Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Israeli censorship and the Israeli spy network in Lebanon

I find that most Americans including many journalists (with the exception of those who serve in Israel and who serve Israel most of the time especially if they answer to an editor at the New York Times) are simply unaware of the severity of Israeli censorship. In fact, it is fair to say, that when it comes to developments in the Israeli military or even simple facts about Israel that is seen as "sensitive" in nature, Israeli censorship is quite similar to censorship in Ba`thist regime with the exception that censorship is more effectively managed in the usurping entity. To this very day, for example, you can't report on the site of Iraqi missiles that fell on Israel in 1991 during that war. People get arrested for taking pictures and that is what happened to American geographer, Ghazi Falah. You read the Israeli press on the Israeli spy network in Lebanon and you basically realize that the censored Israeli media can only report what Lebanese media are reporting and can't add one bit. What is also revealing about a society that is fundamentally undemocratic (how else would Israeli be able to manage an instituationalized system of discrimination and segregation and tight military control on the basis of religion and ethnicty without public support and you should consult the survey results of the Van Leer Institute in Israel on the erosion of "democratic values" in that lousy usurping entity) is that the press rarely if ever complain about military censorship--notice how in Israel they are keen to call it "military censorship" as if military censorship is not censorship just as those who use that awful term "date rape" as if it is not rape. So there is this story about the suicide of this Israeli intelligence terrorist: "A officer in a sensitive position in Military Intelligence shot himself in the head on his base yesterday, in an apparent suicide. The Military Police are investigating whether the suicide was due to personal circumstances or his intelligence work. The officer, a 43-year-old major, was a married father of two. He had served for many years in various functions in MI's electronic intelligence-gathering unit, 8200." Now the media in Israel is not saying anything about the sucidie and whether it is related to the collapse of Israeli spy networks in Lebanon. There will be more about the story: and there is much about it that we still don't know. This may have the potential of being another "Lavon Affair."