Monday in a holder reports from beirut. One of the front lines in. Opposition fighters say they are rebelling attempts by pro Syrian Government forces to storm the besieged and. Rebel saying they killed dozens of soldiers the ground offensive began on sunday just hours after the Un Security Council agreed to a cease fire throughout. Since then there has been no letup in the war the intensity of the airstrikes and the shelling appears to have dropped when compared to the relentless Bombing Campaign during the first week of the assault but civilians continue to die those who are able to find underground shelter avoid going outside more than five hundred people have already been killed children and women among them. The any god give me patience to face this tragedy my children are scattered here and there my son lost three kids such awful memories. I lost my house six days ago i have nothing at all i have been here for six days theres no food and water. Chlorine gas has also reportedly been used activists and medics a victim suffered breathing problems i know not only today we have more than thirty dead dozens of launching of chemical weapons they bombard us with chlorine sarin and other gases from iran and we dont know what they are. In common they dont care about un Council Decisions they still use chemical weapons against us progovernment forces have been accused of using chemical weapons in the past especially when they want to clear an area to allow their forces to advance the Syrian Government and russia are using a loophole in the Un Security Council cease fire resolution to the military campaign. Which are held by what they call terrorists. If there are two rebel groups socialists and. They have sent representatives to russian sponsored talks ask that up but there are also a few hundred. Fighters belonging to a Group Previously known as the. Front the opposition says. Fighters are ready to leave but the progovernment alliance wants all rebel factions to surrender there are thousands of fighters in eastern huta and between three hundred to four hundred thousand civilians says the u. N. God be with us wheres the ceasefire the airstrikes havent stopped weve been going through this for the past week no food no water the kremlin says the people who are being held hostage but the fighters and their families are also the people of this damascus suburb surrendering would probably be in forcible displacement to another rebel area and never returning home that. People. Diplomats at the United NationsSecurity Council are currently negotiating on renewing targeted sanctions in yemen britain has drafted the resolution which also condemns iran for violating an arms embargo by providing weapons to who the rebels russia is proposing an alternative which just focuses on sanctions. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on unsung suchi to speak out about violence against rangoon muslims warning that she risks prosecution for genocide the women a visiting refugee camps in bangladesh they told the myanmar leader to wake up to the atrocities facing their anger doesnt recognize their anger as an ethnic group and blames violence in iraq kind state on terrorists and you an agency say Food Insecurity in south sudan has reached unprecedented levels more than sixty percent of the population is now at risk of starvation by july displacement due to violence and a weak economy contributed to the crisis those the headlines all seen about twenty five minutes time. Think if you. Want you know its two thousand and fourteen israel launched a devastating military took on the gaza strip. Over the course of fifty one days is ready to drop twenty thousand tons of explosives on the densely populated area and the size of the. Killing of the two thousand palestinians including tens of thousands more. The overwhelming majority of these casualties were civilians the strip being bombarded from the sea and land israel launched at least one hundred sixty strikes on the gaza strip. And theres one less hospital in gaza now israel today a latin hospital. The sheer scale of the attack spoke to outrage and condemnation around the world israels month long pounding of gaza shocked many people around the world mass demonstrations have been held in many of the worlds major cities. But in the United States the story was different polls show the American People holding firm in their support for israel this is the latest you know or see poll of the american shows fifty seven percent of those polled say israels action in gaza is justified thirty four percent say unjustified these numbers were striking but they were new of the course of a conflict in which palestinian casualties so far outnumbered israeli casualties the American People have consistently shown from zero sympathy for israelis than for palestinians its very difficult to force Public Opinion on any question from the Media Coverage that people rely on to form opinions and i think the most prevalent lesson from looking at the coverage is that the coverage tends to see this conflict from the israeli side study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american Media Coverage so by far the most common thing weve heard is that everything comes down to israels right to defend itself israel is a state that implements its right to defend itself and its citizens it is a talking point that is set from the top and by the top i mean from the highest officials government officials who are commenting on this issue which is the media obsessive we cover the repeats a mans gotta do what a mans going to do in your country has got to do what the countrys got to do we have to defend ourselves in the most recent war in two thousand and fourteen when we looked at Mainstream Media outlets almost by a margin of three to one israeli spokespeople over represented compared to palestinian spokespeople so almost every time you turned on the screen there was a israeli representative on the screen telling you israel is the one thats in a position of defense it is being attacked and basically israel is saying hey you dont have to be a Rocket Scientist to understand what the fuck is flying your head you are allowed to defend yourself add to this the fact that you have american elected officials. Also reinforcing israels right to defend itself as ive