http://www.arabmediawatch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1311After years of military occupation, Palestinians have many demands on their limited resources.Managing the media gets a low priority when faced with humanitarian demands from a population that needs amongst other things health care, education and replacement housing.Yet managing the media is an important way of getting your message across to a Western public that sympathises when Israelis are killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, while Palestinians are portrayed as a barbaric people who hate Israel and do not want peace.
In a conflict there are always two opposing viewpoints.The Palestinians want to present their side but are poorly resourced compared with Israel’s efficient and effective media machine.
There are undoubtedly structural problems that make it easier for journalists to see the Israeli view