GAZZA: Accusations of the press...

Noam Chomsky and other representatives of the cultural write an appeal to the mainstream media: "The press does not inform about the atrocities in Gaza." And turn reporters: "Refuse to be an instrument of this policy.

"Noam Chomsky and others 

November 13, 2012 

While countries in Europe and North America commemorated on 11 November, victims of wars past and present, Israel was bombing civilians. On November 12, waking up ready for a new week, readers at breakfast were inundated with heartbreaking stories of the military victims of wars past and present.

Palestinian children

However, there was no mention, or there were very short, the fact that most of the victims of today's wars are civilians. It was really hard to find, on the morning of November 12, even any mention of the attacks on Gaza that have been going on all weekend.

Israeli messiles

A quick glance confirms for Canada's CBC, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Montreal's Gazette. Same thing for Equally, the New York Times and the BBC. According to the report PCHR - Palestinian Center for Human Rights Sunday, November 11, 5 Palestinian civilians, including three children, were killed in the Gaza Strip in the previous 72 hours, as well as two members of the Palestinian security personnel. Four of the victims died as a result of Israeli artillery attack on a football field. 

In addition, 52 civilians were injured, of whom six were women and 12 were children. Since we started writing, the number of Palestinian casualties has increased and continues to increase. Items that do not bear the majority of the killings and focus mainly on the killing of Palestinian security personnel. For example, an article by the Associated Press, published on CBS - news from the world of Nov. 13, entitled "Israel is assumed to resume targeted killings of militants in Gaza," says absolutely nothing of civilians killed or wounded. Represents the killings as "targeted assassinations." The fact that the victims were mostly civilians indicates that Israel is not so much engaged in "targeted assassinations," murderers in the "collective", since, once again, is committing the crime of collective punishment.

Israeli rockets

Another report by the Associated Press news on CB on November 12, reports: "The launch of rockets from Gaza increases the pressure on the government of Israel." Attach a photo of an Israeli woman who looks at a hole in the ceiling of the house. Again, no pictures, no mention of casualties or bleeding corpses in Gaza.

Along the same lines, a title the BBC on November 12 reads: "Israel hit by new rocket attacks from Gaza." Similar trends can also be shown in the mainstream media in Europe. What is reported is focused primarily on rockets that have been fired from Gaza, none of which resulted in death. What is not clear is the bombing of Gaza, which in many cases have caused serious and fatal. It does not take an expert in the science of communication to understand that what we face is, at best, a way to bring poor and distorted the facts in the worst instead a voluntary and dishonest manipulation of the readers.

Palestinian victims

In addition, articles that do not mention the Palestinian victims in Gaza report that Israeli operations are thoroughly conducted in response to rockets from Gaza and the wounding of Israeli soldiers. 

However, the chronology of events (which led, ndt) attack began on November 5, when a man of 20 years, innocent and apparently mentally disabled, Ahmad al-Nabaheen, was killed by bullets while trying to approach the border. The doctors had to wait six hours to get permission to retrieve it and suspect that he might be dead because of the delay in rescue operations.Then, on November 8, a boy of 13 years who was playing ball in front of his home was killed by the bullets of the IOF, who had entered into Gaza with tanks and helicopters. The wounding of four Israeli soldiers at the border November 10 was then already a link in the chain of events in which civilians were killed in Gaza, and not the trigger.

We, the undersigned we have just returned from a visit to the Gaza Strip. Some of us now have contacts through social media with Palestinians living in Gaza. For two nights in a row Palestinians in Gaza were unable to sleep because of the continued presence of drones, F16 and indiscriminate bombing of several targets in the Gaza Strip so densely populated. 

The purpose of this is clearly to terrorize the population, failing that, just as we have been able to ascertain from the reports of our friends. If it were not for the post on Facebook, we would know nothing of the level of terror suffered daily by Palestinian civilians in Gaza. This contrasts sharply with the global awareness on Israeli citizens terrified and shocked. 

An extract from a report sent by a Canadian doctor who was in Gaza and has helped the hospital emergency room during the week Shifa says: "The wounded were all civilians with multiple bullet wounds: wounds to the brain, neck, emopneumotorace , heart block, ruptured spleen, intestinal perforations, fractures of limbs, traumatic amputations. All this without a monitor, a few stethoscopes, an ultrasound machine ... Many people with serious injuries but not life threatening are sent home to be riconvocate the next morning, due to the peak of victims. The bullet wounds were worrisome. Small injuries with serious internal injuries. There was very little morphine anesthesia." 

Apparently, such scenes are not news to the New York Times, the CBC, and the BBC.Prejudice and bad faith with respect to the oppression of the Palestinians are nothing new in the Western media and have been extensively documented.Nevertheless, Israel continues its crimes against humanity, with the tacit consent and full support financial, military and moral integrity of our governments: United States, Canada, European Union.Netanyahu is currently cultivating diplomatic support for other operations west of Gaza, which makes us fear that another Cast Lead may be on the horizon. 

In fact, recent events confirm that an escalation has already begun, as the death toll rises today. The lack of public outrage over these crimes is a direct consequence of the systematic way in which the facts are denied and/or unbalanced way in which they are painted. 

We would like to express our outrage at the despicable of the costs of such acts by the mainstream media. We appeal to journalists in the world, working for large media publications that refuse to be instruments of this systematic policy of concealment. We appeal to citizens to inform themselves through independent media, and why give voice to their conscience for them by any means possible.

Hagit Borer, UK; Antoine Bustros, Canada, Noam Chomsky, Usa, David Heap, Canada; Stephanie Kelly, Canada; Máire Noonan, Canada, Philippe Prévost, France; Verena Stresing, France; Laurie Tuller, France.

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