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| | In a letter published in the PA’s official daily al-Hayat al-Jadida, Cristiano unhesitatingly threw Mediaset’s team to the dogs and forced it to pull out of all Palestinian areas for fear of deadly revenge attacks. Long live freedom of the press. | | In a letter published in the PA’s official daily al-Hayat al-Jadida, Cristiano unhesitatingly threw Mediaset’s team to the dogs and forced it to pull out of all Palestinian areas for fear of deadly revenge attacks. Long live freedom of the press. |
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| − | The craven capitulation to Arab diktats didn’t end there. Obsequiously, Cristiano pledged that he and all RAI personnel “always respect (and will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the Palestinian Authority for journalistic work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work... We thank you [the Palestinian Authority] for your trust, and you can be sure that this is not our way of acting. We do not (will not) do such a thing" [expose an atrocity]. | + | The craven capitulation to Arab diktats didn’t end there. Obsequiously, Cristiano pledged that he and all RAI personnel “always respect (and will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the [[Palestinian Authority]] for journalistic work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work... We thank you [the Palestinian Authority] for your trust, and you can be sure that this is not our way of acting. We do not (will not) do such a thing" [expose an atrocity]. |
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| | After this, pardon us headstrong Israelis for our jaundiced view of the impartiality of the foreign media. Nothing that may cast the Arabs in a negative light is likely to be resonated. Yet news purveyors overseas do love bodies and blood – as long as they aren’t Jewish. Arab bodies and suffering that can be blamed on Jews sell newspapers and raise ratings. Nothing must, heaven forefend, impart a smidgen of skepticism about the updated gospel of Jewish villainy. | | After this, pardon us headstrong Israelis for our jaundiced view of the impartiality of the foreign media. Nothing that may cast the Arabs in a negative light is likely to be resonated. Yet news purveyors overseas do love bodies and blood – as long as they aren’t Jewish. Arab bodies and suffering that can be blamed on Jews sell newspapers and raise ratings. Nothing must, heaven forefend, impart a smidgen of skepticism about the updated gospel of Jewish villainy. |
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| | <blockquote>The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering.</blockquote></ref> | | <blockquote>The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering.</blockquote></ref> |
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| − | The 'bestial murder' to the 'delight in it as thousands of onlookers did,' - a result of an overall hate education, incitement, at Arab "[[Palestinian]]" Authority (P.A.).<ref name=incitement> | + | The 'bestial murder' to the 'delight in it as thousands of onlookers did,' - a result of an overall hate education, incitement, by Arab [[Palestinian Authority]] (P.A.).<ref name=incitement> |
| | James Sinkinson, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/ What the Ramallah lynchings taught us about Palestinian incitement]", JNS, October 25, 2020. | | James Sinkinson, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/ What the Ramallah lynchings taught us about Palestinian incitement]", JNS, October 25, 2020. |
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