Anees, my Palestinian friend in Jerusalem, reports last night:
Just watched live coverage on Al-Jazeera /Arabic. Elias Karram, the correspondent was in Nahariya covering the Katyusha attacks there. There are crowds of Israelis
around him with goofballs jostling him, shouting and chanting and
flag-waving at the camera. Some have been trying to assault the crew
and were restrained by the police.
One old Israeli demanded to speak and said, in Arabic, to the effect: You Al-Jazeera are biased and distort the news. You film tens of funerals of Palestinians
and it's actually the same body that Palestinians put in the
refrigerator so they can re-use it and manipulate the viewers into
thinking it's so many deaths.
Karram pointed out to the viewers the irony: here he stands as an Al-Jazeera correspondent covering attacks on an Israeli town,
while the crowds accuse him and Al-Jazeera of unbalanced reporting. He
should have asked them, Where are the Israeli TV crews in Gaza?
