mdn2000
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Propaganda is a very effective tool, its simple to recognize and even simpler to prove as a lie.
Take Jaffa, I should of been all over this but in responding to the hundred of false premises, the thousands of lies, the thousands of insults, the thousands of racial slurs, its easy to forget the simple truth.
I found this little article that reminded my of a simple fact, the article says it best.
There's justice, and then there's propaganda - The Globe and Mail
Take Jaffa, I should of been all over this but in responding to the hundred of false premises, the thousands of lies, the thousands of insults, the thousands of racial slurs, its easy to forget the simple truth.
I found this little article that reminded my of a simple fact, the article says it best.
There's justice, and then there's propaganda - The Globe and Mail
There is a difference between most people and professional propagandists. The latter serve their cause by repeating a false statement of fact so often and with such emphasis that decent people think there must at least be a modicum of truth to it.
This age-old but effective propaganda technique has, as of late, given rise to such blatant falsehoods as Israeli apartheid, or, to quote Naomi Klein's open letter to TIFF last week, The city of Jaffa [was] Palestine's main cultural hub until 1948. This seemingly factual statement fails to mention the detail that there was no such thing as Palestine prior to 1948. The city of Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 in what was then a Turkish colony, later a British colony and once upon a time a Roman colony, consisting of lands from which the indigenous Jewish population had been forcefully though never fully evicted.
The headline of last week's open letter, protesting the focus on films by Tel Aviv filmmakers, was No celebration of occupation, which incorrectly implies that Tel Aviv is occupied territory. We are not talking about the West Bank or the Golan Heights here, but the biggest population centre in the heart of Israel, where the first neighbourhood was built in 1887. If that is disputed territory, then Ms. Klein and her armchair storm troopers are clamouring for nothing short of the annihilation of the Jewish state. They are effectively Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's local fifth column.