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Foreign Press Association: We must report from Gaza
Roi Mandel
Published: 18.01.09, 08:59
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1. The same doctor who allowed gunmen in his house?
israel   (01.18.09)
Well, there you go then. Don't allow gunmen to fire from your house - and your children won't die. Simple.
2. We should throw half of them out.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (01.18.09)
There are already far too many foreign journalists - more than anywhere else on earth. Without getting into the reasons why, half should be denied entry visas. If they want ''humanitarian'' sob stories, they can go to Darfur, N. Korea, almost anywhere in Africa, the Arab world - there are untold stories never covered by these vultures, stories that deserve to be covered .....
3. The Doctor feared Hamas more than us
Noa ,   Beer Sheva   (01.18.09)
What happend is truely tragic. Apparently there was an Israeli tank stationed at his house and he pulled all kinds of strings to have it removed. The tank would have guaranteed the safety of his home. But he was more afraid of Hamas then of us. Of course. At best, we should treat this tragic event as a friendly fire incident, but we should not be shocked about ourselves and back off. We have a message to convey and I don´t think it came through yet.
4. Bottom line: Hamas killed his daughters.
(01.18.09)
We all know their tricks by now; deliberately drawing fire upon a building housing civilians to gain maximum effect. We don't need 'reporters' to feed off this.
5. terry mon frere je suis d accord avec toi
haim ,   mtl canada   (01.18.09)
i cant understand why we have to accept such a bs from this press tht s alwais working against israel and the jewish people .i am sick listening listening to france2 and the bbc and who else but charles enderlin again from jerusalem and still anti jewish in everything he says a haim de tel aviv salut a toi aussi mon frere
6. #1 they did fight the gunmen, and look at the result
observer   (01.18.09)
7. anyway collaborators wont get the lesson
observer   (01.18.09)
they are usually too dumb to understand
8. Independent reporting
Paul ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (01.18.09)
Reporters 95% come from leftist ideologies, and have unscrupulous ulterior motives in reporting news in western governments. The media operates on emotional impact not intellectual or historical clarity. The media does not have the depth of perception nor the time to see behind the Arab's Jihad strategies and ability to embrace evil and disregard human life for the purpose of promoting ideological obsession. Simply put; the media is a tool of disinformation rather then their false self-perception of exposing truth.
9. Why no "white" reporters in Gaza?
Rick & TC ,   Israel   (01.18.09)
Because Hamas abducts "white" reporters like BBC journalist Alan Johnson and Fox news camera men for ransom.
10. It is the usual story. Israel is not supposed to defend
Frank ,   USA   (01.18.09)
itself from the Arab terrorists/serial killers!
11. Nothing ever changes! The 22 brutal Arab
David ,   USA   (01.18.09)
dictatorships and their proxies Hamas, Hezbollah are supposed to indiscriminately fire at Israel without any Israeli response. That is what the world wants.
12. Engaging in Propaganda!!
Handler ,   Israel   (01.18.09)
Why have the comments of the mother been so easily dismissed? Why have liberal reporters jumped on the bandwagon with reporters from the rest of the world? Isn't it obvious that if Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish's apartment was shelled, it was because terrorists were firing from the building. The Palestinians are experts at playing the victim. They bombarded us with rockets until we had no alternative other than to attack. Then they shoot at us from "private homes" and UN complexes and "play victim", knowing that the foreign media will be eager to call us all War Criminals. They recruit 15, 16, 17 year olds to fight for them and then list them amount the "innocent children" when they are killed. Especially in Israel, the news reporters should have checked to see what really happened before eagerly accepting Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish's account of the story. After all, if I were a terrorist, what better place could I have planned to attack Israelis from, than the home of such an 'emminent and innocent' doctor?!
13. DO NOT LET THESE RACIST REPORTERS IN!IF THEY LIKE THEY CAN..
REPORTERS=APPEASERS   (01.18.09)
USE THE RAFAH BORDER CROSSING FROM EGYPT!
14. ur nature: as such u deal with one who treated ur pts
ahmad ,   Gaza   (01.18.09)
all talkbacks r ugly and express ur nature: as such u deal with one who treated ur patients. nevermind if u don't wish to publish this talk as u did in other articles; but i insist to teach u something about ur bad minding which long u accused us with.
15. #5 Haim, Montreal - Canada.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (01.18.09)
You should see the video clip on YouTube from Eretz Nehederet - http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=EcBWO15CW_8 il se moquent de la BBC - a mourir de rire. Thank G-d, we still have a sense of humour.
16. Foreign Press in Gaza
David Thompson ,   Melbourne, Australia   (01.18.09)
If the foreign press enters Gaza, without any supervision, it could cause them more hell than anything they've done in the past. They don't know where rockets and that are being stored, and could be caught up in a bombing by the IAF, just because the reporters thought that there was nothing of that nature in the area. Also, they face the massive risk of being taken hostage, like the reporter from the BBC a few years back, which will then see their employers showing sympathy with the terrorists, just so they might get their reporter back
17. ISRAEL DECLARES A CEASE-FIRE AND HAMAS IS STIL FIRING ROCKET
Petra ,   USA   (01.18.09)
THE REPORTERS WOULD SCREAM IF ONE OF THEIRS WAS KILLED. BETTER THEY STAY SAFE INSTEAD OF ALL THE BS.
