Lies about Jews, Israel, and the War in Gaza

News reports are so full of lies and misrepresentations about Jews, Israel, and the War in Gaza, as to be commonly propaganda that conveys falsehoods more than truths.

Two news reports from Reuters on February 28th will be cited here as examples of such propaganda.

“After Threats and Abuse, British Lawmakers Question their Safety over Gaza” opened,

It was 10 minutes of shouted accusations of being a “Genocide Enabler” and having “Blood on your Hands” that made a British lawmaker fear for his safety over his decision to voice support for Israel in its War with Hamas.

Almost touching noses with his accuser before walking away and warning he would call the police, the opposition Labour Party member said the incident in a town in his constituency was just the latest of several that made him change his behaviour.

He now makes sure he sits near the door on public transport and limits meetings with the public.

“It feels like it could just need one spark to flip from someone giving you tuppence [criticis] in the street to escalating to actual violence,” the lawmaker said.

After the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the War in Gaza, more than 10 British politicians spoken to by Reuters said the abuse directed at them had become more intense. At least one cited this as a factor in deciding not to seek a new term in parliament in an election later this year.

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Its underlying presumption such as in “the October 7 Hamas attack (…) sparked the War in Gaza,” which is intended to communicate the false impression that this War started on 7 October 2023 and so the aggressor in this War is the Gazans on October 7th not the Israelis, and especially not Israel at its very founding in 1948, is a false presumption. Profoundly false. The aggressor, the side that actually Started this War, is the Israelis, decades back, and not Any Palestinians in recent times. The Palestinians are only Reacting against that Long Ongoing Aggression. So, that’s one very big lie, which is presented as an Assumption in that article.

Another very big lie is its presumption that to be for Palestinians, is to be anti Semitic. But the fact is that many Jews, including Albert Einstein and other prominent ones, have called Israel and its current leadership “Racists” and “Fascists” against the vast majority of the population in the area that in 1948 became “Israel”, which area was originally called “Palestine” not “Israel,” and was overwhelmingly Muslim, Not Jewish, before Britain gave this land to the few Jews there and started Israel in 1948. Immediately, the racist-fascist Jews there, self called “Zionists”, as believers in the Jewish Scripture’s, Christian Old Testament’s, myth that ‘God’ gave that land to them and ordered them to exterminate the then current residents there, carried out their biblically commanded ethnic cleansing War to clear that land for incoming Jews from European Christianity’s German led Holocaust. For examples, Deuteronomy 7:1 – 2, 7:16 and 20:15  – 18, have ‘God’ in that Scripture say that when the Israelites enter the promised land they are to exterminate the Canaanites, Hittites, Girgishites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, living there. So, Israel was founded by the far right subsequently Likud Party leaders of Israel, such as Yitzak Shamir and Menachem Begin, who led the extermination of entire Arab villages in the Nakba or “Catastrophe” as it’s called by Palestinians, the Palestinians’ equivalent to what for Jews the Holocaust had been. The Jews will never forget the Holocaust, just as the Palestinians will never forget the Nakba, but whereas the Nakba has continued with varying degrees of intensity ever since 1948, culminating now in the Israel America extermination of Gazans, the Holocaust ended in 1945.

It all goes back to 1948, the creation of Israel. Here’s from a lengthy article “Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs” in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper on 6 July 2019, about how Israel’s Government cleansed, eliminated, thousands of key documents, which remain unknown, but some scraps of which survived, such as, “And then Ben Gurion lays down as policy that we have to demolish [the villages] so they won’t have anywhere to return to. That is, all the Arab villages.”

On 24 August 2014, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network headlined “Over 300 Survivors and Descendants of Survivors and Victims of the Nazi Genocide Condemn Israel’s Assault on Gaza” and presented their letter to the world, signed by, at that time, 327 of them.

As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.

We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians, and right wing Israelis are adopting Neo Nazi insignia.

Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of more than 2.000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.

We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!

Consequently, many Jews are anti Israel even though they profess themselves to be still Jews. Only bigots equate Pro Israel with being Not anti Semitic, and equate Anti Israel as being Anti Semitic (or anti Jews. There is, in reality, no equation whatsoever between anti Israel and anti Jew. Only propaganda claims or implies any such false equation.

Albert Einstein and 26 other prominent Jewish progressives co signed a letter to the editor of the New York Times published 4 December 1948, condemning Menachem Begin by name as a “Fascist,” and saying, of his work, and of his unnamed colleague in that work, Itzhak Shamir, both of whom subsequently became elected Prime Ministers of Israel, and whose follower Netanyahu today leads Israel, that,

A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the War, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 [1948], terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants, 240 men, women, and children, and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans Jordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin.

