Many of you probably recall my post on the MegaPhone software that the Israeli media machine uses to make sure that public opinion looks pro-Israeli, but what i found yesterday was amazing. Richard Silverstein, on the Guardian website, shared an email that was sent out by the Israeli Propaganda Machine (much like Hitler’s disinformation officers). [...]
Read more →Ever since the Palestinian Authority was established, the Israeli public relations machinery has exaggerated the danger of the military threat that the Palestinians pose to us. When they moved from stones to rifles and from Molotov cocktails to suicide bombings, from roadside bombs to Qassams and from Qassams to Grads, and from the PLO to [...]
Read more →The BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has put together a great piece in response to Ethan Bronner’s article in the International Herald Tribune arguing that Israel’s war is just. Through a logical series of arguments, Jeremy Bowen presents a very clear example at the end traveling back to Britain’s own conflict in Northern Ireland. I have [...]
Read more →During an pro-Israel rally in Washington, DC, attended by many US Senators and Representatives, US Representative Mark Kirk (Republican – Illinois) felt compelled to misquote Shakespeare and stated: “Something is rotten in Gaza and now it’s time to take out the trash.” It should be remembered that it was the same Mark Kirk, while visiting [...]
Read more →I found this letter on the Washington Post website and thought that it gives great understanding of why the US was the only member of the UN Security Council to abstain from the vote for a ceasefire yesterday: In November, The Post accurately described the Mumbai attacks as a massacre [editorial, Nov. 29]. Last week, [...]
Read more →I did a post on Understanding Gaza a few days back, but here are some blogs that will help you understand Gaza and her problem better. Stephen M. Walt (author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy) Prospects for Peace Rootless Cosmopolitan Mondoweiss Glenn Greenwald Ignorance to the real problems of Gaza is what [...]
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