Robert Fisk: Keeping out the cameras and reporters simply doesn't work
Monday, 5 January 2009
What is Israel afraid of? Using the old "enclosed military area" excuse
to prevent coverage of its occupation of Palestinian land has been
going on for years. But the last time Israel played this game – in
Jenin in 2000 – it was a disaster. Prevented from seeing the truth with
their own eyes, reporters quoted Palestinians who claimed there had
been a massacre by Israeli soldiers – and Israel spent years denying
it. In fact, there was a massacre, but not on the scale that it was
originally reported.
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