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Mohamed Khodr – America’s Media? A Colonial Force for Israel’s Infallibility

Mohamed Khodr — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:23:21 +0000

Illustration By Carlos Latuff

By Mohamed Khodr *

Zimbabwe expels U.N. rights investigator (Washington Post, October 29, 2009)

Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (New York Times, October 29, 2009)

Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009)

BUT: This headline is Absent.

Israel denied entry to Richard Falk, UN Human Rights special rapporteur and deported him from Ben Gurion (December 15, 2008)

What's the difference between the first three headlines and the last one?

Simple, the first three headlines that appear in the three Jewish papers don't deal with Israel (Rupert Murdoch now owns the Wall Street Journal, a staunch Zionist nevertheless), the second headline does, so its persona non grata in â€œTheir/ourâ€ media, although both stories deal with the similar expulsion of two U.N. Representatives from Zimbabwe and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

U.N. Representatives Manfred Nowak and Richard Falk were to investigate human rights abuses and criminal acts in Zimbabwe and the Occupied Palestinian Territories respectively, but both were expelled, and both called upon the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate this diplomatic outrage.

It is axiomatic that "their/our" news media protects Israel from any negative stories that may expose its war crimes; crimes against humanity, its three-year siege of 1.5 million Palestinians denied access to food, water and medicines, its imprisonment and torture of women and children as well as one third of the Palestinian elected representatives. It publicly states with all the chutzpah it only possesses that it does not want peace and let the world go to hell. And guess what, the world salutes, obeys, and moves on to the main story in â€œTheir/ourâ€ media: The balloon boy that turned out to be a hoax, much like all the stories initiated by Israel and its lobby against Islam, Muslims, Arab countries and its soon-to-be-attacked Iran.

Shockingly, the world just accepts as de facto Israel's repeated public statements that it will attack Iran, damn the consequences to America and the world. There is no world outrage that this violates the U.N. Charter and International Law, i.e. to attack an innocent sovereign nation on the premise of â€œwhat ifâ€, much like Bush/Cheney with Iraq. IAEA, U.S. Intelligence evidence be damned.

The only question the world asks is not if Israel will attack Iran but when, never as to how is this possible. If this is the case, then Iran has the right to preemptively attack Israel with or without nuclear weapons and let the chips fall where they may.

â€œTheir/ourâ€ media is the true Apartheid Wall between Israel and our nation. It strangles our capitol like an elastic beltway that it tightens and loosens according to Israel's directions.

It is the whip that keeps our cowardly politicians in tow and our populace ignorant of the truth about Israel â€œour ally and only democratic government in the Middle Eastâ€. Israel is the huge sucking sound that drains our money, military, and mind set while we like indoctrinated puppets cheer it on. We are helping Israel in its strategy to create our own national suicide.

Just recent examples of the Jewish media's blanket love fest for Israel at the expense of our own national interest:

1. Not reporting on the Goldstone Report condemning Israel for its war crimes, criminal acts, and siege of Gaza, nor on Obama's AIPAC directed rejection of it.

2. Failure by our networks to report on Israel's newest Jewish spy who sold sensitive national secrets to Israel. (Only Wolf Blitzer, a former AIPAC employee reported the story briefly, simply to state that Israel is not implicated in any wrongdoing; a way to prepare returning to AIPAC after you've left CNN).

3. Not reporting on the embarrassing slap to Obama on its continued building of illegal settlements, demolition of homes in Jerusalem, and its military/police attack on Islam's third holiest site, Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

4. Not reporting on Amnesty International's Report that Israel is controlling and depriving Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza of water to drink. It reports that the illegal settlers use more than four times the water allocated to the Palestinians. The settlers use that much to fill their swimming pools and water their gardens. This criminal act is deliberately ignored by the west lest it has to issue its usual mild â€œconcernâ€.

5. Not reporting on the quick AIPAC driven retreat by Obama calling for Israel to freeze all construction of illegal settlements including the outrageous claim of â€œnatural growthâ€. Obama has now abandoned another of his campaign and policy promises to directly remain involved in the peace process (piece by piece theft of Palestinian land) between the traitor Mahmoud Abbas who should resign if he has any dignity left, or be removed. And Netanyahu, the Nazi from hell.

A USATODAY report states that Obama's top fundraisers have received the plumb jobs of Cabinet, Agency, and Ambassadorial appointments. (Top Obama Fundraisers Get Posts, October 29, 2009).

The story reports: â€œMore than 40% of President Obama's top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions, the analysis found.â€

If you look closely you will find that the vast majority of these donors are Jewish, many from Wall Street, or Pro-Israel activists.

So why is America silent, confused, and supportive of Israel? Why do polls show Americans support Israel? Well, if your only source of information is our Jewish dominated media that inputs Pro-Israel Garbage, you'll get Garbage out; in addition to the fear Americans feel to opposing Israel, knowing the caller has their phone number and address. They don't want to hear a knock on their door, Shalom.

