Reports have emerged over the past few weeks that Israeli reporter Anat Kam has been held under secret house arrest in the nation since December of last year, but the reports have been confined to the Western media as, despite the story appearing in papers the world over, the Israeli government had forbidden domestic media from reporting on the matter until today.
Kam is facing charges of “treason” for leaking copies of classified military documents to Uri Blau, a reporter for Haaretz who has often been critical of the Israeli military. Blau has written several stories over the past few years, mostly based around the Israeli military flouting orders about rules of engagement by the High Court, based on the documents. One of the articles involved an “arrest” mission that ended in the deaths of three Islamic Jihad members. Soldiers admitted in the classified data that they were ordered to kill, not arrest the three.
Blau has since fled the country and is said to be in Britain. Haaretz has defended publishing the stories and says it will support Blau in the matter. The Israeli Justice Ministry has vowed to use “all possible” means to return Blau to Israel to face charges of his own and interrogation by Shin Bet. Shin Bet declared today that Blau must submit to interrogation, and that his possession of classified data is a “direct threat” to national security.
But this could be just the beginning of the fallout for Haaretz, a popular leftist newspaper in Israel which often publishes articles critical of government policy. One opposition MP has urged patriotic Israelis to cancel their subscriptions to the paper. Another MP in the ruling coalition, National Union’s Michael Ben-Ari, has called on the Interior Ministry to close the newspaper down entirely in the name of national security. Yisrael Beiteinu MP David Rotem called for Kam and potentially others involved in the leak to have their citizenship taken away. Other members of the Israeli parliament condemned the paper as “anti-semitic” and alleged that the leaks were a plot by the ideological left to see Israel handed over to “the Arabs.”
Haaretz for its part claims to have had a secret deal with Shin Bet allowing them to reveal the data, but says Shin Bet has since broken the deal by attempting to capture Blau. It has defended Kam’s actions as that of a whistleblower and even published an article likening censorship in Israel media to that in Iran.
The silliest part of Apartheid Israel's South African- style "banning order" against reporter Anat Kam, is encapsulated in the opening line of the above article. Reports of Israel's murder policy have been "confined to the Western media."
How sad and hilarious. Israeli censorship has "confined" these reports to the entire planet, outside Israel.
Thank goodness there is no internet access in Israel, otherwise the entire adult population of Israel, which is enlisted in the Defense Force, would learn what the entire adult population of Israel already knows.
Are we at the Reichministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda yet?
Klar.
What if we found out there was not much difference in the moral character of the freeworlds policies , than the corrupt brutal dictators ? should have heard Serbia's president Milosevic in court , The worlds governments are all a bunch of lying , murdering thieves , and its a good idea to be afraid of all of them .
Wait, this can't be true! Israel is a peaceful democracy that loves women and gays and is like France! Arabs eat their babies and would eat Israeli babies if Israel didn't protect itself. Antiwar.com is antisemitic. What are you going to do? It's the way of the world, a rough place.
As Israel becomes more arrogant in its criminal endeavors, it will make mistakes, as all criminals, who think they are above the law, eventually do. We will watch with a sense of justice as the Israeli government turns against its own citizens, and those citizens begin to fight back. We will see the great hole in the myth that Israel is a democracy. And then, if the stars line up just right, we will see US Congressmen and women, who have been giving Israel a blank check thus far, begin to put distance between themselves and the Israeli war criminals. After all, while there is sometimes honor among thieves, once one of them gets caught out, the others run like rats.
I haven't seen enough scurrying among the furry ones yet. Perhaps because they are still feeding at some common trough with their sponsors. Could it be our money?
Government hit squads sound more like dictatorships, don't they? And yet we know that Israel has gone from the self-justification of Spielberg's Munich to something much nastier domestically. Not only that, the self-justifcation for this wet-work has penetrated American thinking (or at any rate has made it to our propaganda outlets). The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.
Why Such Satanic Zionist Regime-Israel- Is Allowed To Exist And Continue to Torture And Mass-Murder The Palestinian Children, Women and Men?
The Israeli daily Yedihot Ahronot noted that the nation of Israel is dispersed and isolated >>> let Israel go to hell
Israel is a parasitic state have no right to exist …. yes it is
True and in most cases the parasite kills the host. That is evident as to what is happening to the USA.
What a scary little shitty state! A bunch of delirious/bearded/eructing/totally paranoid neo-nazi conmen. All cool Israelis are living abroad nowadays!
"Kam is facing charges of “treason” for leaking copies of classified military documents to Uri Blau, a reporter for Haaretz who has often been critical of the Israeli military."
Why does Israel Govt. worry at all …..does anyone think wrongdoers will be prosecuted?
Poor Kam & Uri….True heros in my view.
Govt's that murder must be opposed by all peoples.
Just reading the comment section in Haaretz is rather revealing. I guess they censor outright death threats.
Israel seems to be the vigilante country, US should help them eliminate terrorists.
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That was really a bad news for Kam, She might be brought in to prison.
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That is not a good idea giving someone else some worries. That gives them a headache.
Jane