Getting the Word Out

Why is the American media so biased in the coverage of the Israeli - Palestine conflict?

We are Wide Awake

Israel's Cold War mentality enabled them to attempt to blind the world to The War on Gaza by banning media. But the times had already changed for eye witnesses now tell their own story without editing or censoring on You Tube and Google News.

"Israel's version of events has been given so much credence by the dying Bush administration that the ban on journalists entering Gaza may simply be of little importance to the Israeli army. By the time we investigate, whatever they are trying to hide will have been overtaken by another crisis in which they can claim to be in the "front line" in the "war on terror". 

Another crisis of Israel's own making hit You Tube moments after Mark Regev, the Israeli Government’s official spokesman finally admitted what everyone with an Internet connection and interest already knew; which was that Hamas did not break the ceasefire. "In May there were 149 rocket attacks. In June before the ceasefire started on the 18th, there were 84. In the rest of June, three. Throughout July, August, September and October, there were just fifteen attacks and Israel agrees that none of these rockets were fired by Hamas."

According to Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories and professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, "There is a well-grounded view that both the initial attacks on Gaza and the tactics being used by Israel are serious violations of the UN charter, the Geneva Conventions, international law and international humanitarian law. There is a consensus among independent legal experts that Israel is an occupying power and is therefore bound by the duties set out in the Fourth Geneva Convention. The arguments that Israel's blockade is a form of prohibited collective punishment, and that it is in breach of its duty to ensure the population has sufficient food and healthcare as the occupying power, are very strong."

Among the increasing crisis facing Israel are the growing numbers of global voices sending the UN messages and websites requesting you to add your call to the list for a creation of the Israeli War Crimes Tribunal. 

The next crisis on the horizon and more bad PR for the sorry state of Israel, the self-proclaimed "only democracy in the Middle East" will happen by April 21, 2009 when Mordechai Vanunu's fifth year of restrictions expire.

Since April 2004, Vanunu has walked the streets of east Jerusalem and spoken with thousands of internationals in person and via the Internet. Israel, however commanded him not to speak to anyone unless they are Israeli citizens, denied him the right to leave the state, to come within 300 meters of foreign embassies, to leave Occupied Jerusalem without prior permission from security agencies; all based on the 1945 British Mandate State of Emergency Regulations, which expired and led to Israel's statehood.

The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations.- May 14, 1948 (The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel).

Vanunu was born in 1954, and had a second coming into the world on April 21, 2004 upon release from 18 years in Ashkelon Prison –most all in solitary-sentenced for treason. Vanunu has consistently maintained that due to a crisis of conscience and desire to prevent a nuclear holocaust, he was lead to covertly photograph inside of Israel's clandestine underground WMD facility. Vanunu's two rolls of film document the fact that Israel had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads by 1985.

Upon release from Ashkelon, Vanunu stated, "I'm not speaking in Hebrew. If Israel doesn't let me speak to foreigners I am not speaking in Hebrew…I was kidnapped in Rome, Italy by Israel's spy on 13 September and I was brought to Israel, arrived at... prison on 7 October 1986 until today…in very cruel, barbaric treatment by Israel's spy [agency] Mossad.

"I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. All this bullshit, blah blah blah, about secrets, is dead. My case is dead. The article was published. There are no more secrets. All the secrets were published and is in the hand of the whole world. All the world, every state, 180 states received these secrets. I am now ready to start my life.

I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn't have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man."

Annually, since 1986, Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2007, Vanunu was nominated by Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Prize in 1984, for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.