Citizen journalists report on Gaza
From Bahrain, Haitham Sabbah, an "uprooted" Palestinian activist and blogger, is working to organize and coordinate information on the Gaza situation. Sabbah was as born in exile in Kuwait and has not been allowed to visit Occupied Palestine since 1986.
"Pro-Palestine Bloggers are facing a challenge to educate their readers and fill in the gap that the main stream media, specially the Americans, are ignoring intentionally as we witnessed during the war on Lebanon in 2006, and is evident now in Gaza," commented Sabbah. "Because this controlled media has selected to focus on the Israeli side of the conflict and magnify the casualties there while ignoring the atrocities on the Gazan's side, the public is systematically brain washed to think that the reason for the war is Hamas' rockets, ignoring the fact that Israel is the occupier and they never stopped attacking Gaza, even during the six month truce period. All of this and more is hidden in the Western media. The duty of Palestinian and pro-Palestine bloggers is to expose these lies and show the world the other side of the story which they normally don't see on their TV channels or read in their controlled media." He added, "Moreover, while Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza to cover their crimes, we have Palestinian and Western bloggers inside Gaza who continue relentlessly to publish live and up to minute photos, videos and news that can't be found anywhere else.
Spreading this material of Israeli war crimes is the utmost important objective in this time of war to put pressure on the public around the world to raise their voices against the war in front of their governments. This will help in putting a quick end to this war."
Sabbah has used his degree in Engineering, Electronics and Communication from India's Birla Institute of Technology, not only in his capacity as a senior manager at Zain Bahrain, but also to support his homeland. He helped create the Palestine Blogs Aggregator at http://PalestineBlogs.net. He is also a co-founder of the Palestine Think Tank http://PalestineThinkTank.com, which, like all of his sites, is primarily in English, but also includes material in Arabic.
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/9kfs53
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