said many times israel has a right to defend itself against rocket and tunnel attacks from hamas and what gets pushed out of the frame entirely is the fact that out the for almost fifty years palestinians have been systematically dispossessed from their land and the noise of their most basic human rights. Pioneers and refugees from countries in the oppression young and. Now knowing. They will march to their world view a settlement to build. One response they want real will respond to palestine. Zionism the nationalist movement that emerged in europe in the late eighteen hundreds was dedicated to the idea that the jewish people of to centuries of living is persecuted minorities within other countries were entitled to state an historic palestine the biblical homeland of the jews more than three thousand years before but there was a basic problem with the choice from the start how to stein was already home to hundreds of thousands of palestinian arabs who had been living in palestine for centuries. After World War Two when the holocaust the situation reached a break point of the muslim the British Colonial government made the decision to withdraw and to polish the problem on to the newly created United Nations in one hundred forty seven Un Resolution one eight one recommended that palestine be split into two parts. Jews who are a third of the population would receive fifty six percent of the land palestinians who are two thirds of the population and possess move ninety percent of historic palestine would receive forty four percent these terms were immediately rejected by arab leaders as unfair but in the spring of one nine hundred forty eight as honestly it is declared israel a state and on the proposed borders anyway triggering the first arab israeli will find that out. Early morning. After winning a crushing victory israel took possession of even more land by the time almost this was declared in nine hundred forty nine israel controls Seventy Eight percent of historic palestine the creation of the new state would be celebrated by israelis as a triumph but to this day it is commemorated by palestinians as the nakba the arabic term for the catastrophe in memory of the hundreds of thousands of palestinians who were driven from their homes to make way for the new jewish state old told approximately seven hundred thousand people more than half of august on its native population were up rooted. There is a lot of sympathy that can be generated i think rightly so for what jewish people as a whole have dealt with in western societies and globally because of antisemitism the question then becomes what is the proper response to that design a stance or is of course statehood and theres many people who would sympathise with that if it was in fact done in a vacuum and if it was in fact done for a people without a land in a land without people the reality is thats just not the way that it happened. There were people here they lost their homes their livelihood their nation their everything this was a in one thousand term there was only three percent palestinian arab and six seven percent jewish how did it suddenly become eighty percent jewish and twenty percent palestinian this was not a normal demographic transition this was a consequence of israels desire to create a jewish state and to do that it have to get rid of as many palestinians as possible the palestinians use the term catastrophe to speak of the one nine hundred forty eight consequences when they lost their land the first time around in sixty seven it was another not another catastrophe. In june of nine hundred sixty seven israel won what was perceived as a stunning undertow victory of a much larger arab moments during the sixtys. With victory in addition to taking down from egypt and syria israel began to militarily occupy all remaining palestinian territory in the west bank the gaza strip and East Jerusalem suddenly all of palestine is now lost we now had no Palestinian Land left under palestinian control you have a huge palestinian population living as refugees are living under occupation. Palestinians are governed under military law they are essentially prisoners they are treated as if they were all prisoners of war they have no rights. In the immediate aftermath of the sixty seven war the United NationsSecurity Council post resolution two too food. Citing international though forbidding the takeover of territory by war to food to explicitly called for israel to withdraw its own forces. To this day israel has largely failed to comply not only Holding Palestinian territory the compass getting additional land and building massive jewish settlement blocks in the west bank in East Jerusalem in direct violation of the food Geneva Convention which expressly forbid states from transferring civilian populations into territory it occupies. In addition israel has established an inter matrix of Security Control on Palestinian Land to secure the settlements including checkpoints the prevent palestinians from travelling freely within their own land and a four hundred forty mile security along the Israeli Border that cuts into palestinian territory. If youre one of the millions of palestinians living under occupation this is what the complicates of out but one of the most stunning things is how this story the story basically just drops out and instead you hear over and over again that its israel that surrounded israel is surrounded israel surrounded surrounded its israel the sun the siege and under threat you described a very small land mass and you know youre dealing with hamas and hezbollah and iran and so on i would like that its a tough neighborhood the imagery here is so powerful that its almost impossible to have a rational discussion about the legitimate grievances of palestinians hamas is a terror group and it is committed to killing jews and wiping israel off the face of the earth thats not debatable thats a fact none of this is by accident this is the result that with the liberal effort to shape america perceptions of the conflict a propaganda effort that really begins to take shape with israels invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two. Israel unleashed another massive air attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from the sky. And israeli jets bombing bombing. And the