So why is there no mention of the Israeli propaganda on their own people on the Internet? Classic mantras spouted on right wing web sites tell everyone who cares to read it, 'a people without a land for a land without people', 'Palestine never existed', 'Israelis made the desert bloom' and on and on. Where does all this obvious fraud come from? Not having any Hebrew I cannot judge, but what I can find out in English about the right wing propaganda echoes the more subtle right wing propaganda in England and America, France, Germany etc.
It is said on the internet many times that the Jews control the media so there is no bad press ever published about Israel, and there are numerous instances where this can be shown to be true. I imagine that the Arab speaking world has a similar blockage about its own shortcomings and show all the atrocities of the Israelis and the imperial west in lurid detail. Are there two sides of this same coin?
The laughable 'fair and balanced' and 'we report, you decide' mantra of Fox News is known to most people, and rightly so, but is the Arab, Chinese, Russian and other eastern block countries any different? My impression of Chinese TV during the earthquake was that they were coping very well with a horrendous amount of damage – soldiers bringing injured down the mountains – one soldier hero carrying stretchers for three days with a hernia, and heavy equipment working on the 'earthquake lakes' and feeding people and putting up tents and temporary housing with days, in stark contrast to the Katrina New Orleans victims, by the way. But it was all too pat and 'managed' for my liking, political leaders visiting earthquake zones with no sign of hundreds of secret service types guarding them, talking to the people, listening to their troubles and urging everyone to help each other and the army to even greater efforts. And now in the run up to the Olympics the beautiful China theme is at full blast. There is one particular segment that is repeated hourly which concludes with a man saying 'happy China' which grates on my ears so much that I've thought of writing to them to point out that it doesn't work in English.
So, the Israelis and their media – can anyone enlighten me about the propaganda in Hebrew publications? Are the comments in English on the blogs typical, which are so full of hatred, and misinformation? They are almost a carbon copy of the right wing blogs in America and the BNP in England.
Are we all being taken for suckers?
Neocons and secret societies
Are the leaders that want perpetual war doing it for the love of power and money or is there another agenda? You can find such things on the web, which stretch credibility with international Jewish bankers, (my favourite) to depopulating the world for the elites, with man made viruses, terminator seeds, Jewish Ashkenazi cabals who want to rule the world, Rich Rockefaller families with a plan that has been going on for centuries, and on an on. What is the real truth behind all that historical research and the exposing of the current crop of dissemblers?
Many have remarked that they are now coming out of the woodwork and are blatantly publishing their plans for all to see, (New World Order, etc)because they think that they have such control of the levers of power that they are immune to revolution, overthrow and justice. That may be true in America, which seems to have opted out of the 'international community' never having been abroad to see how the natives live, gives rise to protesters giving more weight to American dead in Iraq than the huge numbers of dead Iraqis and Afghanis.
All is not revealed to the people
It is easy to see the propaganda of the George Bush Regime; total control of the media by the Military, especially with no pictures from Iraq – no photos of returning body bags, Generals who toe the party line, cover ups of atrocities by soldiers, both British and American, lots of 'reporting' on the situation from Israel Firsters in the press, who clearly have a different agenda to true Americans, generals employed by the Pentagon to 'catapult the propaganda, as 'independent observers', Cheney, Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and many others caught in lies, unfortunately too late to prevent the illegal wars. Propaganda against Iran ongoing, pushed by right wing Israeli politicians and Generals, the list is practically endless. And the same is true of the west Bank and Gaza operations; there is never any publicity about that, except a small amount on the Internet.
But what do the Arabs and in particular, the current 'Hitlerites', the Iranians and their leaders think about all this? Apart from belligerent statements from Iran's leaders being highlighted, can you find any reporting in the media that is not calling for bombing them before they 'become a danger to the whole world, which is the theme of most Israeli statements, equating 'their' problem with America and the West.
If the media is so obviously controlled in the West, isn't it likely that it is in Israel and in Arab countries and elsewhere? You can see the blatant propaganda in America, but what about in one's own country, if you are a westerner? Being English I have a built in 'Britain can do no wrong' since birth, growing up through WWII and the 'rationing' of food and supplies after the war.
It is worth repeating two experiences of mine. When I was a young man in the Royal Navy, one of my colleagues was reading a book about the German concentration camps full of lurid pictures of survivors. He exclaimed repeatedly that the Germans were all bastards and should be exterminated and the like. This went on to everyone's annoyance until I remarked that, given the same circumstances, the English were just as capable of that as the Germans. Of course he exploded and attacked me, and everyone had to pull us apart. He had to be calmed down by older and wiser men and told that I was right, even citing an atrocity in India where people were rounded up into a square and machine gunned in the hundreds during the uprising against the British Raj. The moral of this story is that I was not an enlightened being who saw everything clearly; it was probably just a reaction to his over the top rhetoric about the Germans.
The second anecdote is about the time, again in the Royal Navy learning Russian for radio spying. There was a visit by a Bishop who lamented that the British press were in the pay of the Russians, because John Pilger, (god bless him) had reported in the Telegraph or the Express that British submarines were in the Baltic Sea watching the Russian fleet in their manoeuvres. He was outraged, but for me it was a dash of cold water in my face. A man of God doing politics! And lecturing sailors about what he saw as traitors in the press!
Hidden xenophobia?
Now these two incidents probably shaped the rest of my life in many subtle ways. But what if I had been the one reading the Holocaust book and what if I had been a non-disillusioned Christian? I would be a Zionist, a Holocaust denier hater and a Republican! Small incidents can have a profound effect on our lives, which dictate our politics, our opinions, especially if you have not gone through something like a Palestinian family having your house demolished and your family jailed or murdered. And everywhere you see people' sincerely' pontificating from their 'positions' who have never experienced such things, have never lost a brother, son or father in these wars, or even had the misfortune to suffer a loss of someone to disease like cancer. What do they know about it? Can they walk in others' shoes?
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