tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post115418778310364476..comments2023-07-05T11:26:53.498+01:00Comments on A Big Stick and a Small Carrot: The LobbyGarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188217045700587288noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1154302441580581502006-07-31T00:34:00.000+01:002006-07-31T00:34:00.000+01:00Err... what's to stop pro-Muslim groups getting ho...Err... what's to stop pro-Muslim groups getting hold of the same tool and countering every move made by GIYUS?<BR/><BR/>Israel is well known for its censoring of the media. Hence the need to prevent <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/5229262.stm" REL="nofollow">unstable elements</A> from entering Ramallah with the threat of immediate arrest.Parlicoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09009124217415432774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1154275971115100072006-07-30T17:12:00.000+01:002006-07-30T17:12:00.000+01:00“I can, for example, publish an order that no mate...“I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything,” Col. Sima Vaknin [Israel’s chief military censor] said Wednesday.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Not unlike the imbedding of the U.S. media in Iraq...they don't even get a chance to view something that the military does not want us (the public) to know about. There are more and more free lance and a few mainstream reporters venturing out, but the free-lance never see the light of day in msm, and it has become ever more dangerous as the instability ramps up in that war zone. With out the net we would be nearly in the dark as to what is going on out there.benmerchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05822419839573670413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1154273913929721832006-07-30T16:38:00.000+01:002006-07-30T16:38:00.000+01:00Israel calls up media 'reserves'By Gil HoffmanUpda...<A HREF="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150886020429&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" REL="nofollow">Israel calls up media 'reserves'</A><BR/>By Gil Hoffman<BR/>Updated Jul. 17, 2006 5:36<BR/><BR/>[Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's media adviser Assaf] Shariv said that Israelis have been interviewed by the foreign press four times as much as spokespeople for the Palestinians and Lebanese. As proof of Israel's success, he also cited a poll of Sky News viewers that found that 80 percent believe that Israel's attacks on Lebanon were justified.<BR/><BR/>"We have never had it so good," Meir said. "The hasbara [propaganda] effort is a well-oiled machine."<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13941180/" REL="nofollow">Israeli censor wields great power over coverage</A><BR/>AP<BR/>Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET July 19, 2006<BR/><BR/>“I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything,” Col. Sima Vaknin [Israel’s chief military censor] said Wednesday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1154267949443359272006-07-30T14:59:00.000+01:002006-07-30T14:59:00.000+01:00Ugh - it's 'Free Republic' Freeping in disguise......Ugh - it's 'Free Republic' Freeping in disguise...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1154227182885282862006-07-30T03:39:00.000+01:002006-07-30T03:39:00.000+01:00I would tend to agree with you, if Muslim groups t...I would tend to agree with you, if Muslim groups tried to alter polls or infiltrate the blogspere, it would make MSM broadcast (cable news) in my country (us) and they would be very indignant while reporting it. But it is the same with the weapons, we and our allies are allowed to possesses, they are not (excluding the times we subtly arm them for a mutual convenience). The old do as I say, not as I do. And people over here still do not get why so many of these populations despise us in how we maneuver in our politics. It is a complex mess in the Middle East, but we in the west are so very culpable from the start in this past one hundred years of dysfunction, it may take yet generations to disentangle. <BR/><BR/>By the way, I like your writing… concise, straight to the point. It is not over done or over the top…sometimes a rare example out here.benmerchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05822419839573670413noreply@blogger.com