I know noone watches Foxnews but Steve Centani got kidnapped

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Kidnappings were always really routine in Gaza. You couldn't go there without fear of an international incident - and there was a story or two of women going for camel rides and never coming back. There were areas people just didn't go.

Today, Gaza is crawling with journalists, diplomats, activists, and whatever other dumshits want to "experience" Palestinian culture. Most go to the West Bank, and stop into Ramallah for a day, maybe send an email from an internet cafe, and then go back to their hotel in Israel. Kidnappings in recent years would traget internationals (the journalists, and diplomatic convoys, especially) but they were incidents which lasted less then a week, with the main goal of brokering with the Palestinian Authority for free lunch on Sundays, or more stonings on Thursdays.

Now they've managed to provoke a media blackout from inside Gaza, but my guess is the point will be to set up conditions of intimidation, and manufactured reports when the journalists return. In the meantime, they bitched and moaned about a non-truth (the media doesn't tell their story, the press keep their offices in Israel) and created a situation where it's now become a truth. [/url]