ISRAEL PERSPECTIVE

The Jerusalem Post does not cover the three Lebanese journalists killed. It covers the CNN crew assault in the West Bank: "IDF detains CNN crew in the West Bank, crew member injured." Photographer Cyril Theophilos was physically assaulted, his camera damaged. The military ordered the crew and Palestinians to stop speaking and pointed weapons at the group.

The IDF asserts that Ali Shoaib, the Al-Manar correspondent killed, was a "Hezbollah intelligence operator." The Post relays this claim as central fact without questioning it. The NYT notes the assertion was made "without providing any evidence" — a detail the Post omits. The difference between the Times mentioning the absence of evidence and the Post omitting it marks the boundary between journalism and military statement.

The next day, the IDF suspends the Netzah Yehuda battalion for the CNN assault. Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir orders the suspension — a rare act that the Post covers to show the military corrects itself. But suspending a battalion for assaulting American journalists while justifying the killing of Lebanese journalists creates a victim hierarchy the Post does not acknowledge.