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2011年6月18日星期六

The Lede: Palestinians Record West Bank Protests With Cameras Supplied by Israelis

在 ServiceModel 客户端配置部分中,找不到引用协定“TranslatorService.LanguageService”的默认终结点元素。这可能是因为未找到应用程序的配置文件,或者是因为客户端元素中找不到与此协定匹配的终结点元素。
在 ServiceModel 客户端配置部分中,找不到引用协定“TranslatorService.LanguageService”的默认终结点元素。这可能是因为未找到应用程序的配置文件,或者是因为客户端元素中找不到与此协定匹配的终结点元素。

While journalists have found themselves scouring the Internet in search of video from protests across the Middle East recently, one protest movement, by small groups of villagers opposed to Israel’s security barrier in the West Bank, has gotten far less attention.

Even so, there is no lack of footage of the weekly protests that my colleague Isabel Kershner described last year as a sort of slow-motion, “part-time intifada.” That’s true in part because an Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, has distributed video cameras to Palestinians to make sure the demonstrations do not go undocumented.

This week, B’Tselem released a video report made from footage shot by two Palestinian residents of the town of Nabi Saleh, outside Ramallah, showing, the rights group said, the use of “disproportionate force” by Israeli officers to disperse a protest there last month.

Yoav Gross, the director of B’Tselem’s video department, confirmed in an e-mail to The Lede that the Nabi Saleh residents who shot the video, Bilal Tamimi and Nariman Tamimi, had both been given cameras by the Israeli rights group. He added, “in addition to supplying us with footage documenting the demonstrations, they also distribute materials independently,” through Bilal Tamimi’s YouTube channel, which features extended clips of demonstrations in the village over the past year.

Sarit Michaeli, a spokesperson for B’Tselem, said that the footage of the incident last month was also used in news reports on Israeli television which questioned the use of force shown in the video. In response, a spokesperson for the Israeli Border Police called the video “one sided” because the Palestinians featured in it were “those who attacked the police officers and attempted to release an arrestee from detention.”

Ms. Michaeli said that the rights group took time to verify and cross-check the events shown in the video before issuing a formal demand for an investigation of the use of force by the officers.

An American activist, Christopher Whitman, was wounded while filming the same demonstration. He was struck in the head by what he described as a tear gas shell fired by an Israeli officer.

More footage of the same demonstration was posted on YouTube by an Israeli video blogger, Israel Puterman, who frequently films West Bank demonstrations.

Nariman Tamimi’s husband, Bassem, is currently on trial in an Israeli military court for his role in organizing the weekly protests in Nabi Saleh.

The Palestinian activists have also used the cameras provided to them by the Israeli rights group to record what they describe as a broad effort by the Israeli security forces to quash their protest movement.

In January, the activists filmed these two clips during a night-time raid on the village, as Israeli soldiers went house to house to photograph children and young adults to help them identify anyone throwing stones during clashes.

Footage of the night raids was also broadcast on Israeli television. A military spokesperson told Israel’s Channel 10 that the measures were necessary to maintain order and security.

A few days later, Nariman Tamimi filmed this video, showing the arrest of an 11-year-old boy, Kareem Tamimi, and his mother’s desperate attempts to pull him away from the security forces:

Just before that arrest, Bassem Tamimi, the protest organizer, claimed in an interview with Joseph Dana, an Israeli-American activist and blogger, that children in the village were being arrested as part of an effort to “apply pressure on our resistance.”


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2011年4月13日星期三

Cisco to shut down Flip cameras

 12 April 2011 Last updated at 10:46 ET  Cisco bought Flip as part of a move into the consumer market Cisco Systems has said it is shutting down its Flip video camera business and cutting 550 jobs as it overhauls its consumer products unit.


In recent years, Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, has sought to diversify and move into the consumer market.


Analysts criticised the group for trying to do too much.


Last week, Cisco chief John Chambers admitted the firm had lost its way and vowed to take "bold steps" to refocus.


"We are making key, targeted moves as we align operations in support of our network-centric platform strategy," Mr Chambers said in a statement.

Unable to sell?

Cisco bought Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of the Flip camcorder, for $590m in 2009.


The Flip quickly became a top seller thanks to its ease of use, with its signature feature a USB connector that flipped out of the case, allowing the camera to be connected directly to a computer.


"They announced they are shutting it down, so that implies that they were unable to sell it," said Philip Alling, an analyst with Atlantic Equities.


"It's disappointing they wouldn't be able to generate any proceeds from a sale of the business."


But Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of the Solaris Group, said: "This is one step in concentrating the focus of Cisco on the enterprise. This came faster than we would have expected, but perhaps Cisco has been studying this for a while."


He added that the company may be restructuring its consumer business so that it can sell the division.