This is a really understated point — especially for western democratic societies.
I would argue that we should not be supportive of regimes (e.g. Israeli Likud) that are accused of violent hostility to war reporting and journalists.
Without open conflict-journalism, not only are war crimes harder to uncover (or easier to get away with) but sensitive voters and their democracies (everywhere) are threatened by a risk of subversion
I would posit that even the suspicion of collaboratively concealed war crimes disperses a planet-scale chilling effect throughout the ‘global social fabric’ of society
I would argue that the risk of extended damage to this fabric was the real motive for the Iraq War.
Maybe we should be challenging Israel much more deeply. We have not applied military pressure upon them, w.r.t. the current conflict…
This is a really understated point — especially for western democratic societies.
I would argue that we should not be supportive of regimes (e.g. Israeli Likud) that are accused of violent hostility to war reporting and journalists.
Without open conflict-journalism, not only are war crimes harder to uncover (or easier to get away with) but sensitive voters and their democracies (everywhere) are threatened by a risk of subversion
I would posit that even the suspicion of collaboratively concealed war crimes disperses a planet-scale chilling effect throughout the ‘global social fabric’ of society
I would argue that the risk of extended damage to this fabric was the real motive for the Iraq War.
Maybe we should be challenging Israel much more deeply. We have not applied military pressure upon them, w.r.t. the current conflict…
Full paper: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...
What is war reporter to one side is a spy to another.
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