A [Palestinian] Journalist Beaten -- One Year Later

[zengrifter]

A Journalist Beaten -- One Year Later

by Mohammed Omer Released: 26 Jun 2009

June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr Jamil and I sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London -- an award given to journalists who expose propaganda which often masks egregious human rights abuses.

I want to address the denials from Israel and the inaccurate reporting by a few journalists in addition to requesting state of Israel to acknowledge what it did to me, prosecute the members of the Shin Bet responsible for it and put in place procedures that protect other journalists from such treatment.

Since 2003, I’ve been the voice to the voiceless in the besieged Gaza Strip for a number of publications and news programs ranging from The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs to the BBC and, Morgenbladet in Norway as well as Democracy Now! These stories exposed a carefully-crafted fiction continuing control and exploitation of five-million people. Their impact, coupled with the reporting of others served to change public opinion in the United States and Europe concerning the dynamics of Israel and its occupation of Palestine .

After receiving the Martha Gellhorn prize I returned home through the Allenby Bridge Crossing in the Occupied West Bank between Jordan and Israel. It was here I was detained, interrogated, and tortured for several hours by Shin Bet and border officers. When it appeared I may be close to death an ambulance was called to transport me to a hospital. From that day my life has been a year of continued medical treatments, pain -- and a search for justice.

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[Thunder]

There you go again picking on Israel. Why don't you find something better to do like picking on Iran or Sudan or North Korea.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Thunder

There you go again picking on Israel. Why don't you find something better to do like picking on Iran or Sudan or North Korea.

Why would picking on North Korea be "better"? zg

[Pelerus]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

Why would picking on North Korea be "better"? zg

"better" = more "PC"

[Katweezel]

There you go again Zengrifter, siding with the downtrodden, underprivileged, beaten, tortured individuals who try to stand up for basic human rights and human dignity against overwhelming odds. It is beyond comprehension why you often seem to concern yourself with fighting for so-called noble causes like truth, honesty, transparency, human rights, freedom, integrity, virtue, goodness and principle. Would you rather be right, or free?

[aslan]

Originally Posted by Katweezel

There you go again Zengrifter, siding with the downtrodden, underprivileged, beaten, tortured individuals who try to stand up for basic human rights and human dignity against overwhelming odds. It is beyond comprehension why you often seem to concern yourself with fighting for so-called noble causes like truth, honesty, transparency, human rights, freedom, integrity, virtue, goodness and principle. Would you rather be right, or free?

I think I'm going to be sick...

[Katweezel]

Originally Posted by aslan

I think I'm going to be sick...Attachment 2582

Your emotional response is a classic for the demonstration of the power of the written word to evoke extreme deep-seated feelings of primitive, unconscious fear and loathing lurking deep in the unconscious. With your permission, this perfect example can be disseminated worldwide, which may help countless others to release their innate impediments.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Katweezel

Your emotional response is a classic for the demonstration of the power of the written word to evoke extreme deep-seated feelings of primitive, unconscious fear and loathing lurking deep in the unconscious. With your permission, this perfect example can be disseminated worldwide, which may help countless others to release their innate impediments.

Kudos, your words provided a radical catharsis for Brother Aslan - he hath vomitted out all of the cognitive dissonance!
Say Yeah-YES and DA-men! zg