summer of nine hundred eighty two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of its income and some southern border with israel whats an israeli army doing here in beirut the answer is that we are now dealing with an imperial israel which is solving its problems in someone elses country World Opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two was a watershed it was israel breaking out beyond its immediate region to aggressively attack another country and it was a bit of a shock to many people in the interests of selfdefense that gallant little underdog israel as suddenly started behaving like the neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the Israeli Military would to seventeen thousand lebanese and palestinians and the other thirty thousand almost all of them civilians and when they were over in the end they are become so why is everything only. Right to recruit others because. Just a few months later american Media Coverage would take an even darker theres been another horrendous turn of events in the middle east hundreds of men women and children perhaps as many as a thousand people and all have been massacred into Palestinian Refugee camps in west beirut israels lebanese allies operating with the consent of the Israeli Government that massacred several thousand Palestinian Civilians in the refugee camps of supper. And American News media at the pictures to prove it by all appearances groups of men had been ordered to stand against the wall and then gunned down in cold blood. Today allah still you finally for all of my knowledge of our children one where theyre killing our family this was a game changer in terms of how israel was going to deal with the question of publicity they went on the offensive for the first time director implicit accusation that the i. D. F. Bear any blame for ever. Tragedy english. Are entirely baseless and without any foundation. The government of israel rejects them with which they did. Two years after the lebanon invasion the American Jewish congress sponsored a conference in jerusalem to devise a formal Public Relations strategy known in hebrew as as. Participants included p. R. And advertising executives media specialists journalists and leaders of major jewish groups the primary aim of the conference was to develop strategies to spin unpopular israeli policies and to counter the negative press coverage by shaping the media frame in advance. Doesnt just jump into a camera conference delegates its directed its managed its made to accessible israel based advertising executive Martin Fenton would put it in even more blunt terms propaganda is not a dirty word he said face it we are in the game of changing peoples minds but making them think differently to come push that we need propaganda. After lebanon you start to see the basic has prostrated you know action images of palestinians fighting back against israels occupation make their way onto American Television screens and the Israeli Military crushes this resistance in brutal ways that undercut israels image as underdog and victim. Three helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into the crowd to civilians last night killing seven palestinians moving seventy more. Then israeli officials going to full house romos and that occupation doesnt even exist in framing all Palestinian Resistance as terrorism and Israeli Aggression as selfdefense the Palestinian Terror Campaign continues it only justifies again and again that we will have to continue to defend ourselves. And so this becomes the framing of the situation israel is defending itself which means israel is not the aggressor here that doesnt square with the reality on the ground and we know that you have a right to defend yourself you dont have a right to occupy people deny them their human rights and then cry foul when they resist thats not the right to selfdefense thats the right to repression thats what israel is asking for here let us do away with these dissenters these palestinian dissenters and call it defense and when you look today at how the media cover the conflict you see just how successful israels propaganda has been in reversing the legacy of lebanon if theres any complaints and there should be about civilian deaths that they belong to the responsibility and the blame belongs with one place hamas i dont think anyone should get that wrong the israeli position is the first position they are allowed to to determine the narrative determine the facts on the ground hamas is a Terror Organization committed to our destruction they fire thousands of rockets at our cities the dominant narrative in the Media Coverage then israel is retaliating for an attack. It has suffered israel says the barrage of rockets is in retaliation to the seven hundred fifty rockets fired from gaza we know this is all retaliation for hamas firing rockets into israel which is the dominant media story of our time what weve seen is really another kind of occupation and not the patient of American Media and what we could call the American Mind bright pro israel narrative thats the fact that attention away from what virtually everyone recognizes as the best way to resolve this conflict and the occupation and the settlements so the palestinians can finally have a state of their own is. The Prime Minister of israel the president of the United States. The ongoing Peace Process that began with the oslo peace accords in one thousand nine hundred three was designed to negotiate the terms of israels withdrawal from palestinian territory in accordance with Un Resolution two forty two which made an explicit connection between israeli withdrawal and a just and lasting peace this insoles no israel has actually taken more post a new land for its jewish only settlements. In one hundred ninety three there were approximately two hundred thousand illegal jewish settlers living in the occupied palestinian territories since then that number has more than tripled with approximately six hundred fifty thousand settlers now living in the west bank in East Jerusalem so if you look at the result not the words and the pretty phrases whats happened over the past twenty years and most nor graded oslo was not a Peace Process it was an annexation process what has happened is that now one in eleven israeli jews live in these illegal