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Palestinians Attack Israeli Reporter: 2

(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - For quite some time, those of us Israeli journalists reporting on the Palestinian scene have been finding it increasingly difficult to be in the heart of the action in the West Bank, in the Palestinian cities. We've been threatened increasingly frequently, told to get out, to go away. Over the past few months our relationship with Palestinian journalists has changed, cracked. Partly this stems from an initiative of a group of Palestinian journalists, with political pretensions, to "punish" their Israeli colleagues for the fact that they are denied access to Israel. The effort to kick Israeli journalists out of PA areas has created a violent, incendiary atmosphere against us. On Friday, a certain red line was crossed, the threats and the hostile atmosphere escalated into real violence. For almost 14 years, I have been reporting on the Palestinian arena. I've been at mass gatherings in Gaza, where tens of thousands of Hamas supporters, hundreds of them brandishing weapons, called out, "Death to Israel." And yet, an incident like Friday's had never happened to me.
2014-05-19 00:00:00
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