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6 april 2010 03:11 |
Israël als enige democratie in het Midden-Oosten? ...
Een journalist van Haaretz is Israël ontvlucht omdat hij gevangenisstraf vreest voor zijn onthullende reportages over moordaanslagen door het Israëlisch leger op de Westbank.
Die moordaanslagen worden door het leger georganiseerd en gaan in tegen een verbod van het Israëlische Hooggerechtshof dat dergelijke buitenrechterlijke executies verbiedt.
Een andere journaliste wordt sinds december in het geheim onder huisarrest gehouden. Zij wordt ervan beschuldigd de bewijzen van het ongrondwettelijk handelen door het leger aan Haaretz te hebben doorgespeeld.
Alle Israëlische media hebben een strikt verbod gekregen over de zaak verslag te doen, zowel wat betreft het huisarrest als de beschuldigingen.
Citaat:
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.
Anat Kam, 23, goes on trial in two weeks on treason and espionage charges and could face up to 14 years in jail. A court-imposed gagging order, proposed by the state and more recently by the defence, is preventing media coverage of the arrest and charges in Israel.
A Haaretz journalist, Uri Blau, who has written several stories critical of the Israeli military and who has been linked in internet reports to the case, has left Israel and is now in London, apparently for fear he will be targeted for his reporting. Haaretz and Channel 10, an Israeli television station, will challenge the media gagging order at a hearing on 12 April, two days before Kam's trial is due to start at the Tel Aviv district court.
Attention has focused on an investigation Haaretz published on the Israeli military's assassination policy in November 2008, written by Uri Blau and headlined "Licence to Kill". He reported that the military, the Israel Defence Force, had been carrying out assassinations of Palestinian militants in the West Bank in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling.
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bron: The Guardian
Citaat:
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.
if America still insists to ‘democratize the world’, it may have to start with its ‘best ally’.
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bron: Gilad Atzmon |
