Roudy; Jeremiah; sealadaigh,
et al,
In the Intelligence business, we have the Espionage Specialist and the opponent, Counterespionage Specialist; but with each using essentially the same methods of operation. In the Information Operations arena we have the Propaganda and the opponent, Counter-propaganda; and again, using essentially the same methods of operation. Nothing new at all, we all know this basic.
This from the man who sees nothing wrong with palestinians selling their children to suicide vests and terrorists for monetary gain. Oh! The Irony! Pass the popcorn.
(COMMENT)
For more than two decades, the Palestinians have used Propaganda as a principle tool in the conflict with the Israelis. In fact, it is a basic tenant to their strategy of all-resource utilization. We call them the associate or companion Article 15 Jihadist. It is important that a viable and skillful counter-Propaganda effort be mounted on a professionally directed level. What the Israelis are reportedly doing is nothing more notable than what the Palestinians have been doing since the emergence of social media.
HAMAS Covenant said:
Article Fifteen:
It is necessary that scientists, educators and teachers, information and media people, as well as the educated masses, especially the youth and sheikhs of the Islamic movements, should take part in the operation of awakening (the masses). It is important that basic changes be made in the school curriculum, to cleanse it of the traces of ideological invasion that affected it as a result of the orientalists and missionaries who infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah el-Din (Saladin). The Crusaders realised that it was impossible to defeat the Moslems without first having ideological invasion pave the way by upsetting their thoughts, disfiguring their heritage and violating their ideals. Only then could they invade with soldiers. This, in its turn, paved the way for the imperialistic invasion that made Allenby declare on entering Jerusalem: "Only now have the Crusades ended." General Guru stood at Salah el-Din's grave and said: "We have returned, O Salah el-Din." Imperialism has helped towards the strengthening of ideological invasion, deepening, and still does, its roots. All this has paved the way towards the loss of Palestine.
SOURCE: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
But there are a couple basic differences in the approach in which the Palestinian takes. In the Palestinian Program, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised by core policy and primary purpose.
Propaganda typically takes any of these forms, or a combination of them:
- Name calling. This is the crudest and least savory form of argumentum ad hominem. It consists of labeling the other cause, or a generic or particular adherent of that cause, with a noun or adjective having a decidedly negative "buzz" or "charge." Name-calling is also a part of the genetic fallacy of endorsing, or casting doubt upon, a proposition merely by calling attention to its source, when the nature of the source does not bear on the truth value of the propositions that come from that source.
- Half-truths, or lies of ommision, in which facts which support the distributor are spread while deliberately neglecting facts which would pose difficulty.
- Testimonials. This is a form of argumentum ab auctoritate. A "celebrity endorsement" is a prime example. So, too, is any speech or essay by one publicly celebrated as an athlete, actor in any form of theater, or other such person, on a subject in which the author has no legitimate expertise.
- Loaded questions.
- Distortions of fact.
- Extreme pronouncements, which are a form of over-generalizations.
- Intimidation. This may include arguing from the numbers or reminding an opponent of the power of the particular individual or group engaging in the intimidation--or of an individual or group for which one claims to speak.
- Using abridged or out-of-context quotes to give a false impression, aka Quote mining.
- Sayings that, however factual, fall outside the scope or even off the topic at hand. A lawyer would say that such facts are "incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial"--because they do not serve to advance a logical argument, are not properly related to the case at hand, and do not matter.
- Outright lies. Dr. Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for Adolf Hitler, famously observed that if one tells a lie loudly enough and often enough, people will believe it rather than believe that anyone could lie so outrageously.
- Personal attacks. This method of propaganda often involves spreading malicious rumors and misinformation about other people. The goal of such attacks is to undermine the character of the person in order to gain the upper hand. Name-calling and intimidation are often used in concurrence with this.
SOURCE: http://conservapedia.com/Propaganda
Having said that, there are some who are
inadvertently mistaken for Propagandist; that are passionate about the subject, and occasionally, fall into bad habits
(such as calling everyone a "liar" or "distorting facts" to make a point).
Whether one is paid to make a presentation, or one feels compelled to make a presentation, is really unimportant. It is the ability to examine the content and determine what, within the content is wheat and what is chaff. I've listened to almost everyone in this group, and the one thing in common is that ability to apply "critical thinking."
(Many time to cross purposes.)
Just My Thought on an otherwise Funny Subject,
R
