On video: citizens of the Gaza Strip bathe at Deir El Balah beach/documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
The cliché holds that one picture is worth a thousand words - and News 12 had a picture worth two words with which you can summarize the entire six and a half months of "iron swords" in Gaza, yet they managed to miss in front of an empty goal - the kind of misses about which soccer broadcasters like to say: it was easier Putting that ball in the net than flying it over the crossbar.
Above the crossbar, in the language of the news, means to broadcast an item that should have been inserted at 19:55, when Israel is sitting in front of the main edition, only at 20:25.
why did this happen? For two main reasons. The first is that because we are enslaved to a journalistic hierarchy that holds that exclusive news comes first and after that comes exposures achieved thanks to in-depth investigations - and only then come photos that can be held by anyone, they did not pay attention at News 12 to what is right under their noses.
The second problem was that last night the news system had the troubles of the rich (from a news perspective only, yes? After all, some of them are bundles of trouble): the UAV that exploded in the north, the Israeli response to the Iranian attack, the preparations - at least those that are taking place from the rim to the outside - for a ground operation in Rafah, Iranians explain In the service of Israel, the rehabilitation of fighters through boxing and insider news - from the recruitment crisis through the disclosure of the tapes of the conversations between Efi Neve and Ayelet Shaked to the damage to our health following the war.
Is this what total victory looks like?
And now, for the big miss: a video clip of just a few seconds in total that describes the beautiful life on the beach near the Deir al-Balah refugee camp, where Gazans can be seen chilling enjoying the sea, after the terror of the IDF has been removed from them. A video clip that also appeared on quite a few other channels during the day - And that may be the problem, News 12 forgot that their
edition
is exclusive, one that is mainly intended for those who are still sitting down at eight in the evening in front of the first screen they are exposed to that day.
Things: The first is that 133 more Israelis are kept under this soil, alive and dead, who were abandoned twice - the first time by the Israel Defense Forces and the second time by its government. Not that this thought needs reinforcement, but if so, then it is only knowing that according to each survey about four Of the five who bathe in the sea for pleasure, supports Hamas with all his heart, according to every poll,
when at the same time a hard-to-watch documentary is released of the kidnapping of Jordan Biebs, helpless and beaten to death by a Gazan mob (fun in the sea, right?) it is impossible not to draw parallels between the two. The videos. It seems that the only one who grasped the depth of the gap between the videos (which, as mentioned, were also for other news channels) is Ohad Hamu, who said: "I'm not sure that this is what a complete victory looks like."
Nir Davori sinned again by enslaving a military spokeswoman, with a puzzling response that the IDF already knows and knows all the faces and names of Jordan Biebs' kidnappers and those who abuse him - and said all kinds of words like: "we will come to account", until it seems that even his guard has no strength to hear this nonsense anymore , which correspond with Harab's words of the intelligence officials on the evening of October 7, according to which we know everything about Hamas operatives - and he is dissuading his colleague. Perhaps even Debori, who usually tends to fight for his position, suddenly realized that he was on a dead end - and soon became silent.
Even if you're just a cynic
"To provoke a fellow", this time in the context of the political commentator Amit Segal, is also a good expression of the second main topic last night in the current affairs department of Channel 12, the recordings that Omri Maniv revealed of the conversations between the former Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, and the former head of the Bar Association, Efi Neve.
In the good old days, to the extent that there were already such here even before October 7, this was news that opens the edition, since perverting a trial, which was allegedly done following the serious actions of the two (again, allegedly - according to what is heard in the recordings) is one of the most serious crimes.
It is evident in News 12 that they are a little frustrated by the fact that the expectation of an Israeli attack on Iran and the fear of an Iranian response, God forbid, somewhat diluted this important piece of news, a continuation of Haaretz's exposure of the seemingly lost path that led to the election of Judge Eitan Orenstein to preside over the District Court in Tel Aviv.
Last night's exposure was more yellow than news, that is, someone packed up the leftovers left yesterday on the editing room floor and offered them to us as a way for restaurants to offer "specials", usually leftovers of raw materials that are about to expire.
The build up, in the form of the waiter asking the diners if we would like to hear a little about the special dishes, began already in the afternoon. Somewhere on the seam between Ofer Haddad and Rafi Rashef, Amit Segal jumped on the news as the source of a lot of loot and with his characteristic cynicism said that it was undoubtedly worth demonstrating in the streets, shutting down the economy and taking the money out of here to protect this method of appointing judges.
Segal's cynicism is of course in its place, perhaps also the focus of fire on the excessive power given to the appointment process by the Bar Association, but all this is well and good until we remember that the person who appears (again, apparently and according to the recordings) to be the architect of this outrageous act, Efi Neve, was until less than a year ago The candidate of Netanyahu's entourage and his supporters, including all those who oblige the reform and the prime minister's court journalists, in an attempt to recapture the same position and the same position of influence.
In other words, Segal, as usual in recent months, once again leveraged half-truths to the status of commentary and no one in the studio was there to "incite a colleague", or at least confront him with the facts. And when this is the level of attitude towards the raw materials left over from yesterday, even in the Channel 12 news studios, is it any wonder that the diners are suspicious of the special dish?
Bowling for Columbine
At some point in the edition, they switched to comparing the prices of attractions for Passover between Israel and the world (a stupid article by Ma'ayan Parti, because what's the point of comparing the prices of a movie ticket or admission to a bowling alley? Do you know someone who took his family to see a Czech-dubbed movie in Prague or to play bowling cheaply in Slovenia?).
Very quickly the sting came out of the bag: the article was all a song of praise for consumer clubs, some of which also offer discounts at attractions abroad.
Here I broke down and moved on to the competitors on Channel 13, straight to a really shocking article (for their name) about the authentication of young abductees and their pain at what they are going through Their daughters are captive to Hamas. The kind of article that Smotrich would have refused to see in order to continue to sleep peacefully at night, while young women and soldiers are raped on a daily basis.
This article brought me back to the jubilant Gazans splashing in the waves on the beach of Deir al-Balah, until I could not think that his father-in-law was wrong. : This is exactly what total victory looks like, just not our victory.