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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (23189)	4/2/2002 6:40:50 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Israel Threatens Action Against CNN, NBC washingtonpost.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (23189)	4/2/2002 7:13:08 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Observers of the PA think that this intifada has been a military operation with no more than 2000 active militants. Put bluntly, if most of those 2000 are dead or out of the country, and the rest in hiding, if they are deprived of their bases in Area A, they will have less ability to send out the suicide bombers or tell everybody what heroic martyrs they are." The only way that the Israelis can accomplish putting all those active militants out of the country is by ethnic cleansing, and that is forbidden by the world opinion that Israel needs to survive. The Intifada is forcing Israel to use tactics that erode Israel's US support. A lot of this could have been copied exactly from the South Africa news of a decade ago: Israel cracks down on foreign media msnbc.com ... In Ramallah’s central Manara Square, an army major who identified himself as “Uzi” waved his gun toward reporters trying to pass through. “This is a closed military area,” he said. “If you don’t leave you will be arrested.” Some of the military officers aren’t so nice. So journalists have been forced to learn a surreal kind of military sign language, slowly approaching tanks in an unthreatening way. Trained on reporters, the turrets are raised up and down to indicate whether passage is allowed. In a more direct approach, troops fire directly at approaching reporters. Our armored car took 15 rounds as we tried to make our way back to our lodgings Monday night. ... msnbc.com These reporters can slant the news whatever way they like. Up to now, Israel has got fairly good press. But since the Israelis shot dead an journalist a few weeks ago the press has been definitely slanted against Israel. March 14, 2002 Israeli shots kill journalist An Italian photographer was killed by Israeli machine-gun fire in fierce fighting in central Ramallah yesterday. He was the first foreign journalist to be killed in the 18 months of the Palestinian uprising. guardian.co.uk After you start killing journalists the remaining ones pay careful attention to the grisly details that are associated with your military operations. In short, they start slanting their stories against you. Now the Israelis are accused of executing the wounded. This is in complete violation of all the rules of war, though it isn't terribly uncommon, and is horrible press for Israel: ... What happened on the third floor of the Cairo-Amman bank at midnight on Friday during Israel's occupation of the Palestinian city of Ramallah can only be surmised. But in the few minutes after Israeli soldiers stormed the Palestinian position, five men were wounded and five men were put to death by the Israelis, each with a single coup de grace administered to the head or throat. ... guardian.co.uk Killing civilians doesn't buy good will: Palestinian civilians have mainly tried to stay out of harm's way by huddling inside their homes, and the streets proved deadly dangerous again Tuesday. A 56-year-old Palestinian woman was fatally shot on her way home from Ramallah Hospital, apparently by an Israeli sniper, doctors said. She had gone to the hospital to have a plaster cast removed from her leg, they said. foxnews.com Journalists are hinting at Israel using Palestinians as human shields to protect their soldiers from snipers: Isam and other townspeople say that the soldiers kept them under guard in a field below the Shaaban family houses. When Palestinian gunmen began shooting at the Israelis from a hillside, these people say, the soldiers lined them up to act as a civilian shield that would make the Palestinians stop firing. They did. By press time, the IDF had not replied to repeated requests for comment on these assertions. video.csmonitor.com Israel is not killing nearly enough Palestinians to put down the uprising. But they are doing enough stuff to erode Israel's US support. This, along with reducing Israel's economic condition, was the objective of the Intifada. When the US pulled its support for South Africa, the government there was forced to negotiate from a position of weakness and the situation was resolved in a more or less peaceful way. Slowly this same ending is coming about in Israel. The end will be maybe 5 or 10 years from now. -- Carl