Transcripts For ALJAZ The Occupation Of The American Mind 20240713

Forcing the meeting to be suspended and as she left the chamber some even threw objects after some politicians say its time for them to step down. In a post poll bungs home home people have had a very difficult time very very tell time how ravel our chief executive mrs kerry re feels to respond all to resolve the problem. All 53 months of very clear not one less and i really urge if she cant call them on call and she has no determination to govern all and she has no ability and even capable in a ministration hong kong please that down scott has the latest from hong kong. The big security presence here outside the Legislative Council was to prevent any protesters from interrupting this policy address by carrie lamb but what they didnt expect is there to be interruptions in side the Chamber Twice she tried to deliver the speech twice she was shouted out chants from prodemocracy members of the Legislative Council after that after the 2nd attempt the session was called off and everyone exited the chambers outside some prodemocracy Legislative Council members spoke to the media they said that some said that she need to step down because she doesnt have the legitimacy to rule hong kong anymore so about an hour later she was able to deliver this address by video link now this is something that has never been done by a chief executive here in hong kong before they normally are delivering their policy addresses inside the Legislative Council during a session so this is the 1st time that has happened it lasted about an hour and touched on subjects that was expected but what was interesting obviously touched on what was happening on on the streets here in hong kong but she also talked about the future Public Housing needs to be expanded shes going to work on that livelihoods need to be improved here but obviously those are issues that can be dealt with in the future but right now theres a lot more than need to be dealt on the streets of hong kong right now. Well as scott was just saying there hong kong leader kerry was forced to give her address through video link instead of in the chamber and during her speech she said the International Community is waiting for hong kong to return to normalcy tom seek a home got. Employees of all trades and sectors as well as small medium and Large Businesses alike are deeply worried about the prospect of hong kong people are asking will hong kong return to normal or is hong kong still a place we can live in peace many sectors of our society have condemns the radical acts of rioters and have supported the government to strictly enforce the law to end violence. Democrats are accusing the tumble ministration of stonewalling the investigation into whether the president should be impeached Vice President mike pence trumps lou every day giuliani and the white house are refusing to submit documents to the inquiry while the 12 democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have now presented a unified front calling for his impeachment they were also fiery exchanges during their 4th debate in ohio about health care Foreign Policy and gun violence. The European Union and the United Kingdom have been holding the last ditch talks to try to work out a break the deal that can be discussed as the Leaders Summit and brussels on thursday negotiate says a from the u. K. And the e. U. Are attempting to reach an agreement by the end of the week ahead of britains official departure from the e. U. On october the 30 fast the news breaks a negotiation Michelle Banja says obstacles remain but theres still potential for a deal while those are the headlines the news continues here. With your lawyer 2014 is ready to launch a devastating new tree took on the gaza strip. Over the course of 51. 00 days its ready to drop 20000. 00 tons of explosives goes into the densely populated area the size of the delphia. Killing over 2000 i was in terms of thousands more. The overwhelming majority of these casualties were civilians distributed these being bombarded from the sea and into israel launched at least 160. 00 strikes on the gaza strip. And there is one less hospital in gaza now. Today. Flattened what the hospital. The sheer scale of the attack spoke outrage and condemnation around the world israels month long pounding of gaza shocks 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 the american shows 57 percent of those polled say israels action in gaza is justified 34 percent say unjustified these numbers were striking but they were news of the course of the conflict in which palestinian casualties so far outnumbered israeli casualties the American People have consistently shown from 0 sympathy for israelis 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 rights 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 got to do in your country has got to do what a countrys got to do we have to defend ourselves in the most recent war in 2014 when we looked at Mainstream Media outlets almost by a margin of 3 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 that the fuck is flying your head youre 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 50 years palestinians have been systematically this possessed from their land and the noise of their most basic human rights. Pioneers and refugees from countries of the oppression young and old they are going to our land. They will march to their world view resettlement to build. One response they want real will respond to palestine. Zionism the nationalist movement that emerged in europe in the late 18th hundreds was dedicated to the idea that the jewish people of to centuries of living as persecuted minorities within other countries were entitled to state an historic palestine the biblical homeland of the jews more than 3000 years before but there was a basic problem with the choice from the start palestine was already home to hundreds of thousands of palestinian arabs who had been living in palestine for centuries. After world war 2 when the holocaust the situation reached a break point ultimately the British Colonial government made the decision to withdraw and to pass the problem on to the newly created United Nations in 147 Un Resolution 181 recommended that palestine be split into 2 parts. Jews who are a 3rd of the population would receive 56 percent of the land palestinians who are 2 thirds of the population and possess move 90 percent of historic palestine would receive 44 percent these terms were immediately rejected by arab leaders is unfair but in the spring of 148 was on its leaders to create israel a state on the proposed borders anyway triggering the 1st arab israeli will. Get out. Early morning. After winning a crushing victory israel took possession of even more land by the time almost this was declared in 949. 00 israel controls 78 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 says 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 were all told approximately 700000 people more than half of august on its native population were up rooted way theres 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 1000 town that was 93 percent palestinian arab and. 7 percent jewish how did it suddenly become 80 percent jewish and 20 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 1948 consequences when they lost their land the 1st time around in 67 it was another knockback another catastrophe. In june of 967. 