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Israelis sink again on new medias high seas

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By Anton Harber

(source: Businessday, Wed,9-06-2010, pg11)

The activists on the flotilla that sought to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza last week had multiple video cameras beaming live40from their ships on to satellites, and from there to the internet, and it was made available to any television network that needed images. They had media people posted in third countries, available to answer questions and feed information.

The Israelis appeared to be armed with almost as many cameras as guns when they raided and seized the boats. One of the first things they did was to cut off the activists’ international media links.

The Israelis quickly released their own — carefully edited — footage to show that their soldiers were attacked as they landed on the boats. They seized all the cameras, film and video they could from journalists and activists on the boat, and edited it before releasing those bits that matched their own version of what happened. Read More »Israelis sink again on new medias high seas

Israeli document Gaza blockade isnt about security

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By Sheera Frenkel

(source: The Wisdom Fund.org)

As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.

Israel imposed severe restrictions on Gaza in June 2007, after Hamas won elections and took control of the coastal enclave after winning elections there the previous year, and the government has long said that the aim of the blockade is to stem the flow of weapons to militants in Gaza.

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