BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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CS: We are transferring data to a new computer.
BC: You can't withhold the verdict from me. I can't file an
appeal without it. It's already been a week. When are you
giving it to me?
CS. We'll notify you as soon as possible.
Once more, Dov was astonished. "A verdict," he said, "is
written by the judge and printed out in hard copy by the court
recorder after the trial. Verdicts don't get stuck in computers,
they are paper which is faxed or photocopied. This trial of
yours really smells."
But I will continue to call Eskin a Shabak provocateur if the
evidence fits, rigged verdict or not.
And I will appeal not only for myself, for every Israeli
journalist who will no longer be free to express himself on the
Internet.
If the appeal fails, I'll exploit the opening. I can't begin to
count how many real, baseless lies have been published
against me over the years on the net. I'll get them all with this
new precedent. I have one obsessive nutcase who has
called me a Holocaust denier on innumerable occasions.
Just last week he was up to the same nonsense on a bunch
of Jewish newsgroups, this time anonymously.
If the appeal fails, I'll go to town with him. But we'd all better
hope it doesn't or the only reporting you'll get from the Israel
internet is what the government allows.
Which was probably the point of this show trial in the first
place.
MAZAL TOV VE SHIMON RAH
One reader wrote, "Don't gloat." I don't gloat even when I've
been SO right in my last two articles.