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ISRAELI PROPAGANDA = FRANK LUNTZ MAXIMIZES USA SYMPATHY FOR ISRAELI LIES

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ISRAELI PROPAGANDA = FRANK LUNTZ MAXIMIZES USA SYMPATHY FOR ISRAELI LIES

“The secret report that helps Israel hide fact: The slickness of Israel’s spokesmen is rooted in directions set down by the pollster Frank Luntz” by PATRICK COCKBURN 2014

Click for Source Article on THE INDEPENDENT by Patrick Cockburn

Israeli spokesmen must explain how they MURDERED 2,167 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 500 Children in 5 weeks — many children were sleeping in UN Schools, Hospitals, or in their homes.

FACT: On Israeli television, radio, and newspapers, Israeli GOV spokesmen like Mark Regev appear slicker than their predecessors, who showed complete indifferent to Palestinian MURDERS. They use the playbook based on a professional, well-researched and confidential study on how to influence public opinion used in America and Europe — Written by GOP PROPAGANDIST Frank Luntz. The study was commissioned 5 years ago by The Israel Project, with offices in the US and Israel. Report is for those “who are on the front lines of the media war for Israel”.

Every page of the 112 page Luntz booklet is marked “not for distribution or publication” and it is easy to see why as “The Israel project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary”, was leaked almost immediately to Newsweek Online.

The Luntz report should be required reading for everybody, especially journalists, interested in any aspect of Israeli policy because of its “dos and don’ts” for Israeli spokesmen — Illuminating the gap between what Israeli officials and politicians believe, and what they say that Americans want to hear. Israeli spokesman use themes and phrases from the report = Mr Regev and his colleagues.

Luntz booklet is meaty saying “Americans agree that Israel ‘has a right to defensible borders’, but never define exactly what those borders are or should be — Never talk about borders as pre- or post-1967 — LOSES 30% of its favorability — because it reminds Americans of Israel’s AWFUL military history.

The right of Palestinian refugees to return home after being expelled/fled in 1948 or following years — Luntz advice is say “the right of return is a tough issue for Israelis to communicate effectively because much of Israeli language sounds like the ‘separate but equal’ words of the 1950s segregationists and the 1980s advocates of Apartheid. Luntz found conservative Americans don’t accept the concept of ‘separate but equal’.” So call it a “DEMAND” since Americans don’t like “demands.” “Then say ‘Palestinians aren’t content with their own state. Now they’re demanding territory inside Israel’.” — WORD Propaganda is the Luntz speciality.

Luntz notes Americans are fearful of mass immigration into the US, so mentioning “mass Palestinian immigration” into Israel will gain American support for Israel. Or say the return of Palestinians would “derail the effort to achieve peace”.

Luntz = Has a whole chapter on “isolating Iran-backed Hamas as an obstacle to peace”. Unfortunately, Operation Protective Edge created a problem for Israeli propagandists because Friendly relations with the PLO Fatah thanks to past Israeli invasions.

Luntz’s advice is mostly about the tone and presentation of the Israeli case. He says it is absolutely crucial to exude (FAKED) empathy for Palestinians: “Show Empathy for BOTH sides!” So Israeli spokesman are supposed to worry about the plight of Palestinians being MURDERED by Israelis and their bombs and shells.

LUNTZ in bold, underlined, capitalized Type says Israeli spokesmen must never, ever justify “the deliberate slaughter of innocent women and children” and they must aggressively challenge those who accuse Israel of MURDER and CRIMES. UN SCHOOL BOMBING MURDERED Palestinian Children in UN shelters — Very Hard for Israelis to explain.

LUNTZ provides a list of words and phrases to be used.
LUNTZ provides a list of WORDS to be avoided.

LUNTZISM GOOD:

“The best and only way, to achieve lasting peace is mutual respect.”

“Israel’s desire for peace with the Palestinians should be emphasised at all times because this what Americans overwhelmingly want to hear.

If pressured for peace Israelis should say “one step at a time, one day at a time”, which will be accepted as “a commonsense approach to the land-for-peace equation”.

Luntz’s example of an “effective Israeli sound bite” = “I particularly want to reach out to Palestinian mothers who have lost their children. No parent should have to bury their child.”

Luntz study admits Israeli GOV does not want a two-state solution, but 78% of Americans do want 2-state solution and economic betterment for Palestinians should be emphasised.

Luntz got Netanyahu to say that it is “time for someone to ask Hamas: what exactly are YOU doing to bring prosperity to your people?” = ISRAELI hypocrisy saying this beggars belief after Israelis 7-year-old economic siege that reduced Gaza to ABJECT poverty and HORRIBLE misery.

