Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Chi si nasconde in mezzo ai civili

Human Rights Watch, la croce Rossa e le numerose testimonianze locali
hanno demolito il mito di propaganda che Hezbollah si stia "nascondendo
in mezzo ai civili".
Cio' che e' meno noto e' che Israele e' stato accusato, da propri
cittadini, della stessa cosa;
I cittadini di Nazareth hanno piu' volte detto che Israele costruisce
obiettivi di importanza militare in mezzo alle loro case, rendendoli
bersagli (e perdipiu' lasciando la citta', in questa guerra, senza
sirene antiaree).    Israele non conferma e non smentisce.  La censura
militare, semplicemente, rende impossibile ai giornalisti esteri di
verificare questi "segreti militari" (vedi anche questo articolo:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002876486
E chiedete a Mordechai Vanunu sul liberalismo mostrato dalle autorita'
Israeliane con chi
va contro la censura militare).
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http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=9475
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The problem is that Israel has been abusing very successfully its
military censorship rules governing both its domestic media and the
reporting of visiting foreign journalists to prevent meaningful
discussion of what Hezbollah has been trying to hit inside Israel.
I live in northern Israel in the Arab city of Nazareth. A week into the
war we were hit by Hezbollah rockets that killed two young brothers.
The attack, it was widely claimed, was proof either that Hezbollah was
indiscriminately targeting civilians (so indiscriminately, the argument
went, that it was hitting fellow Arabs) or that the Shi'ite militia was
so committed to a fanatical war against the Judeo-Christian world that
it was happy to kill Nazareth's Christian Arabs too. The latter claim
could be easily dismissed: it depended both on a "clash of
civilizations" philosophy not shared by Hezbollah and on the mistaken
assumption that Nazareth is a Christian city, when in fact, as is
well-known to Hezbollah, Nazareth has a convincing Muslim majority.
But to anyone living in Nazareth, it was clear the rocket attack on the
city was not indiscriminate either. It was a mistake - something
Nasrallah quickly confirmed in one of his televised speeches. The real
target of the strike was known to Nazarenes: close by the city are a
military weapons factory and a large army camp. Hezbollah knows the
locations of these military targets because this year, as was widely
reported in the Israeli media at the time, it managed to fly an
unmanned drone over the Galilee photographing the area in detail -
employing the same spying techniques used for many years by Israel
against Lebanon.
One of Hezbollah's first rocket attacks after the outbreak of
hostilities - after Israel went on a bombing offensive by blitzing
targets across Lebanon - was on a kibbutz overlooking the border with
Lebanon. Some foreign correspondents noted at the time (though given
Israel's press censorship laws I cannot confirm) that the rocket strike
targeted a top-secret military traffic control center built into the
Galilee's hills.
There are hundreds of similar military installations next to or inside
Israel's northern communities. Some distance from Nazareth, for
example, Israel has built a large weapons factory virtually on top of
an Arab town - so close to it, in fact, that the factory's perimeter
fence is only a few meters from the main building of the local junior
school. There have been reports of rockets landing close to that Arab
community.
How these kind of attacks are being unfairly presented in the Israeli
and foreign media was highlighted recently when it was widely reported
that a Hezbollah rocket had landed "near a hospital" in a named Israeli
city, not the first time that such a claim has been made over the past
few weeks. I cannot name the city, again because of Israel's press
censorship laws and because I also want to point out that very "near"
that hospital is an army camp. The media suggested that Hezbollah was
trying to hit the hospital, but it is also more than possible it was
trying to strike - and may have struck - the army camp.
Israel's military censorship laws are therefore allowing officials to
represent, unchallenged, any attack by Hezbollah as an indiscriminate
strike against civilian targets.
Audiences ought to be alerted to this danger by their media. Any
reports touching on "security matters" are supposed to be submitted to
the country's military censor, but few media are pointing this out.
Most justify this deception to themselves on the grounds that in
practice they never run their reports by the censor as it would delay
publication.
Instead, they avoid problems with the military censor either by
self-censoring their reporting of security issues or by relying on what
has already been published in the Israeli media on the assumption that
in these ways they are unlikely to contravene the rules.
An e-mail memo, written by a senior BBC editor and leaked more than a
week ago, discusses the growing restrictions being placed on the
organization's reporters in Israel. It hints at some of the problems
noted above, observing that "the more general we are, the freer hand we
have; more specific and it becomes increasingly tricky." The editor
says the channel will notify viewers of these restrictions in "the
narrative of the story." "The teams on the ground will make clear what
they can and cannot say - and if necessary make clear that we're
operating under reporting restrictions." In practice, however, BBC
correspondents, like most of their media colleagues, rarely alert us to
the fact they are operating under censorship, and self-censorship, or
that they cannot give us the full picture of what is happening.

Galilee's hills.
*ROTFL*
Come no! :)
Taglio il resto delle ca***te di fantascienza :)
-Stefano

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-Stefano