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So far all three network newscasts have found little news in the decision by the government of Israel to expand its settlements on Palestinian land east of in East Jerusalem. None has reported on the underlying controversy. The diplomatic angle is something else.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell observed last week that "you could cut the tension with a knife" between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vice President Joe Biden as Biden was "blindsided" by the announcement of the construction during a peacemaking visit. Mitchell followed up with a sitdown with Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations: "It was an insult to the United States," the Secretary of State declared. Now ABC's Martha Raddatz follows up, calling Rodham Clinton "as mad at the Israeli government as she has ever been." Yet in public, Raddatz remarked, "you would not have known." Rodham Clinton reiterated "a close unshakeable, bond" between the United States and Israel. "The Secretary sees this as a messy fight not a matter for divorce court." CBS did not see the story as worthy of a correspondent's assignment.
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