Pirate state of Israel

[SaraSara]

The father and child photo sequence is heartbreaking - no matter how much Israeli apologists dissemble, one picture is worth a thousand words.

 

[AlexfromLA]

The Hasbara Handbook

http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf

The Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus, is now available online. And this is an interesting admission (page 31 onwards):

" Propaganda is used by those who want to communicate in ways that engage the emotions and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote a certain message. "

The manual goes on to describe seven propaganda techniques:

1. Name calling:
2. Glittering generality
3. Transfer:
4. Testimonial:
5. Plain folks:
6. Fear:
7. Bandwagon:
The examples given are very interesting, and worth reading..

 

[AlexfromLA]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hasbara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbara_Fellowships

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbara

Hasbara

Hasbara refers to the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. Using contemporary euphemisms, it is Public diplomacy for Israel, or using a pejorative interpretation, then it is apologia. Israel portrays itself as fighting on two fronts: the Palestinians and world opinion. The latter is dealt with hasbara. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.

The techniques utilized :

1. Smearing/defaming critics of Israel, aka, attacking the messenger. This is even the terminology found in the Hasbara Handbook

2. Selective discussion of issues

3. Framing of issues, and setting the terminology used in discussing Israel

4. Harassing media about its coverage, aka, flak

5. Challenging the portrayal of an alternative narrative, and attempting to keep the zionist narrative as the dominant one.

 

[AlexfromLA]

They haven't been " accused ". It's been confirmed. But again, they try to " rationalize " and " justify " it's uses on civilians by endlessly arguing bullshit points

All the while people are still dying.

Israeli White Phosphorous rounds :

IDF showering Gazan and Lebanese civilians with WP :

THE NUCLEAR-ARMED ISRAEL IS CONFIRMED AS BEING A ROGUE STATE.

Israel has been accused of using weapons in Gaza that are and have been deemed to be illegal weapons in terms of their use in populated areas. Video footage of Israeli aircraft dropping such weapons has been seen worldwide.

 

[AlexfromLA]

The aftermath of these barbaric White Phosphorous attacks on Palastinian and Lebanese civilians:

These are human beings, children.

 

[SaraSara]

Of course, none of those pictures makes it to the papers or, God forbid, the TV news shows. But let an Israeli have a broken leg, and it's front page news.

In the recent Israeli attack on the relief flotilla, the NY Times ran two pictures in a front page: a small one of the face of a wounded civilian Arab, and a LARGE one of a wounded Israeli soldier being carried on a stretcher. Looking at the photo spread you'd never think that ten Palestinian sympathizers were killed, while a couple of Israeli soldiers were just wounded.

It is not politically correct to say so, but many Americans are sick of Israel's aggression and indignant at the endless flow of taxpayers' funneled to finance its military. It gets seven million dollars a day at a time when many Americans are losing their homes and their unemployment benefits.

 

[AlexfromLA]

Public opinion has shifted. It is no longer politically incorrect to denounce israels crimes. That is why you see their online desperation in trying to control the " debate " as if there was anything to debate.

Their propagandists will try to demonize you for it. But who cares, the only thing that really matters is that good people stand up for what is right.

'I tell you the truth , whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

 

[bigbadwolf]

Here is an interesting article, titled "Child Tortured, His Genitals Electrified By Israeli Interrogators." No doubt it will send Darmanad scurrying to cook up an erudite and sophisticated legal analysis on how this was completely justified in this best of all possible worlds.

 

[SaraSara]

Here is an interesting article, titled "Child Tortured, His Genitals Electrified By Israeli Interrogators." No doubt it will send Darmanad scurrying to cook up an erudite and sophisticated legal analysis on how this was completely justified in this best of all possible worlds.

After the last few posts in this thread, perhaps Darmanad decided to move on in search of more gullible people.

 

[Matt84]

2. Selective discussion of issues:

How much do we hear about Israel/Palestine in proportion to other world atrocities? and how much snatch porn do we have to bear? That's selective discussion of issues to me!

Human beings are capable of doing the most glorious heroic achievements (like the polio vaccine or the twin towers of the WTC) and also to destroy it. It happens everywhere but specially in the most backward places. Do you dare take a look at what's been happening in Africa since the Europeans left? Disturbing images if you dare click on some of the rest of the world.

But Sara has a point: Americans are fed up of not understanding why they have to subsidize Israel. I wont get into that, but will just state that Jews living in America for the most part do not support Israel and are scared *** to be bundled together under the new brand name Zionist.