After some 10 months in detention Israeli military whistleblower Anat Kamm may soon be offered a plea deal, according to reports. The deal would have them dropping the most serious charge, that she deliberately tried to harm Israel’s national security, but would keep a number of other charges which could lead to years in prison.
Kamm’s plight emerged publicly in March, when it was revealed that the Israeli government had been keeping her under secret “house arrest” since December and was openly forbidden all media outlets from covering that fact. They dropped the ban in early April.
Her story was something of a parallel to the US military’s detention of Pfc. Bradley Manning for leaking their secrets. As with Manning, Kamm appears to have grown disillusioned with military life before leaking evidence of crimes. She gathered massive amounts of data and leaked it to Israeli journalist Uri Blau, uncovering evidence that the military was openly flouting the rules of engagement decisions of Israel’s High Court.
Blau, a reporter for Haaretz, has remained in exile since the Kamm arrest, with Shin Bet officials calling for his return and “interrogation” over the possession of state secrets. Most recent accounts have him in London waiting for the Kamm affair to be resolved.
Unlike the legal precedents under US law, Israeli law does not afford journalists protection for leaking classified data, and the Israeli military reserves the right to censor any story, whether or not it contains classified information, if they believe it will harm national security.
There is racism in the media.If she were Iranain , we would be hearing about her everyday from the Syndicated columnist.
Is this how a democracy operates? To me this sounds more like a police state!
Israel? A democracy? Lmao… This is antiwar.com… no need to use MSM talking points. They consider themselves “the Jewish State” even though 20 percent of their citizens are Muslim and near half of the population under their control is Muslim. Those Muslims not citizens have no rights and can be bombed, killed, starved, thrown out of their homes and off their land… At anytime…and they have made it clear they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks about it. The Israelis accepted their tormentors philosophy. Might makes right. Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, and Iranians need to understand this. They will not be safe from Israel until they can provide a big enough deterrent to keep the Israelis at arms length. Butchers, liars, and hypocrites.