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Israeli Foreign Minister confronted at National Press Club

source: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3124

Vierotchka
January 18, 2009

Journalists' microphones turned off when Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni challenged in Washington.

Just as Israel has bombed a hospital and a UN compound in Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni came to Washington, in the dying days of the Bush administration, to sign a new US-Israel agreement barring Hamas from rearming. Meeting with journalists, she had the right to say whatever she wanted about Israel's "war on terror", while paying lip service to civilian Palestinian victims. Journalists for their part were systematically prevented from asking legitimate questions. Pepe Escobar argues that when it comes to media supremacy, at least inside the US, Israel will accept nothing but the upper hand.

Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007.

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7 comments // Israeli Foreign Minister confronted at National Press Club

  • csmonut
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      csmonut  

    • I recently watched the movie, "Bordertown" about the many women that have been killed and disappeared in Juarez, Mexico.

      Martin Sheen said a line in that movie and I can't quote him, but it essentially said,
      "There is no longer any investigative journalism. This is coporate journalism and we will do as we're told."

      For mainstream media, this is surely the truth. And as long as journalists like those on Real News continue to ask the hard questions, every effort will be made to silence them.

    • 3 years ago
  • kadugen
  • sohailstyle
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      sohailstyle  

    • Israel is a bully; peace is a state of mind: you can't bomb your way to peace.

      This press conference is troubling. Wonder what *change* Obama will bring to this pathetic status quo in D.C.

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • Holy Mackeral! Plainly a travesty of fair and honest journalism. Israel will go to extents to only show their twisted side of the story as well as cover up their horrible war crimes.

      Thanks V for this excellent eye opening story...

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • asherp
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      asherp  

    • The Israeli Foreign Minister is a cutie. I'd let her use flawed logic to justify killing *my* Palestinians *anytime*

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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