Sander van Hoorn 9

In het Achtuur Journaal van de NOS beweerde correspondent in Israel, Sander van Hoorn, onder andere het volgende over de door een Israelische strijdkrachten verspreide waarschuwing: 'Op die pamfletten staat: "Palestijnen, blijf uit de buurt van gebouwen waar mensen van Hamas zitten."' Van Hoorn verzweeg gemakshalve de volgende informatie die verstrekt is door de gerenommeerde Britse correspondent Jonathan Cook:

'According to the daily Jerusalem Post, Israeli policymakers have sought to reinforce the impression that “it would be pointless for Israel to topple Hamas because the population [of Gaza] is Hamas”. On this thinking, collective punishment is warranted because there are no true civilians in Gaza. Israel is at war with every single man, woman and child.In an indication of how widely this view is shared, the cabinet discussed last week a new strategy to obliterate Gazan villages in an attempt to stop the rocket launches, in an echo of discredited Israeli tactics used in south Lebanon in its war of 2006. The inhabitants would be given warning before indiscriminate shelling began.In fact, Israel’s desire to seal off Gaza and terrorise its civilian population predates even Hamas’s election victory. It can be dated to Ariel Sharon’s disengagement of summer 2005, when Fatah’s rule of the PA was unchallenged.An indication of the kind of isolation Mr Sharon preferred for Gaza was revealed shortly after the pull-out, in Dec 2005, when his officials first proposed cutting off electricity to the Strip.The policy was not implemented, the local media pointed out at the time, both because officials suspected the violation of international law would be rejected by other nations and because it was feared that such a move would damage Fatah’s chances of winning the elections the following month.With the vote over, however, Israel had the excuse it needed to begin severing its responsibility for the civilian population. It recast its relationship with Gaza from one of occupation to one of hostile parties at war. A policy of collective punishment that was considered transparently illegal in late 2005 has today become Israel’s standard operating procedure.'
Lees verder: http://www.counterpunch.org/cook11172008.html

Maar dit alles verdwijgt Sander van Hoorn omdat het niet past in de pro-Israel propaganda, die hij bijna dagelijks verspreidt, staande ergens in een donkere leegte in Israel, niet in het door Israel geterroriseerde Gaza, maar veilig ergens ver achter het front, binnen handbereik van de Israelische propagandadiensten. Meer daarover in een volgend stuk.