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Israel is subject daily to scores of false claims and slanders that receive a remarkable amount of credibility in Western media, academic, and intellectual circles even when no proof is offered.
Palestinian groups (including the Gaza and Palestinian Authority regimes), associated local and allied foreign non-government organizations, Western radical and anti-Israel groups, and politically committed journalists are eager to act as propaganda agents making up false stories or transmitting them without serious thought or checking.
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Here are three actual examples of well-educated Westerners believing such modern legends reported to me recently by colleagues:
--A former classmate, one told me, claimed that the Palestinians are living in death camps, being starved, etc. Asked to provide facts and provided with evidence to the contrary, he could provide no real examples. Finally, he remarked, `The truth is always somewhere in the middle.'"
--Hundreds of American college professors signed a petition claiming that Israel was supposedly about to throw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the West Bank though there was zero evidence of any such intention and, of course, nothing ever happened.
--A British writer of some fame claimed, on the basis of an alleged single conversation with a questionable source, that Israel was preparing gas chambers for the mass murder of Palestinians. When asked if she was really claiming this would happen, she stated that it wasn't going to happen but only because people like her had sounded the alarm to prevent it.
Read more.. it might mention something you read in a blog somewhere.
That was easy! It's because they don't have to make an effort to get all sorts of people rallying around in support. Need more proof? Just stay tuned to this thread and see what develops...
If you were a reporter, and reported on what you hear from one side as the truth, as if it was factual, even though you haven't check the facts, and it ends up being not true at all.
Your paper had to publish a retraction/ correction on it in page 10, after your story was in page one.
Why would you trust the same source again and again unless you have an agenda... and you don't let the facts confuse you.
Israel is subject daily to scores of false claims and slanders that receive a remarkable amount of credibility in Western media, academic, and intellectual circles even when no proof is offered.
While I do agree that Israel is presented intentionally by the media in a very bad light, your examples seem quite ridiculous. Death camps? Gas chambers?
Surprisingly (NOT), it's just like the holocaust.
And who would anyone compare Israel to the Nazis.. umm.. besides, well, you know who..
Back on the subject, do you really need to be told the answer to why people are against Israel?
It goes down to the roots of history, ma boy..
While I do agree that Israel is presented intentionally by the media in a very bad light, your examples seem quite ridiculous. Death camps? Gas chambers?
Surprisingly (NOT), it's just like the holocaust.
And who would anyone compare Israel to the Nazis.. umm.. besides, well, you know who..
Back on the subject, do you really need to be told the answer to why people are against Israel?
It goes down to the roots of history, ma boy..
I didn't write the article, but I have seen examples of it during the Jenin Operation as well as cast lead and even now during the Flotilla.
First they go what ever the Palestinian are saying.
With a lot of "dignified" disgust from Israel's barbaric actions.
Then everything the Palestinian Arabs say is regarded as fact.
While everything Israel say described as Israel claim, or Israel say.
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Very upsetting! Almost like the question "When did you stop beating your wife?"
When you are not even married.
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Odd I don't see the main stream media hitting Israel all that hard. Especially not as hard as they go after our own troops for much less.
I agree though the OP examples were extreme and without any factual basis. Not at all different than how the AZ bill has been portrayed.
LOL or the 911 conspiracy theories.
Odd I don't see the main stream media hitting Israel all that hard. Especially not as hard as they go after our own troops for much less.
I agree though the OP examples were extreme and without any factual basis. Not at all different than how the AZ bill has been portrayed.
LOL or the 911 conspiracy theories.
And I agree with you about the US troops. The media either ignore the troops sacrifice, and what they are dealing with, or the go on blaming them for things they haven't done.
I read somewhere that they have more reporters in Israel than in any other place in the world excluding US of course. So that's why they print more lies.
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