My name is Ze'ev. I am an Israeli soldier stationed in Gaza. Yesterday's aberrations have become today's norm and today's aberration will be authorized as standard practice tomorrow. What is alarming is the tempo at which aberrations have become norms. A soldier like me needs to have a strong stomach and a mechanism of repression.
Press photographers no longer rush off to Gaza.
The reason is not because of difficulties posed by areas closed to journalists, harassment from locals, or the fact that the journalist has made a bundle already, selling his photographs to leading international newspapers. There simply is no longer a great demand for his photographs. Yesterday's journalistic coup has become banal. The world has grown accustomed to photos of atrocities. A picture of an Israeli soldier kicking an old Arab woman is no longer news.