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...many do so in peacetime, either overtly or through surveillance and obstruction of journalistic enterprise. Israel, in fact, has claimed the right to censor stories on security grounds, whether for domestic or foreign audiences, ever since the nation was founded in 1948. But the sudden visibility of Israeli censorship has spurred concern that a generally free nation for the foreign press is becoming a more restrictive...
Some change in policy does appear to have taken place. In the past, censors customarily limited their cuts to demonstrably military and strategic-not political-matters. Now some American journalists are beginning to complain that Israeli censorship is sometimes broadened to include politically sensitive reportage, particularly on subjects that might affect support for Israel among U.S. audiences...
This new phase of high-profile censorship began because of a technical problem. Soon after Israel launched its invasion of Lebanon last month, Syrian troops barricaded the road leading to Beirut's satellite transmission station. For network news teams beaming footage to New York City, the nearest reliable "uplink" was in Israel, at the satellite station in Herzliya. Israel agreed to open those facilities-with strings. Censors in Tel Aviv claimed the right to review shots of shattered residential areas and of wounded and dead civilians, on the ground that such scenes constituted "propaganda" for Israel's "primary...
...woman and three girls but leaving in a wounded Palestinian guerrilla. Complains Mallory: "The Israelis have tried to dismiss the existence of a civilian population. Every time we tried to show it, they tried to hide it." Says Paul Miller, NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv: "Their censorship was outrageous. They cut out anything that might look bad for them." After CBS footage of P.L.O. Leader George Habash was chopped, CBS Tel Aviv Bureau Chief Charles Wolfson protested to the city's chief censor. Recalls Wolfson: "He told me: 'You have two choices. You either understand...
...censors, albeit with delay and at considerable expense. Duplicate copies of tapes routinely have been sent overland to Syria or by boat to Cyprus for satellite transmission. Indeed, the only evident loser in the controversy has been Israel, whose image in the U.S. has surely not been enhanced by censorship labels on prime-time TV newscasts. Israeli officials argue that they are being subjected s to an unfair and inconsistent standard. Says Government Press Office Director Ze'ev Chafets: "We let the networks use our facilities for sending material from an entity in a state of war with Israel...