2/7: Man vs tank

[tw]

Originally posted by sycamore

I don't know if you've already been there tw, but you might be interested in checking out Amnesty International's website. They have extensive documentation on Israel.

http://www.amnesty.org

The highlighted report covers last year. Previously, the petty theif Netanyahu was Prime Minister. As a result, the report makes what happened obvious in its 1st paragraph:

Official permission for torture and ill-treatment ended in September when the High Court ruled that various interrogation techniques used by the General Security Service (GSS) were unlawful. Scores of Palestinian administrative detainees were released during 1999,...

Under a decent man [Barak], scores of illegally held Palestinian prisioners were released and the intafada stopped and the High Courts could operate responsibily. Since then, the dic head brillantly restarted an intafada and them became Prime Minister by blaming others for the problems - easy to do in country whose international news broadcasts even only report half truths. When will the Israeli press acknowledge the current contruction of Warsaw ghettos?

Most reader probably don't remember days of VietNam. However they should have read Pentagon Papers. In those days, the US public was routinely lied to by routine ommission and half truths; especially by Nixon and his aides. Remember '4 shot in Ohio' - and the coverup that followed? Live ammo in riot conditions should have benn a felony murder conviction - in the US or Israel. Time Magazine's publisher so disliked honest news reports from his Hong Kong based reporters in VietNam that he had their stories completely rewritten in NYC and Washington only with information from government sources. Read Halbersham's famous book "The Powers that Be" to appreciate what happens when the government - Nixon or Sharon - are the enemy of the country.

The NY Times properly reported the VietNam disaster and was instead domestically declared a communist newspaper by right wing conservatives. You probably don't remember much about VietNam and therefore don't appreciate how much lying was executed routinely by those 'Powers that Be' to coverup who was the real enemy. "We have met the enemy and he is us."

In Israel, news stories were censored by the military. At one point, all American reporters would add that little footnote at the end of their report - until Israeli government officals realized that it was exposing how corrupt the Israeli government had become. There is no NY Times equivalent in Israel to report the whole story - thanks to 'powers that be' such as Likud. Like Nam, the people of Israel read only half truths. Then insist that the US and UK press are anti-Israeli and antiSemitic only because the rest of the story - such as Warsaw ghettos - are not reported.

The resulting violence is inevitable when the government conspires even to violate basic human rights of their own Israeli, but non-Jewish, citizens. Why is that not reported in domestic Israeli news? Clearly US and UK news stories are biased against Israel for reporting this? Go figure. No wonder Israel elected someone more criminal than the crook Richard Nixon. Even their own press does not report the whole story - including the newly constructed Warsaw Ghettoes.

Who mentions that glaring ommission from Radio Jerusalem news reports. Someone who speaks in the better interests of Israel. Notice that some Jews forget (or don't know) that Warsaw ghettos are under construction - nor appreciate the irony of the event. Looking forward to http://www.amnesty.org 's report for this year. Some will have to declare Amnesty International as antiSemitic.