Ramzy Baroud – AntiWar.com Nov 20, 2023
On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital.
The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context and no evidence, further contributes to the deteriorating credibility of Israel in international media and image worldwide.
Just one day earlier, an unnamed US official was cited by CNN as saying, in a diplomatic cable, “we are losing badly on the messaging battlespace”.
The diplomat was referring to American reputation in the Middle East – in fact, worldwide – which now lies in tatters due to blind American support for Israel.
Roles Reversed
This credibility deficit can be witnessed in Israel itself. Not only is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu losing credibility among Israelis, according to various public opinion polls, but the entire Israeli political establishment seems to be losing the trust of ordinary Israelis as well.
A common joke among Palestinians these days is that Israeli leaders are emulating Arab leaders in previous Arab-Israeli wars, in terms of language, phony victories and unsubstantiated gains on the military front.
For example, while Israel was quickly pushing Arab militaries back on all fronts in June 1967, with full US-Western backing, of course, the leadership of Arab armies were declaring through radio that they had arrived at the “gates of Tel Aviv”.
Fortunes seem to have been reversed. Abu Obeida and Abu Hamza, military spokesmen for the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades respectively, provide very careful accounts of the nature of the battle and the losses of advancing Israeli military forces in their regular, much-anticipated statements.
The Israeli military, on the other hand, speaks of impending victories, killing of unnamed “terrorists” and destruction of countless tunnels, while rarely providing any evidence. The only “evidence” provided is the intentional targeting of hospitals, schools and civilian homes.
And, while Abu Obeida’s statements are almost always followed by well-produced videos, documenting the systematic destruction of Israeli tanks, no such documentation substantiates Israeli military claims.
Beyond the Battlefield
But the issue of Israeli credibility, or rather, the lack of credibility, is not only taking place on the battlefield.
From the first day of the war, Palestinian doctors, civil defense workers, journalists, bloggers and even ordinary people filmed or recorded every Israeli war crime anywhere and everywhere in the besieged Strip. And, despite the continuous shutting down of the internet and electricity in Gaza by the Israeli military, somehow, Palestinians kept track of every aspect of the ongoing Israeli genocide.
The precision of the Palestinian narrative even forced US officials, who initially doubted Palestinian numbers, to finally admit that Palestinians were telling the truth, after all.
Barbara Leaf, assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told a US House panel on November 9 that those killed by Israel in the war are likely “higher than is being cited.”
Indeed, every day, Israel loses credibility to the point that the initial Israeli lies of what had taken place on October 7, eventually proved disastrous to Israel’s overall image and credibility on the international stage.
Rape, ISIS, and Mein Kampf
In the euphoria of demonizing the Palestinian Resistance – as a way to justify Israel’s forthcoming genocide in Gaza – the Israeli government and military, then journalists and even ordinary people, were all recruited in an unprecedented hasbara campaign aimed at painting Palestinians as “human animals” – per the words of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Within hours of the events and, before any investigation was conducted, Netanyahu spoke of “decapitated babies”, supposedly mutilated at the hands of the Resistance; Gallant claimed that “young girls were raped violently”; even former military chief rabbi, Israel Weiss, said he had “seen a pregnant woman with her belly torn open and the baby cut out.”
Even the supposedly ‘moderate’ Israeli President Isaac Herzog made ludicrous statements on the BBC on November 12. When asked about Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Herzog claimed that the book Mein Kampf, written by Adolf Hitler in 1925, was found “in a children’s living room” in northern Gaza.
And, of course, there were the repeated references to the ISIS flags that, for some reason, were carried by Hamas fighters as they entered southern Israel on October 7, among other fairy tales.
The fact that ISIS is a sworn enemy of Hamas and that the Palestinian Movement has done everything in its power to eradicate any possibility for ISIS to extend its roots in the besieged Gaza Strip seemed irrelevant to Israel’s unhinged propaganda.
Expectedly, Israeli, US and European media repeated the claim of the Hamas-ISIS connection, with no rational discussion or the minimally-required fact-checking.
But, with time, Israeli lies were no longer able to withstand the pressure of the truth emanating from Gaza, documenting every atrocity and every battle, and obfuscating any drummed-up Israeli allegations.
Perhaps, the turning point of the relentless series of Israeli lies was the attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 17. Though many adopted, and still, sadly, defend the Israeli lie – that a Resistance rocket fell on the hospital – the sheer bloodiness of that massacre, which killed hundreds, was, for many, a wake-up call.
One of the many questions that arose following the Baptist Hospital massacre is: If Israel was, indeed, honest about its version of events regarding what took place at the hospital, why did it bomb every other hospital in Gaza and continues to do so for weeks?
Israeli Hasbara Canceled
There are reasons why Israeli propaganda is no longer able to effectively influence public opinion even though mainstream media continues to side with Israel, even when the latter is committing a genocide.
Firstly, is that Palestinians and their supporters have managed to ‘cancel’ Israel using social media which, for the first time, overwhelmed the organized propaganda campaigns often engineered on behalf of Israel in corporate media.
