Israeli War Lies Fall As Corporate Media Falls
A new film narrated by Roger Waters, The Occupation of the American Mind, traces the rise of Israeli war propaganda in the United States. This propaganda, which has skillfully swayed U.S. public opinion in support of Israeli wars and occupations, has in fact been not so much a matter of skill as a matter of control.
The U.S. corporate media has obeyed the Israeli propaganda office, because the U.S. government has done so, and the U.S. corporate media generally obeys the U.S. government. How much the U.S. government’s stance is shaped by its own independent, albeit perverse, interests, and how much by Israeli propagandizing and corruption is one question. But the U.S. corporate media’s lockdown on criticism of Israeli wars is only a slight variation on its coverage of U.S. wars.
What happens when you take the control away? When young people in the United States get their news from the internet and foreign media, their support for Israeli wars and occupations plummets. Backers of Israeli wars find it necessary to start trying to ban criticism on U.S. college campuses. Just as young people have overwhelmingly backed Bernie Sanders despite corporate media opposition, those who avoid the corporate media are able to back justice for Palestinians (and often to a much greater extent than Sanders does).
When informed people in the United States hear about international opposition to Israeli crimes, they are hardly shocked, and might just yawn. But Fox News reports shock, outrage, and disbelief in its staff:
“You can’t make it up. UN names democratic Israel as world’s top human rights violator”!
Fox wants enemies, and thus reports in this way on a story that much of the U.S. media will likely ignore or downplay. If most corporate media consumers in the United States learned that Israel was viewed by the world as a top abuser of human rights, they would react approximately like Fox News.
One of the great services that The Occupation of the American Mind provides is that it shows us footage of news coverage of Israeli wars in the United States and, in great contrast, in Europe. In Europe we see Palestinian voices included, and we see false claims questioned by tough grilling of Israeli officials. In the United States we see top U.S. officials of both political parties, and top media figures parroting over and over again the same exact words dictated by Israeli propagandists or their U.S. advisers.
This film is good for beginners who’ve never escaped their televisions before, in that it provides a basic history of Zionism and the Nakba. But it quickly turns to a particular subject that should intrigue the better informed as well, namely the rise of Israeli propaganda since 1982. We see footage of U.S. network TV news readers reporting honestly and straightforwardly on Israeli bombing of Lebanon, and on Israeli facilitated massacres in refugee camps — and showing footage of the carnage.
In 1984 the American Jewish Congress held a meeting in Jerusalem on “hasbara” (propaganda, war lies) chaired by a U.S. advertiser who had made “tastes great / less filling” ads for Miller Light beer. In 2009 Frank Luntz produced the Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary. These efforts are not kept secret. In fact, a television show in Israel similar to Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” is called “The Ambassador,” and it challenges contestants to do the best job of selling Israeli war crimes as being justified or admirable. The acceptance of such a show is itself terrific hasbara, of course, as it suggests that concocting excuses for killing people is justifiable and admirable.
The central lie of Israeli war propaganda is also the most effective lie in the United States and the focus of the first chapter of my book War Is A Lie, namely the lie that wars are defensive. Just as the U.S. corporate media engages in blowback denial with September 11 or Brussels, it tells us that Palestinian resistance is spontaneous irrational aggression, unprovoked and inexplicable except by understanding Palestinians as less than human. In the U.S. corporate media, the Palestinians always started it, and Israel is always acting in defense, even when it’s aggressively bombing civilians as it was doing in 1982 when U.S. media voices had not yet been properly trained.
The undercurrent to the “defense” lies is the justification of revenge, which threads through all war propaganda, even that for U.S. wars, which has often tended in recent years to emphasize a lie of “humanitarianism” in which a war that is also supposedly defensive and a last resort is somehow also a benefit to people it is rescuing. Israel has not used that line, and it’s worth noting that the U.S. government has found it ineffective in reaching more than a sliver of the U.S. population.
