Not exactly news, is it? Other, perhaps, than that there are actually such things as "Palestinian journalists". And that it takes more to silence them from reporting the truth about Gaza and the West Bank than it does to get Western "journalists" to actually report the truth about Gaza and the West Bank in the first place:
Now that [the] Islamic State has come into the picture with its own threats, one should only expect the coverage from the West Bank and Gaza Strip — largely dependent on information provided by local Palestinian journalists — to become even more hostile toward Israel and the West.
A recent study by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms found that 80% of Palestinian journalists practice self-censorship in their writing. A Palestinian journalist is not going to report truthfully when he is daily facing threats from so many parties. What is more disturbing is that many of the international journalists are willing to turn a blind eye to the dangers facing their employees and colleagues.
The international media outlets are willing to take almost any story offered to them by Palestinian reporters, especially if it consists of anti-Israel statements. The Palestinian journalists know that at the end of the day, they need to go back to their family in the West Bank and Gaza without having to worry about masked men knocking on their doors at night.
Over the past few days, several Palestinian journalists have received death threats from the “Gaza branch” of Islamic State. The group accused the journalists of publishing “lies” about Islamic State in particular, and Islam in general.
The threats were sent to the journalists through social media and messages to their mobile phones.
“Islamic State warns the journalist and media people against their continued and constant attacks on us,” read one of the messages sent to the journalists. “We in Islamic State affirm that we will execute the rule of the sharia [Islamic religious law] against these apostates, who are sowing discord among Muslims.”
It's kind of hard to picture the "reporting" from Muslim-occupied Israeli territories getting any more virulently, blood-libelously anti-Semitic than it is already. And I am frankly a little confused as to what ISIS would consider to be "lies" about them, since they proudly broadcast their atrocities to the entire planet. Did some Palestinian journalist accuse them of suing for peace with the United States? Being seen at a Selma Gomez concert? "Caliph" al-Baghdadi copulating with the wrong breed of goat? Infiltrating the House chamber on March 3rd for Prime Minister Netanyahu's State of the Middle East Address garbed not in suicide bomb jackets but "I'M A BIBI GROUPIE!!!" t-shirts? I don't get it.
But they can solve this problem very easily, it seems to me: Just deport all the Palestinian journalists and invite Obamerikastani "journalists" in to take their places. Especially those who've served a tour of duty in the White House press office. Whatever ISIS and Hamas/PA think is "infidel publicity" is something they'll never have to worry about again.
Heck, the women will probably volunteer to join "Caliph" al-Baghdadi's harem, even if (since none will be from Fox News) they aren't quite as good-looking as his other goats.
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