LUNTZ wants every occasion or presentation by Israeli spokesmen geared to maximizing American and European impressions that Israel wants peace with the Palestinians and is prepared to compromise to achieve this. BUT all the evidence is that it does not.

ASIDE: Though it was not intended as such, Luntz guidelines reveal far more about modern Israel in times of war and peace than any other source.

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CIA + EBOLA = HELP JUSTIFY USA MILITARY TROOPS IN WEST AFRICA TO PREVENT DEMOCRACY IN THE REGION = PROTECT MULTINATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF GOLD AND USE OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA

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CIA + EBOLA = HELP JUSTIFY USA MILITARY TROOPS IN WEST AFRICA TO PREVENT DEMOCRACY IN THE REGION = PROTECT MULTINATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF GOLD AND USE OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA

“USA Just Lost a Client State in West Africa. What Happens Now?” by Sam Badger and Giorgio Cafiero and Foreign Policy In Focus on Nov 7, 2014

Click for Source Article on The Nation by Sam Badger and Giorgio Cafiero and Foreign Policy In Focus

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Burkina Faso Parliament Burns

USA PUPPET = Longtime Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré resigned under public pressure and fled to neighboring Cote d’Ivoire = Ended 27 YEAR rule as Hundreds of thousands of Burkinabes took to the streets for democratic REFORMS.

Burkina Faso = Africa’s fourth-largest producer of gold = MULTINATIONAL SCAMMERS EXPLOIT lucrative opportunities.

The country’s DEMOCRATIC political opposition has been mobilizing for months.

But THE DICTATOR’S loyalists in the military plan to seize back power in the midst of the ongoing unrest = Will MURDER democratic elected civilian government. = BUT LIKE EGYPT (MILITARY COUP) the military promises to turn over power quickly, but REFUSED a two-week deadline imposed by the African Union under threat of sanctions.

Will a democratic transition happen or is this merely a traditional military coup d’état DICTATORSHIP that DOMINATED Burkina Faso since its independence in 1960.

USA LOST A PUPPET DICTATOR JUST LIKE THEY DID IN EGYPT, but soon USA OVERTHREW the NEW democratically elected government in yet another COUP that restored MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN EGYPT AS ISRAEL DEMANDED.

Will USA support a NEW DEMOCRACY or REVERT BACK TO DICTATORSHIP to protect MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE EXPLOITATION? = SAFE for CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION Investment Opportunities.

SAD FACT: A US-trained military officer now runs Burkina Faso.

USA LOVES DICTATOR PUPPETS TO PROTECT CORPORATE EXPLOITATION = Will USA pressing the military to step down?

2011 Unrest began within the army and spread among the populace and opposition parties, but protests fizzled out after Compaoré reshuffled the government.

2014 January = Peaceful opposition groups staged massive demonstrations in Ouagadougou and other cities to protest DICTATOR’S efforts to muscle through constitutional changes so he could rule for another term in office. = Some called it a “West African Spring.”

2014 Oct 30 Parliamentarians were to vote on the DICTATOR’S plan = Triggered MASSIVE popular anger with hundreds of people setting cars ablaze, storming the National Assembly, overpowering security forces, attacking the national TV HQs, Torching Parliament, and Setting fire to the ruling party’s HQ. = The vote was called off and Parliament was dissolved.

FACT: Burkina Faso’s Constitution calls for the president of the senate to take power after the president resigns + Elections within 90 days.

SAD FACT: Gen. Honoré Traoré, the chief of staff of the armed forces, TOOK OVER AS DICTATOR and blocked the Constitutional requirements. THEN shortly thereafter, Lieut. Col. Isaac Zida declared himself leader with the backing of the Burkinabe military. = Three heads of state within two days AFTER 27 years of rule by just one man. Who knows who rules now.

MANY may wage a revolt against the Zida-led government opening up a possible prolonged power struggle within the army and could undermine stability and democratization.

Protesters remain in the streets = Demanding military return to its barracks

Protesters called for Saran Sérémé, the leader of the Party for Democracy and Change, to become the next president.

Military DICTATORSHIP = Violent Crack-Down on DEMOCRACY protesters MURDERING ONE Demonstrator.

UN joined the DEMOCRATIC opposition in calling for a transfer of power to a democratically elected civilian government = Supported by the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union

US State Department = Supposedly Called “on the military to immediately transfer power to civilian authorities” and urged “civilian leadership to be guided by the spirit of the constitution of Burkina Faso and to move immediately towards free and fair presidential elections.” LIKE THEY DID IN EGYPT until Hillary Visited and soon FOLLOWED THE MILITARY COUP.

