Who Are The Palestinians " III "

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The Palestinian's are a people that want justice. They want to be treated fairly. Treated with respect. Treated with dignity. There is nothing in sixties fan posts that reflect any of this!

 

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Of course, Hamas is no stranger to employing propaganda tactics in a bid to influence both the Israeli government and the western media.

For example, the May 2021 war saw the terror propaganda machine in full swing, including when the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior in Gaza issued stern guidanceabout how the foreign press can be best manipulated. “Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza,” read one of the directives.

Another directive stated: “Avoid publishing pictures of rockets fired into Israel from [Gaza] city centers. This [would] provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in the Gaza Strip. Do not publish or share photos or video clips showing rocket launching sites or the movement of resistance [forces] in Gaza.”

The guidance seemingly did the trick.

The BBC, for example, fell into the trap of peddling Hamas propaganda when it ran an article that was designed to tug at readers’ heartstrings, specifically its description of a photo of a little girl holding a doll as she sat in the “ruins of the tower block that was brought down by Israeli air strikes next to her family home – which was also hit.”

The British broadcaster, however, neglected to tell its readers that the tower block that had been hit was housing members of Hamas and was being used for military purposes, despite its location in a densely-populated area.

The New York Times was also apparently used as a mouthpiece for Gaza’s genocidal rulers when it purported to highlight the devastating impact of the war on young Palestinians. As well as failing to mention Hamas’ policy of using its civilians as human shields, the newspaper only mentioned in its accompanying article — and not the 14-minute video lead — that the film had only been produced after “securing permission from Hamas.”

As we noted at the time, Hamas shapes the narrative of such reports by accompanying foreign journalists and vetting their every move. Those who fail to observe the rules are liable to be harassed, have footage destroyed, or risk being banned from the enclave.

Returning to the latest Hamas propaganda statement about an allegedly deceased militant guarding the remains of an Israeli soldier, there has been radio silence from news outlets. Not a single mainstream media publication has reported on Hamas’ implicit efforts to blackmail the Israeli government into releasing Palestinian prisoners.

It would appear, therefore, that the media has something of an Achilles’ heel when it comes to identifying Hamas propaganda, whatever guise it comes in.

(full article online)

The Media Achilles' Heel That Is Hamas Propaganda | Honest Reporting

The media has something of an Achilles' heel when it comes to identifying Hamas propaganda, whatever guise it comes in.

honestreporting.com

 

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She was one of the earliest members of the International Solidarity Movement, which spearheaded the Gaza flotilla campaigns, and encouraged foreign nationals to antagonize Israeli soldiers and even serve as human shields for Palestinian fugitive terrorists.

Arraf was a key figure in the Gaza flotilla campaigns that sought to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, personally participating in flotillas in 2008 and 2010.

In 2002, Arraf and other ISM volunteers acted as human shields for Palestinian terrorists barricaded inside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.

Years later, a Fatah official admitted in the so-called church siege was “orchestrated by Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority,” Ynetreported.

“The conspiracy was to make a siege and put all the fighters inside the church so Israel would make the siege. People from the Palestinian Authority collaborated with this conspiracy,” said Eiman Abu Eita, a Fatah representative who was Beit Sahour’s al-Aqsa Brigades chief. Eita was quoted in a book by Mideast reporter Aaron Klein.

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Palestinian Terrorists’ Former Human Shield Loses Primary in Michigan | United with Israel

Arraf once served as human shield for Palestinian terrorists and was a key figure in the Gaza flotilla campaign.

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[ Palestinian Arabs, who say they are indigenous to the region called Palestine, do not seem to care one iota about the alleged patriarchs of Islam who came from there]


Israeli forces were successful in capturing a terrorist on Tuesday moments after he threw a firebomb at the Kever Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb) complex, just south of Jerusalem.

The police stated that Border Police forces were waiting to ambush terrorists throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails at Rachel’s Tomb, a prominent Jewish site of prayer and study.

The forces identified a suspect who threw a Molotov cocktail at the tomb complex. Responding quickly, the forces arrested the suspect “red-handed” while trying to escape from the scene.

(full article online)

Tomb of Rachel Firebombing: Israel Captures Terrorist After Attack | United with Israel

Responding quickly, the forces arrested the suspect 'red-handed' while trying to escape from the scene.

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In an article that appeared in the Palestinian Authority (PA) daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on August 1, 2022, Osama Al-Ashqar, a prisoner serving eight life sentences plus fifty years in an Israeli prison, defended a summer camp operated this year by Fatah in the West Bank that offered weapons and combat training for children and teens. The camp was held in the town of Beita near Nablus. In the article, published in response to a report about the camp on Israel's state-owned television channel,[1] Al-Ashqar wrote that summer camps of this sort are an important national activity which lays the groundwork for the Palestinian national edifice and shapes the minds of the young generation. He called the Israeli television report incitement against any attempt to implement the idea of the liberation of Palestine.