sounds so the failure to confront the solomon enterprise from the very beginning i think has created a almost insuperable obstacle to the creation of a palestinian state theres no place to put it were were talking about here is something that is completely indefensible israel knows this israel knows this very well and for that reason wants to talk about anything and Everything Else theyd rather talk about terrorism theyd rather talk about security were willing to make great concessions for peace. But there is something that i will never compromise on and that is Real Security the reason theyve been able to so effectively change the subject isnt because theyre practicing some kind of mass mind control the main reason is that the u. S. Government itself has had a vested interest in promoting this same narrative for almost fifty years now this goes back to the start of the socalled special relationship with israel in the late one nine hundred sixty s. When the u. S. Decides to deputize israel and make it what the next administration called a cop on the beat to protect american interests in the middle east especially u. S. Energy supplies ever since the American Government has continued to give israel roughly three billion dollars a year military aid while also vetoing one u. N. Resolution after another condemning the occupation of settlements the challenge is to make sure that the American People stay on board with the u. S. Aid despite what israel is doing a number of well funded Public Relations organizations have emerged within the United States to help israel just suppose purposes especially the occupation and settlements on security grounds one of these groups you see israel project in two thousand and nine israel project turn to conservative poster and rebranding expert frank luntz to determine which talking points used by israeli and u. S. Officials over time at the most effective in maintaining american sympathy for israel once wrote up his recommendations in a two thousand and nine report called the global language dictionary if you want to understand how the propaganda works especially in the u. S. You need to read the luntz document is really clear that the occupation and especially the settlements are a problem and he points the polls that show a large majority of americans actually think that israel should retreat to the sixty seven borders in fact he says when you talk about land in terms of sixty seven you completely flip american sentiment against you. But and this is the solution if you bring up the danger of terrorism you win back the support the key says is the claim that the fight is over ideology not land about terror not territory in fact these three words terror not territory summarize the basis of the Propaganda Campaign of the us and once goes on to say the one of the most effective ways to make the conflict about terrorism is to refer to an obscure political document written in one thousand eight by small group of ideologues the Hamas Charter but of course for the destruction of israel even though the hamas leadership effectively disown the charter a long time ago its been p. R. Gold for israel launch research has discovered that when americans hear the words of the charter israel goes from bully to victim and sympathy for the plight of the palestinians this equates so he says dont just quote it read it out loud again and again and his advice has been taken up often hysterically by israels advocates the Hamas Charter not only cost results the structures ladies and gentlemen article seven paulse for the murder of every jew it cost for the murder of every jew its a nazi document we have the israeli Prime Minister saying movements like the mass at our National Movements are the same thing as isis hamas is like isis hamas is like Al Qaeda Hamas is like hezbollah hamas is like a book all around and they are completely not the same things from us it is as much a nationalist movement. As leaders and a religious movement and front. From the science priority to its nationalist drones over its religious grounds. This false notion true most is part of this all pro doing that work is not bought you can buy a moments worthy of the vote in two thousand and ten the United StatesCentral Command was sent to comb the highs military compound in the u. S. Issue to report the question the current u. S. Policy of isolating and marginalizing how messes with his has split in lebanon the report described the two groups is pragmatic and argued that putting them in ok during the same sentence as if theyre all the same is just stupid and the us military isnt alone in this assessment isis itself has attacked the mosque again and again because im not radical enough bit too pragmatic and too compromising i spent a lot of time on my Radio Program going over a hamas says charter what it says it wants to obliterate israel it wants to destroy the jews it is a sick twisted you know perverted ideology and it manifests itself in different forms the Muslim BrotherhoodIslamic Jihad hamas hezbollah i says alqaeda you know its all the same thing meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charges that have much more relevance to the conflict the platform of the ruling likud party in israel. The environment doesnt know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. Best the sides are pushed on grounds that its a very modern way to do it. And weve made poisons the measure of progress. The domestic population has become organized enough from active to believe in your. Circle of poison this time on aljazeera. The nature of news as it breaks there is a sense of renewed hope with a president who enjoys quietly feel with detailed coverage they are dodging distractions that appear to be hurting president trumps ability to manage the mideast peace crisis from around the world over one hundred thirty one thousand people are registered in a south korean database first separated family. Violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by bollywood. But its leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause. Nobody got the courage to leave and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. The snake charmers on the continent witness at this time on a does either. Hello im i am in london here are the top stories on aljazeera russias