NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin said Sunday that he’s taking a break from covering the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Mohyeldin said on Twitter that he’s taking some time off to be with his family.
After a month on the road taking time to be with family. But @nbcnews #Gaza coverage will continue #israel #palestine pic.twitter.com/H3OCKEolBK
— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) August 3, 2014
His apparent voluntary departure from the beat comes only weeks after he was mysteriously pulled out of Gaza by NBC.
The network said the decision was driven by security concerns, but many openly speculated that it was politically motivated.
NBC pulled Mohyeldin off the story almost immediately after he witnessed and reported on an Israeli strike that killed four young boys on a beach in Gaza.
After criticism intensified, NBC sent Mohyeldin back to Gaza two days after he was abruptly removed from the region.
Just as NBC wanted America to ignore its history of gay discrimination they would rather America hadn’t noticed 60+ years of Israel cheer leading as their present management appears too local/regional to handle subjects a tad more complicated than NBC’s intellectually lagging, 2-dimensional domestic political coverage.
Horror is horror for witnesses as well as victims.
NBC now has Richard Engel and Martin Fletcher reporting from Israel and Gaza. Both reporters are Jewish. Both are excellent reporters. However, their reporting certainly provides a more favorable view of the Israeli perspective than the Palestinian.
Aman Mohyeldin was able to relate some of the civilian suffering and a perspective on IDF criminal actions that caused this carnage. Fletcher’s reporting included a report on a Palestinian tunnel and the fear it provoked for residents of an illegal Israeli settlement, notwithstanding that no Israeli civilian has been harmed by attacks emanating from these tunnels, during this campaign.
“Liberal media”, indeed.
They re both jewish but as you said they are excellent reporters and I have not seen one report from either of them that has shown any favoritism. None that I have seen at all
He may need a break. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to cover this story