Why is our Congress so slavishly a doormat for Israel's Lobby?

Simple: Jewish money, Jewish Lobby, Jewish Media.

That's why a shot in the arm of billions is going to Israel and Goldman Sachs while America's children are left without the Swine Flu shot.

* Mohamed Khodr is a political activist who frequently writes on the plight of Palestinians living under the brutal occupation of Israel, U.S. Foreign Policy, Islam, and Arab politics.

Ink For Gaza

SR Editor — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:05:48 +0000

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Video: Israeli terrorist attack Press TV

Haitham Sabbah — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:26:00 +0000

After the UN schools, Israeli war crimes now reached the media. Less than an hour ago, an Israeli air stricke hit the roof of the building that host the reporters of Press TV. Luckily no one died, only one injury.

The questions is: Why Israeli terrorists did that? The answer is simple. They don't want anyone to see more of their war crimes. The media should be blinded so that they can freely conduct more massacres. I personally expect that tonight is going to be one of the deadliest nights in Gaza, specially after the spokesman of Al-Qassam Brigades told Aljazeera awhile ago that they killed 8 Israeli terrorist today.

Video also available on:
DailyMotion: http://tinyurl.com/79t6uv
BlipTV: http://blip.tv/file/1652544
YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/85ydyk

George Habash, Palestinian Terrorism Tactician, Dies at 82!

Haitham Sabbah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:08:48 +0000

This is headline of the news story by those who call themselves "Free" journalists" (Edmund L. Andrews and John Kifner) who work for a "Free Press House" called "The New York Times".

According to them, George Habash is a terrorist! Wonder why?

The title "George Habash, Palestinian Terrorism Tactician, Dies at 82" published on Sunday the 27th of January 2008 makes it seem that the NY Times definition of terrorism depends on a persons nationality (Palestinian) or perhaps on the nationality of those he kills (Israeli).

No doubt that the NY Times would describe Ariel Sharon or ex-Israeli chief of staff - Dan Halutz - who presided over operations in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and in Lebanon in which hundreds of Civilians were killed, in many cases several family members at a time, as an "Israeli Terrorism Tactician". Or are they? Are they??? [h/t: Neta Golan]

F**king "Free Press"!

Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006

Haitham Sabbah — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:32:15 +0000

In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.

Here is the list in order from "best" to "worst":

Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - 126
Egypt - 133
Palestine - 134
Sudan - 139
Tunisia - 148
Yemen - 149
Libya - 152
Iraq -154
Syria - 153
Saudi Arabia - 161
Oman - ?

Yemen (149th) slipped four places, mainly because of the arrest of several journalists and closure of newspapers that reprinted the cartoons. Journalists were harassed for the same reason in Algeria (126th), Jordan (109th), Indonesia (103rd) and India (105th).

But except for Yemen and Saudi Arabia (161st), all the Arab peninsula countries considerably improved their rank. Kuwait (73rd) kept its place at the top of the group, just ahead of the United Arab Emirates (77th) and Qatar (80th).

[...]

Lebanon has fallen from 56th to 107th place in five years, as the country’s media continues to suffer from the region’s poisonous political atmosphere, with a series of bomb attacks in 2005 and Israeli military attacks this year. The Lebanese media - some of the freest and most experienced in the Arab world - desperately need peace and guarantees of security. The inability of the Palestinian Authority (134th) to maintain stability in its territories and the behaviour of Israel (135th) outside its borders seriously threaten freedom of expression in the Middle East.

Reporters Without Borders compiled the Index by asking the 14 freedom of expression organisations that are its partners worldwide, its network of 130 correspondents, as well as journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists, to answer 50 questions about press freedom in their countries. The Index covers 168 nations. Others were not included for lack of data about them.

- Questionnaire for compiling a 2006 world press freedom index
- How the index was compiled

Evaluation of Middle East can be found here (and Middle East Index - PDF).

Freedom of DePress

Haitham Sabbah — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:29:40 +0000

Some of my favorite cartoons about 'freedom of press' from Bendib!

(Click on thumbnail to view)

World Press Photo of the Year 2005

Haitham Sabbah — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:41:18 +0000

The international jury of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2005.

Finbarr O'Reilly, Canada, Reuters.
Mother and child at emergency feeding center, Tahoua, Niger, 1 August

Spot News: 1st prize singles

Mohamed Azakir, Lebanon, Reuters.
Car bomb explosion, Beirut, Lebanon, 14 February

Spot News: 2nd prize singles

Chris Hondros, USA, Getty Images.
Young girl grieves her parents killed by US patrol, Tal Afar, Iraq, 18 January

Arts and Entertainment: 2nd prize singles

Xin Zhou, People's Republic of China, Guangzhou Daily.
Tsunami victims commemoration ceremony, Thailand

View complete gallery and all winners here!

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