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On Dec 31 2008, 2:39 pm, "John H Fisher" <TaxServ...@aol.com> wrote:
> Israel's LIE MACHINE working flat out to dodge killer question!!
> By Stuart Littlewood
>
> Stuart Littlewood shows how Israel's public relations strategy frames and
> defines the situation in Israel's own terms regardless of the truth and,
> using advanced propaganda skills and the elaborate Israel lobby network, it
> seeks to persuade Western politicians and media to accept Israel's version
> of events.
>
> While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a briefing
> document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in
> every line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and even the most
> senior TV and radio interviewers don't bother to challenge them.

It's called job security.

The post is spot on of course.  Nail on head.

>
> The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's statement to
> the Israeli press dated 27 December 2008 - a day that will live in infamy.
> It is a perfect example of the falsehoods used to dupe not only us
> Westerners but Israel's own people. The statement shows how the regime's
> view of itself is constructed on a web of dishonesty and self-delusion.
>
> For example:
>
> * "Israeli citizens have been under the threat of daily attack from Gaza for
> years."
> Palestinians have been under harsh Israeli occupation for 60 years.
>
> * "Only this week hundreds of missiles and mortars shells were fired at
> Israeli civilian communities."
> Only one in 500 Qassam rockets causes a fatality. How many thousands of
> Israeli bombs, missiles, rockets, grenades and tank-shells have been blasted
> into the crowded city and towns of the Gaza Strip by Israel's high-tech
> weaponry??
>
> * "Until now we have shown restraint. But today there is no other option
> than a military operation."
> The only legitimate option for Israel is to end the occupation and withdraw
> behind its 1967 border, as required under international law and UN
> resolutiosn. Israel has been killing Palestinians at the rate of 8 to 1
> since 2000, and children at the rate of nearly 12 to 1 (B'Tselem figures).
> This is somebody's idea of restraint?
>
> * "We need to protect our citizens from attack through a military response
> against the terror infrastructure in Gaza."
> Self-defence is not a right exclusive to Israel. Palestinians have an equal
> right to protect their citizens from the terror tactics of Israel.?
>
> * "Israel left Gaza in order to create an opportunity for peace."
> Israel never left Gaza. It still occupies Gaza's airspace and coastal waters
> and controls all entrances and exits.?
>
> * "In return, the Hamas terror organization took control of Gaza and is
> using its citizens as cover while it deliberately targets Israeli
> communities and denies any chance for peace."
> ?Hamas was voted into power as the legitimate government of Palestine.
> Israel chose not to accept the people's choice, which amounted to a denial
> of their human rights, and immediately set about obliterating it.
>
> * "We have tried everything to reach calm without using force. We agreed to
> a truce through Egypt that was violated by Hamas, which continued to target
> Israel, hold Gilad Shalit and build up its arms."
> Try talking. The Israelis' ongoing siege and economic blockade, begun
> shortly after Hamas was elected early in 2006, was never going to generate
> calm. And why is Shalit considered more important than the 9,000
> Palestinians abducted and held prisoner by Israel? As soon as a Hamas
> government was formed Israeli troops arrested eight Hamas ministers and 20
> other parliamentarians, making the work of government impossible.?
>
> * "Israel continues to act to prevent humanitarian crisis and to minimize
> harm to Palestinian civilians."
> Every agency operating in Gaza has warned of the deepening humanitarian
> crisis and protested about the starvation and suffering, especially of
> children many of whom show evidence of stunted growth.?
>
> * "The responsibility for harm to civilians lies with Hamas."
> Not according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.?
>
> * "Hamas is a terrorist organization, supported by Iran, that does not
> represent the legitimate national interests of the Palestinian people but a
> radical Islamist agenda that seeks to deny peace for the peoples of this
> region."
> Hamas was the popular choice of Palestinians at the last election. It is
> entitled under international law to take up arms against an illegal occupier
> and invader. If it is supported by Iran, so what? Israel receives
> mega-support from the US. When it comes to terror, it is Israel's conduct
> which fits the US definition of terrorism so perfectly - see Bush's
> Executive Order 13224, Section 3.?
>
> * "While confronting Hamas, Israel continues to believe in the two-state
> solution and remains committed to negotiations with the legitimate
> Palestinian Authority in the context of the peace process, launched at
> Annapolis."
> Israel is busy establishing irreversible facts on the ground that make a
> viable Palestinian state impossible. As everyone knows, the regime has
