Look up the laudatory eulogies for settler terrorist Baruch Goldstein ("a righteous man;" "hundred thousand Arabs are not worth a single Jewish fingernail") and some of the right-wing propaganda to get a flavor of just how sick anti-Arab racism is among large segments of the Israeli public ("The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world," according ot Rabbi Yosef, spiritual head of Israel's third largest party). Just look at the racist hate literature that so indoctrinated Rabin's murderer, reflecting a mentality large enough to force Likud and other right parties to, at least, court it (a reason Leah Rabin refused Netanyahu's handshake when he paid his condolences). I can't imagine this bothers you, as their victims are "merely" Arabs, the same "idiots" who foolishly ride about in taxis, stand on balconies, go to the market, etc. so that Israeli soldiers can kill them.
The lynching of the reservists in Ramallah (not Ramle) was appalling, but so was what preceded it: Israeli snipers killing unarmed demonstrators, helicopter gunships firing on stone-throwers, indsicriminate shelling and firing at apartment buildings, killing a total of 117 Palestinians by the end of October 2002, including 32 minors, including 12-year-old Mohammed Dura, the film of which was probably broadast repeatedly the day or two that preceded the reservists' murder. All this months before the current wave of suicide bombings started.
I agree the PA is corrupt and repressive, characteristics that suited Israel and the U.S. just fine as long as Arafat kept caving in.
"You may point to violations by Israeli soldiers - however, in every case, the journalist's life was in danger...."
First, Israel's widespread use of lethal force to maintain a brutal and hated military occupation constitutes the only reason a reporter's life would be in danger in the occupied territories.
As for your claim Israeli troops only shoot journalists when lives are in danger, perhaps you could explain how this could apply to the following journalist, nailed by an Israeli sniper while running away:
“Issam Hamza Tillawi, 32, a journalist and presenter with The Voice of Palestine, was shot dead by the Israeli army on 22 September. He left his home in Beitunia, near Ramallah, near midnight on 21 September, equipped with a tape-recorder and bag, to cover protests by thousands of Palestinians that were starting in the streets of West Bank and Gaza Strip cities against the Israeli army's siege of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. The chief editor of the The Voice of Palestine, who was with him, said he was wearing a jacket marked "press." When he got to the demonstrations in the centre of Ramallah, Tillawi mingled with the crowd to record their views. Witnesses said Israeli troops then fired teargas and as Tillawi was running from the scene he was hit by a shot that witnesses said came from an Israeli sniper on top of a building. The director of Ramallah Hospital confirmed he had been hit by a bullet at the back of his head. He died at the hospital half an hour later.”
Reporters Sans Frontieres
It is characteristically misleading of you to cite Reporters Sans Fronteires to help support your claim that journalists are treated worse by the PA than by Israel. Compare the report cited above about Israel in 2002 (3 journalists killed, 8 wounded, 29 arrested or imprisoned, overall "a new low in relations between the foreign media and the Israeli government") and the same group's
report on the PA (two wounds, neither atributed to the PA, one "slight," the other "not serious").