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Disregarding Gaza: How Israeli elections ignored the Palestinians

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 photo, a Palestinian flag waves as a man walks over the rubble of houses that were destroyed in in Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Why is Gaza not an issue in Israel’s elections? A short documentary (watch above) examines the absence of Gaza and the Palestinians from the Israeli elections.

What kind of information are Israelis getting from their press? What kind of information is missing?  And how does that affect the reality on the ground?

Filmmakers Tamar Glezerman and Arianna LaPenne interview researchers and media watch dogs, and follow activists and independent journalists as they struggle to report the under reported. The exposure sheds light on the Israeli mainstream media scape, and how it shapes public opinion.

Shot during Operation Protective Edge, this film is an examination of what’s missing from the mainstream media.

 

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Mere words cannot express my gratitude for this documentary.

Thank you, Tamar Glezerman and Arianna Lapenne. Thanks also to the interviewees, and to all of the people/survivors of Gaza.

“Disregarding Gaza” is a perfect name for telling the truth.

What the west has done wrt the Palestinians is also a crime.

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Wow!! Thanks for the article and documentary. Do these people really want peace with the Palestinians?

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Great documentary, thank you! Everyone should see this.

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Thank you for this video.Thank you for your bravery in filming it.

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RE: “What kind of information are Israelis getting from their press? What kind of information is missing?”

URI AVNERY ON THE SORRY STATE OF THE ISRAELI MEDIA/PRESS, AND HOW THE ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN “BRAINWASHED”:
“Israel’s Weird Elections”, by Uri Avnery, Counterpunch, 1/04/13:

[EXCERPTS] . . . The Israeli media are already to a large extent neutralized, a creeping process not unsimilar to what the Germans used to call Gleichschaltung. [SEE: Gleichschaltung @- Wikipedia – J.L.D. ]
All three TV channels are more or less bankrupt and dependent on government handouts. Their editors are practically government appointees. The printed press is also teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, except the largest “news” paper, which belongs to Sheldon Adelson and is a Netanyahu propaganda sheet, distributed gratis. [Naftali] Bennett repeats the ridiculous assertion that almost all journalists are left-wingers (meaning traitors.) He promises to put an end to this intolerable situation. . .
. . . In the coming four years, the official annexation of the West Bank to Israel may become a fact. . .
. . . If the government continues on its present course, this will lead to certain disaster – the entire country between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River will become one unit under Israeli rule. This Greater Israel will contain an Arab majority and a shrinking Jewish minority, turning it inevitably into an apartheid state, plagued by a permanent civil war and shunned by the world.
If pressure from without and within eventually compels the government to grant civil rights to the Arab majority, the country will turn into an Arab state. 134 years of Zionist endeavor will come to naught, a repetition of the Crusaders’ kingdom.
This is so obvious, so inevitable, that one needs an iron will not to think about it. It seems that all major parties in these elections have this will. Speaking about peace, they believe, is poison. Giving back the West Bank and East Jerusalem for peace? God forbid even thinking about it.
The weird fact is that this week two respected polls – independent of each other – came to the same conclusion: the great majority of Israeli voters favors the “two-state solution”, the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders and the partition of Jerusalem. This majority includes the majority of Likud voters, and even about half of Bennett’s adherents.
How come? The explanation lies in the next question: How many voters believe that this solution is possible? The answer: almost nobody. Over dozens of years, Israelis have been brainwashed into believing that “the Arabs” don’t want peace. If they say they do, they are lying.
If peace is impossible, why think about it? Why even mention it in the election campaign? Why not go back 44 years to Golda Meir’s days and pretend that the Palestinians don’t exist? (“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people…It is not as though there was a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away. They did not exist.” – Golda Meir, June 13, 1969) . . .

ENTIRE COMMENTARY – http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/04/israels-weird-elections/

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