Zida claims the military CONTROL to prevent “anarchy” saying, “I salute the memory of the martyrs of this uprising and bow to the sacrifices made by our people.” BUT THE MILITARY ALWAYS TRY TO BECOME DICTATORS.

2014 Nov 5 Presidents of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal mediated talks in Ouagadougou among Burkina Faso’s military, politicians and civil society groups and the parties agreed to a transitional government holding power for one year before elections in November 2015 — NEVER decided who would LEAD during the one Year TRANSITION.

USA + FRANCE = Burkina Faso’s former colonial rulers seized power in the 1987 coup and THE DICTATOR aligned with Western superpowers with both French military bases and a US spying network + USA counterterrorism operations against Islamist militias. Zida himself received training from the US military.

USA + WESTERN MULTINATIONALS = Exploitation of the NATION’S GOLD AND RESOUCRE wealth has DONE NOTHING for ordinary Burkinabes – USED AS SLAVES = 50% Live below the poverty line with high infant mortality and low literacy. RANKS near the bottom of the UN’s Human Development Index. = Key driver of the protests that TOPPLED their USA PUPPET DICTATOR.

USA + EU MULTINATIONALS = PROSPER ON EXPLOITING GOLD AND SLAVERY

PRE-1987 The revolutionary Sankara aligned against France and USA to implement aggressive land reforms and redistribute wealth to the people = Policies.

1987 COUP KILLED Thomas Sankara, People oriented leader against FRENCH AND USA Colonialism, and brought THE 27 YEAR USA PUPPET DICTATOR TO POWER who implemented and embraced neoliberalism and reversed Sankara’s reforms.

HATE OF USA NEOLIBERAL IMPERIALISM = Sankara’s brand of anti-imperialism remains an ideal for many West Africans who envision a future in which the region becomes more economically and politically independent of the West. = Currents that could bring in democratic governments putting power for a angry population over EXTREME inequality = THESE CURRENTS threaten Western MULTINATIONAL EXPLOITATION FOR GOLD AND SLAVERY WAGES.

Burkina Faso UNLIKE Egypt HATES THE MILITARY DICTATORS = NO SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY. In the absence of a democratic transition, protests will continue indefinitely – HENCE USA TROOPS SENT IN USING EXCUSE OF A WESTERN MANUFACTURED EBOLA CRISIS.

USA + FRANCE will verbally endorse a democratic revolution, BUT WILL TRY TO IMPOSE A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP on the SLAVE WAGE POPULATION.

USA VERBAL BULL CHIOT = The State Department’s support for “free and fair presidential elections” in the country will be tested.

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ISRAELI EVIL SINCE 1948 – ISRAELIS SLAUGHTER AND MURDER OF ENTIRE FAMILIES EVEN TODAY – WE MUST DELEGITIMIZE ZIONISM + ISRAELI MILITARY FUNDING BY USA + ISRAELI ETHNIC CLEANSING

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ISRAELI EVIL SINCE 1948 – ISRAELIS SLAUGHTER AND MURDER OF ENTIRE FAMILIES EVEN TODAY – WE MUST DELEGITIMIZE ZIONISM + ISRAELI MILITARY FUNDING BY USA + ISRAELI ETHNIC CLEANSING

“Delegitimize Zionism,” says Israeli filmmaker, Lia Tarachansky

Click for Source Interview by Sarah Levy of Lia Tarachansky

MOVIE: “On the Side of the Road” by Lia Tarachansky, Israeli filmaker, confronts the reality of 1948 and examines how Israelis deal with that past today. — She describes how it is taught to the young and how facts are deliberately ignored.

Lia asks Amnon Noimon, a veteran of the Zionist brigades (Palmach) what role he played in dispossessing Palestinians.

Amnon Says the subject is too painful

Lia replies: “I understand, Amnon. It’s just that because it’s so hard for you to talk about these things, that’s exactly why you must.”

Lia addresses the inconvenient truth (taboo in Israel) about the 1948 ethnic cleansing (Nakba) of Palestine. Doing so is vital for justice to be achieved.

Lia Tarachansky makes clear the long ongoing process of rejecting Zionism.

At 6 years old Lia was brought from Ukraine to a settlement in the occupied West Bank by her mother. She grew up on land stolen from the Palestinians who were an enemy of Jewish people.

Lia spoke to Sarah Levy, journalist: What led you to make this film, “On the Side of the Road?”