president Vladimir Putin has ordered a daily cease fire in eastern guta in syria and a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave at least twenty six people were killed on monday in the rebel held enclave east of damascus despite a u. N. Resolution calling for a nationwide truce on sunday syrian troops launched a ground assault trying to enter the enclave through three towns in one of those places a child was killed and several others experience breathing difficulties after a suspected chlorine gas attack witnesses reported smelling the gas off to an explosion in the area the Syrian Government has denied using chemical weapons in the war we stand ready as soon as the conditions or safe or Truck Drivers humanitarian workers to roll in to these areas. For that to be effective. The fighting needs to stop we need to ensure that there are no roadblocks whether physical or administrative meanwhile diplomats the Un Security Council akari negotiating on renewing targeted sanctions in yemen britain has drafted the resolution which also condemns iran for violating an arms embargo by providing weapons to hoofy rebels russia is proposing an alternative which focuses on just the sanctions. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on unsung suchi to speak out about violence against women get muslims warning that she risks prosecution for genocide the women are visiting refugee camps in bangladesh i told the man to wake up to the atrocities facing the rangar does not recognize the rain as an ethnic group un agencies say Food Insecurity in south sudan has reached unprecedented levels more than sixty percent of the population is at risk of starvation by july displacement juice the ongoing violence and a weak economy is contributed to the crisis. And the u. S. Supreme court has dealt a blow to President Donald Trump over deferred action for childhood insisting he must keep the protections hes tried to end for immigrant sport to the u. S. Illegally as children i have more on all of those stories in the news hour in twenty five minutes time do join me then the occupation of the American Mind now continues. The Hamas Charter not only cause results destructions ladies and gentlemen but cause for the murder of every jew its a nazi argument meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charter that have much more relevance to the conflict the platform of the ruling likud party in israel. Well if you look at the language thats in the charter the Likud Charter it flatly rejects quote flatly rejects the existence of a palestinian state anywhere anywhere on that side of the jordan river in other words completely denying the right of a state of palestine to exist thats far more relevant to have language like the language in the liquid charter be in the charter of a party that is the largest in Israeli Government driving an israeli state and has the capacity to act upon the words in their charter in a way that no other party does to strengthen the case that the conflict is about turning to some and not turn a tree once points to the effectiveness of another one a step just israeli talking point the claim that israel gave up control of gaza in two thousand and five in hopes of achieving peace and a two state solution and go to rockets in return we left gaza completely we had guns so they could have turned it into a floor wonderful place to live and look at one thing they turned into a haven of coming from all over the world its completely untrue that israel left the the gaza strip they did withdraw their colonists but at the same time they tie in their control over the gaza strip this is gazas main freight route into israel and normally this road would be bumper to bumper with heavily laden trucks but its completely closed as is every other Border Crossing in the country nothings coming into gaza and nothing is getting out so the idea that israel left is one hundred percent gaza it remains occupied who can come and go is totally at the israeli discretion in gaza there are constant military attacks by the Israeli Air Force by drones. Targeted assassinations go on all the time it wasnt really a withdrawal but the conventional shorthand in the media is that. Israel was unwilling to give up an enormous amount to the palestinian side and the palestinians responded with violent israel for since one thousand nine hundred seven controlled gaza they gave it to the palestinians in a gesture of peace and all they got a bunch of rockets are you think that this is the basic frame of israels p. R. Campaign make sure the media space focused on terrorism and a mosque stream ism as a source of the conflict not the occupation and the settlements if you want to see this in operation just look at the coverage of any of israels many attacks on gaza over the past few years. The scale and intensity of this attack was surprising the deadliest operation against palestinians in decades after an intense three week Thirteen Hundred day five thousand wounded. In late december of two thousand and eight israel launched operation coast let the massive ground assault on the gaza strip if for for these this Popular Video over a period of three weeks Israeli Military dropped over six hundred tons of bombs on the go so it is unclear how many civilians in the fourteen hundred postings were killed and thousands more injured the wounded were carried on corrugated iron. And private cars. And bets on you know. The worst one day casualty toll in gaza anybody can. Normally have a conflict civilians can run for their lives as it was one of the few if not the only modern conflict where the helpless civilians who are subjected to massive technologically advanced firepower by the israelis have no escape route with gaza city bombed and burning palestinians heeded israels warning to get out of the way but found they had nowhere to go sort of brutal murders devastating this attack was murders if you ask any american who was at war started they would say because the palestinians are not firing rockets at israel what are the goals of that operation right now to change totally the behavior of the from us is that. They had to keep shelling is. What this forget is that for the latter half of two thousand and eight there was a very successful cease fire that curtailed rocket fire into israel dramatically