Israel has used videos from the Mavi Marmara incident to prove that the supposed humanitarians were seeking to instigate a violent confrontation. Bizarrely, this isn’t sitting well with the Foreign Press Association (an organization I haven’t heard above before), who claim that the some of the videos may have been shot by journalists, and that this is a problem for some reason:
The Foreign Press Association, which represents hundreds of journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories, demanded Thursday that the military stop using the captured material without permission and identify the source of the video already released.
“The Foreign Press Association strongly condemns the use of photos and video material shot by foreign journalists, now being put out by the (military) spokesman’s office as ‘captured material’,” the FPA said in a statement. It said the military was selectively using footage to back its claims that commandos opened fire only after being attacked.
Israel denies that any of the videos are captured, but that’s really beside the point. Israel is justly concerned that anyone who chose to be on that boat would be likely to suppress any material that would support the Israeli side. (Indeed, those concerns have been pretty well borne out by now.) And Israel feels that defending itself is much more important than protecting intellectual property, particularly the intellectual property of its enemies.
POSTSCRIPT: This is via Power Line, who also have two more videos showing that the “humanitarians” were violent thugs.
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