00 israel won what was perceived as a stunning underdog victory over much larger arab moments during the 6 day war with a tree in addition to taking land 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 67 war the United Nations Security Council post resolution 2 food 2 citing International Law forbidding the takeover of territory by war 2 for 2 explicitly calling 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 london building massive jewish settlement blocks in the west bank in East Jerusalem in direct violation of the food Geneva Convention which expressly forbids 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 440 mile security bill 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 or this 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 american perceptions of the conflict a propaganda effort that really begins to take shape with israels invasion of lebanon in 1902. Israel unleashed another massive air attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from a sky full of israeli jets bombing and bombing. In the summer of 982. 00 israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of its income on some southern border with israel whats the 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 1902 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 a neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the Israeli Military would kill 17000 lebanese and palestinians and the 30000 of them civilians and when they were over 20 years later become a wide everything only her offspring fell. Right through her to recruit rather quickly. Just a few months later american Media Coverage were taken even theres been another horrendous turn of events in the middle east hundreds of men women and children perhaps as many as a 1000 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 1000 Palestinian Civilians in the refugee camps of separate. 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 more palestinians trying to clean the relative. Have not returned our children once. 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 1st time. The idea of any blame. Tragedy in the shot you look at him. And without any foundation the government of israel rejects them with a contempt which they did. 2 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. Participants including 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 come to negative press coverage by shaping the media for a minute its. Used 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 accomplish that we need propaganda. After levanon you start to see the basic has prostrated in action images of palestinians fighting back against israels occupation make their way onto American Television screens and Israeli Military crushes this resistance in brutal ways that undercut israels image as an underdog and victim. 3 helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into rattle civilians last night killing 7 palestinians and mourning 70 more. Then israeli officials go into 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 its 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 1st 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 750. 00 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 slate of their own. It. Used to be Prime Minister of israel the president of the United States of the were younger in Peace Process that began with the oslo peace accords in 1903 was designed to negotiate the terms of israels withdrawal from palestinian territory in accordance with Un Resolution 242 which made an explicit connection between israeli withdrawal and a just and lasting peace. Essential as though israel has actually taken more Palestinian Land for its jewish only settlements in 1903 there were approximately 200000 illegal jewish settlers living in the occupied palestinian territories since then that number has more than tripled with approximately 650000 settlers now living in the west bank in East Jerusalem so if you look at the result not the words in the pretty phrase is whats happened over the past 20 years and most nor graded it was not a Peace Process it was an annexation process what has happened is that now one in 11 israeli jews live in these illegal sounds so the failure to confront the settlement enterprise from the very beginning i think has created a almost insuperable obstacle to the creation of the palestinian state theres no place to put it what 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 israels 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 50 years now this goes back to the start of the socalled special relationship with israel in the late 1960 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 3000000000 dollars a year military aid while also vetoing one u. N. Resolution after another condemning. Occupation and 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 is the israel project in 2009 israel project turned 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 2009 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 67 borders in fact he says when you talk about land in terms of 67 you completely flip american sentiment against you but and this is a solution if you bring up the danger of terrorism you win back the support the key is the claim that the fight is over ideology not land about terror not territory in fact these 3 words terror not territory summarize the basis of the Propaganda Campaign of the u. S. And lots 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 1908 by small group of ideologues the Hamas Charter that calls 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. Luntz 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 is whites 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 destruction is ladies and gentlemen article 7 paulse for the murder of every jew the cause 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 for an off from the science priority to its nationalist drones over its religious grounds. This false notion of trauma is part of this all trying to network is not bought even by moments for the American Military in 2010 the United States Central Command to centcom the highest military command in the us if you testified report the question of the current u. S. Policy of isolating and marginalizing how mass as well as has played in lebanon the report described the 2 groups is pragmatic and argued that putting them in now catering the same sentences 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 to pragmatic and to compromise 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 Brotherhood Islamic 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 the ruling the crude quality in israel. A clandestine willed of illegal trade what you have here is not just archaeological optics youre talking about the political dimension where the spoils of war are smuggled in so long to auction houses and private