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I suspect it isn't political but rather that being a journalist in Israel is safer than being a journalist in Syria. So naturally one will be represented more than the other. No politics there.

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It is safe to be a Western journalist in Israel, but if you are Arab reporting on Israel from an Arab perspective, it is quite dangerous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/world/middleeast/palestia...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/30/reuters-al-jazeera...

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...

That was in an area administered by Palestine. It can't really be considered "in Israel" at all. I think it strengthens his point that it's hard to get comprehensive journalism in an area either controlled or actively contested by terrorists.

The Palestinian Authority administers the West Bank. No country in the world considers them a terrorist organization.

Our thinking here is, we're going to settle Israel/Palestine once and for all, on this message board thread; a pity, we think, nobody ever thought of just tossing the question to us in the first place. The lives that could have been saved.

> or actively contested by terrorists.

The Palestinian Authority isn't a terrorist organization, but Hamas does maintain an active presence in the West Bank. The government also explicitly encourages terrorist attacks in the region through the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund.

Kinda strange. First article says Palestinian leaders rejected request about investigation under international supervision and refused to show the bullet, claiming it was an armor piercing round. While IDF soldiers use standard ammunition.

The general international consensus is that Israeli soldiers killed her, but you can personally claim anything you want, that is your right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh

try telling the family of shireen abu akleh about how safe it was to be a journalist in israel

They didn’t say Israel is safe, just safer than Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_dur...

Syria is much less safe than Israel is, but millions of people live there, and newswires can buy information from them; that's what a stringer is. The allegations I've read are that, on a good day in 2018, AP might have had one stringer to get information from. That's a decision AP made, not a reality it had to conform to.

That is probably true.

Doesn't change the consequence, but probably true.

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