Israel’s biggest protest in decades overlooked WORLDWIDE (Bantahan Israel terbesar dalam beberapa dekad diabaikan Seluruh DUNIA)

REVIEW 2012: (Published: 02 August, 2011) Penunjuk perasaan di Israel menuduh media asing menanam kepala di dalam pasir atas bantahan anti-kerajaan terbesar negara ini telah dilihat dalam beberapa dekad. Berpuluh-puluh ribu orang yang menganjurkan demonstrasi lebih kemerosotan taraf hidup. Peristiwa-peristiwa, bagaimanapun, kurang dikenali di luar Israel, kerana cerita mereka tidak menerima liputan yang membantah di Mesir dan negara-negara Arab yang lain tidak. "Apabila ia datang kepada Israel, banyak media asing mahu melihat filem tindakan. Ini (demonstrasi) tidak menjadi ganas, " May Flam, protestor menjelaskan.

Ia adalah demonstrasi terbesar di Israel pada lebih dari 1 dekad. Dan bagaimanakah ABC, CBS dan NBC menutupinya? Tidak sama sekali! Manakala editor Perancis 24, BBC dan Sky batuk hanya beberapa saat tidak seberapa. "Mungkin ia tidak menarik untuk editor mereka kembali di studio. OK, terdapat bantahan, apa sebenarnya bantahan? Protes sosial? Revolusi? Ia bukan jenis yang sama cerita, besar dan dramatik kerana beberapa revolusi yang lebih besar yang berlaku di sekeliling Timur Tengah, "kata Amir Mizroch, Bahasa Inggeris editor untuk Yisrael Hayom daily.

Amir Mizroch ini tidak terkejut dengan kekurangan kepentingan media di seluruh DUNIA. Beliau telah bekerja dalam akhbar Israel untuk laporan 1 dekad bagi kedua-dua media asing dan tempatan. "Terdapat kotak bahawa media antarabangsa telah meletakkan Israel dalam dan ia adalah konflik Israel-Palestin. Juga konflik Israel-Lebanon dan Syria. Dan apa-apa yang tidak langsung dikaitkan dengan yang bukan jenis segera item berita, yang amat malang, "katanya.

Blogger dan wartawan Danny Schechter bersetuju, berkata media asing cenderung untuk menggambarkan Israel sebagai negara beberapa monolitik, yang dalam realiti, ia tidak. "Apabila anda melihat di Timur Tengah, mereka hanya bercakap mengenai negara-negara Arab. Hanya mereka mempunyai perpecahan dalaman. Anda tidak pernah mendengar tentang perpecahan dalaman Israel. Dan hakikat bahawa kebangkitan ini berlaku di Israel dan pada masa yang sama terdapat 1 berlaku di Syria dan ada 1 berlaku di Mesir menunjukkan bahawa tekanan yang sama sedang dialami oleh rakyat Israel juga, "katanya.

Salah satu daripada jalan-jalan di Tel Aviv telah digelar Sudut Tahrir oleh beberapa penunjuk perasaan dalam optimis, mungkin, mereka juga boleh menjatuhkan kerajaan dengan cara yang dilakukan jiran mereka di Dataran Tahrir, Kaherah,. Tetapi sedangkan terdapat kamera rolling sekitar jam mereka cukup tidak hadir di sini. Yang hanya membuat marah Rais Hanna dan lain-lain. Selama 9 hari dia telah perkhemahan, marah bahawa dia tidak boleh hidup memenuhi sebagai pelajar universiti.

"Ia membuatkan saya kecewa bahawa apabila Mesir memutuskan untuk berdiri dan berkata 'kami sudah cukup' dan apabila di Lubnan mereka memutuskan untuk berkata 'kami sudah cukup,' media semua di sana. Saya tidak pernah melihat sesiapa dari CNN atau Fox News atau daripada mana-mana saluran berita lain yang besar di sini. Ia benar-benar sedih. Kami juga berhak mendapat peluang untuk didengar, "katanya. Tetapi mengikut perunding media bebas Jeremy Ruden, para penunjuk perasaan perlu bersabar.

"Ia tidak mencapai perkadaran antarabangsa lagi. Tidak bahawa kerajaan jatuh, ini seperti cerita dalam kegawatan. Dan itulah sedikit masalah apabila anda cari dari luar negara, memikirkan apa untuk melindungi. Ia tidak seperti ekonomi telah runtuh, "beliau menegaskan. Tetapi lama sebelum ekonomi runtuh, penunjuk perasaan di Israel mungkin terpaksa kalah. Kerana, sebagai penunjuk perasaan telah mempelajari di seluruh DUNIA, tanpa akhbar antarabangsa dan tanpa tekanan kerajaan asing, bantahan boleh pergi hanya setakat ini.

