| "Thinking past the sale" - how anti-Israel propagandists worknoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 May 04:45 AM Israel-haters have a large toolbox of br | | Israel-haters have a large toolbox of brainwashing and persuasion techniques to convince the world of what are effectively lies. One that we have seen a lot in recent days is how they refer to the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It is a variant of a sales technique called "thinking past the sale." From Levers of Persuasion: "Thinking past the sale" is a persuasion tool where you get someone to think about what happens after they've made a decision or action. By doing so, you increase the odds that person actually makes that decision or takes that action. There's mounds of research showing that thinking about something increases the chances it happens. For example, there's the Pygmalion Effect, where positive expectations empirically lead to positive performance. Similarly, there's the Golem Effect, where negative expectations lead to poorer performance. In everyday life, you hear people talk about these effects with phrases like "self-fulfilling prophecies" or "I thought it into reality". Thinking past the sale works because: - The more you think about an idea, the stronger the neural pathways to that idea become in your brain (like in the Tetris Effect). The neural path of least resistance in...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: The Muslim Brotherhood's foreign minister Given Abbas' mild-mannered persona, Ra'am's statements following Abu Akleh's death were stunning. Ra'am responded to her death by demanding an international inquiry. Ra'am's message is not simply about virtue signaling. It is a proclamation. The party that controls Israel's government considers Israel's governing institutions – the IDF, the police, the Health Ministry, the forensic medical institute – fundamentally illegitimate. Israel, in other words, is fundamentally illegitimate. By demanding an "international investigation," Ra'am is effectively demanding that Israel surrender to the braying blood libel mob. Ra'am's statement was not an isolated incident. It is part of its much wider use of relations with foreign governments and institutions to advance the Islamic Movement's agenda from within the Israeli governing coalition. Abbas is carrying out an active, independent foreign policy that is hostile to Israel's most fundamental national interest – the preservation of its sovereignty. At least publicly, the focus of Abbas' diplomatic efforts is Jordan. Since setting up the Bennett-Lapid government, Abbas has met twice with King Abdullah II of Jordan. Last November, Abdullah and Abbas met for four hours at Abdullah's palace. The regime-controlled Jordanian media gave expansive coverage of the meeting. The coverage...Read More |
From Ian: From Congress to Instagram, We Must Always Call Out Jew-Hatred Over the past few months, pro-Palestinian protests across the country in places such as New York City and Los Angeles featured shameless demonstrators burning Israeli flags and spewing the harshest rhetoric imaginable. The protesters were often chanting, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," and "We don't want two states, we want '48," both of which allude to the destruction of the Jewish state. In previous years, we would hear slogans suggestive of peace or a two-state solution, referring to living side by side; now, when it comes to the land, the pro-Palestinian side is not looking to share. Well, the truth is, they never were. If they were, they'd develop prosperous communities in Gaza and the West Bank—in the lands they've been given—instead of using these territories to launch missiles and plot suicide bombings. So now, after yet another episode of terrorizing Israel with weeks of Hamas- and ISIS-supported attacks on Israeli civilians, pro-Palestinian demonstrators here in the U.S. have a clear message: They are not looking to live side by side. They're asking for all of it—and the elimination of Jews as a bonus. This is not a surprise for those who follow the politics of the region and how it has made its way here to the U.S. There is no such thing as simply being anti-Israel...Read More |
From Naharnet: Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Friday said anew that he is in favor of "peace with Israel," while adding that such a peace would have its "conditions." "I would like to see us reaching peace with Israel and Hizbullah does not agree with me in this issue," Bassil said in an interview on LBCI television, a few hours before electoral silence begins for Sunday's parliamentary elections. "We must reach peace but peace has its condition," he added. Bassil is hardly a model politician - he has been accused of corruption. He is the son-in-law of the current president Aoun and has been head of the FPM since 2015. Still, to mention peace with Israel as a campaign issue in a country that has traditionally been among the most antisemitic is significant. If he didn't think it could gain him votes, he wouldn't be talking about it. In the 2018 election, the FPM gained 29 of 128 parliament seats, about 14%, so he can be a power broker in the elections. (I could not find any recent polling in Lebanon to see how different political parties are doing.) * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin. Western news outlets initially reported uncritically the Hamas claim that the Israelis had shot her, eagerly regurgitating Al Jazeera's assertion that the Israelis had "assassinated" her "in cold blood." When the Israelis said Abu Akleh might have been killed instead by Palestinian gunfire, journalists grudgingly incorporated this into their reporting while continuing to repeat extensively the incendiary but unsupported Palestinian accusation. At this point, we still don't know who killed Abu Akleh. But any fair-minded person would say the Israelis are more likely to be telling the truth. They said that, having gone into Jenin to root out terrorists responsible for a recent wave of murderous attacks, their forces had come under "substantial fire." After studying what evidence they had, it looked as if Abu Akleh had been felled by a Palestinian bullet. This was because, in a video from the scene, Arabs are heard shouting: "We hit a soldier; he is lying on the ground." Since no Israeli soldier had been hurt, however, the suspicion was that this was Abu Akleh. Moreover, Honest Reporting's translated commentary on this video contains another crucial line. After...Read More |
This morning, Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, a father of six, was killed during a firefight in Jenin. We've seen lots of videos of Palestinians firing rifles in Jenin (and elsewhere). Clearly they are not mere stone-throwers.
The Jenin Brigades - a group of men with weapons - sometimes issue statements. Here they are from another recent photo: Their Telegram channel logo indicates that they are a linked to Islamic Jihad:
So why does the Palestinian Authority tolerate an armed terror group in their territory?
They have certainly fought against and arrested Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in the past. Now, they seem to be OK with this group.
Either the PA has decided that Islamic Jihad is an ally, or they quietly hope that Israel will uproot them from Jenin and while they publicly protest Zionist incursions and quietly celebrate.
But either way, the Palestinian Authority is not indicating any opposition to having a mini-army in their midst. Tolerating it now allows it to grow, especially with the current propaganda blitz around Abu Akleh's death and the boasting about the death of Noam Raz that is starting to spread in Palestinian media.
Of course, no Western media is even asking the basic question...Read More |
Before my Twitter ban, I tweeted: One side: "Let's look at the evidence, transparently, with all parties, and find the truth." Other side: "WE DON'T NEED PROOF! YOU ARE COLD-BLOODED MURDERERS!" Why is there even a question here of which side to support? Despite all the accusations by the PA, B'Tselem, Ken Roth and others that Israel cannot possibly hold an objective and honest investigation, as of this time the IDF investigators say that there is a possibility that Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by a shot that was aimed at a terrorist jeep that was near her. The military's investigation into the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been narrowed to focus on one particular exchange of gunfire between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen on Wednesday in Jenin, according to a report Thursday. This particular incident in question "took place about 150 meters from where the journalist who was hit by gunfire and killed was positioned. The incident took place at the time [that she was hit]," Channel 12 news reported. The IDF says that one soldier...Read More |
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