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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

# Posted 6:35 AM by Patrick Belton  

CHRIS MCGREAL STEPS outside the automatic writing machine school predominating in current journalism to profile a Palestinian informant working for Israeli intelligence. The profile includes the uncomfortable, generally unspoken observation 'You won't find a Palestinian family without collaborators so we are just like everybody else'. Slightly less penetrating but also taking a step outside of ideologically determined journalism is the BBC's profile of an Arab Israeli woman, which presents her as straddling two political communities with sympathy for each, but feeling pulled in both directions. Such telling of complex, human stories without reliance on easy ideological narratives deserves applause, particularly flying when it does in the face of soundly established journalistic convention.
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