A week ago my dear friend and Brother, Mohammed Omer, was nearly beaten to DEATH and tortured by Israeli Security officers.
This week, two Palestinian children were killed in cold blood by Israeli forces. Eight others were wounded.
Did you read about any of the above in any reports issued by the Associated Press?
NO!
Desertpeace 
detainthis said,
July 4, 2008 at 19:42
Per the Nuremberg Trials (Principles), media entities are complicit in crimes against humanity when they dehumanize and blackball groups of people based on ethnicity or religion, resulting in unlawful public persecution of said groups. The evidence is decades-long and piling up by the hour. When was the last time AP or Reuters matter-of-factly told us the occupation of the Territiories and Jerusalem is illegal according to the U.N. and international law? Never! Or that dozens of the Palestinians prisoners requested in the Hamas-Israel swap are women and children illegally held w/o charges? Never! (AP refers to all of them as “militants.”) Or that the shakedown of Iran is a massive violation of the 1981 Algiers Accords? Never! One fine day, these media monstrosities will pay for their crimes.
Tony said,
July 4, 2008 at 19:46
What do you expect from the “kosher” US media?
Most Americans have never even heard about Rachael Corrie, a young American woman who was viscously murdered by Israelis while trying to protect a Palestinian family, including children, from a bulldozer that was going to level their home while they were still in it! There was never a mention about this in any of the Western Main Stream Media. Not one word!
MAQAW said,
July 4, 2008 at 19:59
They covered the shooting and execution of the Palestinian tractor operator. It was “a terrorist attack” they said and covered the story all day. Somethings very wrong here in N.America.
detainthis said,
July 4, 2008 at 19:59
The sick joke of a smiley face is a formatting glitch.
Robin said,
July 4, 2008 at 20:05
Notice, this report is done by the AP. I have personally been in touch by phone and by email with Barbara Whitaker at AP headquarters in New York. I called her on Wednesday. Told her about Mohammed’s ordeal to which she stated to me ON THE PHONE., “I don’t know if we already received this story and took a pass on it”. Hmmmmmmmm, interesting! She asked he to forward all info and phone numbers which I DID. She wrote me back thanking me BY EMAIL. Yesterday I sent her Mohammed’s statement which you have up here also.
She opened that email FIVE hours ago.
Have they received the story and “taken a pass”?
So far, YES! There is NO WAY the Associated Press can say they don’t have Mohammed’s story. It was passed to the international desk TWO DAYS AGO!
I also spoke to the international desk at CNN Los Angeles on Saturday, at that time there was not much info, BUT I sent him the same info I sent Barbara, which was MORE than sufficient to let them know, he was traveling under diplomatic protection from the DUTCH, how to contact them directly by phone. That the State Department intervened on his behalf in 2006, that he was received by various governments in Europe on this trip, you name it!
BUT, he’s Palestinian. Is that the “pass the AP is taking”? Mohammed should not be treated any better than ANY Palestinian and I am SURE he would be the first to say that himself. Every single day Palestinians go through this, I’ve spoken to AMERICANS who have been strip searched and body cavity searched though not treated like Mohammed was. This is against international law!
But the AP (and I’m sure others will follow) want to spend time and space on the Jewish “girlfriend” of a troubled Palestinian who went on a rampage. YES that was WRONG, but it obviously was not a “terrorist” act, YET the Knesset is talking about sealing off Palestinian areas in East Jerusalem. Who is the terrorist and demolishing his family’s home.
Does anybody get it yet? The Palestinian/Israeli conflict has gone to hell in a hand basket but ISRAEL is the victim.
This is just too absurd to even TRY to understand it! It is the MSM and the US BLATANTLY saying both in action and in word, the Palestinian people do not count.
That is SICKENING and against every single value Americans are SUPPOSED to have,”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Happy Independence Day!
detainthis said,
July 4, 2008 at 20:55
Thank you, Robin, for your diligent efforts.
When Murdoch and the rest of the AP board of directors are in the dock at the Hague, they will beg for one more chance to run stories about the persecution of occupied and ethnically-cleansed peoples. They will then say that the U.S. and Israeli genocides and ethnic cleansings are illegal. But by then, it will be too late: their fate will be sealed. And once that floor panel is pulled from under them, we will then have a reason to celebrate independence. We will then be free.
