[wvns] Remember Daniel Pearl?

Remember Daniel Pearl?
By Jenifer Dixon *
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/11/07/remember-daniel-pearl/

Daniel Pearl was an American Jewish journalist, who was assassinated
by the Afghans in 2002. I looked his name up on the Internet, and after 55 references to him, I quit. What do I bring this up? I do it because at that time, I remember hearing about Daniel Pearl 24/7 on more than one "mainstream" station. There are biographies of Daniel Pearl. There are celebrations of Daniel Pearl. There are endless stories about Daniel Pearl's assassination. There is a Daniel Pearl Foundation. Etc. etc. etc.

Now, here is some information that was never presented on "mainstream" media. According to Palestine Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow by Dr. Tareq M. Suwaidan there were 9 Palestinian journalists
killed in the Intifada between 29 September 2000 to 30 December 2003 by the IDF. That is 9 journalists killed by the Israelis and not a word mentioned.

I was listening to an Internet broadcast from Global Research on the
question of Palestine. Both the interviewer and interviewee were
Jewish. Nonetheless, they expressed a concern about the "Israeli
Palestinian conflict." They had on their show an interview with a
Palestinian journalist from Gaza, but his accent was so thick as to be
incomprehensible. They then decried the tragedy of the cycle of
violence, but assured the audience that this too would end. However, I
noticed that the woman being interviewed by Mr. Lendeman, a Rachel
somebody, a professor at Emory University, was the author of of several blocks on "Islamic terrorism". I also noticed that they did not go into any detail on the situation in Gaza or in Palestine. They also told the audience that the censorship of these stories from the Occupied Territories originated high up in the chain of command in a "mainstream media."

They fail to mention that at the end of July of 2006 Israeli
military forces attacked Al Manar TV in Beirut. In January of 2002, the Israeli military forces blew up a Palestinian broadcasting center in Ramallah. In April 2002, Israeli military forces inflicted devastating damage to the offices of the Palestine Monitor. In August of 2009 Israeli troops raided Radio Bethlehem and ordered the staff to stop broadcasting.

I then pulled a report that detailed, some 75 assaults from Israeli security forces on journalists working in the Occupied Territories, both Palestinian and foreign, in the year 2000 alone. Nine were attacked on the 1st day of the Intifada. 9 again? Ready for some numerology?

This obviously indicates an intended desire to squelch the truth on
the ground as it happened, and the heavy-handed suppression of
Palestinian press, indeed of all press.

Then to beat all, I found this item entitled "Israeli media mogul
Haim Saban mulls stake in Al Jazeera." This story dated October 8, 2009 in Ha'aretz states that the Israeli businessman is negotiating for 50% of this "beacon" of the voice of the peoples of the Middle East. Okay. What more needs to be said? Or as Washington Post promotional copy puts it "if you don't got it, you just don't get it"

Remember Daniel Pearl? Of course, you do.

* Jenifer Dixon is a writer and former activist who lives in the
Washington, DC area. She has published in the Washington Post, Voices
of Women, WomenWise, Rainbow Visions, the Palestine Chronicle and
Arab-American News. The website GlobalSpin was her contribution to the
Net for three years. She was also a contributing writer to the book Challenge to Genocide: Let Iraq Live. The Holy Land Unveiled is her first book.

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