Journalists Targeted by Israeli Troops..

PBS Frontline aired a rare and compelling documentary which focuses on the targeting by Israeli troops of journalists reporting from the occupied territories. As you are very much aware this in itself shows a significant shifting from the evident generalized rule which irrevocably acts as an instrument to taint the facts surrounding this conflict, continually concluding an Israeli defense mechanism in working progress. I suggest this as an action alert -- congratulating PBS for their notable coverage. With a little enthusiasm they (PBS) might even cover the recent ISM shootings and eventually report fairly on this regions turmoil, by not only focusing on the suicide attacks but the ongoing collective punishment perpetuated against the entire Palestinian population on a daily, hourly, infinite basis.

The documentary can be viewed from the following location:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel.palestine/

Included below are the addresses that I used to forward my response. There's also an "email a comment" link from the following url:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/react/israel.palestine/react.html

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To: frontline [at] wgbh.org, tv [at] kqed.org

Dear PBS,

I commend you for airing this significant yet disturbing story. When the working press are targeted as if enemy combatants, this in itself marks an unwarranted force designed to obstruct impartial coverage surfacing from the ruins of Palestine's occupied territories. How encumbering is Israel's stimulated zeal for security when humanity is sacrificed each and every time a camera rolls, rolling to document the facts surrounding this merciless and inhumane conflict. I notice the respondent backlash is starting to flow, arguing an anti-Semitic nature in your focus, biasing the context that encompasses this films narrative. A Palestinian correspondent is no longer a journalist but a terrorist, or perhaps an otherwise veiled haven for their terror infrastructure. They too should have their homes destroyed to ensure that their crime does not infiltrate a journalistic bloodline and further threaten the security of an entity in possession of the worlds fourth largest military might? Or worse yet -- infiltrate the world's media outlet. How great is this aim for security when the answer lies not in the treaty but in an oppressive occupation due to the brutal actions of a premeditated few. The rest of us should be propelled to conclude that unjustifiable crimes are being committed from both sides, or as versed through the cogent words of Edward Said:

"Once in a while, we ought to pause and declare indignantly that there is only one side with an army and a country: the other is a stateless dispossessed population of people without rights or any present way of securing them. The language of suffering and concrete daily life has either been hijacked, or it has been so perverted as, in my opinion, to be useless except as pure fiction deployed as a screen for the purpose of more killing and painstaking torture -- slowly, fastidiously, inexorably. That is the truth of what Palestinians suffer."

If we are unable to comprehend Professor Said's rational as the true calamity that impels this regional conflict, then not only targeting but a fabrication of the imperative facts is an overwhelming instrument at play in the resolve that leads to our reason.

Yours respectably,

Patrick Kelly
San Francisco