Sunday, November 21, 2010

Gideon Levy: Israeli press is censoring the truth away

Many of us bow our heads in surrender and self-censorship, which is immeasurably worse than government censorship ... Do people not want to know about the occupation? So we won’t tell them. Do people not want to hear the truth about Operation Cast Lead? We won’t let them lose any sleep over it. There is no need for the IDF Spokesman’s Office, it’s within us ... The government has closed Gaza to us since November 2006 and scandalously, no one defies it. It’s hard to believe that only one courageous reporter, Amira Hass, has managed to be there to report without being part of an army unit, while the rest of the press has given up the task.
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