PATRICK TYLER

Although Israel is a vibrant democracy with an aggressive muckraking press, the continuous threats and actual attacks via missiles or terrorists, give national security and safety a high priority in political budgeting and policy making. There is a very powerful role of censorship that the military could and does exercise, with nothing like the American 1st Amendment to protect freedom of speech. However, the military generally has not utilized that power to enable governments of any political party to cover-up scandals or incompetency. However, no one knows if they have used censorship to cover up the incompetencies and scandals of the military itself.

Although Israel is a vibrant democracy with an aggressive muckraking press, the continuous threats and actual attacks via missiles or terrorists, give national security and safety a high priority in political budgeting and policy making. There is a very powerful role of censorship that the military could and does exercise, with nothing like the American 1st Amendment to protect freedom of speech. However, the military generally has not utilized that power to enable governments of any political party to cover-up scandals or incompetency. However, no one knows if they have used censorship to cover up the incompetencies and scandals of the military itself.