What they said - Notable quotes from day two

“We can say there are no broadcasters in the world who can say they never had to deal without an outside pressure exerted on them… Journalists have to strive towards freedom of expression” – Milica Pesic, Media Diversity Institute (UK)

“Propaganda can be good and bad but that’s not journalism” – Milica Pesic, Media Diversity Institute (UK)

“Journalists play a negative role not only towards terror but to the whole fight on terror” – Yuri Shtern, Member of Israeli Knesset, chairman of inter-parliamentary Association Russia-Israel (Israel)

“I am culturally Moslem and I think no person denies Israel’s right of existence. Israel is a democratic country. Israel is a modern country…
You (Israel) are powerful. Your have the backing of the powerful. Let us start from a new beginning and forget about this ethnic and communal past which you…are prisoners of” - Shiraz Paracha, editor FENS, South and Central Asia Report (Pakistan)

“An eye for an eye is stupid, even if it happens in Afghanistan or in Israel” – Nicolaas Haasbroek, NOS News, Netherlands

“Does the international media reflect the tragedy of Israeli families on the same scale as the tragedies on the Palestinian side? No, most western media coverage is severely distorted – it makes Israelis look like demons.” – Yuri Shtern

“I can give you dozens of examples of pro-Israeli coverage by British, American and western media.” – Shiraz Paracha