collections for selling artifact is worth finances to be handy and must use in the middle east dont say dont tax one quick solution. Trafficking on aljazeera. The latest news as it breaks into this market started peacefully but major confrontation is taking place hot on the Police Headquarters with details coverage there they get will be heading down to 110 meters which is so deep that i only have 50 minutes on the seabed from around the world the remains of may never be found through your phone they still exist you know his legacy lives on. The environment doesnt know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. On the grounds that its a very modern way to do pop believe me the measure of progress. The domestic relations. Act if you believe your. Circle of poison on aljazeera. How i missed here today and i how with the headlines on aljazeera donald trump is sending a high level delegation to turkey on wednesday to seek a ceasefire and northeastern syria thats despite the turkish president saying he isnt willing to negotiate with Kurdish Forces meanwhile russia says its troops are now patrolling the area between turkish and cut his forces in the region. Hong kong leader carrie has faced disruption in the chamber as she tried to give her annual policy speech. Kerry badge number you. Hear their lawmakers shouted her down twice forcing the meeting to be suspended and as she left the chamber some even threw objects asked her lamb was then fit forced to give her address through a video link instead and during that speech she said the International Community is waiting for hong kong to return to normalcy tom siegel home got. Employees of all trades and sectors as well as small medium and Large Businesses alike deeply worried about the prospect of hong kong people are asking will hong kong return to normal or is hong kong still a place we can live in peace many sectors of our society have condemns the radical acts of rioters and have supported the government to strictly enforce the law to end violence democrats are accusing the trumpet ministration of stonewalling the investigation into whether the president should be impeached Vice President mike pence no i really giuliani and the white house all refusing to submit documents to the inquiry while the 12 democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have presented a unified front calling for his impeachment they are also fiery exchanges during their 4th debate in ohio about health care Foreign Policy and gun violence there have been violent protests in barcelona for a 2nd day over the jailing of 9 separatist leaders thousands have been holding vigils Near Government offices that escalated into clashes with police the dread has warned it may add to to ensure security in the region. E. U. And u. K. Negotiate as a failed to reach a breakthrough talks during all night session both sides are attempting to reach an agreement by the end of the week ahead of britains official departure from the e. U. On october 30 fast talks will resume on wednesday well those are the headlines and now its back to the occupation of the American Mind. With her. And her. The Hamas Charter not only calls for users the structures ladies and gentlemen because for every. Good thing thats a document meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charter that is much more relevant to the conflict the platform the ruling party and its role. 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 the 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 israelis talking point the claim that israel gave up control of gaza in 2005 in hopes of achieving peace and a 2 state solution and go to rockets in return we left gaza completely we had guns so they could have turned it into a floor sharing wonderful place to live and look at what they did and they turned into a haven of terrorists coming from all over the world its completely untrue that israel left 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 100 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 967. 00 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 is this is the basic frame of israels p. R. Campaign make sure the media space focused on terrorism and a mosque extremism 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. An intense 3 week 1300 day 5000. And 8 december of 2008 israel launched operation coast let the massive ground assault on the gaza strip in force at least this Popular Video over a period of 3 weeks Israeli Military truck to the 600 tons of bombs on the go so it is unclear how many civilians in the 1400. 00 postings were killed and thousands more injured the wounded were carried on corrugated iron. And private. Bets on you know. The worst one day casualty toll in gaza anybody. Normally in 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 were subjected to massive technologically advanced firepower by the israelis had 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 its a brutal murders devastating this attack was murders if you asked 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 keep shelling is. What this forget is that for the latter half of 2008 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 2000 when Israel Attacked what they said was a tunnel building project killed 6 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 a mess that is going to the violence that reached a crescendo on Christmas Day when we had in 124 hour period some 80 rockets mortar shells and missiles coming into israel attacking us civilians now we want to work with the Palestinian Government the law i was then repeated uncritically by u. S. News media games theres no question here is there 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 300 rockets in the israel i mean this is an act of war what are they supposed to do lets compare this to how the media outside the u. S. Still with us in there the fact that during the cease fire not a single israeli was killed and the reason for that was because im a 5 not a single rocket no i think you all wrong unfortunately because during that cease fire of 6 months no Foreign Group its on a daily basis on channel 4 in britain you saw in ankara presenting evidence that these ready government itself acknowledge that hamas observe the cease fire 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 israel officially recognized until it broke the cease fire from austin for a single rocket of the propaganda is so powerful that these truisms literally truisms are almost an expression the lesson is that this conflict started when we say it started and we say it started when israel was attacked. In 2012 and again in 2004 this was a devastating attack some goes on. Once again showed that americans remain firmly on israels side. That. Israel can saturate the media with the 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 1st thing the pro israeli spokespeople should do is express empathy for the innocent victims unfortunately innocents do get hurt and we we really grieve that were sad for every pseudonym casualty the entire situation is tragic then luntz tells people 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 you were facing a similar threat we always try to us kewl to question we all still was so what we youll do what would you do what would you do if more than 3000 rockets have been fought on your cities what would you do 3000 rockets what would you do if terrorists were tunneling under your frontage what would you do if 3 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 strategy 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 any feeling 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 say 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 fallout 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 move physical than in the u. S. Congress. 