It would be humorous if it weren’t so blood-soaked to watch U.S. politicians and pundits parrot specific Israeli military talking points over and over. The 1988 Hamas Charter, long since disavowed by the Hamas leadership, is quoted over and over again, like the mistranslation of then-Iranian President Ahmadinejad, and with identical words in both cases, while the actual platform of the Likud Party is never mentioned. The lie that Israel freed Gaza in 2005 is repeated so many times a Gazan might start to believe it.
When Israel broke a ceasefire on the day of the 2008 U.S. elections and then claimed the Palestinians had done so, the facts were available, but the lie was endlessly repeated on U.S. television. We see footage in The Occupation of the American Mind of a European journalist confronting an Israeli official with an Israeli report acknowledging the truth, but nothing like that on U.S. corporate newsertainment networks.
Phrases like “rockets raining down” and “what would you do?” and “what would the U.S. do?” are chanted like mantras. Sadly, we know what the U.S. would do in response to blowback. We know what it has been doing for the past 15 years.
The chief difference in U.S. discourse between propaganda for Israeli wars and for U.S. wars (other than awareness of where the weapons came from — the United States in both cases) is the difference between “anti-American” and “anti-Semitic.” In the film we see Ted Cruz object to criticizing Israel because of the holocaust. Any criticism of Israel is defined as anti-Semitic.
There have been times in U.S. history when any war criticism earned one the title “anti-American.” Currently it is far more likely to earn you the title of “peacenik who would have opposed World War II” — with World War II falsely understood as having been fought for the Jews who in fact the U.S. government refused to allow in and certainly didn’t give a damn about. Thus, advocating civilized conflict resolution in the United States circles back to a charge of “anti-Semitism” as well.
As the corporate media’s dominance crumbles, so potentially does all of this nonsense. And the first to fall may be U.S. support for Israeli wars. That opposition to U.S. wars lags behind among U.S. youth may suggest a certain power to the label of “anti-American” after all, or rather an internalized nationalism that hardly needs name-calling to prop it up. But any failure of war propaganda advances the total failure of war propaganda, if we can keep organizing, keep educating, keep BDSing, keep the internet open, and go watch The Occupation of the American Mind.
David Swanson’s book War Is A Lie: Second Edition will be published April 5, 2016.
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To the commenter below who is mind controlled.
1. You do realize that the problems in this world date back thousands of years to the Annunaki. Jesus came here 2ooo years ago, 1950 years before the illuminati created the Zionist terminology. If you think the problems in this world are because of Israel, then you are very brain damaged, very dumbed down, and very mind controlled.
2. Most Jewish people are not religious, have no idea what are in these manipulated religious texts and really do not care. The bible the Christians worship is filled with bloodshed and satanic sacrifice, but yet people dont’ believe that they actually believe in “bashing their childs heads on a rock’ as written in the bible. Yet, you are going to think that Jews believe what is written in these manipulated texts? You people are totally mind controlled and being fed lies, to make you crazy evil.
The regular jewish people are good people who would never harm others. They would never gang up on other races, say racial things or wish to harm others. If you believe the opposite you are mind controlled by fake info put out on the internet. You need to realize you are crazy, and totatally being fed lies. The regular jews are nothing like the few billionaire jews who have nothing to do with the average middle class Jews. Anyone that thinks this is a Jewish agenda is under mind control. The Royal bloodlines, Jesuits are the ones who receive our income taxes, not the bankers, they are just used as lower level minions who receive all the blame from people. It’s all mind control by the Royal bloodlines to get them to just hide in the shadows and get the ignorant masses to blame the entire Jewish race, most of whom is totally asleep, like your asleep innocent family members.
3. The Royal bloodlines are Nazi’s they are feeding this anti Jewish sentiment all over the internet, while on the other hand, they are sending millions if not billions to Muslim extremists to kill Jews. And then having their Neo Nazi groups put out fake photos to depict Israelis as the aggressors. Most of the photos are faked stories and/or pictures taken in other middle eastern countries. They use crisis actors, fake stories, models and actors to take fake photos and stage events.
1) Stop focusing on Israel as the cause of all the problems in this world. If Israel went away, you would still have the same problems.
