Bloggers in Israel can (and do) say what reporters fear to say

One of the casualties of extended war, occupation, and self-delusion is the freedom and democracy that people say they are trying to keep.

clipped from www.richardsilverstein.com Anat Kam: the Story That Dare Not Speak Her Name Anat Kam is under house arrest for allegedly leaking up to 1,000 top secret IDF documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, Blau is in self-imposed exile in London aware that the police want him for questioning in the case You know that there is a prosecution-requested gag order on the fact that she was arrested and the reason for her arrest, which makes her the most widely known “disappeared” person possibly in the world. You know that Kam faces an espionage charge, and up to 14 years in prison. also what you can’t breathe a word of to your readers. Israeli bloggers They have stepped up to the plate.  They are reporting this story.  Anat Kam’s is the tragedy of an individual, while the documents she leaked reveal the tragedy of an entire nation whose democracy has been eviscerated.