It should be noted that Al-Ashqar, who was a member of the Fatah military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, was convicted of involvement in the 2002 Fatah shooting attacks in Kibbutz Metzer and in the Hermesh settlement, in which eight Israelis were killed. Despite his being a prisoner, his articles are occasionally published in the PA Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily.

Photo from Fatah's official Facebook page shows "Sons of Martyrs from the town of Beita at a summer camp in their town. (Source: Facebook.com/officialfateh1965, July 25, 2022)

The following are translated excerpts from Al-Ashqar's article: [2]

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Prisoner Serving Eight Life Sentences Writes In Palestinian Authority Daily: Weapons Training At Fatah Summer Camps Is An Important National Activity

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• Many residents of the Gaza Strip undoubtedly regret the day they voted for Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary election.
• The last protest, which took place in 2017 under the slogan "We Want to Live!", was brutally crushed by Hamas's security forces and armed militias.
• "In all countries of the world, you pay taxes for the services that the state provides you, except for us. In return, there are no hospitals, no education, no electricity, no water, no public utilities, not even rodent control." — Khalil Talmas, Gaza Strip resident, Facebook, July 27, 2022.
• "'We Want to Live!'... is a cry of pain from the depths of a crushed and exhausted Palestinian people. It is a cry against taxes, extortion, repression and corruption." — Anas Al-Jazzar, Twitter, July 28, 2022.
• Other Palestinians said that the current protest was directed not only against Hamas, but also against the Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank....
• These Palestinians pointed out the corrupt leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and their family members are leading comfortable lives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and in five-star hotels and big villas in Qatar and Turkey, while most people were living in poverty and unemployment and misery.
• "So the [Hamas] leaders' families, their children, grandchildren do not believe in their own [political and military] project, and although they can live in Gaza in the utmost luxury, they choose to leave it for the hotels and villas of Doha and Istanbul. They left the hungry people of Gaza to live in poverty, deprivation and hunger." — Mohammed Nashwan, Gaza Strip resident, alarab.co.uk, July 21, 2022.
• [T]hese voices offer a glimmer of hope that the Palestinians are finally beginning to realize that their corrupt and incompetent leaders -- whether in the Palestinian Authority or Hamas -- are continuing to lead them from one disaster to another, while depriving them of the international aid that is rightly theirs and denying them a decent life.

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Palestinians Commit Suicide as Their Leaders Live in Hotels and Villas

Many residents of the Gaza Strip undoubtedly regret the day they voted for Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary election. The last protest, which took place in 2017 under the slogan "We Want to Live!", was brutally crushed by Hamas's security

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[ Palestinian Arabs, who say they are indigenous to the region called Palestine, do not seem to care one iota about the alleged patriarchs of Islam who came from there]


Israeli forces were successful in capturing a terrorist on Tuesday moments after he threw a firebomb at the Kever Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb) complex, just south of Jerusalem.

The police stated that Border Police forces were waiting to ambush terrorists throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails at Rachel’s Tomb, a prominent Jewish site of prayer and study.

The forces identified a suspect who threw a Molotov cocktail at the tomb complex. Responding quickly, the forces arrested the suspect “red-handed” while trying to escape from the scene.

(full article online)

Tomb of Rachel Firebombing: Israel Captures Terrorist After Attack | United with Israel

Responding quickly, the forces arrested the suspect 'red-handed' while trying to escape from the scene.

unitedwithisrael.org

Oh geese, more of Israel's terrorist canard.

 

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Areej Masoud and Graham Joseph Hill | Any hope for Palestine, now or ever?​

 

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Hundreds of Palestinian political activists and academics are preparing a petition to demand that the Palestinian Authority leadership hold general elections without delay.


The new petition, which will be announced in the coming weeks, reflects the widespread discontent with the Ramallah-based leadership. It also reflects the acute crisis that the PA leadership has been facing in recent weeks in light of protests by lawyers, engineers and teachers and the increased activities of gunmen in the northern West Bank.


The demand for holding new elections comes more than a year after PA President Mahmoud Abbas called off the parliamentary and presidential elections, which were supposed to have taken place in May and July 2021.

(full article online)

Palestinians demand elections as discontent with leadership grows

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: Abdel Kareem Salameh: "The people want change. These are the initial signs of a revolt against the Palestinian leadership."

www.jpost.com

 

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Lamma Mansour PhD Researcher in Social Policy at University of Oxford​

 

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