Saturday 2 December 2017

A completely one-sided news agenda?


BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier.

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Reprinted from: https://www.sott.net/article/369636-Israel-Google-YouTube-to-censor-Palestinian-videos-of-conflict

The Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Member of Knesset Tzipi Hotovely, held meetings this week with representatives of YouTube and Google, to find ways of cooperating to censor Palestinian videos from occupied Palestine, videos she dubbed as "inciting violence and terrorism." Israeli daily Maariv said Hotovely will be working with Google and YouTube officials in a joint mechanism that will be in charge of "monitoring and preventing" any publication of materials deemed by Tel Aviv to be "inflammatory." 

Hotovely announced in a Hebrew-only press release that she met with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and Google's Director of Public Policy, Jennifer Oztzistzki, at Google's Silicon Valley Offices. 

Hotovely said that she received a comprehensive review mechanism for companies to monitor the films that allegedly incite violence, claiming that the supposed 'incitement videos' drive young children to go out and stab: 'The attacks daily in Israel are the result of youths and children incited by the education system and the social networks, this is a daily war of incitement.' 

She said that Google agreed to strengthen the bilateral relations with Israel's Foreign Ministry, and build a mechanism of "collaborative work" that would make both parties partners in monitoring the published materials and censoring them. 

The Israeli move comes amidst escalating tension in occupied Palestine, and a large number of videos, including those showing Israeli soldiers and officers killing Palestinians execution-style after injuring them, and many videos that in general highlight the suffering of the Palestinian people, living under the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

The Israeli coordination with Google and YouTube has very serious implications, and many journalists have spoken out in opposition, saying it is a direct assault on the Freedom of the Press. 

All foreign journalists who report in the Occupied Territories are required to register with the Israeli military, and any footage that they film is required to go through the Israeli Military Censor's office before it can be released. 

With the recent advances in technology, many Palestinians and other civilians have been able to post videos uncensored online. 

The Israeli government has frequently voiced its discontent with this development, and have worked to find ways to continue to censor videos coming out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

4 comments:

  1. Ex-Israel soldier heading child prostitution ring deported from Colombia. Jewish child sex racket for blackmail purposes?

    November 29, 2017 at 5:21 pm | Published in: Colombia, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine

    Forty-three-year-old Assi Moosh was expelled by Colombia and returned to Tel Aviv under escort by immigration officers last weekend. In a statement confirming the deportation, security officials said: “Police in Santa Marta, capital of the Magdalena department, hereby announce the removal of an Israeli citizen who owns a spa hotel frequented by many foreign tourists. Deportation procedures have been commenced as per law and will be carried out due to the Israeli’s conduct, which has harmed Colombia’s national security.”

    Colombian news agencies reporting on the deportation revealed details surrounding the expulsion of Moosh who was exposed as being part of a group of ex-Israeli soldiers that had turned a small fishing village in Taganga into a “sex and drug den” from their base in a luxury resort that was known to locals as “little Israel”.

    El Heraldo, a regional newspaper, revealed Moosh as the head of an “international network of human trafficking, micro-trafficking and sex tourism”.

    See: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171129-ex-israel-soldier-heading-child-prostitution-ring-deported-from-colombia/

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  2. Egypt has enemies: The Muslim Brotherhood and the biggest terrorist atrocity in Egyptian history
    No group has claimed responsibility for the tragic attack in Egypt’s Bir al-Abed, but there are many clues.

    by STEVEN SAHIOUNIE
    November 26, 2017, 04:13

    See: http://theduran.com/egypt-has-enemies-the-muslim-brotherhood-and-the-biggest-terrorist-atrocity-in-egyptian-history/

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  3. The world is full of violence carried out by a whole range of people and organisations. History teaches us that the selective use of it is a powerful propaganda tool. Nor is it unknown that that the people that use it for political purposes, also create it! Apart from the fact that the three examples tweeted by Trump were not as he stated and taken out of context, they prove nothing other than people can be brutal and devoid of empathy when they are allowed to be. But what would have been the effect if instead Trump had tweeted just a few examples of American police shooting innocent unarmed members of the public, or gangland assassinations on his doorstep or only a few of the 54.000 premature deaths from the heroin and drug epidemic, to a large part instigated and controlled by elements of his own governmet? "If you take a text out of its context you make it into a pretext" and that is precisely what Trump did to his discredit.

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  4. Village south Nablus invaded, farmer murdered. Gaza attacked in revenge. Israeli propaganda de-bunked. https://www.facebook.com/RobertInlakesh/posts/908427919319635

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