Studies show that US coverage is Israeli-centric. The main bureaus for CNN, Associated Press, Time, etc. are located in Israel and often staffed by Israelis. The son of the NY Times bureau chief is in the Israeli army;"pundit" Jeffrey Goldberg served in the IDF; Wolf Blitzer worked for AIPAC. Because the U.S. gives Israel over $8 million/day - more than to any other nation - we feel it is essential that we be fully informed on this region. Below are news reports to augment mainstream coverage.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Israeli forces shoot, detain Gaza man

Ma'an
Israeli forces shot and detained a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

...Saturday's incident was the third in recent weeks.

A young boy, Ashraf Abu Suleiman, was shot in the spine by Israeli forces on his family's farm near the Israeli border in northern Gaza earlier this month. He was similarly detained and interrogated following the shooting, which Israeli forces said came as he approached the border wall in a suspicious manner...

Although an Israeli military spokeswoman at the time described Abu Suleiman's wounds as light, he remained paralyzed from the waist down at Gaza City's Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital a month later.

In September, soldiers shot Maysara Al-Kafarneh, 23, in the town of Beit Hanoun under the same pretext that he had approached the wall and acted suspiciously. Full story
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