Israeli Air Force

hm don't know what to say its ok

Otimo Video!

hands up for Mivtza Moked

I'd tend to agree with Mivtza from having lived in that area a few years. Taking the stance of keeping your opinions to yourself if it shows the Palestinian Arabs in a bad light just sounds a bit fishy. I've lived in that region long enough to notice the strong selective news reporting going on. At the end of the day media companies are there to make money and the Israelis are a smaller market than the Arab world. Its as simple as that.

Nice Video. A slightly Off topic question. Can anyone identify the song used during the end of the video. I believe I have heard it before, but I wasnt sure what it was called. any help on the matter appreciated. Thanks

Excuse me but the coverage of the media over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is way more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel!

The Palestinians far more 'control' the media than Israel.

When journalists are allowed to pierce the veil of secrecy, the price of access to dictators and terrorists is often steep. Reporters are sometimes intimidated or blackmailed. In Lebanon during the 1980s, for example, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had reporters doing their bidding as the price for obtaining interviews and protection. During the 'al-Aksa intifada,' Israeli journalists were warned against going to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and some received telephone threats after publishing articles critical of the PA leadership.

When asked to comment on what many viewers regard as CNN's bias against Israel, Reese Schonfeld, the network's first president explained, 'When I see them on the air I see them being very careful about Arab sensibilities.' Schonfeld suggested the coverage is slanted because CNN doesn't want to risk the special accesss it has in the Arab world.

In Arab countries, journalists are usually escorted to see what the dictator wants them to see or they are followed. Citizens are warned by security agencies, sometimes directly, sometimes more subtly, that they should be careful what they say to visitors.

In the case of coverage of the PA, the Western media relies heavily on Palestinian assistants to escort correspondents in the territories. In addition, Palestinians often provide the news that is sent out around the world. 'By my own estimate,' journalist Ehud Ya'ari wrote, 'over 95 percent of the TV pictures going out on satellite every evening to the various foreign and Israeli channels are supplied by Palestinian film crews. The two principle agencies in the video news market, APTN and Reuters TV, run a whole network of Palestinian stringers, freelancers and fixers all over the territories to provide instant footage of the events. These crews obviously identify emotionally and politically with the intifada and, in the ‘best’ case, they simply don't dare film anything that could embarrass the Palestinian Authority. So the cameras are angled to show a tainted view of the Israeli army's actions, never focus on the Palestinian gunmen and diligently produce a very specific kind of close-up of the situation on the ground.'

A particularly egregious incident occurred in October 2000 when two non-combatant Israeli reservists were lynched in Ramallah by a Palestinian mob. According to reporters on the scene, the Palestinian police tried to prevent foreign journalists from filming the incident. One Italian television crew managed to film parts of the attack and these shocking images ultimately made headlines around the world. A competing Italian news agency took a different tack, placing an advertisement in the PA's main newspaper, Al Hayat-Al-Jadidah, explaining that it had nothing to do with filming the incident:

'My dear friends in Palestine. We congratulate you and think that it is our duty to put you in the picture (of the events) of what happened on October 12 in Ramallah. One of the private television stations which competes with us (and not the official Italian television station RTI) filmed the events; that station filmed the events. Afterwards Israeli Television broadcast the pictures, as taken from one of the Italian stations, and thus the public impression was created as if we (RTI) took these pictures.

We emphasize to all of you that the events did not happen this way, because we always respect (will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the Palestinian Authority for (journalistic) work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work.

We thank you for your trust, and you can be sure that this is not our way of acting (note: meaning we do not work like the other television stations). We do not (and will not) do such a thing.

Please accept our blessings.

Signed
Ricardo Christiano
Representative of the official Italian station in Palestine'

If a news organization strays from the pro-Palestinian line, it comes under immediate attack. In November 2000, for example, the Palestinian Journalist's Union complained that the Associated Press was presenting a false impression of the 'al-Aksa intifada.' The Union called AP's coverage a conscious crime against the Palestinian people and said it served the Israeli position. The Union threatened to adopt all necessary measures against AP staffers as well as against AP bureaus located in the PA if the agency continued to harm Palestinian interests.

Terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens are often treated by the media in an entirely different way than similar atrocities committed against other nationalities. Many press outlets are reluctant to call attacks against Jews terrorism and frequently attach more benign labels to the murderers such as 'gunmen' or 'militants.' For example, when a Palestinian woman walked into a crowded beach restaurant in Haifa and detonated a bomb that killed 21 people, including four children on October 4, 2003, the Reuters account said she had waged an 'attack' in retaliation for previous Israeli army actions and that the bombing showed that Palestinian officials had failed to 'rein in the militants.'

One of the best examples of how the press sometimes distinguishes terrorist attacks against other nations was a list of 'recent terror attacks around the world' disseminated in November 2003 by the Associated Press, probably the most influential news service in the world. The list cited 15 terrorist incidents during the five-year period between August 1998 and August 2003. During that period, more than 800 Israelis were murdered in terrorist attacks, but not one of the incidents in Israel made the list.

Similarly, when AP released its Year in Photos 2003, six of the 130 photos chosen related to human suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. All six were of Palestinians.

Not only that the media's coverage is not balanced, it is pro-Palestinian.

that's not true. the palestiniens has no good side to show the media, that why you never see pro-palestinian provogenda, or whatever you just called it. and if you have problems with israel, dont see this kind of videos and keep your opinions to yourself, beacuse you dont live here and you dont know whats going on here.

Good but pure pro-Israelian propaganda;
to bad the palistinians do not know anything about manipulating the media

Great video