2) Stop using Zionism as the cause of all the problems in this world. If Zionism went away, you would still have all your problems.
3) The Royal families and Jesuits use the Zionism terminology as a scapegoat, so they can continue to collect your income taxes, and hide in the shadows, and laugh at how stupid you all are, at thinking Israel/Zionism is the cause of your problems.
4) Most Jews are Zionists. Zionism to most Jews means, the love for Israel as a holy land. That’s it!!! They know nothing else about the illuminati agendas. The illuminati love to combine their agendas with innocent people.
5) I am for Israel!! Because Jewish people need to be protected against other races who like to kill them based on fake propaganda spread by the Royal bloodlines who are satanists. They regularly get the dumbed down masses to kill innocent Jews, as their blood ritual sacrifice.
The regular jews are just innocent people who do nothing wrong and get kicked out of countries by the ignorant masses who are propagandized by Jesuit and Royal bloodline propaganda, many of those who are easily mind controlled are like the people who read the daily alt. news and don’t realize they are being fed a barrage of fake photos and fake stories. And then they will turn on innocent with hatred. That is why I’m for Israel! B/c they need to be protected against people of lower intelligence who like to kill them on a regular basis, based on lies.
Why Israel needs help in Funding to Protect themselves..
The Royal families are sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Muslim extremists in Palestine to kill Israelis. The money they have sent could have built up that area into a beautiful city, but instead they spend it on buying missiles to fire into Israel on a regular basis, and spend the money building underground tunnels to go into Israel and kill people.
The Palestinian extremists are paid 25000 dollars to have their family members kill Israelis. The Israeli people are just defending themselves, like any American would expect their govt to do, if they had missiles being shot at them daily. Muslim extremists are going into underground tunnels and strapping bombs to their bodies and blowing up Israelis. Wouldn’t you expect your country to defend itself against crazy paid killers?
Why are most of the alternative news readers turning into Muslim extremist defenders? You really are siding with people who believe they will go to heaven if they kill Jews? These extremists are setting up in the U.S. too and now you will be able to soon experience what Israelis go through, then we will see if you are still going to defend the extremists who have religious beliefs that they will go to heaven if they kill your family.
The photos that are being circulated on the internet, about Israeli people being monsters, are largely faked stories, just like Sandy Hook school shooting and Boston bombing. They are using photos from Muslim Extremist killings and trying to blame it on Israelis.
Israeli people do not wish to harm anyone that does not want to kill them. They are a peaceful people that need to defend themselves against crazy Muslim extremists that believe they will go to heaven if they kill Jews.
If people don’t know what it’s like to have Muslim extremists try to kill people in your country daily. Don’t worry, the Muslim Brotherhood is setting up all over the United States and you will soon see what it’s like living in a country surrounded by people who want to kill you.
Israeli people do not steal others lands, they purchase barren land from Muslims for millions of dollars. Then once the lands are built up and beautiful b/c of Israeli’s hard work, then the Muslims claim they want it back. Photos prove the lands were barren when they started to build on it. The extremists are liars and murderers.
Israelis do not want to kill Palestinians. They have 1.5 Muslims who live peacefully in Israel. Muslims work in the Israeli government as Mayors, Judges and politicians. Muslims work in the Israeli army defending Israel. There are large Muslim communities in Israel that live in Israel and have good lives and live in peace. No one pushes them off the land, and no one tries to kill them. If Israel wanted the land of Palestine, they have the most powerful army on this planet and could blow them out of the water, and take over. But the Palestinian population is growing at 3% a year. Proving that Israelis are not killing them and don’t want to kill innocent.
If Israel was all about kicking Muslims off land, then they wouldn’t be living in peace with 1.5 million Muslims who live on Israeli territory. The Muslim people have high paying jobs in Israel, five times higher then they could get living in the Muslim territories. Muslims defend Israel against crazy Muslim extremists who would kill U.S citizens as well for money.
