Shooting in East-Jerusalem....on youtube.

Following an earlier post regarding the emergence of the internet and its effect on society here's another example of how times they are a'changin. It seems that police shootouts are put on the internet 3 days after they happen. This was done to quell any rumors of impropriety by the Israeli police.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22235073-401,00.html

Israeli police have released video footage showing a fierce firefight between a Palestinian man and an Israeli security guard in the Old City of occupied east Jerusalem which left the Palestinian dead.




Once the article explains the shooting it then mentions at the very end :

Ateret Cohanim, founded in 1978, is one of several ultra-nationalist organisations that have bought land and homes from Palestinians through various means in order to place Jews in the Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, including the Old City.

What did that have to do with anything at all? It seems that it was placed at the end of the article by a journalist for no reason. The article didn't talk about occupation or Palestinian rights, just that a Palestinian had grabbed a gun, shot a soldier and ten bystanders and then been shot by police....fairly simple story. If they had mentioned Ateret Cohanim why didn't they talk about HAMAS, Islamic Jihad or any of the other ultra-nationalist Palestinian terror groups. I've never heard of Ateret Cohanim before but according to news.com.au they buy houses and put other people in them.
It seems that the papers seem to be having a go at Israel again.