{"id":58597,"date":"2013-08-13T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/spinning-the-israelipalestinian-peace-process\/58597\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T19:16:46","slug":"spinning-the-israelipalestinian-peace-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/spinning-the-israelipalestinian-peace-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning the Israeli\/Palestinian Peace Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSpinning the Israeli\/Palestinian Peace Process<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nby Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
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\nNew York Times editors, correspondents and contributors do it as well as anyone. They deceive regular readers in the process.<\/div>\n
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\nIllusions substitute for facts. Pro-Israeli bias reflects longstanding Times policy. The worst of occupation harshness goes unreported. Settler violence is ignored. Palestinians are blamed for Israeli crimes.<\/div>\n
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\nIn their book titled “Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East<\/a>,” Richard Falk and Howard Friel said:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n“The Times regularly ignores or under-reports a multitude of critical legal issues pertaining to Israel\u2019s policies, including Israel’s expropriation and settlement of Palestinian land, the two-tier system of laws based on national origin evocative of South Africa\u2019s apartheid regime, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and use of deadly force against Palestinians.”<\/div>\n
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\nWhat’s suppressed matters more than what’s reported. Systematic Israeli state terror goes unmentioned. Militarized occupation’s not an issue. Nor is international law guaranteed right of return.<\/div>\n
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\nKafkaesque control dominates Palestinian life. Millions of long-suffering Palestinians are prisoners in their own land.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nThey’re held in bondage. They’re virtual hostages. They suffer largely out sight and mind. They’re persecuted. They’re exploited. They’re brutalized.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nDon’t expect Times editors to explain. Managed news misinformation substitutes. It’s longstanding Times policy.<\/div>\n
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\nHardline Israeli control’s reflected in numerous ways. International law protections don’t matter.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nOver 2,500 military orders cover all aspects of Palestinian life. They include criminal, civil, political, economic, social, military and security issues.<\/div>\n
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\nMilitary Order 101 (Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions as amended) forbids gatherings of more than 10 Palestinians without advance IDF notice and permission.<\/div>\n
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\nPalestinians are prohibited from demonstrating. They can’t express views freely. They’re forbidden from engaging in peaceful protests. Displaying Palestinian flags, banners and symbols is criminalized.<\/div>\n
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\nOther orders authorize military tribunals without appeal, sweeping searches and seizures, land confiscation, settlement expansions, home demolitions, closed military zones, administrative detentions uncharged, exclusive Jewish development, checkpoints, resource exploitation, border closings, isolated communities, and virtually everything else affecting daily life.<\/div>\n
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\nOrder 1650 (Prevention and Infiltration) and Order 1949 (Security Provisions) were issued in October 2009.<\/div>\n
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\nThey’re amendments to 1969’s Order 329 (Order Regarding Prevention of Infiltration).\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nThey call Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Lebanese entering Israel “infiltrators.” They’re subject to arrest, imprisonment and\/or deportation.<\/div>\n
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\nIsrael’s longstanding policy to seize all parts of Judea and Samaria it wishes puts Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem residents at risk.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nIsraeli military commanders can dispossess them. They can expelled them. They can issue a decree to do so.<\/div>\n
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\nIt facilitates colonization and apartheid. It’s a ruthless form of social, economic, political and military control. It violates fundamental international law. It doesn’t matter. Militarized control enforces policy.<\/div>\n
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\nRepressive ghettoization reflects daily Palestinian life. Orders, rules, regulations, and permits govern the following:<\/div>\n
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