> reneged on the peace process and carries on building illegal settlements and
> the illegal Wall, and demolishing Palestinian homes. Months ago Hamas
> accepted a Palestinian state based on internationally recognized (pre-1967)
> borders, in accordance with UN resolutions, with full sovereignty and its
> capital in Jerusalem, but this has been ignored. Hamas also offered a
> 10-year truce, also ignored. Earlier, Yasser Arafat and the Palestine
> Liberation Organization recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement
> but what good did it do? Today's US-backed, Fatah-controlled Palestinian
> Authority is not representative of the Palestinian people.
>
> * "Israel expects the support and understanding of the international
> community, as it confronts terror, and advances the interest of all those
> who wish the forces of peace and co existence to determine the agenda of
> this region." ?Israel, next to the US, is the biggest purveyor of terror in
> the region and only advances its own interests. It may get the support of
> Israel lobby stooges in other Western governments but is rapidly earning the
> contempt of everybody else.??
>
> From a statement dated 22 December 2008:
>
> * "Hamas, backed by Iran, has regularly stated its desire to see the
> complete destruction of Israel."
> Israel is itself a leading destroyer and currently engaged in trying to wipe
> out Hamas and the Gazans. Iran's President Ahmadinajad quoted the late
> Ayatollah Khomeini as saying that "this regime occupying Jerusalem must
> vanish from the page of time" - fair comment considering that Jerusalem,
> with Bethlehem, was designated an "international city" under the UN
> Partition Plan. Israeli propaganda twisted the Iranian's words to read
> "Israel must be wiped off the map". Zionist sources and the manifestos of
> Israeli political parties have made it clear for a long time that Israel
> plans to wipe Palestine off the map, and every act and lie is directed
> towards that end.
>
> * "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza; it is with the extremists of
> Hamas."
> Then why does the Israeli navy harass and fire on peaceable Gazan fishermen
> who are well within their own territorial waters? Why does Israel prevent
> Palestinian students from taking up places at foreign universities and block
> hospital spares, medicines, foodstuffs and foreign medics from entering
> Gaza? Why has the Israeli navy just rammed a mercy vessel in international
> waters taking doctors and medicines to Gaza? Latest air strikes have hit the
> Islamic University and the Ministry of Education. These are direct attacks
> on Gazan civil society and its infrastructure.
>
> * "Hamas started this conflict, and it bears responsibility for any harm to
> civilians on either side."
> The conflict, started by Jewish terrorists, has been going on for 60 years,
> decades before Hamas came into being.
>
> * "Israel's only responsibility is to protect Israeli citizens."
> As the occupying power Israel has a duty to see that the people of the
> occupied territories come to no harm.
>
> * "Just as Israel seeks to defend its civilian population, Hamas seeks to
> kill them."
> This reads far better the other way round: "Just as Hamas seeks to defend
> its civilian population, Israel seeks to kill them."
>
> * "Rocket attacks have continued for years and are now a daily occurrence.
> How long does the international community expect Israel will wait before
> defending itself against them?"
> The rocket attacks will end when Israel ends the occupation and stops
> terrorizing its neighbours.
>
> * "In the south of Israel, Israeli citizens live with air raid sirens
> sounding every day - sometimes every hour. Their situation is intolerable."
> Not half as intolerable as it is for the Gazans, who live in constant fear
> of air raids and re-invasion and are constantly under surveillance by armed
> drones which can fire missiles under computer control from an armchair in
> Israeli headquarters.
>
> * "For years, the international community has turned a blind eye to this
> onslaught. Only when Israel seeks to stop the rockets do they take notice."
> For years the international community has turned a blind eye to Israel's
> violations of international law and human rights, which is why the problem
> remains unsolved.
>
> * "Hamas is not only the enemy of Israel - it is the enemy of every
> Palestinian who believes in peace."
> Israelis just can't come to terms with the Palestinians' democratic choice
> and are bent on obliterating it.
>
> * "It is Hamas' attacks - not Israel's reactions - that destroy every
> opportunity we have for peace."
> The world has managed to work out by now that Israel doesn't want peace
> until it has stolen all the land and water it needs to expand its racist
> state into a "Greater Israel". It is well on the way to achieving this and
> won't be thwarted.
>
> * "Palestinian militants targeted by Israel are not just the enemies of the
> Israeli people; they are criminals under international law, and enemies of
> peace."
> Israel is in no position to preach international law.
>
> * "What is collective punishment? 'Collective punishment' is a city -
> schools, ...
>
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