This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
-- targeted assassinations and torture;
-- land theft and crop destruction;
-- policies of closure, separation, isolation, checkpoints, ghettoization and curfews;
-- denial of the most fundamental human rights and civil liberties; and
-- an overall Kafkaesque "matrix of control" designed to crush Palestinians' will to resist.
In the old days, journalists were bought off to ignore them. They now do it willingly and reflexively, knowing the consequences otherwise, the Israeli Lobby's power to remove unfriendly voices - from Congress, academia and the media.
Demanded is that Israel be portrayed as peaceful, never aggressive, surrounded, beleaguered, and victimized, acting solely in self-defense. In contrast, Palestinians are called militant terrorist threats to Israeli security, its propaganda machine relentless in pounding that message, the Senate's investigation failing to expose and halt it.
As a result, it's more virulent and pervasive than ever, what no congressional committee will touch, what no major media report will reveal. Israel's power in America suppresses everything unfavorable, willing fourth estate stooges going along, or else.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
3
2
2