almost to the point in which there was not this was shattered in. November of two thousand when Israel Attacked what they said was a tunnel building project killed six hamas militants at that point the ceasefire was off when hamas regime rocket attacks off the israel broke the ceasefire israeli officials went on American Television and got away with blaming a mosque for breaking the cease fire you know it was you know actually tore up the cease fire understandings it was from us that is going to the violence that reached a crescendo on Christmas Day when we had in one twenty four hour period some eighty rockets mortar shells and missiles coming into israel attacking our civilians now we want to work with the Palestinian Government the law it was then repeated uncritically by us news media games theres no question here is that hamas started this well look i dont think israel had any choice it was a ceasefire that was broken by hamas they fired Something Like three hundred rockets in the israel i mean this is an act of war what are they supposed to do just compare this to how the media outside the u. S. Dealt with us in to the fact that during the sci fi not a single israeli was killed and the reason for that was because how five not a single rocket no i think youre all wrong unfortunately because during that cease fire of six months no Foreign Group its on a daily basis on channel four in britain you saw in ankara presenting evidence that these ready government itself knowledge that hamas observed the ceasefire is actually a document thats given to journalists by the Israeli Government and in this document it says and im quoting how mass was careful to maintain the cease fire. Well israel officially recognizes that until it broke the ceasefire from austin for a single rocket i mean the propaganda is so powerful that these truisms literally truisms are almost inexplicable than the lesson is that this conflict started when we say it started and we say it started when israel was attacked. In two thousand and twelve and again in two thousand and fourteen. Two more devastating attacks on gaza. Ost once again showed that americans remain firmly on israels side. That. Israel can saturate the media with spokespeople but theres still the problem of massive palestinian casualties showing up on Television Screens. Here again the luntz document spells out which talking points have been most effective in spinning the brutal reality of palestinian casualties he says the first thing the pro israeli spokespeople should do is express empathy for the innocent victims unfortunately innocents do get hurt we we really good we really grieve that were sad for every souvenir and casualty the entire situation is tragic then luntz tells p. R. Spokespeople to turn the tables and ask the American People what would you do. So what would you do in the United States can you imagine. What america would do if it were facing a similar thread we always try to us kewl to question what we youll do what would you do what would you do if more than three thousand rockets being fired on your cities what would you do three thousand rockets what would you do if terrorists were tunneling under your frontage what would you do if three kids are kidnapped because of a Tunnel Network what sort of question is this of course anybody would act to defend themselves against unprovoked aggression but it is a question that is completely devoid of any context then on top of that when massive numbers of Palestinian Civilians predictably die from israeli attacks israel claims its part of a deliberate hamas gravity to drum up sympathy. Telegenic the palestinians for their cause they want the more dead the better so they end up in this upside down orwellian world where israelis killing civilians becomes an unforgivable transgression against israelis it is hard to come away with anything but that we are in the midst of a world gone mad last week i found a quote of many years ago by a gold mine here one of israels early leaders which might have been said yesterday we can forgive the arabs for killing our children she said but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children its not difficult to imagine americans identifying with palestinians who are suffering but they need to be able to see that suffering on their Television Screens in their newspapers. These whales said today its a new offensive hes targeting terrorists and when your sense of the coverage is that theres something that these people did to deserve this or that they are affiliated with terrorists and terrorist minded governments. The fall out of that is an inability to identify with people who are suffering in far greater numbers in far greater proportion than their israeli counterparts. The effort to shape american perceptions of the Israeli Palestinian conflict has been taken up by a number of pro israel groups based in the us together these groups are commonly referred to as the israel lobby. Nowhere has the power to shape the pro israel narrative in movies appeal than in the u. S. Congress to launch it to the efforts of one of the most influential lobbying groups working on capitol hill today the American Israel Public Affairs committee better known as apec. It is great to see so many good friends from all across the gulf with. The more than ten thousand people. And apex annual conference draws nearly ten thousand attendees from around the country including the most influential members of both houses of congress for both coaches it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that theyre being deceived that some very competent experts at spin management are in fact deluding them there are many reasons for this one of them is that the american Political Class has basically swallowed the line oak line and sinker they keep getting rocket attack after rocket attack and then theyre criticized for human rights problems because they defend themselves this is particularly true for republicans but responding mr speaker to attacks on their civilian population i mean what is it that they want what we know what they want they want israel obliterated from the map mr speaker but its also true for Many Democrats we stand with our ally we stand with a Democratic State of israel we stand against terrorism this is ministration well always