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 anti-semitism the question then becomes what is the proper response to that design a stance or is of course statehood and there's 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 that's 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 israel's are to create a jewish state and to do that and 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 nakba 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 sixty's. 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 or 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 nations security council post resolution two too food. citing international though forbidding the takeover of territory by war two for two explicitly calling for israel to withdraw its own forces. to this day israel has largely failed to comply not only holding palestinian territory. 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 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 that prevent palestinians from traveling freely within their own land and a four hundred forty mile security along the israeli border that cuts into palestinian

territory if you're 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 they saw the story basically just drops out and instead you hear over and over again that it's israel that surrounded israel is surrounded israel surrounded surrounded it's israel the sun the siege and under threat you described a very small land mass and you know you're dealing with hamas and hezbollah and iran and so on i would like that it's a tough neighborhood the imagery here is so powerful that it's 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 that's not debatable that's 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 israel's invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two. israel unleashed another massive air

attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from a sky. full of israeli jets bombing bombing. in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its incumbents on the southern border with israel what's 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 else's 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 self-defense 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

seventeen thousand lebanese and palestinians and the other thirty thousand almost all of them civilians and when they were over twenty injured you become a wide everything only. three. hundred other recovering just a few months later american media coverage would take an even there's 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 israel's 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 hala still you finally for

all your. knowledge of our children one for. 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 or implicit accusation that the idea bear any blame for ever. tragedy english. are entirely baseless and without any foundation. the government of israel rejects them with a contempt which they deserve. 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 negative press coverage by shaping the

media frame in advance. doesn't just jump into a camera conference delegates it's directed it's managed it's 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 people's minds but making them think differently to completion that we need propaganda. after levanon you start to see the basic has prostrated your action images of palestinians fighting back against israel's occupation make their way onto american television screens and the israeli military crushes this resistance in brutal ways that undercut israel's image as underdog and victim. three helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into a crowd a civilians last night killing seven palestinians mooning seventy more.

then israeli officials going to full house ramos and that occupation doesn't even exist in framing all palestinian resistance as terrorism and israeli aggression as self-defense 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 doesn't square with the reality on the ground and we know that you have a right to defend yourself you don't have a right to occupy people deny them their human rights and then cry foul when they resist that's not the right to self-defense that's the right to repression that's 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 israel's propaganda has been in

reversing the legacy of lebanon if there's any complaints and there should be about civilian deaths that they belong to the responsibility and the blame belongs with one place hamas i don't 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 organise. 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 we've 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 that's 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 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 israel's withdrawal from palestinian territory in accordance with un resolution two forty two which made an explicit connection between israeli withdrawal and the just and lasting peace this in so slow israel has actually taken more of a stimulant 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

what's 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 there's no place to put it what we're 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 they'd rather talk about terrorism they'd rather talk about security we're willing to make great concessions for peace. but there is something that i will never compromise on and that is real security the reason they've been able to so effectively change the subject isn't because they're practicing some kind of mass mind control the main

reason is that the us 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 so-called 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 that cause for the destruction of israel even though the hamas leadership effectively disown the charter a long time ago it's 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 don't just quote it read it out loud again and again and his advice has been taken up often hysterically by israel's advocates the hamas charter not only cost results destruction is ladies and gentlemen article seventy calls for the murder of every jew because for the murder of every jew it's 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 the good off from those loans priority to its nationalist drones over its religious schools. this false notion true most as part of this own program that work is not bought you know months of the american military in two thousand and ten the united states central 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 head split in lebanon the report described the two groups is pragmatic and argued that putting them in ok

during the same sentence as if they're all the same is just stupid and the us military isn't alone in this assessment isis itself has attacked the mosque again and again because i'm not radical enough bit to 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 muslim brotherhood islamic jihad hamas hezbollah i says al-qaeda you know it's 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. december on al-jazeera. from hospitality to hostility war hotels tells

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afghanistan the afghan president outlined a roadmap for peace last week i'll be back with a news hour for you in a little over twenty five but it's been a let's get you back to the occupation of the american mind. the hamas charter not only cause results destructions ladies and gentlemen because for the murder of every jew it's a nazi document meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charges that have much more relevance to the conflict the platform of the ruling the crude party in israel. well if you look at the language that's 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 that's 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 turner ism and not turn a tree punch 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 sharing wonderful place to live and look at one thing they turned into a haven of coming from all over the world it's 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 gaza's main frame route into israel and normally this road would be bumper to bumper with heavily laden trucks but it's

completely closed as is every other border crossing in the country nothing's 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 wasn't 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 nine hundred sixty 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 israel's 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 supplements if you want to see this in operation just look at the coverage of any of israel's 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. and eight december of two thousand and eight israel launched operation coast let the massive ground assault on the gaza strip in force of these this popular video over a period of three weeks israeli military dropped over six hundred tons of bombs on go so it isn't clear yet 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 were subjected to massive technologically advanced firepower by the israelis had no escape route with gaza city bombed and burning palestinians heeded israel's warning to get out of the way but found they had no where to go was 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 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 i was then repeated uncritically by u.s. news media games there's no question here is that hamas started this well look i

don't 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 i'm a five not a single rocket no i think you know all wrong unfortunately because during that cease fire of six months no foreign group it's on a daily basis on channel four in britain you saw in ankara presenting evidence that the israeli government itself knowledge that hamas observed the ceasefire was actually a document given to journalists by the israeli government and in this document it says and i'm 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. over once again showed that americans remain firmly on israel's side. that. israel can saturate the media with spokespeople but there's 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 and we we really grieve that we're sad for every pseudonym 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 do you imagine. what america would do if it were facing a similar threat we always try to us kewl to question what we you'll do what would you do what would you do if more than three thousand rockets have been fought on your cities what would you do three thousand rockets what would you do if terrorists were tunneling under your front year 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 that on top of that when massive numbers of palestinian civilians predictably die from israeli attacks israel claims it's 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 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 israel's 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 it's 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 it's a new offensive he's targeting terrorists and when your sense of the coverage is that there is 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. they have it 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 in the richest 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 apec. it is great to see so many good friends from all across the gulf will. be more than. 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 they're 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 they're 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 it's 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

israel's 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 bassed that that in fact writes the legislation for them or writes their speeches for them doesn't seem to in the least bother you there's nothing happening here that secret or under the table it's not a cabal it's not a conspiracy it is in fact domestic politics the way it's 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 they've given fifty five sixty million dollars in american elections there are one or two arab american pacs and i believe last time i looked they've given you know eight hundred thousand to a million so you've got fifty five million dollars of pac contributions on one side and you've got maybe a million 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 they're against settlement they're against occupation they want two state solution and there are some key elements of what we call the israel lobby that aren't jewish so called christian zionists evangelical christians in america have become israel's 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 surfer's listen closely those of you listening in the liberal media. the jewish people are now saying the land of israel . the land of the. 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 surprise.