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Thursday, January 08, 2009
14:44 Mecca time, 11:44 GMT
Focus 2009
Other voices in Israel
By Rachel Shabi
Anti war activists lie on the ground in front of the Sde dov Israeli Air Force
base [AFP]
"It is very difficult to add a different voice, because the public and
media discourse is so monochrome and so militaristic," said Nomika
Zion, an Israeli member of Another Voice.
The peace collective, comprising of residents of both Gaza and
neighbouring Israeli towns like Sderot, is seeking to present an
alternative to the majority of Israeli pro-war opinions that currently
dominate the media.
But it is a tough task. Zion, herself from Sderot, recalled one
occasion when a colleague was verbally attacked in the middle of a TV
interview by a group of passers-by who tried to pull the mike away from
him. "I really feel that our democracy is in trouble sometimes," she
said. "If you can't raise your voice and say things aloud without being
scared that someone will attack you, it is very dangerous for our
society."
"If you can't raise your voice and say things aloud without being
scared that someone will attack you, it is very dangerous for our
society."
Nomika Zion, a member of peace collective Another Voice
Media reports on the Israeli view of the country's war in Gaza converge
on the overwhelming public approval for it - polls show over 80 per
cent in favour of the attacks. Israelis who are not supportive of the
war face the sort of public derision that Zion describes. But they also
face the challenge of deconstructing the government's justification for
its deadly assaults on Gaza – a series of key messages that are
strongly endorsed in both public and media spheres. Such messages
include assertions that Hamas is a terrorist organisation backed by
Iran; Hamas broke the six-month ceasefire that ended a few weeks ago;
and that Israel is waging a war of self-defence against Hamas and not
against ordinary Gazans.
"Many people in Israel call us traitors and war criminals because we
talk about the war while it is still going on," said Teddy Katz of the
Israeli peace group, Gush Shalom. "But the truth is that this
government ordered a criminal war."
Gush Shalom is one member of a coalition that held a news conference on
Wednesday, December 7, 2009, to brief the media on peace camp
positions. Some speakers at the news conference focused on what they
held to be Israel's real motives for the war - election success and
also, according to Katz, sanitising corrupt political reputations is
one factor. Others presented alternative voices from Israel's southern
region, which has for years been in the line of fire of rockets from
Gaza – and which is considered predominantly in favour of the war
ostensibly waged to defend it.
"As a mother, it's scary... and I think about the mothers in Gaza and how much
more scared they are feeling during this time."
Dr Yeela Raanan, a resident of Moshav Ein-Habsor on the Israeli edge of the
Gaza Strip.
"My son is there [serving in Gaza] and my other sons are scared by the
bombs falling over our house," said Dr Yeela Raanan, from Moshav
Ein-Habsor, a farm community on the Israeli edge of the Gaza strip. "As
a mother, it's scary... and I think about the mothers in Gaza and how
much more scared they are feeling during this time."
Zion, in Sderot, explains that it is precisely because she has been
traumatised by rocket attacks that she has less tolerance for her
nation's current militaristic mood. "As a wounded person, I cannot bear
this," she said. "I feel there is such a euphoria and glorification of
war, as though it's a wedding or a celebration. I can't agree with this
attitude. War is a dangerous and traumatic thing and we have to treat
it like that."
Mass support for war surfaces in the national media at the start of any
assault, says communications expert, Professor Gabriel Weimann at Haifa
University, who has researched media coverage across several conflict
zones. "During the first week, in every war, the media is very
patriotic and rallies round the flag," he said. "Journalists see
themselves more as citizens than professionals."
But national media shifts as a war progresses, he added, and this is
already beginning to happen in Israel. "You can see a split and
cleavages within the Israel public media," he said. "At every junction
of the operation, there is potential for disagreements. So, now, after
the ground attack began, you see articles about how far Israel should
go, if it should stay in Gaza, move into the cities, go after Hamas or
negotiate with Hamas."
Analysts say that the fate of the Israeli combat soldiers on the ground
in Gaza is the factor most likely to turn public opinion about the war.
"The value of a soldier is perceived as greater than the value of a
civilian," said Professor Tamara Hermann, co-author of a monthly poll
that monitors Israeli public opinion. "The media and public discussion
on Israeli soldiers relates to them as children, as sons and not as
actual soldiers in tanks and so on. There is an understanding that
Israeli soldiers are all our children – so that's why they are so dear
to us."
Source: Al Jazeera
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