*************************** Life, politics, faith, culture, peace, humanity and in-humanity; with an emphasis on the painful man-made context of Palestine/Israel *****************************
************** Vie, politique, foi, culture, paix, humanité et in-humanité; avec un intérêt particulier pour la situation en Palestine/Israël **************
Alain Gresh du Monde Diplomatique présente un résumé du manuel de communication pour les blogueurs et internautes recrutés par Israel pour avancer sa propagande. Blog très instructif à lire ici.
C'est vraiment the B-A-Ba de la propagande. Mais ça marche.
The manual itself can be downloaded here. You will find in it such innate wisdom as:
“The arguments about demolishing Palestinian homes because they are not within the Jerusalem building code tested SO badly that we are not even going to dignify them with a Word’s That Don’t Work box. Americans hate their own local planning boards for telling them where they can and can’t put swimming pools or build fences. You don’t need to import that animosity into your own credibility issues. Worse yet, talking about ‘violations of building codes’ when a TV station is showing the removal of a house that looks older than the modern state of Israel is simply catastrophic.”
Remember, today the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not in the news. "Nothing" is happening. Tomorrow, we'll wonder again why people are so hungry and what's wrong with them. We'll have to wonder because "nothing" happened today.
"There was an army invasion in the village last night, and today there was this. It was the ugliest thing I have ever seen, yet that's a superlative, but so be it. It was evil I tell you, evil. Pushing old women, throwing tear gas at kids, concussion grenades at pregnant women, throwing men to the ground, hitting them in the back with rifles, breaking cameras. It was like a mob of angry "professional"-soldier-thugs. The soldiers were holding each other back from doing worse things. Why did they do this? Because Palestinians were trying to feed their goddamn sheep. Unbelievable. This occupation has to end, it has to. People can't endure this forever."
March 2011 - Will try to update more often. Don't give up.
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Drop everything and go out to the Gaza border!
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Drop everything and go out to the Gaza border!
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The government of starvation and exterminati...
Preaching in Challenging Times
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My friend Bryan Berghoef models wise and courageous preaching in these
difficult times ... Check out last Sunday's sermon here, in Holland, MI.
I want to remember
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We got to Blue Ridge Lake just at sunset. Perfection. And I ran down the
rocky red clay beach to a point that reached out into that clear water (and
out pa...
The Day After Zionism
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As we trudge through the terraced land, ducking under branches of olive
trees and trying to avoid prickly bushes, I think about landscape,
consciousness, a...
Progressive where progress is needed—a lot of places in this world. Globe-trotter with sore feet. Faith-wise, you choose your friends not your family. My friends are of many shapes, sizes, colors and creeds. I’m still curious about this idea of ‘change’, of a quiet revolution. No I wasn’t talking about Obama, but the heretic Jewish Palestinian prophet of the first century. PS to Israel / Palestine: I don't think God's love is based on ethnicity. Not even creed. Sorry. Salaam=Shalom