Easterling said,
July 4, 2008 at 21:35
When I watched the video of the Israeli summarily executing the Palistinian in the Bulldozer the movie “Don’t mess with the Zohan” written by Judd Apatow and Robert Smigel starring Adam Sandler immediately came to mind. Is this Israeli the character that The Zohan (Zohar?) is based on? Judge, Jury, Executioner all in one?
Mona said,
July 5, 2008 at 18:10
Zohan is based on what is seen as “Normal or Usual” when dealing with Palestinians in the Judicial system in Israel or the Occupied lands.
Very rarely do we see Palestinians arrested as “suspected terrorists” or brought to trial because they are usually executed by “extra-judicial practices” via a drone or F-16, helecopter gunship launched missile or bomb aimed at them usually in the centre of Palestinian civilian population areas thus ensuring the maximum number of civilian deaths (usually women and children) because most Palestinian men are either already serving time in Israeli Jails, or Internment camps in the Negev, and although they have never been charged with any crime, the Israelis keep them there as a “collective punishment and so that when problems do arise on the Palestinian street, the Israelis are always quick to point out that it is the children who are on the front lines again, and the women – not the men. They know why the men are not there – it is because they hold most as hostages.
Another thing the Israelis are doing right now is cutting of water and energy to Gaza, knowing it leads to the breakdown of fresh water sources in Gaza and the threat of the outbreak of waterborne disease. This is a deliberate attempt of genocide upon Gazans who are already weakened because of a lack of proper food for the past year as well as medical supplies thanks to Israel.US and the UK.
Israel also doles out all financial aid from international sources to the Palestinian Authority, but one has to wonder where this money is and who is to account for the fact the Palestinian People are getting the benefits of any of it. AS THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS STIFFED ITS OWN HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IT CAN HARDLY BE TRUSTED TO PASS MONEY IT IS HOLDING FOR THE PALESTINIANS TO PALESTINE AND FRANKLY I DO NOT TRUST THE PERES-BARAK-ABBAS CONNECTION ANYMORE THAN I WOUL A BIBI-PERES-DAHLAN ONE.
WE NEED A COMPLETE UN. INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONFLICT AND ANOTHER VOTE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS TO THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE WITH UN TROOPS IN ISRAEL PRIOR TO THE VOTE TO SAFEGUARD BOTH SIDES AND ALL NUCLEAR SITES.
IF A ONE STATE SOLUTION IS VOTED FOR THEN LET IT BE. I THINK IT CAN BE DONE. IT WORKED BEFORE ZIONISM AND IT CAN WORK AGAIN. ZIONISM HAS RIPPED THE HEART OUT HEART OF ISRAEL AND THE SOUL OUT JUDAISM.
IT IS TIME FOR JEWS TO TAKE BACK THEIR RELIGION AND START BEHAVING AS JEWS AND BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE OPPRESSING AND DEMONIZING THE VERY PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALWAYS PROTECTED THEM THROUGHOUT HISTORY WHEN CHRISTIANITY OPPRESSED AND KILLED THEM IN EUROPE. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND PUT THINGS RIGHT BY DOING THE RIGHT THING AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE COMPARED WITH NAZIS OR APARTEIDT S. AFRICA. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO STOP THE EVERY GROWING ANTI-ISRAEL CLIMATE AROUND THE WORLD WHICH IS AFFECTING JEWS EVERYWHERE.
IT IS TIME TO STOP LIVING IN FEAR. AS LONG AS YOU LIVE THIS STATE OF PARANOIA YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE AND YOU WILL THEREFORE NEVER LIVE IN PEACE BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER TRUST ANYONE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU ARE CAUSING SO MUCH HELL ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO. THE WORLD HAS TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS BECOME TO THE WORLD IN LIVES, WARS, REFUGEES (INCLUDING JEWISH) AND MONEY AND WHETHER THERE IS A CASE FOR MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO OR NOT. I BELIEVE NOT. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. TO MUCH SUFFERING!!
Mazin said,
July 6, 2008 at 13:18
I would invite anyone to comment on a comment to an article relating to Palestianian bulldozer “attacker” posted on my blog here
Mazin said,
July 6, 2008 at 13:18
I would invite anyone to comment on a comment to an article relating to Palestianian bulldozer “attacker” posted on my blog here
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