The forced closure of Al Jazeera should be a dire warning to all journalists in Israel

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At 4 A.M. on Sunday, Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera's office in Ramallah and delivered an order closing it for 45 days.

The incident was mentioned only marginally in the Israeli news on Sunday, yet it ought to trouble every Israeli journalist and every Israeli, period – because what happened in Ramallah might well happen in Neveh Ilan or even Tel Aviv..