Israeli Government Press Office: Foreign journalists are "spoiled crybabies"

In a comment to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Israeli Government Press Office chief Danny Seaman denied that there had been a ban of entry foreign journalists to the Gaza strip during the massacres. Israel had just not opened the border crossings. Semantics, anyone?

Seaman moreover stated that if the foreign journalists really would have wanted to enter the Gaza strip, in violation of the Israeli closure of borders, they could have done so. He also labelled the foreign journalists 'spoiled crybabies'.

The International Federation of Journalists did however note that inside Gaza, Israeli forces targetted press workers and killed two journalists. So the claims of Seaman that journalists could-have-entered-if-they-really-wanted falls quite flat looking at how the Israeli forces acted against journalists.

Seaman is not completly without friends, though. 'Joe the Plumber' was toured around southern Israel by Seaman during the Gaza massacre. 'Joe the Plumber' (or just 'JTP') then agreed with Seaman's position, thinking that "media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting". Friends of media freedom, indeed.

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Dagen.se har en kort rapport om Ulf Ekmans (Sveriges, efter Carola, mest kände fundamentalist) besök i Sderot och dennes bloggande därifrån. Skildringen blir lätt surrealistisk när man får man följande passus (min markering):

"Träffade en journalist som undrade varför det skrivs så lite om Sderot. En person sa lakoniskt: "Blod verka sälja bättre än fakta." med tydlig pik åt medias partiskhet, skriver Ekman i sin blogg."

En googling på Sderot+2009 på svenska sidor ger 22 100 resultat. Samma resultat för Khan Yunis är 12 100. Khan Yunis drabbades svårt av de israeliska bombningarna. Dödsfallen där överstiger vida de israeliska dödstalen.

Ett axplock som motbevisar Ekmans antaganden om 'medias partiskhet': AB123, DN12345678, SvD12345678, Sydsvenskan12345, HD12345, SMP123