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. It is great. Good friends from all across the gulf will. Be more than. People. And apex annual conference draws nearly 10000. 00 attendees from around the country including the most influential members of both houses of congress from 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 aucoin 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 the 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 tax address on one bill that was actually laid before congress and of course nobody was apparently balanced that 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 3 dozen or so pro israel pacs that give money over the last 15. 00 or 20 years theyve given 5560000000. 00 in american elections there are one or 2 arab american pacs and i believe last time i looked theyve given you know 8000028 1000000 so youve got 55000000. 00 of pac contributions on one side and youve got maybe a 1000000 at most on the other side the actual views of most people in the American Jewish community quoting to 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 they want 2 state solution and there are some key elements of what we call the israel lobby that arent jewish so called christian zionists evangelical christians in america have become israels star just ally in an increasingly hostile world and the United States roughly the 3rd 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 and they have every right to take it from surfers listen closely those of you who are listening in the liberal media. The jewish people are not hiding in the land of israel. The land of israel. 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 967. 00 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 us policy that decades or the right wing president Ronald Reagan that said essentially the same thing in the 1980 s. An Even Stronger language u. N. Resolution to forward to 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 242. 00 applies to all fronts including the west bank and gaza when obama said if 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 11 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 could a 2nd holocaust be. Its a pretty ingenious tactic how you supposed to have a rational discussion about the occupation when pro israel extremists call the 67 borders exporters. These are the 2 alternatives he had now switching to support israel because israel was in fact created in the wake of the holocaust isnt that extraordinary that the 2 would be that way i have a problem with the idea of exploiting the link and using the 6000000 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 adult 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 2014 attack on gaza a keyword search of all the Major Networks showed that over the course of the 51. 00 day assault israels ongoing military see jumblatt 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 0 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 would betray israel sympathetically and of course theres no quite a weapon in the attack austin all that 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 your gloating if you wish man correct yes i am it doesnt it doesnt come more anti semitic. They would they wouldnt they would do violence to you who are who is Good Journalism al jazeera we people that run know that were they were violently i largely think so but i have been 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 of dianas 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 100 percent of us will 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 but they also call me that is them like how i was by 4 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 finally are you 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 it is or let me say it 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 Operations National 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 4 in the u. K. And he interview with mark gregg of real time with questions grilled mark record of how does killing children on a beach contribute to that purpose what was the point of bombing the hell waffle hospital for Goodness Sake there are grave problems certainty 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 7 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 thought in 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 us 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. The 3rd is in a power. Struggle for freedom continued 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 i would or 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 a 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 particular 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 a battle of a perception. 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 humiliation the never make their way into mainstream news the more theyll question the image of israel as a tiny little david up against the bullying our clients and start to wonder is actually the outcome palestinians who might be the real david to. When that starts becoming the dominant perception here in the us opecs iraq it all comes down to American Public perception. Hello there is a message a picture across much of the middle east however weve seen if you show. Through the eastern end of the med in the last few hours we could see a few will as we head through wednesday this way the cloud work is what it was and that could bring want to show is too much as they leave it at a 29 in beirut on wednesday 37 in baghdad and 26 degrees across into kabul vital change as we head into thursday perhaps more in the way of time and again as i say it could just bring a scottish or a thunder storm for the Saudi Arabian peninsula we could see some coastal showers across into southern sections of amman that is where he has the south again it could impact yemen as we go on into thursday time edges of come down across much of the Arabian Peninsula but it is still feeling very humid say feeling worse than these temperatures actually suggest and then down into Southern Africa if you were across into madagascar for the next couple of days and then weve got laws to kick conditions 3 much as south africa up towards durban time which is not as high as they have been say another warm day in johannesburg with a high of 30 celsius and that is where we could see a few shots just push across into northern malawi and continuing west across much of angola. 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