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HAMAS’ PROPAGANDA WAR

<b><br /></b><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>MANUFACTURING BLOOD LIB<span style="font-size: x-large;">EL</span> </b></span></span>                 <br /><div class="navi-top-alignment"></div><div class="postwrap"><div class="post-28477 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-hamas-islam-fundamentalists category-israel category-israelipalestinian-conflict category-media-bias-media category-palestinian-terrorism-israelipalestinian-conflict category-pro-palestinianism-israelipalestinian-conflict category-rob-harris tag-blood-libel tag-hamas tag-israel tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict tag-media-bias tag-muhammad-al-dura tag-operation-amud-anan tag-palestinian-terrorism tag-pro-palestinianism tag-propaganda-war tag-rob-harris tag-social-media" id="post-28477"><div class="post-content"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #233f55; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.04em;">I</span>ntensive  propaganda campaigns led by Palestinian terrorist groups are perhaps  the most predictable occurrence when it comes to any minor or major  conflict involving Israel. Typically, the strategy is to exaggerate  death tolls, and conflate the killing of terrorist combatants with that  of innocent civilians, in an effort to turn the issue on its head when  Israel engages in morally legitimate acts of self-defence.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The display of highly emotive imagery is central to the strategy, and  the most tasteless element must surely be the use of children. Children  on both sides suffer, and conflict would of course cause fear to  children, if not suffering. Nonetheless, these stories are often faked,  and any apparent suffering paraded to the point of frenzy, a phenomenon  that is intensifying with the use of social media sites like Twitter.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The recent violence between Hamas and Israel, leading to Operation  Pillar of Cloud, has proven no exception. Almost immediately, Hamas  began misrepresenting <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/14/Hamas-Fakes-Casualties-on-Twitter" target="_blank">images of children that had been injured or killed</a> in Syria as Palestinian dead. Notably, one of Hamas’ own supporters called out some of the fakery in a Tweet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, a <a href="http://bdsgb.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/keep-faking-dead-kid-photo-from-gaza-is-actually-syrian/" target="_blank">heartrending image of a dead two year-old child</a> killed by the Syrian armed forces has also been passed off as another Palestinian casualty in the recent Israeli air strikes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_28481" style="text-align: justify; width: 388px;"><div class="wp-caption-text"><br /></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The strategy: Jew-as-child-killer</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many examples of forged Palestinian propaganda, most of which get no media attention, other than the <a href="http://www.crethiplethi.com/the-muhammad-al-dura-hoax-and-other-myths-revived/israel/2011/">case of Mohammad Al-Dura</a>,  a death proven to be falsified, and made in collusion with elements of  the French media, a fact journalists at Haaretz and the Guardian have  poured doubt upon.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In June Hamas <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157150" target="_blank">claimed</a> that an Israeli air strike killed a child. However, no strike appeared to have been conducted in the area in question, and the <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.ie/2012/06/un-confirms-that-arabs-lied-about-dead.html" target="_blank">UN confirmed</a> another cause. In March, AFP retracted <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/story-removed-gaza-power-cuts-193131038.html" target="_blank">a faked Hamas story</a> concerning a child supposedly dying due to electricity shortages.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such propaganda is heavily promoted internationally by  pro-Palestinian groups, which can often come to resemble proxies, and  indeed many pro-Palestinians are also very keen to take the initiative  for themselves. Examples this year include <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-n-media-employee-tweets-bloody-photo-of-palestinian-child-from-2006-but-attributes-it-to-current-airstrikes/" target="_blank">an image of a young girl purportedly killed in an Israeli air strike</a> but the girl in question was actually a casualty of an accident six  years earlier, which was knowingly peddled on Twitter by no less than a  member of the UN.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This content goes viral within a very short time, so viewed by  millions of users. The fakery does not need to be of a good standard to  be believed either. Overtly falsified incidents, such as <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/viral-photo-of-israeli-soldier-appears-fake.html" target="_blank">a staged event</a> where a child is seen under a supposed IDF soldier’s boot, have found similar success on the Internet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pallywood becomes Hammywood – Al Dura style</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has been <a href="http://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/uk-media-coverage-of-the-rocket-fire-onto-the-south-of-israel/" target="_blank">noted</a> that many news outlets minimised or failed to report that the present  conflict was very much initiated by Hamas. Indeed, the strategy of  delaying the reporting of news stories concerning the conflict until  Israel strikes back, whereby headlines lead with Israel’s actions, seems  to have almost become editorial policy at the majority of mainstream  news institutions, due to the <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/11/post_104.html" target="_blank">astonishing frequency</a> of such occurrences.