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 Orwellian doublethink used by Israel May 07, 2006 11:01 PM

http://www.mediamonitors.net/edward37.html
An excerpt from the above article:
Orwell called this kind of misinformation newspeak or doublethink: the intention to cover criminal actions, especially killing people unjustly, with a veneer of justification and reason. In Israel's case, which has always had the intention to silence or make Palestinians invisible as it robbed them of their land, this has been in effect a suppression of the truth, or a large part of it, as well as a massive falsification of history. What for the past few months Israel has successfully wanted to prove to the world is that it is an innocent victim of Palestinian violence and terror, and that Arabs and Muslims have no other reason to be in conflict with Israel except for an irreducibly irrational hatred of Jews. Nothing more or less. And what has made this campaign so effective is a long-standing sense of Western guilt for anti-Semitism. What could be more efficient than to displace that guilt onto another people, the Arabs, and thereby feel not only justified but positively assuaged that something good has been done for a much-maligned and harmed people? To defend Israel at all costs -- even though it is in military occupation of Palestinian land, has a powerful military, and has been killing and wounding Palestinians in a ratio of four or five to one -- is the goal of propaganda. That, plus going on with what it does, but seeming to be a victim just the same.

Without any doubt, however, the extraordinary success of this unparalleled and immoral effort has been in large part due not only to the campaign's carefully planned and executed detail, but to the fact that the Arab side has been practically non-existent. When our historians look back to the first 50 years of Israel's existence, an enormous historical responsibility shall rest damningly on the shoulders of the Arab leaders who have criminally -- yes, criminally -- allowed this to go on without even the most meagre and half-hearted response. Instead, each of them has fought each of the others, or has relied on the hopelessly self-serving theory that by trying to ingratiate themselves with the American government (even becoming clients of the U they would assure themselves of longevity in power, regardless of whether Arab interests were being served or not. So deeply ingrained has this notion become that even the Palestinian leadership has subscribed to it, with the result that as the Intifada rolls on, the average American hasn't the slightest inkling that there is a narrative of Palestinian suffering and dispossession at least as old as Israel itself. Meanwhile Arab leaders come running to Washington begging for American protection without even understanding that three generations of Americans have been brought up on Israeli propaganda to believe that Arabs are lying terrorists and that it is wrong to do business with them, let alone protect them.

Since 1948, Arab leaders have never bothered to confront Israeli propaganda in the US. All the immense amounts of Arab money invested in military spending (first on Soviet, then Western arms) have come to nought because Arab efforts have been neither protected by information nor explained by patient, systematic organising. The result is that literally hundred of thousands of lost Arab lives have gone for nothing, nothing at all. The citizens of the world's only superpower have been led to believe that everything Arabs do and are is wasteful, violent, fanatical and anti-Semitic. Israel is "our" only ally. And so $92 billion in aid since 1967 have gone unquestioningly from the US taxpayer to the Jewish state. As I said earlier, a total absence of planning and thought vis-à-vis the US political and cultural arena is hugely (but not exclusively) to blame for the astounding amount of Arab land and lives lost to Israel (subsidised by the U since 1948, a major political crime which I hope the Arab leaders one day answer for.  [ send green star]
 
 July 22, 2007 2:03 PM

O.K., I've made other posts about this type of thing: in particular, the claim that Palestinian Red Cross Ambulances are used to hide terrorists or guns. When looked into these usually show up as things in newsgroups or videos which are distributed on the net. Any real scrutiny of the facts find the sources are Israeli. On the other hand, Even Haaretz carries articles such as this one from 06/11/2006: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784358.html The IRC is complaining that the IDF intentionally targeted PRCS ambulances. And Human Rights Watch mentions how IDF targets PRCS ambulances: http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/1ce874ab1832a53e852570bb006dfaf6/088e7c424b63cc19852571ea00536864!OpenDocument This is clearly in violation of international law which states that attacks against medical and religious personnel and objects displaying the emblems of the Geneva Conventions are prohibited. Now, wouldn't a claim that PRCS were indeed hiding terrorists help justify attacking ambulances?  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 
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