Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

‘Journalists Orchestrating Events to Make Israel Look Bad’

The Jerusalem Post reports: Lawmakers and an IDF representative accused journalists of orchestrating events to make Israel look bad, during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussion Tuesday of violent incidents between security forces and the press. “With all the importance of the press in a democratic country,” MK Moti Yogev (Bayit Yehudi) began, “we cannot get confused and must always give priority to the IDF’s operational freedom of action, because they are acting to save lives.”

The Associated Press