An analysis of online content on popular social media platforms was conducted by the Israeli influencer marketing platform, Humanz. The study, published in November, admitted that “while 7.39 billion posts with pro-Israeli tags were published on Instagram and TikTok last month, in the same period 109.61 billion posts with pro-Palestinian tags were published on the platforms.” This, according to the company, means that pro-Palestinian views are 15 times more popular than pro-Israeli views.
Secondly, independent media, Palestinian and others, offered alternatives to those seeking a different version of events to what is taking place in Gaza.
A single Palestinian freelance journalist in Gaza, Motaz Azaiza, has managed to acquire more than 14 million followers on Instagram over the course of a single month because of his reporting from the ground.
Thirdly, the ‘surprise attack’ of October 7 has deprived Israel of the initiative, not only regarding the war itself, but also the justification for the war. Indeed, their genocidal war on Gaza has no specific objectives, but also has no precise media campaign to defend or rationalize these unspecified objectives. Therefore, the Israeli media narrative appears disconnected, haphazard and, at times, even self-damaging.
And, finally, the sheer brutality of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. If one is to juxtapose Israeli media lies with the horrific Israeli crimes committed in Gaza, one would find no plausible logic that could convincingly justify mass murder, displacement, starvation and genocide of a defenseless population.
Never has Israeli propaganda failed so astoundingly and never has the mainstream media failed to shield Israel from the global anger – in fact, seething hatred – for Israel’s ugly apartheid regime. The repercussions of all of this will most certainly impact the way that history will remember the Israeli war on Gaza, which has, so far, killed, and wounded tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
A whole generation, if not more, has already built a perception of Israel as a genocidal regime and no number of future lies, Hollywood movies or Maxim Magazine spreads will ever lessen that in any way.
More importantly, this new perception is likely to compel people, not only to re-examine their views of Israel’s present and future, but of the past as well – the very foundation of the Zionist regime, itself predicated on nothing but lies.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out. His other books include My Father was a Freedom Fighter and The Last Earth. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net.
Romana Rubeo is an Italian writer and the managing editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Her articles appeared in many online newspapers and academic journals. She holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and specializes in audio-visual and journalism translation.
Before any major war the banks stop all loans and pull in every penny to lend out for the war
this is called ” clawback funds”
When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair he said witholding monetary payments that was due to the sick , gave him £ 2 billion this year
he said this was his clawback funding
ROBIN HOOD
When the jew bankers smashed the german economy in the great depression
and folk lay in the street starving
Adolf Hitler seized power, put the rothschilds in prison and took control of the economy
and in real robin hod fashion he robbed he rich and gave it to his people
giving them security and hope
but the jew bankers could not let Hitler win so we were sent to destroy it all
and that we did
“When asked about Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Herzog claimed that the book Mein Kampf, written by Adolf Hitler in 1925, was found “in a children’s living room” in northern Gaza.”
Ha ha ha, the jew simply can’t help itself. It is of the lie pure and simple.
Never have I seen the narrative be turned so violently upside down and to such an extent that the credibility of the oppressor has evaporated.
The MSM has been shown to be what is, crap, lying and predictable.
It seems that Joe Public still has a free mind, if somewhat numbed of late.
Israel has blown it.
The dishonest Left pretend Israel is White Man Colonialism, when it is a very special case, and White Colonialism has been put into reverse since 1945. Planting a colony where there were already Moslems, with other Moslem nations surrounding, is not the way to do it; Whites always found empty land and built it up, so Zionism is something very different, and a provocation, as in the Pike plan. In recent decades, Whites are not even allowed to use the spare land in their own nations, it is set aside for ecology (ostensibly). In the Pike plan, Israel does not survive the third stage of Luciferian take-over
Wow, what an excellent critical analysis of this war in the Middle East.
These zionists are using the same lies as claimed during other war conflicts etc. Always playing the victims but are mostly the perpetrators. Hey mr hollywood directors and producers when are you going to make films about the Holodomor, Arminian genocide, Iranians starvation to death, millions of Russians murdered by the Bolsheviks, 9/11, the slow genocide of around two million German POWs’ after the WW2 and the list goes on. This and more all carried out by same evil tribes – the same nomads and incompetent politicians in washington dc along with their agencies.
I see only one good outcome coming out of this Israeli planned genocide of Palestinians–the downfall of Christian Zionism, which, thank God, most young people are rejecting. IMHO, Christian Zionists are the main US group of Christians that have fallen under what 2 Thessalonians 2 calls “strong delusion, that they believe a lie,” the lie being that Zionist Israel is God’s Israel. Sorry, God doesn’t do politics.
The ISISraeli propaganda is so ludicrous – “Mein Kampf” indeed!🤣 – that i can only assume it get its script-writers off the BBC! 😂
lewis
Pike letter is spurious.
thesis, antithesis, synthesis
They are killing and maiming just enough of them to totally terrorize the entire population in order to herd them out of the country into the waiting arms of other Rothschild-controlled bankster nations. That is what they were up to with the help of the US and UK special forces training, support and logistics to merc organizations such as the SDF, CJTF–OIR, and ISIL- ISIS. It is all about land clearances for the entitlement people of Israel and securing and controlling vast oil and gas reserves mainly for the US and the UK.
