http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=216753Yoram East, an Israel Defense Forces paratrooper and longtime journalist who contributed to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin intelligence report, has died at the age of 68.
East, a researcher of Middle Eastern affairs, served as a correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz in Cairo. He also reported for Israeli television, German television, the Jerusalem Post and other media. He rose to the rank of colonel in the IDF.
He was a contributor to the G2 Bulletin after the premium, online service was introduced in 2002. During that time, he broke some of the biggest stories on the Iraq war, Islamo-terrorism and the Middle East.
According to the Free Press in Winnipeg, he was hospitalized at the city's Health Sciences Center when he died of complications from diabetes.
He was born in Jerusalem before the nation of Israel was formalized and joined Israel's military at age 17. He fought in the Six-Day War in 1967 and covered the Yom Kippur War of 1973 for television.
He later spent years working with Lebanese Christians and eventually moved to Winnipeg, where he continued writing.
The report said he also published several novels while living in Winnipeg and continued writing for several publications, including G2.
The report described East as a scholar, activist and artist in addition to his skills in the military and in journalism.
In one report from 2002, he recalled the history of Jenin, rocked at that time, once again, by violence.
He wrote about how prior to 1948, while the British were guardians of Palestine, "It was Jenin more than any other Palestinian city that was punished by the British military and was the site of major British reprisals in response to attacks against British interests in the Middle East. British commanders of the day did not hesitate to bomb Jenin from the air, to destroy buildings, whole streets, and to hit hard the civilian population.
"British actions, and especially their peripheral punishment tactic, are well-documented and show, among others, the use of Palestinians as "human shields" in order to protect troops and police, occasionally using the tactic of preventing the blowing up of railway lines by forcing civilian Arabs to stand on the front of the moving engine," he wrote.
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