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The CBC correspondent has completed two and a half years of a four-year stint here. He claims that the threats don’t impact much on his coverage, but he relates several anecdotes of physical violence against other journalists. He’s learned a little Arabic, not much Hebrew.  Asked what he is the greatest constraint on full coverage of the intifada, Macdonald says it’s the danger of being caught in the crossfire.  “I don’t trust that the IDF won’t shoot me because I’m a reporter,” he declares.  “I think of the IDF as a democratic institution but that’s not to say there aren’t people from Kiryat Arba (ed. a suburb of Hebron ) in the IDF