Israeli reporter Tsadok Yehezkeli seriously wounded in Georgia

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"An award-winning reporter for the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot was wounded in Georgia on Tuesday, hours before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced a ceasefire of hostilities in the area.

Tsadok Yehezkeli, 52, was seriously wounded when an artillery shell landed in the center of the Georgian city of Gori. A number of other journalists who were with Yehezkeli at the time were also hurt in the incident, including one Dutch journalists who died from his wounds.

Yehezkeli was treated at the scene for wounds to his upper body before being rushed to a nearby Georgian hospital.

Yehezkeli, winner of the Israeli Press Committee's Sokolov Prize in 2002 for an investigative piece, is known as one of the top journalists in Israel."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446183397&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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"Three Israeli journalists were robbed by a Russian soldier while covering the Georgian conflict.

Reporters from Israel's Haaretz newspaper, Ynet news Web site, and Channel Two television were stopped Thursday by Russian soldiers outside Gori, a flashpoint of the week-long border war with Georgian forces.

Footage taken at the scene showed one soldier cursing the journalists and ordering them out of their car. Warning shots are heard off-camera.

The reporters said the soldier who had accosted them made off with the vehicle, which contained their passports.

Israeli diplomats are trying to help the journalists find a way back out of Georgia."

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109924.html

Ok, I get how posts about policies or cultural issues within Israel or the Palestinian territories qualify as being relevant to I/P.

I also can see how posts about Israel and Iran, or Palestinians and Lebanon, or other similar regional combinations are relevant because of the potential impact on the I/P situation.

But an Israeli journalist being wounded in Georgia?

With all due respect, in what sense is this relevant to anything and what prompted you to post it?

With all due respect, Oberliner, but I've seen you post articles in the past that don't fall into yr narrow confines of what you consider suitable fodder for the I/P forum....

As I mentioned in the thread title, last Olympics I recall there were articles about Palestinian and Israeli athletes. Speaking for myself, I enjoyed seeing that, because both teams are underdogs and living in a country that goes into a medal-gathering frenzy and obsesses only about itself, it's good to read about other countries at the Olympics. Sure, a journalist being injured in Georgia isn't a good news story, but neither was this one you posted once, which didn't fall into yr definition now of what's relevant to the I/P conflict.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=164419

Moral of the story - do what I do. Just go with the flow, don't bother reading things that aren't of interest to you. and if there's articles posted here that shouldn't be here the mods will vanish them.

I would welcome anyone who was curious about why I posted a particular article here to ask what I thought the connection was. I believe that the ESPN piece you cited of mine from a year and a half ago was moved into I/P from GD by the moderators.

In this case, I am unable to see the connection so I'm asking the poster to give some additional information so I can better understand the link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=124&topic_id=164419&mesg_id=164623