The Palestinian extremists who are nuts are putting missiles in locations where their are hospitals, schools and residential areas. They use children as shields and kill their own people and cause their own causalities. And then blame Israelis for detonating missiles which they fire into Israel from schools and other areas where they could blame casualties on Israelis.
The alternative news is filled with mind control programs by the Royal bloodlines and the Jesuits. There is proof that they were involved in putting Hitler in power, and there are photos on the internet of the Royals, Jesuits, and Popes doing the Hitler “salute”. They are placing tons of fake photos and stories on the news to propagandize people into hating the people of Israel.
Israelis live peacefully in the U.S. and the regular Jews are just normal people, not like the Illuminati families. They are peacefully, do not like violence, and do not like to harm others. The Israelis are simply defending themselves from the Muslim extremists who are getting paid thousands to go kill Israelis. Wouldn’t you want your military to defend your family? The photos being put out in the media are as fake as the photos put out about Boston bombing.
There is NO agenda for Israeli or Jewish people to want to harm or do anything to non Jews. All this is made up nonsense by the Royal bloodlines and Jesuits who are controlling the mind control on the internet, like in Nazi Germany. The regular Jews are just as clueless as the sheeple in the U.S. and are no different from the Christians, on a day to day basis. They are asleep and have no idea what is going on in the world and have no idea why people hate them. They only know that terrorists want to kill them, and they need to be on the defense.
The Royals and Jesuits are spreading lies all over the internet, like they did in Nazi Germany. Hitler put fluoride in the water, so people would be so brain damaged, they would believe anything on the media. Today, they put fluoride in the water, and gave out the internet, so they could mind control us.
The Royal bloodlines have continued to use the Jewish people as their scapegoats and their blood ritual sacrifice. The chasing out Jews of countries was done throughout history b/c the average person is easily mind controlled to hate others based on race. This is satanic.
To hate another person b/c the race they are born into is the ultimate evil. The Jewish people kicked out of countries was done, not b/c the people did anything wrong, it’s because the average person is dumbed down and brainwashed to do anything the Royal bloodlines program them to do. And that is why a Jewish country was created, to protect the regular Jews from people who are mind controlled by the Royal factions. (That’s most people in the alternative news communities.)
I am noticing how the people in the alternative news are easily mind controlled by the Royal factions. All the Royals have to do is have their paid groups post news and fake photos, and make up stories, and continue to post them on the internet, over the months and years. The people in the alt. news communities have no discernment and don’t even wonder if it’s fake, they just believe whatever is put out for them to believe. I’m seriously noticing a lack of intelligence and a lack of discernment.
Maybe there is a good reason why Jewish people need to be protected from the masses on this planet.
Now i realize why the country of Israel was created. It was to protect people who are constantly being harassed and tortured by others, who are very easily brain washed into hatred, like Muslim Extremists.
THE JEWISH RACE is NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SMALL GROUP OF ILLUMINATI INSIDERS!! OK! Most Jews are asleep, regular good people! Zionist Jews are mostly good people and are not illuminati!
You have been mind controlled!!!
The regular Jewish people are NOT illuminati, are not ultra wealthy, but mid class people who struggle to pay bills and struggle daily. They are not the people controlling our world, like the small group of ultra wealthy Jews who run the banks. These Jews who run the banks are used as scapegoats for the Royal bloodlines and Jesuits. The regular jews are just victims of constant harassment due to the fact that they are born into the genetics of the Jewish race. And they need to segregate themselves b/c they are in danger of people, like the brainwashed people who believe everything in the alternative news, and then start to direct their anger at innocent people. And that is why i support Israeli people.
The crowd in the alternative news community is becoming as evil and dangerous as the Nazi’s in Germany. I see people who are dangerously brain damaged and believe all the propaganda put out by the Royal families to turn you into Nazi’s.
