Israeli Journalist Anat Kam under Secret House Arrest since December for Exposing Assasinations
Attention has focused on an investigation Haaretz published on the Israeli military’s assassination policy in November 2008, written by Uri Blau and headlined “Licence to Kill”. He reported that the military, the Israel Defence Force, had been carrying out assassinations of Palestinian militants in the West Bank in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling, which said efforts should be made first to arrest suspected militants rather than assassinating them.The story described meetings in the spring of 2007 in which senior Israeli generals discussed a mission to assassinate Ziad Subahi Mahmad Malaisha, a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The army chief, General Gabi Ashkenazi, allegedly approved the operation but said Malaisha’s car was not to be attacked if there was “more than one unidentified passenger” in it. Malaisha and another Islamic Jihad leader were killed by the military in June that year, and the military claimed at the time that the militants had first opened fire at the soldiers. One of the generals involved in the meetings, Major-General Yair Naveh, was quoted in the story as defending the killings as legal. The AP reported that Kam served in Naveh’s office during her military service.The Haaretz piece was accompanied by copies of military documents but it was approved by the military censor before publication, the Guardian understands. The story was published more than a year before Kam was arrested and was followed by several other articles by Blau that were similarly critical of the military.Dov Alfon, editor of Haaretz, said: “Uri Blau is in London. He will be there until his editors decide otherwise. We are ready to continue to keep him in London as long as needed. Uri Blau published a lot of articles in Haaretz. All of them are dynamite stuff and it is clear of course that the authorities are not satisfied with these kind of revelations in a major newspaper.”We understand this but we also understand that Israel is still a democracy and therefore we intend to continue to publish whatever public interest demands and our reporters can reveal.” Anat Kam, 23, goes on trial in two weeks on treason and espionage charges and could face up to 14 years in jail. A court-imposed gagging order, proposed by the state and more recently by the defence, is preventing media coverage of the arrest and charges in Israel.Kam is reportedly accused of copying military documents while she was a soldier on national service and then passing them to an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. Kam denies the charges. Her lawyers declined to respond to repeated requests for comment.A Haaretz journalist, Uri Blau, who has written several stories critical of the Israeli military and who has been linked in internet reports to the case, has left Israel and is now in London, apparently for fear he will be targeted for his reporting. Haaretz and Channel 10, an Israeli television station, will challenge the media gagging order at a hearing on 12 April, two days before Kam’s trial is due to start at the Tel Aviv district court.The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which reported the story from New York this week, said the investigation into Kam was jointly conducted by Israeli military intelligence, the police and the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service. The Israeli military declined to comment on the case.During her military service, Kam reportedly worked in the office of a senior Israeli general and is accused of copying classified documents from the office. After her time in the army she became a journalist, working for the Israeli news website Walla, which was previously partly owned by Haaretz but entirely editorially independent. Reports suggest she is accused of leaking the documents to Haaretz.
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April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@TheUriuriuriuri
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@TheUriuriuriuri
Suppose someone in Germany in the 1930s discovered secret classified military documents uncovering a secret plan to carry out the Holocaust and then made them public to the world would that person be a “traitor”?
Well this case is the same thing! Israel is now the Fourth Reich!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Israel is the …
Israel is the Fourth Reich!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
anat kam is a small …
anat kam is a small small woman who thought she was doing something big…
like she revealed any secrets… everyone in israel know we kill terrorists and most people are happy about it…
if take them as prisoners they try to kidnapp israeli soldiers and civilians to trade them back and they get free… so Anat Kam and her children killers friends from gaza and the west bank
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
jews all suck
jews all suck
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@hcwcars1
idiot
@hcwcars1
idiot
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Any other country …
Any other country would make it executed in the town square for treason
Like scum like her deserve
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
nuke israel now
nuke israel now
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@aovint63
ולי נראה …
@aovint63
ולי נראה שאין לך מושג במושגים… תלמד מה זה פשיזם ואז תוכל להרגיש טוב עם עצמך… או בושה…
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@Omersapir123
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@Omersapir123
מענין איך שמאלנים פשיסטים מאשימים את כל השאר בפשיזם .
אתה בטוח שאתה לא רוצה להתאמן לכתוב בשפה זרה? נראה לי שתצטרך את זה בקרוב.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@aovint63
קראתי את …
@aovint63
קראתי את שאר הפוסטים שלך ואתה פאשיסט… לא שווה תגובה מעבר לזה.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@violin614 I dont …
@violin614 I dont think she is doing it for money, just that she had access to these documents during his military service, and she thought it would be very interesting, giving everything to a journalist who could show people a practical insight of what Tsahal did. (Tsahal which we present as a “good” army, I went to Israel and Palestine, it is not at all what I found …)about prison, its true that in that “democratic” country (for Jews) is not good to show the truth … example with Vanunu
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@Reuvenn
Yes …
@Reuvenn
Yes Reuvenn, she’s terrible! She is speaking a load of nonsence in this video, I don’t know if this is intentional or not. She herself is extremely damaging, and should be removed from her job. She will have a hand in alot of antisemitic violence, all a by-product of her alone.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@gleutgleut
_I_ …
@gleutgleut
_I_ am jewish and not Zionist, however, Anat needs to spend the remainder of her life behind bars, I think.
Perhaps she did it for money, perhaps she will have regrets, beyond ever repeating it again, but it’s a risk to free her at the momment.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@Omersapir123
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@Omersapir123
יעלון קרא לך ולמחנה שלך וירוסים. האנטי-וירוס רק התחיל לעבוד. קם ובלאו יגמרו את חייהם בכלא יחד עם שוקן ושאר הבוגדים. כדאי לך לקחת את הדרכון הזר שלך, לארוז ולעוף מהמדינה אם עוד לא עשית זאת.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Just to think that …
Just to think that Fox is supposed to be Pro-Zionist…no balance, not one voice from the Israeli administration, only a leftist and a smug Fox interviewer.
Zionists control the media? yeah right.
The media acts as a mafia – when one of them gets out of line, he’s backed up by his colleagues no matter the issue.
Uri Blau is a traitor! he lied to the security forces and withheld secret documents!
They gave him a huge credit to give them back but he escaped to England.
Time for justice.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Judith Miller don’t …
Judith Miller don’t you with us saying “you love Israel” – u love headlines and u don’t care who you are screwing on your way. Israel should consider Russia or China to be their new Friend instead of Hussein Obama’s un-loyalty!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
one of the highest …
one of the highest rated networks in Israel?
פחח טוב אחי
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
What she, Anat did …
What she, Anat did was extremely serious!
Judith Miller is very dangerously stupid, if she can’t imagine why security means life and death, and discretion is of supreme importance.
btw it is now public, in Israel.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
כל הכבוד ענת קם, …
כל הכבוד ענת קם, צריך אנשים כמוך שישמרו על הדמוקרטיה…
מחזק אותך, תהיי חזקה!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Anat Kam, you …
Anat Kam, you belong in Siberia.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
good anat, good …
good anat, good girl !
she’s jewish, not zionist
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
How the could …
How the could she dare? For this act of high treason that mentally sick whore should be expelled from the country or never be released again!
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
שרמוטה מטונפת …
שרמוטה מטונפת הלוואי וישחטו אותה בכיכר מלכי ישראל
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
@ypaul123 you sir …
@ypaul123 you sir are an idiot…
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
I m from Israel. …
I m from Israel. Thank u for that info.