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The optics are interesting. People who have opinions on things are unlikely to change them due to this.

The interesting question is how many people do not have strong opinions and how this could affect them.

My guess is it also won't. Why would you be paying attention to news you haven't cared about up to now? The nonopinionated will likely not hear of this

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What is worrying is what it’ll mean for the access to the West Bank and Gaza, as they’re currently the only international media outlet on the field, and are documenting various atrocities that are currently being looked at by the ICJ.

I don't think anyone involved in a conflict really wants third party journalists around.

Look at the consequences for Snowden, Assange and Manning.

We probably need to mandate third party international journalist access as some kind of rules of war expectation.

Otherwise basically any war crime can be waged with impunity until well after the fact if you can cutoff access to discover it

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