Ironically, considering they are "at war" in their own corner of the world, Israelis have the real luxury of having a press that it's far more free than the U.S. media when it comes to issues of Israel, Judaism, Semitic, Hebrew matters, Zionism, or anti-semitic, content. I'd like to note that more often than not these are interchangeable terms as is deemed convenient to the writer and the bias intended.
In North America, public opinion has to be kept within narrow boundaries because it is here where resides the power to make or break Israel's welfare, and any unmoderated critique on subjects that are considered too essential for the conservation of the status quo (power/money) have to be controlled or quashed at it's inception either by condoning what gets published, or by means of political or economic pressure -as the campaign against the Berkeley Daily Planet shows- such as having money withheld from, or used against, the subject in question. Besides the ads from corporations like Federated Stores or Home Depot, a large portion of the power over the media is in the boards of directors of foundations who award funds or have strong influence over what gets selected for endowment. The Boards of these gigantic money bags of not-for-profit-but-for-power institutions are greatly in the pocket of the pro-Israel lobbies.

The big problem these days is the Internet with its Alternet, DailyKos, Indymedia, Truthout, MoveOn, and many others like it in many countries, so they are pushing, and will keep pushing and impelling and bearing until "control of the gates," or whatever clever euphemism is concocted to convince our Representatives in Washington on the benefits of suppressing uncontrolled public discourse for the sake of some (donor) business.
Because only about 20-percent of the U.S. population have to vote for, say, Bush or Clinton, to have him be Mr. POTUS, with unwarranted power over the rest of the 99-percent of the world at large who did not vote them in, we are constantly being fine-tuned within a narrow bandwidth with, for instance, gas prices that are uniquely low considering the huge demand we put on supply with our unrestrained usage. AIPAC is well aware of this game and plays as if it knew beforehand the order in which the cards are being dealt. Or do they?

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