| 75 years ago: Arab propaganda claims Jews would be safe under their rule - while they oppress their Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 Jun 04:45 A | | The Palestine Post reported on June 1, 1948 that Arab airplanes were dropping propaganda leaflets on northern Israel urging Jews to surrender and assuring them that Jews are treated wonderfully in Arab countries - better than anywhere else in the world. At the same time, Iraq - which had troops in Palestine - started forcing their Jews to pay huge sums: In Egypt, the government started confiscating property owned by Jews who had been thrown into concentration camps:: And on the following day, witnesses started reporting on the systematic Arab destruction of anything Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem: Arabs continue to repeat the lie, today, that Jews have always been treated wonderfully under Muslim rule. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: Richard Landes: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict The expression 'reality-based community' has a strange genealogy. First used contemptuously by a Bush Administration official in 2004 to describe liberals who objected to their policies with 'facts', it quickly became a proud self-referent for liberals. Ironically, as Kurt Andersen puts it in his extensive study of America's troubled relationship with reality, 'Neither side has noticed, but large factions of the elite left and the populist right have been on the same team.' This has become even truer in the six years since Andersen wrote that remark in 2017. Today we have two loud camps each justifiably accusing the other of substituting post-truth advocacy for descriptions based on hard evidence. In the process, a 'great divorce' has occurred between Western information professionals and the realities it is their vocation to understand. The following study examines one aspect of this problem – the conflict between Israel and her neighbours – for the following reasons: a) it was an early harbinger of things to come, b) because the misinformation comes to us from a legacy media that claims to observe professional standards, c) because this misinformation reflects the biases of people who, even as they embarked on this great divorce...Read More |
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Palestinians have it easy.
Whenever there is any statistic announced that shows that life for them isn't perfect, they have someone to blame: Israel.
So, for example, when there are some people in Gaza who are food insecure, it must be Israel's fault - even though it is much worse in neighboring Egypt, and even though Israel does not limit food into Gaza at all.
When the unemployment rate in the West Bank is at 14%, that sounds very high. It must be Israel's fault. Except that neighboring Jordan's is at nearly 22%.
Whose fault is that?
To the world, Palestinians have zero responsibility for their own problems. That is mostly because Palestinians insist that this is the case. This way they avoid doing any actual nation-building, and the EU keeps sending experts who do the work for them.
For three decades.
The fact that Palestinians choose to spend about 6% of their budget on terrorist "salaries" and family payments hundreds of millions of dollars that could go to help normal Palestinians - does not faze the rest of the world.
And the fact that Israel employs some 125,000 Palestinians, with salaries more than double their domestic worker counterparts, doesn't mean anything either.
The only narrative allowed - in the media and from NGOs - is that all Palestinian problems come from Israel.
And the world is happy - nay, eager - to believe...Read More |
This morning, there was a large explosion in a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command location in the Bekaa region in southern Lebanon, near the Syrian border.
The PFLP-GC immediately issued a press release saying that this was an IDF airstrike.
Arabic-language media spread the word about the Israeli aggreesion.
Since then, two things happened:
- The IDF denied doing any activity in Lebanon at all.- Multiple Lebanese security sources reported what did happen:
Five fighters from a pro-Syrian Palestinian militant group were killed in an accidental explosion at a base in eastern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said Wednesday. "An old rocket exploded in an arms depot on the base and five fighters were killed," the security source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media. In Beirut, a Lebanese military official said the explosion was the result of a blast within the base, adding that there was no airstrike. An official with a regional group allied with the Syrian government, said the explosion was the result of a "human error" that occurred when militants were handling ammunition. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity. Yet looking at the last several hours of Arabic media reporting on the explosion and its aftermath, the Israeli denial is...Read More |
From Ian: How lies became facts: The Tantura 'massacre' returns The battle over Israel's legitimacy, of which this story of the great "massacre of Tantura" is but a chapter, is part of the overall war being waged in the West by the progressive camp to impugn the moral foundations of the West as a civilization advancing freedom. These revisionist arguments echo the ideas of the founder of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, and his concept of "cultural hegemony." Progressive thought holds that Western narratives are deliberately constructed around so encompassing a body of myths and so pervasive a structure of institutions that they become the received wisdom and obscure an underlying condition of perpetuated oppression. Gramsci argued that codes of morality are constructed by dictatorial elites in order to create norms that uphold, validate and deepen the systemic oppression inherent to the capitalist system. Even the concepts of logic, truth and facts—the foundations of Western rational debate—are dismissed as forms of such hidden systems of oppression designed to contain debate into a repressive and misleading straitjacket. As such, the idea of "approximate truth"—where narratives trump factual records of history—become valid to legitimize a cause or perspective even when the facts would suggest otherwise, because facts are themselves a form of repression. The story of Tantura—or rather the myth of Tantura...Read More |
An article in Al-Khanadeq, which appear to be a pro-Hezbollah mouthpiece, writes about three examples of decades-old financial scandals that were associated with Jews. And it concludes, "Many are the scandals of the Jews, who practiced usury, smuggling, and committing atrocities, without any moral scruples or deterrents. In the United States, which provided a lot for them, they circumvented laws and engaged in fraud, and tax evasion. There is no doubt that Jewish racism and fraud makes the Jew feel that he is a hero in being outside about the law." It turns out that Al Khanadeq writes about how terrible Jews are quite often. One article claims that Yiddish is a secret language that Jews used in order to commit fraud without gentiles knowing about it. Another claims that Jewish fundraising is a nefarious plot that steals money from innocent people. But it is not only...Read More |
Raja Abdulrahim has become an expert on how to write slanderous, one-sided articles about Israel while carefully adhering to the journalistic standards that supposedly ensure "fairness" of the New York Times. As the Khoswan family slept, the Israeli military dropped three GBU-39 bombs into their sixth-floor apartment. One of the bombs exploded just outside the parents' bedroom, leaving the apartment looking as if a tornado had swept through, killing three family members. But they were not the stated target of the attack earlier this month. The Israeli military had dropped the bombs into their home to assassinate a commander of the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad who lived in the apartment below. Jamal Khoswan, a dentist, Mirvat Khoswan, a pharmacist, and their son, a 19-year-old dental student, were killed in the strike as well as the Islamic Jihad commander who lived downstairs, Tareq Izzeldeen, and two of his children, a girl, 11, and a boy, 9. "Commanders have been targeted before," Menna Khoswan, 16, said this month at a memorial service for her father at the hospital where he served as chairman of the board. "But to target the commander and those around him, honestly this is something we didn't expect." Israel says that it conducts "precision strikes" aimed at taking out armed groups' commanders or operation sites, and that it does not target civilians...Read More |
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