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Related: About this forumIsrael's propaganda machine is finally starting to misfire ( Patrick Cockburn )
Israel's 'dream of Israeli and Palestinian children playing together' is somewhat hypocritcal when you look at the 230 children killed in GazaJuly 29, 2014
To many readers the New York Times coverage of the war in Gaza comes across as neutered or as having a pro-Israeli bias. But not to Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador in Washington, who lambasts the paper for failing to mention that a million Israelis were in bomb shelters yesterday as 100 rockets were fired at our civilian population.
Mr Dermer is considered so close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has been called Bibis brain. He is also a former student and employee of Frank Luntz, the Republican strategist who produced a confidential booklet in 2009, promptly leaked, advising Israeli spokesmen how best to manipulate American and European public opinion. Dont confuse messages with facts, Dr Luntz advises the spokesmen as he explains how facts should be selected and best presented to make Israels case.
It is a sophisticated document based on wide-ranging opinion polls, suggesting, for instance, that the removal of Israeli settlements from the West Bank should be denounced as a kind of ethnic cleansing. Dr Luntz stresses that spokesmen must demonise Hamas, but above all emphasise that they feel for the sufferings of Palestinians as well as Israelis. As a sample of what they should say, he gives: The day will come when Israeli children and Palestinian children will grow up together, play together, and work together side-by-side not just because they have to but because they want to.
The problem about this approach is that it sounds particularly hypocritical when, according to Unicef, 230 children have been killed in Gaza, an average of ten a day, and 2,000 have been wounded by Israeli bombs, shells and bullets. Israeli spokesmen are now denying their responsibility for the most notorious and televised atrocities such as the strike on the UN hospital last week. This is an old PR tactic, though not one recommended by Dr Luntz, which is sometime referred to as first you say no story, then you say old story. In other words, deny everything in the teeth of the evidence on day one and, by the time definitive proof of the massacre comes through, nobody notices when you have to admit responsibility.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israels-propaganda-machine-is-finally-starting-to-misfire-9636417.html
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Israel's propaganda machine is finally starting to misfire ( Patrick Cockburn ) (Original Post)
Jefferson23
Jul 2014
OP
Well, there is one roaming holiday of an individual that I believe used the same
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jul 2014
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R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)1. Well we can talk about a few hundred murdered Palestinian children or
a few broken windows in Ireland. It's my bet there is at least one professional ah*le that would rather spend the time with the guilt of the latter than the reality of the former.
Prime Minister (aka baby-killer) Netanyahu's quote that "Hamas uses the 'telegenically dead'" is not only obscene but also shows a complete disconnect from humanity and empathy. It is the same "broken glass" mentality that grafts his phantom pain and suffering on top of the reality that he is responsible for: the deaths of hundreds of civilians...children.
No amount of guilt mongering, crys of anti-Semitism, blame ducking or smokescreens will wash away the blood from the collective hands of the nation of Israeli.
The term "Never again" only appears to be a PR badge: worn by a few at the expense of the innocent.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)2. From the OP:
that the removal of Israeli settlements from the West Bank should be denounced as a kind of ethnic cleansing.
I can't tell you how many times I heard that used here, seriously.
I can't tell you how many times I heard that used here, seriously.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. Well, there is one roaming holiday of an individual that I believe used the same
bigoted horse shit not that long ago.