Israel

"Israel." //Reporters Without Borders For Press Freedom//. 2010. Web. 14 Sep. 2010. [].
 * 1)  “ James Zogby notes that, in the process, Palestinians are dehumanized and Israelis are presented as a people with whose tragic history of oppression we are invited to identify.(12)”
 * 2) “Israel has dedicated an enormous amount of resources to perverting our identity and the character of our struggle,” writes Mustafa Barghouti. “It has gained a significant degree of influence over the media, especially in the West, and has used this strength to transform and manipulate reality to its own ends.” (4)
 * 3) “[F]or the past forty years American foreign policy has had a profound influence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [but] that reality seems largely detached from and even irrelevant to how the story is reported in the field,” observes Marda Dunsky. (11) p. 317
 * 4)  “James Zogby observed during the Gaza offensive of December 2008-January 2009 that, “despite the disproportionate suffering of the Palestinians, media coverage attempted to ‘balance’ the story, giving an extensive treatment, with photos of anguished and fearful Israelis and the impact the war was having on them.”(12)
 * 5)  “Michelle Goldberg writes, “[U]nlike, say, the Cuban lobby or the AARP, there’s a taboo against outsiders discussing the influence of AIPAC or the Israel lobby more generally, or criticizing the way it shapes American policy. To do so raises the specter of poisonous old narratives about mysterious cabals and dual loyalties, of hateful tracts like the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and ‘The International Jew.’ So a strange, dim silence surrounds the Israel lobby, and the hushed atmosphere nurtures conspiracy theories about a power so great and so secret that you can’t even talk about it in public.”(4)
 * 6)  “J. J. Goldberg observes that “…while Jews make up little more than 5 % of the working press nationwide–hardly more than their share of the population–they make up one fourth or more of the writers, editors, and producers in America’s ‘elite media,’ including network news divisions, the top newsweeklies, and the four leading newspapers (New //York Times//, //Los Angeles Times//, //Washington// //Post//, and //Wall Street Journal//).”
 * 7)  “It is impossible to accurately determine to what extent individual Jewish journalists identify sympathetically with Israel, whether consciously or unconsciously. Can NPR’s Daniel Schorr, whose ardently Zionist mother “lit candles for Palestine” (7) comment dispassionately about events in Israel? Is it possible for CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer to set aside his personal alignment with the “Israeli narrative” (18) and his stint in the 1970s as editor of AIPAC’s //Near East// //Report// (19) (20) when reporting on Israel?”