stand up for israels right to defend itself. They made the mistake of actually leaving a pax facts address on one bill that was actually laid before congress and of course nobody was apparently past the fact that in fact write the legislation for them or writes their speeches for them doesnt seem to in the least bother you theres nothing happening here that secret or under the table its not a cabal its not a conspiracy it is in fact domestic politics the way its packed. Here in the United States there are roughly three dozen or so pro israel pacs that give money over the last fifteen or twenty years theyve given fifty five sixty Million Dollars in american elections there are one or two arab american pacs and i believe last time i looked theyve given you know eight hundred thousand to a million so youve got fifty five Million Dollars of pac contributions on one side and youve got maybe a million at most on the other side the actual views of most people in the American Jewish community quinta every poll diverge greatly from the extreme right wing neo conservative views of the entire establishment leadership of that community most people in the Jewish Community are much more liberal theyre against settlement theyre against occupation and want two state solution and there are some key elements of what we call the israel lobby that arent jewish socalled christian zionists evangelical christians in america have become israels star just ally in an increasingly hostile world and the United States roughly a third of the population believes that every word of the bible is literally true if the bible is literally true then the land of israel was promised to the jews by god they have every right to take it from surfers listen closely those of you listening in the liberal media. The jewish people are now saying the land of israel. The land of this is really. One of the problems with the influence israel lobby has in the United States now is it has been hard for government officials to have an honest discussion just look what happened to president obama when he made the mistake of simply saying out loud what the International Consensus is we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps. So that secure and recognized borders are established for both states it didnt matter that obama was just repeating what had been official u. S. Policy for decades or the right wing president Ronald Reagan that said essentially the same thing in the one nine hundred eighty s. An Even Stronger language u. N. Resolution two for two remains wholly valid as the Foundation Stone of americas middle east peace effort. It is the United States position that in return for peace the withdrawal provision of resolution two forty two applies to all fronts including the west bank and gaza when obama said it he was a media the accused by right wing groups of setting up israel for another holocaust as president obama abandon israel after strong support by eleven consecutive american president s it appears obama has moved sharply toward israels enemies and the results could be disastrous the leader of hezbollah has vowed to finish the job it was started up to now americas strong backing of israel made that impossible but with obamas waffling for the second holocaust. Its a pretty ingenious tactic how you supposed to have a rational discussion about the occupation when pro israel extremists call the sixty seven borders exporters. These are the two alternatives youre either going to now switching to support israel because israel was in fact created in the wake of the holocaust isnt that extraordinary that the two would be that way i have a problem with the idea of exploiting the link and using those six million jews and almost in my mind its like saying and frankly we want the occupation to continue we are a nation that rose from the ashes of the holocaust. When we say never again we may never again. I see a lot of manipulation. About the victims. The sense of victimhood and im a child of survivors a local survivor so ill be the last one to underestimate the importance of history and the history of persecution of jews in the Israeli Palestinian context but doesnt mean that jews now in israel go every day and think about auschwitz i doubt there are watchdog groups that keep track of what different media organizations publish or broadcast and if theyre not happy about it they either publish their own attack. Acts they organize consumer boycotts the Media Outlets dont see the pushback from the other side they dont see the upside to standing up for for their own reporting so i think in most cases they cave look at how American Media covered israels two thousand and fourteen attack on gaza the keyword search of all the Major Networks showed that over the course of the fifty one day assault israels ongoing military see jump out of gaza will barely mention compared to the thousands of times a mosque rocket attacks on israel were mentioned but the silence of Mainstream Media across the board on these issues hasnt stopped right wing pro israel advocates with zero evidence making exactly the opposite claims here that the us news media bends over backwards so humanize palestinians while demonizing israel consistently the times says suppressed any story that was betray israel sympathetically and of course theres no quite a weapon in the attack austin will then equating Critical Coverage of israels policies with antisemitism any fair minded person falls out in syria knows its anti american and anti semitic there it is youre splitting us man correct yes i am it doesnt it doesnt come more anti semitic knowledge they would they wouldnt they would do violence to you who is a good journalist and aljazeera we let run that were they would violently and i largely think so rude an article in which he explained to American Jews what their task was their task is to show that anyone who is a critic. But which he means a critic of the policies of the state of israel must be either an anti semite or a neurotic self hating jew that covers one hundred percent of possible criticism so used to be i was always called the self hating jew and everybody like me was called the self hating too i am now not only fit into that they also call me that is them like how i was by four jewish grandparents im still an antisemite my