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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Voting with their feet
2012-02-13
In the midst of a triumphal Ynet editorial going on about how current events around the Middle East demonstrate that it never was about Israel, comes this tidbit
:When the entire Mideast is burning, the Palestinian issue comes off the agenda. This is the reason why international networks such as CNN or France2 are leaving Israel at this time or closing down their offices. The Israeli conflict is not longer a story, with the focus shifting to Damascus, Cairo and Tripoli.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  There is a chance that middle eastern madmen will launch at Israel. Of course the brave folks in the press corps are getting out of there. Has little to do with Palestine, they'll be back to beat that dead horse when they feel safe.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-02-13 14:55  

#2  There may be more to it than that. CNN isn't shutting down its Israeli office, but it laid off all of its Jewish and Israeli workers there, some who had been with the network for a decade or more. Yet they retained all of the Arab Muslims in the Israeli office.

To report on Israeli and Middle East affairs. In an unbiased fashion.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-02-13 14:38  

#1  "Palestine is soooo important"

Snark
Posted by: newc   2012-02-13 00:27  

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