18. Terry 15 Eilat
haim ,   mtl canada   (01.18.09)
ty bro for the link i ve seen a few of the videos u right we have a good sense of humor thts why we still here . enfin ca ne fait pas de mal de rire .ill be in israel in few months we should keep in touch last year i was a the hotel corner of dizingoff and gordon for two weeks i think ill be there again see u soon
19. Bottom Line: Hamas killed his daughters. Ditto.
Ken Quinn ,   Amsterdam   (01.18.09)
Islam and the Bible are butting heads over "Thou shalt not murder." The Hamas are attempting MURDER. Israelis in uniform are defending the innocents. Hamas "fighters" are hiding behind the women and children. Who are the brave and who are the bankrupt?
20. #6 All hearsay and irrelevant now
(01.18.09)
Those people that allowed Hamas to fire rockets from their roof tops or windows or hide in their homes - are not considered innocent civilians.
21. Reporters would be perfect Hamas shields
Rafael - Sydney   (01.18.09)
Just think of the propoganda value for Hamas of Israel killing a Reuters etc man. Israel has done many things right in this war, and one of them was definitely to keep the reporters out of it. Continue to keep them out!!
22. "Why didn't the soldiers fire only on the upper room (...)?"
Suzanne   (01.18.09)
Dr. El Ayash asked on Israel Channel 2, "Why didn't the soldiers fire only on the upper room of his house?" (in other words, he's admitting here that there was shooting coming from his upper room of the house.) WHY was that and WHY is that not reported in this article?
23. @20 not quite
Suzanne   (01.18.09)
Hamas are thugs. And thugs hijack innocents to reach their goal. Perhaps this doctor has/had no sympathy with Hamas or whatsoever, but got forced to let these thugs into his house. Please, do not judge him before too easily.
24. What is Israel exactly hiding?
Zyriab ,   Montréal   (01.18.09)
Really, Why is Israel so stubborn against allowing foreign press to report from Gaza & from inside Israel? By what right does Israel forbid reporters to cover what is actually happening on the battlefield ? Afraid of revealing the truth ? Israel is again defying the world with this sort of unjustified behaviour & all the talkbacks on here confirm the real fanatic face of Israeli public.
25. Hamas did not hide among them
Marilyn ,   Adelaide   (01.18.09)
There is a sickness in Israel and among the supporters who claim that the IDF never do anything wrong. Have you no shame because you make the world sick.
26. "press association"?
tom ,   toronto, canada   (01.18.09)
the palestinian anarchy doesn't have, and has never had, a free press. reporters are regularly intimidated and told what to report, as well as being fed on palliwood fabrications. in fact, palestinian journalists are freer to write the truth working for israeli papers than their own. oddly, the "foreign press association" hasn't spoken out publicly against hamas intimidation (and kidnapping) of journalists, or against their deliberate use of journalists as human shields (they fired from the lower floors of a press building in gaza where the reporters were trapped upstairs). and they cerainly never mention the "staging" of news footage, or the fact that hamas, following hezbollah's example, has never released figures on their casualties, in order to inflate civilian numbers. so why is the "foreign press association" so eager to enter gaza? this little temper tantrum is more directed against israel than for the sake of the civilians in gaza. but why should the "foreign press association" start telling the truth now....
27. reports
colin   (01.18.09)
WE MUST REPORT FROM GAZA Yes we have to continue with the lies deseptions ,biased stories and twisted facts to show how bad the Israelis are.We must help to cry ,complain deciet and ahow that the arabs whom get the most from the EU and UN really need the humanterian aid supposed to be sent to Darfur,Congo Zimbabwe etc. YES the foriegn press are suffering
28. why didn't the soldiers fire only on the upper room
Stan ,   Jerusalem   (01.18.09)
Suzanne (22): You have it wrong: That is NOT an admission that there was shooting coming from his house. His daughters were on the upper room; he was on the ground floor. He's asking why the soldiers didn't kill him as well. According to the IDF, "shots had been fired at Israeli forces from an apartment near Abuelaish's home. The troops returned fire and accidentally hit Abuelaish's home."
29. To hell with media and MD/terrorist/spy!
Sandi ,   ex US   (01.18.09)
30. #24 israel doesn't want to unnecessrily risk reporters
israeli free thinker   (01.18.09)
people abroad seem to be obssessed with the situation here. a war faught with pictures, a pictures war faught by preverse people who react to blood and gore, is not israel's way . we let hamas the upper hand in winning the pictures war didn't you see enough pictures of death allready? israel's cause is just, the means to achieve it are ugly, that's why israel tollerated them terrorists for so long.
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