Forces at West Bank Checkpoint Erase Al Jazeera Footage

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The blatant disregard of international norms by the Jews is so ...

What? This wasn't the Evil Juice?

Oh! I had to reread that! It was the European supported Palestinian Authority that was violating the civilized norms. I wonder why the Euros have not condemned either the original torture or the harassment of the Media, or the destruction of evidence? I guess the Europeans support torture after all. As long as it is not by someone who loves the West.

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2009/07/forces_at_west_bank_checkpoint.html

Recently, a Palestinian TV crew was stopped at a checkpoint in the West Bank, where soldiers confiscated a tape and erased its content. This incident hardly received any coverage in the mainstream media in the US and Europe.

The reason? The perpetrators were not IDF soldiers, but Palestinian Authority security officers. And the checkpoint did not belong to the IDF; it was, in fact, a Palestinian checkpoint.

The story of the detention of the TV crew -- which, by the way, belonged to Al-Jazeera and the erasure of the footage did not make it to the mainstream media even after Reporters Without Borders, an organization that defends journalists worldwide, issued a statement strongly condemning the assault on the freedom of the media.

"Journalists must be able to work freely," Reporters Without Borders said. "The erasure of this video footage proves that the Palestinian security forces try to cover up their human rights violations. This incident should be the subject of an enquiry by the Palestinian Authority."

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