This latest MediaShot is an extended response to this criticism of our previous MediaShot ‘The false reality of news journalism’ – Reporting Palestine and the Mavi Marmara.
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Ta for that email.Am I right in thinking those four divers were actually al aqsa brigade,opponents of Hamas and borderline proxies of Israel through Abbas and the PA?If it is the same incident I suspect they may have been sacraficed by Tel Aviv to try to distract from the flotilla hits and remind us of the ‘constant threat’.
That’s what I’ve read alright.
“al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, told Al Jazeera the men were members of the group and were only conducting “training exercises”.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/2010675457624159.html
Although, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call them even borderline Israeli proxies.
But the idea of a distraction probably isn’t too far from the truth, the attack suggests things are back to business as usual, a test of US relations perhaps. It certainly occurred to Hamas:
““The bloody escalation today is a desperate attempt by the occupation government to divert the world attention away from the massacre committed against the flotilla,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters in Gaza.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/israeli-patrol-kills-4-militants-in-diving-gear-off-the-gaza-coast/article1594316/?cmpid=rss1