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The Israel lobby’s global propaganda manual

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In a document published by The Israel Project entitled “The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary”, Dr Frank Luntz unmasks a modern-day propaganda campaign that would have made Napoleon and Machiavelli proud. He writes:

There is NEVER, EVER, any justification for the deliberate slaughter of innocent women and children. NEVER. The primary Palestinian public relations goal is to demonstrate that the so-called “hopelessness of the oppressed Palestinians” is what causes them to go out and kill children. This must be challenged immediately, aggressively, and directly.

The emotional appeal to saving children works, but the appeal is based on two lies:

(1) that Palestinians generally (not only suicide bomber extremists) are the ones who kill children, while Israelis (not individual extremists, but Israel's armed forces) never slaughter Palestinian children.

(2) The second falsehood is that the Palestinians have a public relations goal that must be challenged when, in fact, the Palestinians have proven to be hopeless and goalless when it comes to public relations. Unlike Frank Luntz, the Palestinians have no effective PR voices. They can't even get their ambassador in the UK to speak out to the British public about Israel’s lies and propaganda.

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Americans AND the world needs to take note. If we allow this lobby to regain their power in America, the wold loses. Just look at their campaign...excerpts are within this information at the link as well as a rightful and truthful analysts.

Lets do away with the rhetoric and hate towards people. If the right and Israel really wants peace, they would have a better attitude. Peace has always been in Israels hands, but if it is not benefiting Israel, they figure who needs peace when war and killing gives us more.
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7 comments // The Israel lobby’s global propaganda manual

  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • yet this peace of "propaganda" hasnt made it infront of anyones eyes but you.
      if this is truly a threat wouldnt you not distribute it?
      by posting this arent you helping its proliferation?
      you never see israel spreading the protocals of zion.

    • 2 years ago
  • piecesofpeace
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      piecesofpeace  
    • that doesnt read like propaganda lord knows you know what that looks like . it reads like a dissection of terrorist psychology wich every country who has a security need in relation to terrorism would evaluate.
      you dont think hamas tells people lies daily about the israelis? at least this is an attempt at understanding the process of relations between the two cultures.
      would it be better to not understand your nieghbors?

    • 2 years ago
  • mjseydel
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • The entire screed utilizes all the tricks available to a clever wordsmith: how to use rhetorical questions to silence others, how to pretend that you're sympathetic with the people but not their evil leaders, how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.

      All of that came from the first of 18 chapters. Several other chapters, especially on “words that work”, talk about settlements, Israel's so-called right to self-defence, Hamas, and tackling a nuclear Iran will be taken up in coming exposures.
      Paul J. Balles is a retired American university professor and freelance writer who has lived in the Middle East for many years. For more information, see http://www.pballes.com.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • Making the task of exposing the lies and deceit exceptionally difficult, Luntz’s propaganda tract, which unravels advice about the “how-to” of Israeli propaganda for 114 pages, seems Herculean to say the least.

      Luntz offers advice about things like "Americans want a team to cheer for. Let the public know GOOD things about Israel." He follows that with "Draw direct parallels between Israel and America – including the need to defend against terrorism."

      He tells his readers to make salient comparisons between Israel and America: "The language of Israel is the language of America: 'democracy', 'freedom', 'security', and 'peace'".

      Even while Israel is throwing Arabs out of their homes in East Jerusalem to make room for Jews, Luntz repeats the boast about how "Israel, America’s ally, is a democracy in the Middle East". If he reported the truth about the so-called democracy in Israel, he would reveal how it's really a bigoted apartheid state.

      The book is full of charts showing just how effective Israel's propaganda campaign has been. Not only do Americans believe that Israel is America's closest ally in the Middle East, but that they both share the same values.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • WE'VE SEEN MUCH OF WHAT IS IN THIS HANDBOOK HERE ON CURRENT AND OTHER SITES-here's more:

      Then Luntz adds more "Words that work" for the indoctrination of his readers – Israeli propagandists:

      Despite making an overture for peace by withdrawing from Gaza, Israel continues to face terrorist attacks, including rocket attacks and drive-by shootings of innocent Israelis. Israel knows that for a lasting peace, they must be free from terrorism and live with defensible borders.

      As mentioned earlier, withdrawal from Gaza had nothing to do with an "overture for peace". The rocket attacks have been a response to being locked into an open-air prison; and they're aimed at land stolen by Israel. The "drive-by shootings of innocent Israelis" are figments of Luntz's imagination.

      The "free from terrorism and live with defensible borders" line is the overworked motto that twists the truth in the continuing belief that if repeated often enough it will be believed.

      No matter how often the propagandists repeat this mantra, the truth is that a few resistance fighters from Hamas have lobbed ineffective rockets against a well-supplied army of Israel's state terrorists; and the borders they want to defend are on land stolen from the Palestinians.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • Advancing only as far as page nine, the guided Israel promoters will find "Words that work" (sections that are actually throughout the book). Here's what Luntz has to say about Gaza:

      Israel made painful sacrifices and took a risk to give peace a chance. They voluntarily removed over 9,000 settlers from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, abandoning homes, schools, businesses, and places of worship in the hopes of renewing the peace process.

      How generous he makes the Israelis appear, when in fact the removal of Jewish settlers from Gaza had nothing to do with giving peace a chance. As the Israeli Yossi Alpher points out, removal of the settlers gave a demographic advantage to Israel. He says, "no longer are Jewish and Arab populations mixed there in a manner that points to a single binational state as the solution".

      In other words, Ariel Sharon could close the borders, imprison Gazans, hoping they will simply be forced to leave by starvation, murder fishermen and initiate military operations whenever they're not involved in attacking Lebanon to the north, to slaughter more Hamas women and children.

    • 2 years ago
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