes with "azi's"

    • 3 years ago
  • alfitude
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      alfitude  

    • Actions speak louder than words. Or in this case, barring the media just spurs on the negativity harboured against Israel. But they don't seem to care what the rest of the world thinks. Then again, did they ever?

    • 3 years ago
  • ilmor
  • Highr0ller
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • Highr0ller:

      wow..thanks for the figures. makes alot of sense and dollars for the war mongers. If only..ONLY if we could make a profit from Peace instead of war...then, and only then you would not see one drop of innocent blood spilled becuase of the almighty dollar

    • 3 years ago
  • shaybo
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • @dabne..posts are not PRO hamas as you would like to believe, the posts are telling Israel to quit the genocidal murder of innocent people, including children. The Massacre of innocents not carrying weapons and blaming it on hamas- that they are using people as human shields..that argument is a lie for the most part and is Israels excuse to kill, murder and maim children and eventually, eliminate a race of people...GENOCIDE

    • 3 years ago
  • dabne
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      dabne  

    • I cannot believe the number of pro Hamas stories that have filtered to the top of the front page at Current.com.

      I honestly can't believe it. You should be ashamed of yourselves Current, for bumping so many pro Hamas, anti-Israel stories during this time of conflict. Balance your home page. This goes for the staff and all the viewers voting. Don't be so blind and one sided. Acknowledge the atrocities on both sides.

    • 3 years ago
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  
    • dabne:

      This is not about choosing between Hamas and Israel. (And, for the record, shouldn't one make a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinians?) Between the "hawks" in the Israeli government plus their supporters and the general Israeli people?

      This is about promoting the common good, not of any particular people or any particular religion or any particular sub-sect of a particular religion, but of the entire region and, indeed, of the world.

    • 3 years ago
  • dabne
  • priapproved
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      priapproved  
    • dabne:

      Dabne, is your head in a hole or something? This site is riddled with pro-Israel news being spammed by trolls like datamined and arcticspirit. Seeing a news article like this rise up to the top is by far a rarity. I'm surprised that THIS article made it through all the pro-Israel burying filters.

      Plus, you claim to want people to be less one-sided yet here you are preaching that your thoughts should be the only type that must be heard. That's some arrogance you got there.

    • 3 years ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • Let's cry! Let's chant and let's Protest against those that Chanted when Plains hit the TT in 9/11. Let's protect and let's throw wood to the Fire that feeds the mouth of those that want YOU dead.

      The media is everywhere, Al Jazeera has people everywhere and covering every single spot.

      One thing is to Love those that Hate you, another thing is to Help them commit their Crimes.

      Supporting Hamas and the Palestinian people is Suicide.

    • 3 years ago
  • hinkgods
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      hinkgods  

    • Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide Genocide

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
  • huntre
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • hinkgods:

      The legal definition of genocide

      The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

      Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:

      1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

      2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."

      Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.
      Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide

      "Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

      (a) Killing members of the group;
      (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
      (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
      (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
      (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

      Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:

      (a) Genocide;
      (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
      (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
      (d) Attempt to commit genocide;
      (e) Complicity in genocide. "

      http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext-printerfriendly.htm

      What Israel is doing and has been doing to the Palestinians for decades is indeed genocide.

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  
    • hinkgods:

      this is not genocide - to make such a claim is silly school girl dramatics.

      If Israel wanted to commit genocide they would do it, indeed they would have done it a long time ago. They have the military capability without question.

      Again, when you take sides in this issue you are making a mistake.

    • 3 years ago
  • priapproved
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      priapproved  
    • hinkgods:

      Umm...it's not "silly school girl dramatics", it's actually you downplaying the slaughter that's going on in Gaza. The fact that you're even doing that disrespects those that are being massacred. Okay unimatrix, when do you start calling it a genocide? At 1000 casualties? It's getting damn close to that.

      Is this a surgical attack going after Hamas? Or just blind fire? Because right now I've heard ONE Hamas leader killed amongst hundreds of Palestinians dead. This is genocide.

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • First, if you bring the Nazis into the argument you only reveal the poverty of your own intellect.

      Second, both sides are wrong. If you support Hamas and the Palestinians you are wrong. If you support Israel and the Israelis you are wrong.

      Hamas does use women and children as human shields, this is a fact. It is cowardly and reprehensible.

      Israels nevertheless attacks Hamas with overwhelming force, killing and wounding the innocent, which is also reprehensible.

      Passionate rhetoric serves no purpose. The hyperbolic dramatics only inflames the passions with out informing the mind.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • unimatrix0
  • hinkgods
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      hinkgods  

    • This isnt about BUSH!!! dam ppl get over it already...move the f%^k on...Deal with the hear and now!!! & please leave out the hope of "CHANGE" oh yea that person hasnt spoken yet.. the JEWS are HATERS n Control the MEDIA!!! if this was anything else it will be on every TV station and Newspaper..especially for the people backin NY, remember the TRIAL for the guy that killed the cat? LMAO ROFL I'm disgraced to call myself American knwing where backing this all up thats going on over there...

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • This really isn't surprising, Israel definitely does not have a history of journalistic openness. Anyone else remember that BBC reporter that got shot and killed by Israeli troops for filming their bulldozing of the Gaza strip?

      I hope this whole thing just blows over.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ayahuasca2012
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      Ayahuasca2012  

    • Of course they did... they don't the world to know they are carrying out a Genocide.

      So quickly they seem to have forgotten what happened to their own people not so long ago.

    • 3 years ago
  • freeus
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      freeus  

    • They're doing exactly what George Bush did. They just don't want any more bad news reported. I guess they figure images of dead children are hurting their image.