LIA: Discovering 1948 Nakba for myself, I realized just how little I knew of my own history — It was revolutionary for me and I thought it would also be for others. I was working as a journalist in Washington, DC when someone sent me a link to a video of a woman who was a veteran in 1948, who turned out to be Tikva Honig-Parnass who talks about massive ethnic cleansing campaigns she was involved was simply shocking. Prior to that I thought ending the occupation everything would be fine. So I picked up a book by Ilan Pappe called The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and that was it for me. It was very clear to me that occupation of Palestine is about a mentality and an ideology, Zionism — That makes it easier to resolve because it’s a conflict of ideas.

SL: You were raised in a Zionist settlement, but now you are anti-Zionist. What first nudged you in your own process of de-Zionization?

LIA: The strongest thing for me was having a conversation with a Palestinian for the first time, when I was at a university in Canada. This guy comes up to me and asks for directions, and we start talking and he says, “You have a strong accent, where are you from?” and I say, “Oh, I’m Israeli,” and he says amiably, “Oh yeah? I’m a Palestinian!” — and then he goes on his way. I realize I was holding my purse a little bit tighter and my whole body is uptight, and it takes me a couple minutes to calm down from being terrified for my life. I realized he didn’t try to kill me — That was revolutionary for me because all my life I was told Palestinians are just brainless, emotional, primitive murdering anti-Semites who want to kill Jews all the time. But he was a totally polite sensible nice guy and yet he was a Palestinian. It sounds horrible but for me, that didn’t fit with anything I had known before, and it began a very violent process of tackling a lot of the mythology that I thought was true about the conflict.

SL: What inspired you to understand that “collective amnesia?”

LIA: I started out making a very different film about historical truth working with historians and veterans who proved Israelis collective punishment and ethnic cleansing — was terrible and was shocking. But I discovered, when I talked to people in Israel about these things, I wasn’t seeing that “Oh my God!” look on their faces. I realized something’s missing here.

LIA: That something was me discovering these things for the first time in my life because obviously we don’t learn about it in school and I didn’t hear about it from my grandparents because in 1948 they were still in Soviet Russia.

LIA: I ended up basing a lot of my film on the work of Stanley Cohen and his monumental book, “States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering.” He talks about how societies looking at their own historical atrocities and experience collective amnesia. I found that many people knew about the Nakba ethnic cleansing, but didn’t assign a moral value to what they knew. BUT WHY? I wanted to believe that Israelis by and large are an ethical people. Yet they are participate in a brutal conflict. But that’s not because we are a genocidal people. So I wanted to understand what was blocking people from seeing the truth many knew — What Stanley Cohen calls “denial” — A process of knowing and now knowing at the same time.

SL: In the film you show a lot of footage of what you could call Jewish extremists, rallying and saying things like, “Yes, I’m a racist. I don’t want Arabs here and I don’t want you here, either.” Has Israeli society always been like this or do you think this level of open racism has intensified?

LIA: It’s gotten much worse and this latest attack on Gaza really brought a lot of the fascists out of the closet. I think a lot of the ordinary people who are chanting these racist slogans are just the ugly in-your-face version of the whole ideology of Zionism.

LIA: If you honestly look at spiritual and nationalist Zionism, believing Jews have a right to the lands of Palestinians or Zion, as practiced by people like [David] Ben Gurion — Israel as a state for only the Jews and therefore necessarily excludes anyone who’s not a Jew — Makes ordinary street-level Israelis a natural product of ethnic cleansing Zionism — That idea reaches its logical racist peak.

SL: How do you see the process of dehumanization of the Palestinians as a part of the Zionist project? For instance, how is the dehumanization of Palestinians learned or passed on growing up in Israel?

LIA: It is Israeli brainwashing in schools about Palestinians and is more about what is not said than what is said. Growing up in a settlement I never thought about the Palestinians. They never played any major role in my life. I never interacted with them. I never spoke to them. There was no place where our paths crossed, but by the time I finished [high] school I was convinced that it would be so much better if the Palestinians just were not here. We all naturally believed Palestinians killed Israelis and are violent throwing stones at our soldiers, starting intifadas, and want to kill all Jews. We believed the only way to end the fear was all Palestinians must be dead. And that’s it.

SL: What do you hope comes out of this film?

LIA: I hope the activist community shifts from focusing on checkpoints and settlements to the REAL facts on the ground and ZIONISM — Israel must dismantle the Zionist ideology of the regime and the ethnic confinement and cleansing — Everything is easily changeable and we need to talk about this.

SL: What do you think it will take to reach a solution in the region?

LIA: The very first step is to stop funding the Israeli arms industry. This means boycott, divestment, and sanctions to pressure the US and Israel and to delegitimize the idea of an ethnocracy. I’m not saying delegitimize the right of the Jewish people to live in Palestine or Israel — I’m talking about delegitimizing Zionism.