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The BBC, a major international news outlet, <a href="http://www.anorak.co.uk/339538/news/israel-watch-bbc-broadcasts-fake-hamas-injury-as-fact.html/" target="_blank">broadcast content</a> on their prime news bulletins that was clearly falsified. This occurred  only a day after Operation Pillar of Cloud had commenced.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="youtube"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">A man in a tan-brown jacket, and black top featuring small print, is  carried away by a crowd, circa 2:14 in the clip. The same man is seen  walking around a short time later (circa 2:44). Both shots happened in  the seemingly chaotic aftermath of a strike. Two alternatives can be  posited. Either the scene was largely faked or a gravely injured man was  up and walking again unassisted in a matter of minutes.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qwkdJJ001W8?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">BBC fake Hamas attack</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The footage is in fact redolent of old unedited Pallywood material, in which <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys" target="_blank">youths and men are seen falling</a> as if just shot by the IDF only to get up again.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consequences</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Palestinian movement, both at home and abroad, has engaged in an  intensive campaign to delegitimise its enemy for decades. We see its  consequences every time we see news of the conflict in newspapers,  on TV sets, radios, computers, and increasingly even <span style="font-size: large;">on </span>phones.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obviously such material further incites hatred in a region where  there is already more than enough to go around. The examples cited in  this article are just occasions when Hamas have been caught out, and it  should be noted that the success of this material necessitates most  being passed off as genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knowledge in the hands of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeAVBYAbn0" target="_blank">would-be genocidists</a> is a tool of war, and ought to be treated as such. However, elements within the media are complicit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The focus on children taps into the anti-Semitic canard of the Jew as child killer, as exemplified by Carlos Latuff’s <a href="http://jcpa.org/article/anti-semitic-cartoons-on-progressive-blogs/" target="_blank">illustrations</a> — a motif prolifically adopted by mainstream pro-Palestinianism. It is a tool to engineer anti-Semitic blood libel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">At this time of conflict, it should be affirmed that the many who  defend Hamas do so at the expense of the Palestinians themselves! Those  claiming Hamas are elected representatives conveniently forget that they  imposed an <a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/06/11/gaza-five-years-on-hamas-settles-in/birb#" target="_blank">effective dictatorship</a> on the electorate by repeatedly delaying elections. We are constantly  told Hamas are pragmatists, sheep in the clothing of wolves, but with  the present fracas Hamas have essentially started an unwinnable war over  the killing of a leading terrorist. It shows where their priorities  truly lie.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Fic15V8ChE?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Hamas MP: The Jews were brought to Palestina for the "Great Massacre </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818a.htm" target="_blank">Article Seven</a> of Hamas’ Charter also gives a hint</span></div><div class="indent" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems  fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and  trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew  hiding behind me, come and kill him.’</span></div><div class="indent" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Similarly the words of Hamas’ leaders attest to extremism, some of  whom believe Allah brought the Jews to Palestine for the purpose of “The  Great Massacre” to be instigated by the Palestinian nation:</span><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HAMAS.</span></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="youtube"></span></span></div><div class="indent" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="indent" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Rob Harris</b> contributes articles  to several websites on contentious political issues (not to be confused  with the popular English novelist (1957-) of the same name). He blogs at  <a href="http://eirael.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">eirael.blogspot.com</a>. He lives in Ireland. For all the exclusive blog entries by Rob Harris, go <a href="http://www.crethiplethi.com/category/guest-writers/rob-harris/">here</a>.</i></span></div></div></div></div>

HAMAS’ PROPAGANDA WAR

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HAMAS’ PROPAGANDA WAR

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