‘News’ reports such as that one from Reuters, which imply that every Jew is a Zionist, supports Israel, and that only anti Semites condemn Israel, are arrant lies. They deceive for political purposes. That is propaganda. It forced the progressive leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn out of power and out of politics in Britain. So: these are extremely Potent lies. This Reuters ‘News’ report opens with a large photo of marchers in Britain holding up the star of David and the flags of Israel and Britain, and “Never Again Is Now” signs, suggesting that to oppose Israel’s genocide of Gazans is to be anti Semitic, is to be bigoted against Jews. This is mass mind control by Reuters, to make Brits think that they ought to side with the Israelis against the Gazans, and to therefore support Israel’s genocide of Gazans, as, somehow, being a justifiable response to the 7 October 2023 Hamas Gazan attack against Israelis.

The subtler lie in it is that the War in Gaza started on 7 October 2023, instead of in 1948. The Reality is that the 7 October 2023 event, horrible though it was, was the victims’ crying out, to the entire world, to Call Public Attention to their living in the world’s largest, and constantly under siege by their prison guards, open air prison, Gaza, that they’re born into and permanently sentenced to, by Israel. It’s not where they Want to live, no more than any prison anywhere is. But, After 7 October 2023, Israel decided to eliminate the Gazans and labelled this Israel- America genocide of Gazans partnership a ‘War against Hamas’, which is yet Another lie that the media publish without question, without shame, and purely as propaganda from and about Israel.

Also on February 28th, Reuters headlined “Michigan’s Strong ‘Uncommitted’ Vote shows Israel Impact on Biden Support” and opened “Dearborn, Michigan | Washington, February 28. Reuters, Joe Biden’s campaign and top Democratic officials vowed to double down on efforts to win over voters as the US president aims to solve conflicts in the Middle East, after Michigan registered a stronger than anticipated protest vote over his support of Israel.” It included this line from Biden’s campaign, with no question, far less rebuttal,  being presented about it. “Biden’s campaign will continue to ‘make our case in the state, to both uncommitted voters and the entire Michigan constituency,’ a senior campaign official said as the results were tallied. ‘The President will continue to work for peace in the Middle East.’” But Actually, as Politico had headlined on February 13th, “US won’t Punish Israel for Rafah Op that doesn’t Protect Civilians” and it said that the Biden Administration has informed the Netanyahu Administration that if it decides that it has no practicable way to expel the Gazans to foreign lands, which Israel’s Government, assisted by America’s Government, has been trying to do ever since October 16th, then the US Government will not punish Israel if it simply slaughters all of them. “No reprimand plans are in the works, meaning Israeli forces could enter the city and harm [Politico’s euphemism for slaughter] civilians without facing American consequences [meaning punishment]. More than half of the enclave’s 2.3 million population has fled to Rafah.” So, that would entail slaughtering 1.15 million Gazans there. The Politico article made no mention of what would be done with the 1.15 million survivors, the Gazans who haven’t yet gotten to Raffah, but if Netanyahu would halt the extermination program at that point, a rationale for Discontinuing the operation there would be hard if not impossible to imagine, at least in as much as half of Gazans would then Already have been slaughtered by Israel.

And this slaughter of Gazans is being done with US made weapons and military intelligence, and so it is actually a joint US.and Israeli operation. As Israel’s Jewish News Service reported on November 27th,

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Major General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the US. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. (…) Everyone understands that we can’t fight this War without the United States. Period.”

From 7 October 2023 up through 23 December 2023, the US Government shipped to Israel 10,000 tons of US weaponry and ammunition; and Biden has pressed harder on Congress to authorize an additional $ 14 Billion of such assistance to be donated by US taxpayers, to Israel, in order to complete what it’s doing to Gaza, whatever that may turn out to be, than he has ever pressed Congress to approve Anything, except donating even More weapons and intelligence to Ukraine too. And, then, on January 29th, YNET News, the most popular internet portal in Israel, headlined “Global Ammunition Shortage forces Israel to Limit Bombings”, and they reported that “Over 25,000 Tons of Weapons have Been Delivered to Israel via Approximately 280 Aircraft and 40 Ships from the US since the Onset of the Conflict.” So, obviously, Biden, rather than being  “The President [who] will continue to work for peace in the Middle East,” is instead actually an equal partner along with Netanyahu, in carrying out this Israel US planned genocide. How many of Reuters’s readers know this fact? Furthermore, that Reuters article likewise stated, without pointing out the absurd lie, that “the US president aims to solve conflicts in the Middle East.” How can that be? Perhaps he intends to ship yet more billions of dollars worth of US made taxpayer donated weapons to Israel in order to enforce that ‘Peace’, the ‘peace’ of the graveyard. So sayeth Reuters, at any rate. And believeth its readers? But That is the MainStream ‘News’ ‘Reporting’, and This certainly is NOT. What is the Reality? And why does the opposite side Hide it? And who are paying them to hide it?

Which people actually control a ‘Democracy’, the people who fund political propaganda, or the people whose votes are swayed by it? If a country is controlled by contending factions between the billionaires, such as Democratic ones versus Republican ones,  is That a democracy? If it’s instead an aristocracy, is there any way to overthrow and replace it by a democracy, other than to have an authentic revolution?

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL, Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to US and allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘News’ media but the social ‘Sciences’, duping the public.
Eric Zuesse blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/.

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