Did Bibi go too far with the journalists?
This is the statement that the Prime Minister's Office issued on Monday regarding journalists and the flotilla of fools. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today instructed the responsible authorities to formulate a special procedure regarding foreign journalists that participate in the flotilla and arrive in contravention of the Entry into Israel Law. When the matter was brought to his attention, the Prime Minister directed that the regular policy against infiltrators and those who enter Israel illegally not be implemented. It has also been agreed that members of the Israeli and international media will be attached to Israel Navy vessels in order to create transparency and credible coverage of the events.I agree with taking journalists out in Navy vessels to watch the flotilla's end. I agree with arresting Israeli journalists who are on the flotilla. I'm not sure why the government thinks that foreign journalists on the flotilla should have any different fate. Are we afraid of the New York Times or CNN?
When I commented on this issue Monday night, I was only aware of the plan to put journalists on Navy boats.
Hmmm.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, flotilla of fools, freedom of the press
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:24 PM
3 Comments:
Perhaps it is all part of the PR...who knows...
I also agree with arresting Israeli journalists (or even MKs) who are on the flotilla. Sometimes there is a fine line between treason and freedom of expression...
Cheers
In other words, Netanyahu is going to say that journalists who side with Israel's enemies should be given special treatment?
I expect that as a given in Israel's dual justice system. Israel's leftists after all have staunch friends in the foreign press.
Rabbi Dov Lior, who was arrested yesterday for the thought crime of writing an approbation to a controversial book, had none. And it comes as no surprise that Israel's so-called Justice Ministry defended Israel's leftist censor, Shai Nitzan and his unit, who spend Israeli taxpayer dollars going after people whose political, social and religious views they don't like.
No one in Israel seems to be very much upset about the lack of equal justice and the true rule of law there.
What could go wrong indeed
I definitely don't agree with embedding journalists in Israeli military operations. Most journalists are not to be trusted. They interfered with, and even spied on, the IDF's operations in Lebanon in 2006 (even Fox News did this). This is why journalists were kept away from the IDF during Cast Lead in 2008-09. they should be kept out and far away.
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