The Jewish people, outside of the illuminati small group, are sheeple who have no knowledge of what is going on in the world. They are innocent everyday people who are being ganged up on by a bunch of really brain damaged, angry, mind control freaks in the New Age circles, alt. news circles and even Christians. That is why they send money to protect them, b/c the people at the top know, that you bran damaged people would believe anything that the Royal nazi factions feed you in alt. news and you would have the Jewish people killed based on propaganda and the belief that all 15 million jews should suffer b/c of the couple of banking families and because of some religious manipulated text, that they don’t even read or care about…
The alt news is filled with people who think they are awakening, but they are just as angry, evil and dangerous as any mind controlled crowd throughout history. They are not awakening. They are de-evolving, and helping the illuminati agendas of bringing in more hate, more wars and more bloodshed.
The awakening movement is a disaster. Instead of becoming agents for peace, they are repeating history and becoming agents of hatred and evil.
According to the Native American prophesies, the end of the dark ages is here. And the way we evolve spiritually, is how we are going to be moved into the new paradigm. If we emit hatred and anger, this planet, which according to the Native Americans, is a live being, is going to throw off the humans, like a dog throws off flees. Therefore, the more hatred people spread, expect more earthquakes, hurricanes and disasters. We live in a spiritual world, and the energy of hatred and anger, is going to destroy this human race.
If you want us to move into a new paradigm, be an AGENT FOR PEACE and work on UNIFYING all religions and races. Feel COMPASSION for what people are going through. STOP BELIEVING the LIES put out in the alt. media that are meant to fuel your hatred and evil and divide and separate our humanity. Don’t believe all the fake photos put out on the internet. Neo Nazi groups are working for the Royals and and are putting out fake photos and fake stories. They will take photos in Syria and post that the photos are in Palistine. They are mind controlling you.
Instead be like the people in Israel who joined the Abrahamic Reunion organization, where Jews, Muslims, Christians and Drudes (Islamic religions) come together and pray for peace. They all live together in Israel and know this is not a religious war, but a manipulation coming from the very very top. And the answer is to join our religions together as one heart, to spiritually bring in peace. UNIFYING IS THE ANSWER!!!
The last Abrahamic Reunion event where Jews, Muslims, Christians prayed together for peace resulted in a cease fire in Gaza and a miraculous rainbow around the sun.
This is how we change our world. If you fuel hatred for people of other races, then you are part of the problem on this planet. The Jewish people in Israel want to live in peace without people hating them or killing them. So do the Christians and good Muslims.
The people who are tempted by evil in this world to kill others do not represent the majority of all religions and races. If you believe all Muslims are evil or all Jews are evil, then you are being mind controlled and are completely wrong.
You have to put yourself in the shoes of others. How would you feel if your country was fired on with missiles daily? how would you feel to have people being paid by the Royals to kill you, stab your people, and blow up restaurants and coffee shops on a regular basis. Would you say, i ‘m not going to defend myself??? Think about it. What you see on the internet is propaganda fed by the Royal families who are Nazi’s . They are fueling this hatred like they did when they controlled Hitler.
Wakeup and work for peace. Start unifying all different races and religions to come together to pray for peace. If we had flash mob prayer groups hitting all the cities around the world, it would create scalar waves of energy that would spiritually destroy the plans of the Royals, Jesuits and illuminati. They would mess up more and have a harder and harder getting things to work out. We would have spiritual forces on our side.
The more we work for peace, the more the spiritual forces will align to help us. Stop blaming Israel for all our problems. We need to FIGHT FOR OUR PLANET and not our country. They are not the problem. We need an entirely new system that doesn’t use money as an enslavement tool. The illuminati pull money out of thin air, why can’t we also??? We create this reality, why can’t we create a new one, a better one, where money isn’t enslavement, but something that allows us to all have abundance and be protected from evil.
The answer is to first work for peace, help the unification of the planet through our hearts, and the spiritual forces will work in our favor!!!! We will create a new financial system where, like in Switzerland, we all get monthly stipend in addition to our job salary. In order to do this, we need to get the controllers out of power. To do this, we need to create the scalar wave energy of love and peace on this planet, uniting all of humanity, and the spiritual forces will work to help us create the new paradigm where we can all live in abundance.
If you want this, then work for peace!!! And spread the message everywhere.