Americans For Middle East Understanding, December 1010
Publish It Not
By Jonathan Cook
In the mid-1960s, Jonathan Cook arrived in Jerusalem for the first time -- then as a tourist-- with the potent Western myth at the front of his consciousness, that of Israel as "alight unto the nations," the plucky underdog facing a menacing Arab world. But a series of later professional shocks as a free-lance journalist reporting on Israel would shatter those assumptions.