The following article refers to the film footage of the two Israeli soldiers being murdered. This was originally posted on Rumor Mill by von monke at this url

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=4770

You will notice that the following article leaves out any mention of Arafat being on the video.

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Thursday, October 19 2000 20:41 21 Tishri 5761

Italian journalist loses press card
By Jonathan Krashinsky

JERUSALEM (October 19) - Italian state television (RAI) representative Riccardo Cristiano lost both his Government Press Office press card and his job in Jerusalem with RAI yesterday, after the Palestinian Authority published his letter criticizing a rival's decision to broadcast footage of the lynching of two IDF soldiers in Ramallah last week.

The letter appeared in the October 16 edition of Al-Hayat al-Jadida, a Gaza daily, after RAI journalists were accused by the PA of filming the October 12 lynching, which Palestinian police attempted to conceal from the press.

Palestinian police confiscated film and videos from some of the journalists covering the mob killings, but a few managed to get their film out, including the private Italian Mediaset network.

In his letter addressed to the PA, Cristiano asked Palestinian officials to help dissipate rumors that the footage was broadcast by his employer.

"Let us emphasize that it is not at all the case, as we respect the work arrangements between journalists and the Palestinian Authority," Cristiano wrote. "Thank you and rest assured that this is not our way, and we would never do such a thing."

The letter went on to offer nebulous congratulations and "dear blessings" to his "dear friends in Palestine."

It accused an unnamed rival Italian agency of having produced the film of the lynching, which Cristiano referred to only as "the events."

Reaction to the letter was swift. The GPO responded by announcing the suspension of Cristiano's GPO press card early yesterday afternoon, citing his violation of "the rules of press ethics as is accepted in democratic societies" and demanding an explanation for the letter. The GPO's Danny Seaman, who claimed that the letter had only been written because the PA had "threatened the life" of an RAI producer, accused Cristiano of knuckling under to PA pressure.

"If anyone in Israel had threatened the life of a producer in this manner," Seaman said, "there would have been an outcry."

Nevertheless, he explained, the withdrawal of the press card was not a suppression of Cristiano's right to work in Israel.

"The GPO press card makes one's job easier, but... if he still wants to work here, he can work here."

Soon after Cristiano's press card was revoked, however, a terse statement to the press was released by RAI's general director, Pier Luigi Celli, announcing RAI's "immediate decision" to recall Cristiano to Rome.

"He will no longer work for Jerusalem," Celli stated. "RAI had no knowledge of the letter and its content... [nor did RAI] agree with the content of the aforementioned letter."

RAI representatives in Israel had no further comment.

News agencies contributed to this report.

: MORE OF WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING US

: by Barry Chamish

: Last Wednesday, the government-owned Israeli Television
: station,
: Channel One presented an amazing item on its news program, New
: Evening.

: The PLO had sent death threats to the two Italian television
: networks
: which had filmed the Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers and
: broadcast
: it. The threat was so real that the filmmaker apologized to
: the PLO for
: doing his job and for doing so, had his press card revoked by
: Israel's
: Government Press Office.

: What was behind the death threat? According to the report, the
: filmmaker had captured Yasir Arafat standing in the Ramallah
: Police Station
: overlooking the sadistic murders of the soldiers.

: It is widely reported that the full film of the lynching has
: been
: suppressed and the excuse given is that it is too grisly to
: watch. That
: never stopped the Italian media before. Capturing Arafat on
: camera
: personally directing a double murder would be a more logical
: reason for the
: death threats and the censorship.

: Blackmailing Barak

: Ehud Barak IS being blackmailed by the U.S. over numerous
: serious
: crimes surrounding his election campaign. This campaign was
: organized by
: Clinton's trickster James Carville who thought of numerous
: illegal scams to
: get Barak into power.

: One involved breaking into the Labor Party headquarters in
: Washington,
: not once, but twice and implying that his political opposition
: in Israel,
: the Likud Party, was responsible.

: Then there was a massive campaign funding fraud, run by
: Barak's
: brother-in-law and a son of the late Israeli president Chaim
: Herzog.
: Americans, mostly Jews, were snookered into giving huge
: donations to
: charities supporting employment in impoverished neighborhoods,
: promoting
: democracy education, building sports facilities and the like.
: But the money
: went into Barak's back pocket.

: A year ago, Israel's State Comptroller discovered the crimes
: and
: recommended that the police investigate. However, the American
: authorities
: have stymied the cops by preventing the Israeli investigators
: from pursuing
: their investigations in the US. If Barak doesn't play ball,
: Clinton and the CIA
: have promised that they will open the door for Israel Police
: to investigate
: crimes that could land him in prison for a decade or more.

: Inciting To War

: The Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are being incited
: into
: violence. The aim is to crush them and thus provide a pretext
: for their
: removal from their homes. To further this aim, two rabbis have
: been
: murdered, one while the IDF stood by refusing to stop it, and
: two sacred
: sites, Joseph's Tomb and the Jericho Synagogue were torched.
: The leader of
: this incitement is reportedly, Israeli Justice Minister Yossi
: Beilin, who
: is pursuing a strategy he mapped out when the original Oslo
: Accord was signed.

: The gentle people of Judea and Samaria are just not violent
: enough to
: fall into the trap so the atrocities committed against them
: will continue
: until they crack and start shooting.

: An Upcoming Slogan: Stop The Illegal Arab Settlement Of Judea
: And Samaria

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