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   From: al92653@xyz.com   
      
   How Low Will Israel Stoop in Its Propaganda War?   
      
   By Stuart Littlewood   
      
   September 16, 2009 "PalestineChronicle" -- - 'The Israel Project', a US   
   media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the   
   worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten   
   territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their   
   crimes are necessary and conform to 'shared values' between Israel and the   
   civilized West.   
   It's a Clever Document   
      
   The manual teaches how to justify the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing, the   
   land-grabbing, the cruelty and the blatant disregard for international law   
   and UN resolutions, and make it all smell sweeter with a liberal squirt of   
   the aerosol of persuasive language. It is designed to hoodwink us ignorant   
   and gullible Americans and Europeans into believing that we actually share   
   values with the racist regime in Israel and that its abominable behaviour is   
   therefore deserving of our support.   
      
   Israel is hoping for a PR massacre. The other side - the Palestinian   
   Authority and the PLO - don't take communications seriously and have   
   neglected to correct Israeli distortion. They are happy, it seems, for   
   Israel's one-sided definitions to prevail, which of course makes the task   
   for Israel so much easier. This latest propaganda offensive is potentially   
   the 'coup de grace' to finish off the tormented Palestinians. See it here.   
      
   And the manual will no doubt serve as a communications primer for the army   
   of cyber-scribblers that Israel's Ministry of Dirty Tricks is recruiting to   
   spread Zionism's poison across the internet.   
      
   This quote at the beginning sets the tone: "Remember, it's not what you say   
   that counts. It's what people hear."   
      
   Top Priority: Demonize Hamas   
      
   The manual's numerous messages are aimed at the mass of "persuadables",   
   primarily in America but also in the UK. The strategy from the start is to   
   isolate democratically-elected Hamas and to rob the resistance movement and   
   the Palestinian population of their human rights....   
      
   "Clearly differentiate between the Palestinian people and Hamas. There is an   
   immediate and clear distinction between the empathy Americans feel for the   
   Palestinians and the scorn they direct at Palestinian leadership. Hamas is a   
   terrorist organization - Americans get that already. But if it sounds like   
   you are attacking the Palestinian people (even though they elected Hamas)   
   rather than their leadership, you will lose public support. Right now, many   
   Americans sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians, and that sympathy   
   will increase if you fail to differentiate the people from their leaders."   
      
   The plight of the Palestinians under Israel's heel was an international   
   concern long before Hamas appeared on the scene.   
      
   But this scorning of leaders is familiar ground. We scorned Bush and Blair   
   and had to differentiate between them and their respective peoples. We now   
   have to do the same with Barack Obama and Gordon Brown. We are tired of   
   having to make that same differentiation between the Israeli people and the   
   dreadful leaders they produce.   
      
   "Israel's right to defensible borders: With more than three years of violent   
   history since Israel's agreement to withdraw from Gaza and portions of the   
   West Bank, Americans have had time to take stock of the situation and form   
   opinions. The big picture: they believe that Hamas' leadership of Gaza has   
   made Israel and the region less safe, while some are more receptive to what   
   they perceive as a moderate approach in the West Bank by Mahmoud Abbas.   
   Based on these experiences, they are willing to grant Israel more leeway in   
   resisting calls to give more land for more peace."   
      
   Here we clearly see the motive for demonizing Hamas....Israel wants more   
   leeway to continue its land-grabs and other criminal activities.   
      
   "If. If. If.Then.": Put the burden on Hamas to make the first move for peace   
   by using If's (and don't forget to finish with a hard then to show Israel is   
   a willing peace partner). "If Hamas reforms. If Hamas recognize our right to   
   exist. If Hamas renounces terrorism. If Hamas supports international peace   
   agreements. then we are willing to make peace today."   
      
   How daft can you get? Substitute Israel for Hamas.   
      
   Words that Work   
      
   The manual sets out numerous examples of "words that work" - supposedly.   
      
   "We know that the Palestinians deserve leaders who will care about the well   
   being of their people, and who do not simply take hundreds of millions of   
   dollars in assistance from America and Europe, put them in Swiss bank   
   accounts, and use them to support terror instead of peace."   
      
   No mention here of the billions of tax dollars Israel takes from the US and   
   spends on munitions to obliterate and vaporize its neighbors.   
      
   "Peace can only be made with adversaries who want to make peace with you.   
   Terrorist organizations like Iran-backed Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad   
   are, by definition, opposed to peaceful co-existence, and determined to   
   prevent reconciliation. I ask you, how do you negotiate with those who want   
   you dead?"   
      
   Hamas and Hezbollah are only regarded as terrorists by the White House and   
   Tel Aviv and by US-Israeli stooges and flag-wavers at Westminster and   
   elsewhere.   
      
   In Executive Order 13224 - Blocking property and prohibiting transactions   
   with persons who commit, threaten to commit or support terrorism - Bush used   
   this definition: "The term "terrorism" means an activity that - (i) involves   
   a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or   
   infrastructure; and (ii) appears to be intended - (A) to  intimidate or   
   coerce a civilian population; (B) to influence the policy of a government by   
   intimidation or coercion; or (C) to affect the conduct of a government by   
   mass  estruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking."   
      
   It describes the antics of the US and Israel perfectly.   
      
   "There is never any justification for the deliberate slaughter of innocent   
   women and children. never.. there is one fundamental principle that all   
   peoples from all parts of the globe will agree on: civilized people do not   
   target innocent women and children for death."   
      
   Fine words, but where does that leave Israel, which recently killed 320   
   children in Gaza and 773 civilians including 109 women? From the start of   
   the second Intifada (uprising against the Israeli occupation) in 2000 to the   
   end of last year Israel had slaughtered 4,936 Palestinians in their   
   homeland, including 952 children, according to the Israeli human rights   
   organization B'Tselem. In the same period Palestinians killed 490 Israelis   
   in Israel including only 84 children. So Israel's kill-rate is at least 10   
   to 1, and rising since the blitzkrieg on Gaza.   
      
   Iran-Backed or US-Backed - Take Your Pick   
      
      
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