Kekurangan kepentingan media kepada bantahan Israel "kewartawanan jahat"

Tel Aviv berasaskan wartawan dan penulis blog, Ami Kaufman, yang baru-baru ini telah menulis blog "Tiba-tiba, Israel tidak adalah cerita lagi?" Menjelaskan visi itu kepada RT.

"Saya berfikir bahawa banyak editor berita di luar negara jenis mengambil sesuatu perkara untuk diberikan apabila ia datang kepada Israel dan hampir pergi pada jenis 1 daripada autopilot - jika ia tidak ada kaitan dengan konflik di Israel-Palestin, it’s just not a story, "beliau menekankan. "Jika Netanyahu meletak jawatan, sudah tentu, semua mata akan atas Israel sekali lagi ini akan memberi kesan kepada konflik Israel-Palestin. Sebarang perubahan politik di Israel mempunyai kesan yang besar terhadap bagaimana hubungan Israel-Palestin. Jadi saya menganggap bahawa jika ada kemungkinan perubahan rejim maka liputan media akan berada lebih dekat ke atas Israel, "katanya meyakinkan.

All-in-all, Israel adalah kerap dalam berita, "tetapi apabila ia datang kepada sesuatu yang boleh menjejaskan keadaan politik dan ia tidak dilindungi, ini sebenarnya kewartawanan buruk," percaya Kaufman.

Israel’s biggest protest in decades overlooked WORLDWIDE

Protestors in Israel accuse foreign media of burying their heads in the sand over of the biggest anti-government protests the country has seen in decades. Tens of thousands of people are staging demonstrations over deteriorating living standards. The events, however, are little known outside of Israel, because their story is not receiving the coverage which protests in Egypt and other Arab countries did. “When it comes to Israel, a lot of the foreign media want to see an action movie. This (demonstration) hasn’t been violent,” May Flam, a protestor explained.

It is the largest demonstration in Israel in over a decade. And how did ABC, CBS and NBC cover it? Not at all! While the editors of France 24, BBC and Sky coughed up just a few meager seconds. “Perhaps it is not that interesting to their editors back in the studios. OK, there is a protest, what exactly is a protest? A social protest? A revolution?  It is not the same kind of story, as big and dramatic as some of the bigger revolutions happening around the Middle East,” says Amir Mizroch, English editor for Yisrael Hayom daily.

Amir Mizroch is not surprised by the worldwide lack of media interest. He has worked in the Israeli press for a decade reporting for media both foreign and local. “There is a box that the international media has put Israel in, and it is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Also the Israeli-Lebanese and Syrian conflict. And anything that is not directly linked to that is not the immediate type of news item, which is unfortunate,” he says.

Blogger and journalist Danny Schechter agrees, saying foreign media tend to depict Israel as some monolithic country, which in reality it is not. “When you look at the Middle East, they talk only about the Arab countries. Only they have internal discord. You never hear about Israel’s internal discord. And the fact that this uprising is taking place in Israel while at the same time there is one going on in Syria and there is one going on in Egypt shows that the same pressures are being experienced by the Israeli people as well,” he said.

One of the streets in Tel Aviv has been dubbed Tahrir Corner by some of the protestors in optimism, perhaps, that they too can bring down a government in the way their neighbors in Tahrir Square, Cairo, did. But whereas there the cameras were rolling around the clock they are pretty absent here. That just makes Hanna Rais and others angry. For nine days she has been camping, furious that she cannot make ends meet as a university student.

“It makes me upset that when Egypt decided to stand up and say ‘we’ve had enough’ and when in Lebanon they decided to say ‘we’ve had enough,’ the media was all over there. I haven’t seen anyone from CNN or Fox News or from any other big news channel here. It’s really sad. We also deserve a chance to be heard out,” she says. But according to independent media consultant Jeremy Ruden, the protestors need to be patient.

“It hasn’t reached international proportion yet. Its not that the government is fallen, this is like an inside turmoil story. And that is a bit of a problem when you are looking from overseas, thinking of what to cover. It’s not like the economy has collapsed,” he asserts. But long before the economy collapses, protestors in Israel might have to throw in the towel. Because, as demonstrators have learnt around the world, without the international press and without the pressure of foreign governments, a protest can go only so far.

Lack of media interest to Israeli protests “bad journalism”

Tel Aviv based journalist and blogger, Ami Kaufman, who has recently written a blog “Suddenly, Israel isn't a story anymore?” explained his vision of that to RT.

“I think that a lot of news editors abroad kind of take certain things for granted when it comes to Israel and almost go on a sort of autopilot - if it’s not anything to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s just not a story,” he stresses. ”If Netanyahu resigned, of course, all eyes would be on Israel as again this would affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any political change in Israel has an immense effect on how the Israeli-Palestinian relations. So I presume that if there is a chance of regime change then media coverage would be a bit closer on Israel,” he assures.

All-in-all, Israel is often in the news, “but when it comes to something that could affect the political situation and it is not covered, this is actually bad journalism,” believes Kaufman.