By B. Michael
Wars, by their very nature, are spaces where passions are released. It’s permissible to do everything that is impermissible in times of peace: kill, destroy, rob, loot, abuse, humiliate, become brutal and go wild. Therefore, to purify military actions, the combating parties apply propaganda, the purpose of which is to justify, conceal, and excuse all unnecessary destruction, wanton killing or harsh repression. The same is true in the Gaza war. Here too, Israeli propaganda is busy inventing justifications and excuses for all the acts committed. The global success is quite limited. People aren’t buying it and no wonder. However, the Israeli audience is endowed with two qualities greatly assisting the propagandist: a total lack of self-awareness and the absence of even an iota of historical memory.
An example: IDF public relations is always happy to announce an “arms cache” has been found in a school, hospital, mosque, residential neighborhood… Conclusive proof of the monstrosity of the Hamas enemy desecrating the sacred, exploiting hospitals, and concealing weapon of mass destruction in peoples’ homes. Ugh! They should be ashamed! We never do that. It is therefore good and righteous that we’ve bombed their schools, hospitals, mosques and residential neighborhoods. Indeed, we never did such a thing.
We only had secret arms caches during the Yishuv, which of course is not a despicable arsenal. The Yishuv era caches are part of the heritage of our heroic underground. The arms we concealed there were pure, meant to fight the foreign occupier and those who hate us. There were about 1,500 Jewish arms caches in the Yishuv. They were concealed in schools, synagogues, hospitals (including Hadassah), beneath the Torah Ark in an orphanage, in hundreds of people’s homes, and dozens of public facilities. But how is this comparable? It’s their impure “weapons arsenals,” it’s our clean and pure arms caches. Shame. Shame.
Another example: One of Israeli propaganda’s most successful bluffs excuses the army’s brutality arguing Hamas “hides behind the civilian population.” Truly terrible. Only they could do such a despicable thing. Again, historical ignorance helps market this hypocrisy. Israel, even now, is close to being a world champion in hiding behind civilians sent to the front. Every myth of “settlement” is built on that. The sanctification of “the plow and the goat” as setting borders is based on hiding behind civilians. They are sent with their wives and children to commit the mission of conquest and expulsion. When, Heaven forbid, they are injured, a marvelous excuse is created to send a conquering army to push back the border and expand the kingdom.
It’s hard to find one colonialist who has not used this contemptuous trick. Europeans in North and South America, the English in Australia, the Dutch and French in Africa… always the same way: fast conquest, bring in the conqueror’s people, and destroy, deport or enslave the native population. The malignant “settlement enterprise” explicitly declares this is its reason for existing. I fear that Israel is quite wrong to accuse others of hiding behind civilians. To again get permission to apply this argument, you should first clear all the settlements behind whose inhabitants are used to hide behind and conceal its intentions.
We haven’t yet talked about the lie of “the number of terrorists killed,” or “we didn’t mean to harm,” or “we warned them to move” before bombing the hell out of them. Maybe in the next chapter.
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3 responses to “Historically Ignorant Israelis Are Easy Prey for Propagandists”
Jews are the master of Propaganda. No one can beat Jews because Jews are chronic lies. They are unconscionable and morally irresponsible. Jewish leaders are psychopathic barbaric child killers. Jewish leaders have publicly advocated the complete destruction (including ethnic cleansing) of the Palestinian people in Palestine. For example, Israeli Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, who heads the Shirat Moshe religious school in Israel where students serve in the military said recently: “Kill the babies, kill the mothers, kill the elderly people, kill them all”. The Rabbi has the support of all religious and political leaders. No other regime in history have so flagrantly and publicly called for the destruction of people. The Nazis were not as evil as the Jews today.
Your reductionist tribal rants get tiresome.
The Brits were playing these games for centuries before they inducted a SECT of atheistic Judaism via Rot$chi£d/Ba£four in 1917 to establish a beachhead in the oil reservoir, later garrisoned by the traumatised survivors of Adolf’s $ponsored efforts to render Europe judenrein, foiled at Stalingrad.
Do extract your cranium from your sphincter and read a little history.
You sound very illiterate dirty racist and a servant of the violent Jews. I am offering you my thick BBC to suckle. It will help your cognitive ability because you lack it.