Posted on 01/07/2024 7:55:31 AM PST by Eleutheria5
During an interview by Israeli journalist Omri Assenheim with an IDF company commander in the Gaza Strip, forces in the area encountered a gunbattle with terrorists, and the interview was halted.
Assenheim wrote in a post on X: "Company commander Nadav Tiberg offered us to conduct the interview inside a nearby building. I told him that it would look good if we conducted it in the middle of the road in Daraj Tufah. The silence misled us."
He recounts the frightening moments: "Five minutes into the interview, terrorists came out and opened fire next to us. And then another. And then Kalashnikov rounds whizzing above us."
Link to X with full video
After he was harshly criticized online for supposedly risking the crew's lives, Assenheim responded: "Friends, journalism must be done during the war as well even if it's dangerous. I don't have a death wish."
He explained: "I went in (again) because I saw it important to get the story of a brave company commander who lost a brother on October 7th and continued to fight since then in the most dangerous places. To speak to him, I needed to go to the most dangerous places. It's that simple. I suggest watching the interview."
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No helmet nearby?
The danger was very real and immediate, NOT just "nearby".
Based on that headline, I figured that some poor schlub who got rejected in an interview at Facebook pulled out his concealed sidearm and started blasting away.
The information he sought could have been obtained from the safety of the building. Journalists these days are not satisfied with just the facts. They don’t report facts that don’t fit their narrative. They also have to put on a show to connect with their not terribly bright audiences who want to be entertained rather than informed. BTW if the US military learned anything in Iraq/Afghanistan, it was that in a firefight one well trained sniper with a scoped rifle from a good position was worth more than ten soldiers armed with automatic weapons.
Well, I remember reading about Ernie Pyle in WWII. Thus isn’t new.
You got that right. When you hear those incoming rounds snap, your butt had better be seeking cover.
Everybody’s a critic.
wy69
Assenheim is a very normal name of German origin.
Assen is the plural of a particular tree. Heim is home. The name refers to a home that is built in a forrest of this tree type.
Jewish names of European origin are often very descriptive of an event or situation or thing.
For instance the name Einstein refers to a stone i.e. a thing.
True. But try telling that to a bunch of four-year-olds who forgot to take their ritalin, or a freeper troll, whichever is more mature.
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