he 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 1000 turn that was 93 percent palestinian arab and 67 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 israel's desire 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 1948 consequences when they lost their land the 1st time around in 67 it was another not another catastrophe. in june of $967.00 israel won what was perceived as a stunning undertow victory over much larger arab moments during the 6 day war. 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 67 war the united nations security council post resolution 242 citing international law forbidding the takeover of territory by war 2 for 2 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 4th 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 440 mile security bore 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 our own but one of the most stunning things is how this other story basically just drops and he says that 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 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 the 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 really begins to take shape with israel's 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 bombing. and the summer of 1902 israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its income on some 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 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 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

17000 lebanese and palestinians but not the 30000 almost all of them civilians and when they were over 20 injured they are become allies ever think only her offspring know. her to recruit other for company. just a few months later american media coverage were taken even there's 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 israel's 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 policy you should finally corelate.

did not return our children one for their 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. that the i.d.f. bear any blame. tragedy in the shot you look at him. and without any foundation the government of israel rejects them with 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 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 come to negative press coverage by shaping the

media for a minute votes. used doesn't just jump into a camera conference delegates it's star trek to its 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 accomplish that we need propaganda. after lebanon you start to see the basic has prostrated you know 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. 3 helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into the crowd to civilians last night killing 7 palestinians mooning 70 more. then israeli officials going to full house romo's 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 israel 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 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 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 1903 was designed to negotiate the terms of israel's withdrawal from palestinian territory in accordance with un resolution $242.00 which made an explicit connection between israeli withdrawal and the just and lasting peace. the census flow israel has actually taken more palestinian land for its jewish only settlements in 193 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 and the pretty phrases

what's happened over the past 20 years and most nor graded oslo 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 solomon enterprise from the very beginning i think has created a almost insuperable obstacle to the creation of a palestinian state that there's no place to put it we're 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 50 years now this goes back to the start of the so-called 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 $3000000000.00 a year military aid while also vetoing one u.n. resolution after another condemning the 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 you see israel project in 2009 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 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 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 3 words terror not territory summarize the basis of the propaganda campaign of the us 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 $1008.00 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 it's 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 this place 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 resources structures ladies and gentlemen article 7 paulse for the murder of every jew it cost for the murder of every jew it's a nazi document we have the israeli prime minister saying movements like the mass

that are 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 ol from those signs priority to its nationalist girls over its religious girls. this false notion of trauma as part of this ultra i don't know that work is not bought for you limbaugh and work moments for the american military in 2010 the united states central command though centcom the highest military command in the u.s. issued a classified report the question the current u.s. policy of isolating and marginalizing ham ass as well as has blurred in lebanon the report described the 2 groups is pragmatic and argued that putting them in al qaeda

in 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 is attacked a mosque again and again because i'm not radical enough bit too pragmatic and too compromising. i spent a lot of time on my radio program going over a hamas is 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 isis al-qaeda you know it's all the same thing meanwhile you hear next to nothing about extreme political charter that is much more relevant to the conflict the platform the ruling the crude party in israel. and you know without movement is very much

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wise president mike pence says he'll be heading to the region to discuss took his campaign. let me say the president could not have been more firm with president or want. the united states of america simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down to end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intentions very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard meanwhile in syria a group of government soldiers has entered the strategic city of men bush a day after being invited by kurdish forces and the sets up a potential clash with turkish forces stationed on the outskirts protests have erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 separatist leaders who've been sent to prison for their role in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of

caution on separatists fought with police protests has blocked access to barcelona airport on monday spain supreme court and of its sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison 2 years ago catalonia held a referendum that was deemed illegal by spain and any latterly declared independence at least 14 police officers have been killed in a single attack in mexico that occurred just hours before president andras manuel lopez obrador announced that he was getting to grips with the country's high murder rate but his speech was overshadowed by monday's killings which happened in michel constipate where violence to falls between rival drug cartels a common ecuador's president has signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that saw an 82 weeks of violent protests and budget as leaders who led the demonstrations called for the fuel prices to return to prate austerity levels by tuesday in the capital quito workers clean the streets of debris caused by the protests which left at least 7 people dead. well those are

the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have a news hour for you in just under 30 minutes the occupation of the american mind continues next. the hamas charter not only cost results destruction is ladies and gentlemen because for the love of every jew it's a nazi document meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charter that is 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 that 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 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 turn to some and not turn a tree once points to the effectiveness of another world established israeli 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 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 freight 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 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 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 $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 israel's 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 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. 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 can. 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 he did israel's warning to get out of the way but found they had nowhere to go it was a brutal murders devastating this attack was murders if you ask any american who was at war started they would say because the palestinians started you know 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 that 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 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 there 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 $300.00 rockets in the israel i mean this is an act of war what are they supposed to do let's compare this to how the media outside the u.s. still with us and to the fact that during this the fine not a single israeli was killed and the reason for that was because i'm a 5 not a single rocket no i think you all wrong unfortunately because during that cease fire of 6 months no foreign group it's on a daily basis on channel 4 in britain you saw in ankara presenting evidence that these ready government itself acknowledge that hamas of the cease fire is actually a document that's 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 israel officially recognized until it broke the cease fire from austin for a single rocket of the propaganda is so full that these truisms literally truisms are almost an expression of 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 israel's side. that. israel can saturate the media with the spokespeople but there's still the problem of massive palestinian casualties showing up on television screens. here again the lunts 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 to express empathy for the innocent victims unfortunately innocents do get hurt and we we really grieve that we're sad for every pseudonym

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 you were facing a similar threat we always try to us cule to question what we you'll do what would you do what would you do if more than $3000.00 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 it's 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 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 say 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. 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 a pro israel in the richest move physical 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. it is great. so many 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 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 they're 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 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 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 3 dozen or so pro israel pacs that give money over the last $15.00 or 20 years they've given $5560000000.00 in american elections there are one or 2 arab american pacs and i believe last time i looked they've given you know 800-0028 1000000 so you've got $55000000.00 of pac contributions on one side and you've got maybe a 1000000 at most on the other side the actual views of most people in the.