wife was born in a just. Those persons camp in germany and im an antisemite look ive done dozens of interviews which begin from the terrorism departure point but when given an opportunity to actually speak and present a different perspective that can dissolve rather quickly is hamas a terrorist organization. Do i get to actually speak now and you get to answer the question its a simple yes or no question is how long are you invited to join on here is a mosque whose charter calls for the destruction of israel is that a terrorist organization thats a yes or no question thank you for your question find larry telling to me that and it should be telling to your viewers as well by the way that the moment you have a palestinian voice on your program who begins to explain the legitimate grievances of power is not lost a terrorist organization let me say that so let me question what part of this can you get through your thick head i think is hamas a terrorist organization and yes or no the only thing that youre going to say is what we want to say and if you dont say it when i go let you speak our Media OperationsNational Media is a scandal when it comes to israel i look at the u. K. With all its deficit and theres real debate for example there is this anchor called john snow channel four in the u. K. And he interview with mark greg and he grilled time with questions grilled mark record of how does killing children on a beach contribute to that purpose what was the point of bombing el wafa hospital for Goodness Sake there are grave problems certainties about whether you are acting within the law. Oh yes you are deliberately targeting the neighborhoods in which you know there are women and children youve tried everything with guns or you besieged it for seven years the people live in intolerable and ghastly life and you know that better than anybody why dont you try one other thing talking why not talk why not be brave and talk directly with the why not i can never see this in america i never seen anything like this in the United States while the mainstream propaganda system is operating the same as it always has there are definite signs that its control is starting to unravel over just the past few years the proliferation of social media and internet news sources this made it increasingly difficult for the Israeli Government and pro israel groups in the u. S. To manage american perceptions of the conflict. Video footage and reporting from the ground bearing witness to the reality of the occupation are now more accessible than ever on the internet. At the same time a powerful new movement has been gaining momentum and raising awareness of the occupation. While activists from the black lives matter move and have been making explicit connections between Police Violence against africanamericans in the Israeli Militarys repression of palestinians we stand next to people who continue to courageously struggle to resist the occupation people continue to dream and fight for freedom. From ferguson to power. The struggle for freedom continues and all of these developments seem to be having an effect those now show that while sympathy for israel remains at all time highs some americans it has been hemorrhaging among young people despite the efforts of the lobby something really striking is taking place and pro israel operatives like frank luntz are in a panic in his latest report he calls whats happening with young people a disaster. As the discourse begins to open more people are starting to understand this as a rights based issue not an issue of radicalism this is a movement for the rights of people whose rights are being denied who are living under occupation who want to live in their country freely just like anybody else lets just get away from the fall of jesus and talk about the reality and then maybe be able to persuade people that they should not any longer give their unwavering support to our nation engaged in a policy thats not just inhumane and brutal but ultimately suicidal. Given the central role that the United States plays in backing israel seems to me americans all americans have a right to question the to kill or israeli policies and in particular the prolonged occupation the fact that the Palestinian People have been kept without a state and without any Political Rights for decades now in the end this comes down to a battle for the minds of American People about all of the stories they told to make sense of this conflict about global perception the more americans are able to see the reality of occupation with their own eyes to see images of routine daily violence of the repression and you relation to never make their way into mainstream news the more theyll question the image of israel as this tiny little david up against the bullying our. And start to wonder who is actually the outcome palestinians who might be the real davids here. When that starts becoming the dominant perception here in the u. S. Open seraph it all comes down to American Public perception. Out of there been some tremendous suns to was recently in queens and and they generate in the afternoon down New South Wales as well affecting sydney and brisbane but the heaviest rain as record has been further north not far away from darwin ninety minutes in twenty four hours this is where you would expect to find the right in the top end of australia or right back towards darwin and theyll be shastas the same type of thing in the next as a. Full cost to queens and on the coasts or in the afternoon you New South Wales the sun shines out its warming up in melbourne and adelaide it looks like it could still be potentially stormy inland from perth the next day and so some useful fast present south looks like quite dying in new zealand feeding into the air that was flooded by other means that Tropical Cyclone there is more cloud and its curling up that is a rather telling shape usually means some sort of executions trying to fall so once again i think south island the site includes the north the south and the south and up to wellington rain seems like its a full on tuesday and indeed wednesday. Seventeen degrees but a very wet seventeen degrees. Now just quickly north record breaking snow has fallen in japan and you know what is war on the way. 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