Monday, April 19, 2010

Israel's Ellsberg

About the closest analogy I can come up with.

Not like they are leaking anything new.

"foreign reports were easily accessible over the Internet
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Yeah, we ALL KNOW what they are DOING now!

Besides, this is the 21st-century, not the 19th!

Mediums can be shut down; however, KNOWLEDGE and the TRUTH can NEVER BE RETURNED to the bottle unless they kill us all -- and then, my friends, history's "heroes" will be ascending very different throne.


"Israel lifts gag order in case of ex-soldier accused of espionage; Woman allegedly leaked military papers to media" by Aron Heller, Associated Press | April 9, 2010

JERUSALEM — Israel lifted months of censorship on a military espionage case yesterday, confirming the house arrest of a former female soldier charged with leaking more military documents to a newspaper.

Why now outcry in the AmeriKan MSM about the censorship, huh?

Yeah, it gets tiresome, pointing out the obvious.

Anat Kamm, 23, has been under house arrest since December, but a court-imposed gag order kept the case under wraps. The restrictions were eased yesterday after foreign media reported details of the case.

When is Israel going to learn you can't hide anything anymore?

The indictment was released with some parts still censored and it revealed new details on the case, including allegations that Kamm copied more than 2,000 classified military documents and relayed them to the Haaretz newspaper. About 700 were classified as “top secret.’’

What do you expect, miracles?

The indictment charges Kamm with passing information with the intent of harming national security.... The gag order drew sharp criticism from local media because the foreign reports were easily accessible over the Internet. Prosecutors allege Kamm was the source for a Haaretz story accusing the military of killing Palestinian militants in violation of a Supreme Court ruling.

Why where they keeping a lid on that?

They DO THAT STUFF ALL THE TIME!

Oh, they just don't like anyone else talking to the MSM. I guess that's why they won't let reporters into Gaza.

The Haaretz report cited a document from March 2007 that included an order from Major General Yair Naveh, then the top Israeli commander in the West Bank, permitting firing upon three top Palestinian militants even if they did not pose a clear and present danger.

With what? A stick or a rock?

And it isn't like Israel is all bound up in the moral dilemma of assassination.

That summer, one of the men, Ziad Malaisha of Islamic Jihad, was killed in Jenin. Legal specialists interviewed by Haaretz said the order was illegal....

So is a LOT of OTHER S*** ISRAEL DOES!

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