Online Journal Guest Writer
Apr 5, 2010, 00:24
Courtesy Of The Online Journal
In Israel, the so called ‘only democracy in the Middle East,’ a journalist has been held under house arrest since December for leaking a story of Israeli barbarism. In the Jewish democracy another prominent journalist had to run for his life for telling the truth about Israel’s murderous policies and its chief war criminals.
The Guardian reported Friday that Anat Kam, 23, an Israeli journalist “has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive classified military documents that suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.”
Seemingly, in the ‘Jews only democracy,’ people are put under house arrest even when they are trying to suggest a breach of the Issraeli high court’s orders. (Even kosher citizens.)
Anat Kam, 23, goes on trial in two weeks on treason and espionage charges and could face up to 14 years in jail. In the ‘democratic’ Jewish state, a court-imposed gagging order is preventing media coverage of the arrest and charges in Israel. I am left puzzled here as it seems Israelis can be prosecuted for reporting illegal activities.
A leading journalist for Haaretz, Uri Blau, who has also been linked to the case, has had to escape Israel. He is now in London, apparently for fear he will be targeted for his reporting.
In November 2008, Blau reported in Haaretz that the IDF had been carrying out assassinations of Palestinian militants in the West Bank in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling, which said efforts should be made first to arrest suspected militants rather than assassinating them.
According to Blau, the IDF chief, General Gabi Ashkenazi, allegedly approved the assassination operations. The Haaretz piece was accompanied by copies of military documents but it was approved by the military censor before publication.
I suggest that if America still insists on ‘democratizing the world,’ it may have to start with its ‘best ally.’
The time may also be ripe for neocon British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who advocates ‘liberal interventionalism’, to face the fact that the Jewish state -- the state that lists him as one of its propaganda (Hasbara) authors -- is no less than a tyrant inspired by a deep Talmudic intolerance.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli jazz musician, author and political activist.Copyright © 1998-2007 Online Journal
2 comments:
What we need is a media who will learn from American Israeli professor Jeff Halper, Founder and Coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, that "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control."
We need a media who will follow every lead, investigate and make connections, such as:
Twenty-four years after the Mossad kidnapped Mordechai Vanunu from Rome after luring him from London, they have returned to track down another who followed his conscience but has been labeled a traitor by the state and a public who view truth tellers as a threat to their sense of security.
The prey this time is Uri Blau,
A prelude to the Kamm affair began in July 2009, when Kamm’s brothers in spirit from Breaking the Silence, an Israeli human rights group published 54 testimonies from Israeli soldiers regarding their experiences during Operation Cast Lead.
The testimonies exposed the gaps between the reports given by the army in January 2009 regarding the “accepted practices; the destruction of hundreds of houses and mosques for no military purpose, the firing of phosphorous gas in the direction of populated areas, the killing of innocent victims with small arms, the destruction of private property, and most of all, a permissive atmosphere in the command structure that enabled soldiers to act without moral restrictions.”
Kamm and Vanunu share the same attorneys.
Kamm is being tried for treason and espionage: Vanunu was convicted of both.
Kamm and Vanunu acted on moral and ideological grounds in a spirit of dissent from government policies of war and deceptions.
Vanunu got 18 years in an Israeli prison for exposing Israel’s 7-story underground clandestine WMD facility in the Negev, which remains uninspected by international inspectors to this very day.
Blau is charged with espionage: Vanunu was convicted of it.
LEARN MORE:
The Vanunu Saga: 2005-2010
http://www.wearewideawake.org
I agree with you Eileen. Thanks for posting informative material. I added "We Are Wide Awake," as a source on my blog.
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