US media bans encourage Israel war crimes: Analyst

File photo shows Palestinians holding Friday Prayers at the badly-damaged al-Faruq Mosque, which has been destroyed in an Israeli military strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:5PM GMT

The US government’s restrictions on media with regards to Zionists are encouraging the Israeli regime to accelerate its war crimes against Palestinians, an analyst writes for Press TV.

“Israeli war crimes in Gaza… are enabled by the United States, Israel’s biggest backer on the world stage,” Kevin Barrett wrote in a column for the Press TV website.

He said Americans have no freedom to think and speak freely about Zionism, adding, “Why does the US support Israel? Because Americans have been robbed of the freedom to think and speak freely about Zionism…. If Americans knew the horrors that the Zionists have inflicted… on Palestine... the bloody Zionist experiment would face its final reckoning.”

Emphasizing that the Zionist regime is accelerating “war crimes in Gaza” against the backdrop of Washington’s restrictions on any media criticism of Israel, the analyst said the Israeli “crimes are enabled” by Washington, which never nudges from its unflinching support for Tel Aviv.

“Yet in the self-styled Land of the Free, an ‘apartheid wall of censorship’ blocks the free expression of anti-Zionist arguments,” he wrote.

Barrett said any American newspaper or broadcast outlet allowing an “anti-Zionist voice to be heard” will face consequences, adding, “Americans must never hear anything but the pro-Zionist sermons the mainstream media continually inflicts on them. Alternative views are forbidden.”

Latest figures show the death toll from fresh Israeli aerial and ground attacks against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to nearly 830.

Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday that over 5,200 people have been injured since the start of the Israeli offensive on July 8.

According to UN estimates, the majority of victims are civilians. More than 190 children are among the casualties.

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