The majority in our nations who in fact support the plutocratic corporatocracy behind these crimes deliberately turn a blind eye to all of the killing, the the uprooting of millions of people, and all of the looting because they believe that as long as our nations have the means and the power to take what we think we will need to sustain our life styles then we simply must take it.
The world is watching israel murder for profits. Gaza is a land grab, all wrapped up like lipstick on a pig …
1) israel is desperately trying to gain “exclusive” control of the huge oil n gas reserves found off the Gaza coastline.
* Gaza Maine: theres huge oil and gas reserves only 20 miles off Gaza called Gaza Marine. Per Oslo Accords it belongs to the Palestinian people, but the israeli military will not allow extraction. Israel wants control of Gaza to control ALL oil and gas off the coastine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Marine
* Aphrodite gas field: off the coastine closer to Cyprus is another HUGE oil and gas reserve israel is trying to gain control of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_gas_field
2) egypt gets about $10 billion annually off the Suez canal, israel wants to build its own canal to reap the same, called Ben Gurion canal. Guess who is in the way?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Canal_Project
Cant have any pesky arabic goyim making claims on any of these profits. Its called genocide, ie premeditated murder for profits.
https://gab.com/Pig_Farmer/posts/111447724191758875
Israel’s credibility is in the dumpster. The world is watching.
The Khazarian Mafia (Gog) considers its lower class members contained in its prized creation, modern 1948 Israel expendable. They obtained the mining exploration permits for the huge oil and gas reserves underneath Gaza already. Perhaps it is time to re-invent themselves:
And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a [10 minute?] city, and a tower, with its top in heaven [3rd Jewish temple?], and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth [and lose our control over the goyim?].’ Genesis 11:4 (JPS)
The KM’s current day captured governments worldwide through Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, suppressing all opposition thus far is likened to the first world takeover accomplished about 4,143 years ago at the Tower of Babel:
And HaShem said: ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ Genesis 11:6-7 (JPS)
Now it seems there is nothing to stop the KM from totally enslaving mankind. Those who would normally resist have been quietly removed: military leaders were early retired or fired, opponents and expert witnesses were quietly eliminated – died in their sleep, suicided – 3 bullets to the back of the head, fell off a cliff or rooftop, man overboard, disappeared on a local walk – never found, aircraft / boat / vehicle accident, jailed on false or no charges (remember Julian Assange,) and etc.
With no one to stand in the gap, perhaps the time for G*d to act will come soon.
Jewish Publication Society, Ezekiel Chapter 39:
[1b] son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus saith the L-rd GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, … [2b] and will cause thee to come up from the uttermost parts of the north [Khazaria]; and I will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel [6 waves of 550,000 from 1892 to 1947, rest immigrating from 1948 on]; [3] and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
[4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee; I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field, to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, saith the L-rd GOD.
[6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell safely in the isles [UK? and commonwealths including US?]; and they shall know that I am HaShem. [7] And My holy name will I make known in the midst of My people [current day] Israel [the Christians]; neither will I suffer My holy name to be profaned any more [by Zionist Christians]; and the nations shall know that I am HaShem, the Holy One in Israel.
[8] Behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the L-rd GOD; This is the day whereof I have spoken. [9] And they that dwell in the cities of Israel [Palestinians, Arabs and remaining Israelis] shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and use them as fuel [aircraft kerosene and vehicle diesel? – for heating and cooking], … and they shall make fires of them seven years; [10] so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests, for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them [use their stockpiled rations, clothing, medical supplies, etc.], saith the L-rd GOD.
[11] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place fit for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the [Mediterranean?] sea; and it shall stop them that pass through; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude [in mass graves]; and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog.
[12] And seven months shall the house of Israel [true Hebrew decendents – Palestinians, many who are Christians? It is stated at least 1/3rd are in Gaza] be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. [13] Yea, all the people of the land [including Arabs and remaining Israelis?] shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown; in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the L-rd GOD.
[14] And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land to bury with them that pass through those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it; after the end of seven months shall they search. [15] And when they that pass through shall pass through the land, and any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog [Gog’s bunch].
Perhaps that time is not too far off from now for G*d to act and for the Palestinians, Arabs and remaining Israelis soon to be burying the IDF along with the settlers and its allies, using the stockpiled military vehicles (and bulldozers) to do this, whilst using the remaining fuel and supplies to heat their shelters, cook, clothe and feed with?
After all, it is not the Arabs who have a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah called Tel Aviv – gay capital of the world (an abomination to G*d,) nor do they lead the world to sexually embrace strange flesh outside of proper man and woman marriage.
Mengele (Nico)–I let Makov recently persuade me that the Pike letter might be real, as I thought in the 1990s, and, even without it, there is a Commie strain that wants control of the world and no Israel
Like The Protocols, The Pike letter is genuine