Israel's Cover-ups
16/02/2013
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed | |
the general manager of Al -Arabiya television. Mr. Al Rashed is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers of Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is a US post-graduate degree in mass communications. He has been a guest on many TV current affairs programs. He is currently based in Dubai. | |
Prisoner X, who the Israelis claim committed suicide, may not be one of Mabhouh's killers; the Australian media began investigating this mysterious detainee 6 months before the Dubai murder took place. Following the scandalous muzzling of the Israeli press Tel Aviv has shown that it is primarily a security and military-based regime, adhering to out-of-date concepts in a world that is full of super-fast ways of reporting the news. Israeli writer Ronen Bergman tells an old story about the basement in Beit Sokolov (headquarters of Israeli Journalists Association), quoting an expert on military censorship. The military expert revealed, “Forty years ago, we had listening devices on phone lines belonging to foreign journalists. They used to call their colleagues, and we used sit and listen to their calls from the basement. Every time a journalist revealed more information than they should have, we would interrupt on the line and shout for them to stop. If that did not work, we would simply terminate the call. I think those rushing to conceal this story are still living with a ‘basement mentality.’”
He relates a similar story regarding the policy of concealing truth under the pretext of security requirements, when in fact this is nothing more than covering up the murder of an Israeli agent, committed by the Israeli security forces more than half a century ago. He reveals that the victim’s son had lived for decades, believing that his father had fled to Brazil and abandoned him and his mother. The security services continued to lie to his family until a journalist, fifty years later, revealed that his father was a secret agent who was killed by an anesthetic dose during his abduction to return him to Israel. In order to hide the crime, they decided to throw his body in the sea and claim that the man fled to Brazil.
Maybe they were able to hide political crimes in 1952, but how can they do so in this day and age? The Dubai video tapes prove that deception is possible, but not forever as the truth will eventually come out. When Israelis claim the Arab press is not free, and that in Israel, they can throw rotten tomatoes at the prime minister, we agree with them. However at least we are aware that the press is not free and are accordingly unhappy about this fact, whereas they are collective partners in these deceptions and lies.
This is a new era that is being ruled by out-of-date minds, not just in terms of journalistic dishonesty, but also politics. Israel’s leaders believe the occupation of the Palestinian territories is guaranteed and permanent, as long as there is enough cement and bullets. However one day they will find themselves out of time and out of land. The occupation may last for a century, but it will remain an occupation, something that requires all of Israel’s potential and production, until Israel’s factories fall silent.
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