      Do remember that George Bush learned this tactic from Vladimir Putin. Only Putin kills reporters for airing bad news.

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  

    • This speaks for itself.

      Anytime you systematically prevent the truth from getting out you can be sure it is because it will turn even the most non-political person against you.

      It is a smart move by Israel.

      It'll be a lot harder to ethnically cleanse Gaza if people know what they are doing.

      Isn't that why the Nazi's kept their actions secret?

    • 3 years ago
  • kuffar
  • nortey_2002
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      nortey_2002  
    • kuffar:

      So your proving everyone one's point that your people are conducting a only war! which is not what america is suppose to represent we separate chruch and state stop using your religion as an excuse for killing women and children

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Magnitude06
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      Magnitude06  
    • kuffar:

      R U Serious? I mean if I where uneducated i would believe this but there is a problem with alot of your list. Your first three bullet points are full of inaccurate information......and can you please state facts when referring to why things are done a certain way. Muslims don't turn their back to Jerusalem to pray they face the EAST where the Sun Rises. Not to show disrespect to the Jews. Your list if anything only divides and shows little factually info. Most of it can be debated............

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • estefi
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      estefi  
    • kuffar:

      sorry... but... what??? Palestine are the people who started called themselves palestinians after 6 days war??? sorry darling... but you really abd desesperately need history lessons... and what Israel is doing with the palestinian is an ethnic clenasing... since 1947 when their colonization was started... please, read and search more! of course, beyond the sionist books!

    • 3 years ago
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  
    • kuffar:

      Kuffar, your passion is evident and understandable. Really, though, you take an untenable premise as a foundation: namely, that what happened as long as 3000 years ago should determine current geopolitical issues.

      Should every U.S. resident who arrived since the late 15th century leave so that the American Indians can reclaim the land stolen from them? Should every resident of Israel who arrived after the Hebrew tribes invaded and displaced those called "Canaanites" pack up and leave?

      Of course not--not because G_d/God/Allah said the invasions were approved by him, but because geopolitical realities make it impossible. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same God. And adherents of those three main faiths all believe that God has endorsed their invasions and conquering, as evidenced in holy scripture.

      But of course none of the three faiths will accept the interpretation of scripture or of God's will proposed by either of the others. And no one who belongs to another faith entirely will take any of those scriptures, let alone interpretations of scriptures, seriously. The problems must be resolved on the basis of present reality rather than ancient history or belief in divine land grants.

      *Retributive* justice is no justice at all. It is simply a rationale for never ending violence and hatred. The answer must be sought in *distributive* justice, the rule of law, or at least of principles agreed upon by all parties to a conflict.

    • 3 years ago
  • neocongo
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  
    • neocongo:

      I'm starting to see that, too.

      I don't understand that type of behavior.

      I feel like sitting her down and and eplaining some seriously basic shit.

      If it is wrong when they do it so it is wrong when she does it.

      Wrong is wrong no matter who says it or who does it.

      And most of all, two wrongs do not make a right.

      She's caught up in punishing innocent people to make herself feel better. It's a sad cycle of abuse that is partly responsible for the current situation.

    • 3 years ago
  • Bren589
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      Bren589  
    • neocongo:

      she only promotes hate. Maybe on day she will open her eyes . there is no talking to her.. let her have her say and just don't pay any mind to it. thats what she-he wants

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • priapproved
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • dataminded, Israel is a criminal state. These war crimes will not go unanswered in the International community, mark my words. Israel will face charges in many criminal courts and its leaders brought to the Hague for crimes against humanity.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • capt_ayhab
  • priapproved
  • datamined
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      datamined  

    • @worldpiece says: "one of the most horrific humanitarian crisis ever that it has brought down on the Palestinians people"

      jordan killed 5000 pals in a weekend in the 70's.
      syria killed 10000 in hama, syria.

      hamas killed hundreds of fatah this year alone,
      shooting 100 in cold blood this week alone.

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  
    • datamined:

      Yes, those things are fucking horrible and those people are horrible fucking bastards.

      Why is Israel so eager to be just like them?

      Wrong is wrong.

      Can you really not see that?

    • 3 years ago
  • datamined
  • capt_ayhab
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      capt_ayhab  
    • datamined:

      datamind,
      If we believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization, then no wonder of their atrocities, correct? But if Israel claims to be committing these horrific crimes in the name of security for her people then totally unjustified.

      Besides, Israelis' are killing children, today alone Israeli tanks shelled an UN school killing 40 CHILDREN.

    • 3 years ago
  • Bren589
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      Bren589  

    • they don't want people to see the real truth. they want to hide as much as possible. I say let the reporters in . I know the footage they would cover would be very graphic.But we all need to see the truth. They can't keep this from the media for long. May as well let them in , We all know the truth . we know what started this war and what will end it. Give the of Gaza back their rights, food , water, electric. supplies for the hospital. the list can go on and on. My heart is screaming for peace to all involved.

    • 3 years ago
  • datamined
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      datamined  

    • the media famously gave away israeli tank positions in lebanon a few years ago, endangering the lives of Israeli soldiers. israel is trying to prevent that when surprise is so important to success.

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
  • escarondito
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      escarondito  

    • People should question immediately why journalists would not be allowed to view a conflict as it develops. Especially when the force censors the media from an area it has direct control. gaza is currently a slaughterhouse pure and simple. and enclosed rampage is going on. it does have a focused target yet shooting a bullet in a crowded room is bound to have casualties. hamas isn't making palestinians human shileds, the gaza residents are just being held by both arms and can't get outta the way.

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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