The difference between a 'near lynch' and the killing of two Palestinians
http://972mag.com/the-difference-between-a-near-lynch-and-the-killing-of-two-palestinians/91302/
Against the very real and tangible deaths of the two youths stands the story of Avi Issacharoff. As he tells it, on the very next day he arrived to cover a demonstration in the same spot – right in front of Ofer Prison. He claimed that at one point journalists approached him and asked him to leave after it emerged that he is an Israeli. Later on, an angry Palestinian mob gathered around him and would have lynched him at any moment were he not was saved by two members of the Palestinian secret service.
Witnesses who were present contradicted most of his main contentions: there were four other Israeli journalists present, they remained and kept on taking pictures after the event with the full knowledge of the demonstrators. They say that the reason for the confrontation was the insistence of Issacharoff and his accompanying photographer, Daniel Book, on taking photos of the faces of the protesters (the army has been known to use these images to kidnap youths from their beds and imprison them for long periods of time). Despite the heightened sensitivity on the day following the killings, the organizers of the demonstration and the protesters themselves prevented any physical attacks on Issacharoff and Book. As summarized by French journalist and photographer Julie Couzinet, who witnessed the confrontation, Issacharoff simply exaggerated.
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This sums up Israeli society’s attitude to the lives, rights, and death of Palestinian civilians. For us, the Israeli public, and for the Israeli media that provides us with its version of these incidents, the emotions, feelings, fears, exaggerations and errors that have not been corrected of an Israeli journalist in the occupied territories are a newsworthy event.
Two dead youths, two coffins, two heartbroken families, the youth who carried his injured friend to the ambulance and then collapsed in tears with his shirt soaked with blood; the pain, loss, anger and hate that such crimes foment – all of these do not deserve genuine news coverage. They are undeserved because they happened to Palestinians, meaning they happened beyond the bounds of justice and morality. They happened to an entire people whose blood is expendable. And in our eyes, the lives of their sons and daughters are also expendable.
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