The M$M are protecting their own interests, and people in general have become conditioned to blow off complicated issues as too confusing or troubling, refer to them as ‘wing-nut’ conspiracies, and simply keep their noses to grindstone with dreams of consuming more useless crap. And then of course there is the diversion of political theatre.
Or … something like
“Reading opinions and articles from many different places is what allows me to decide what I believe and what not. I absolutely hate the thought of censorship, and what someone else screams “propaganda” at, I may actually go to for possibly interesting clues, and then go elsewhere to check and verify, to form my own conclusions. I own the meaning I make, and I own the by me assigned significance to those meanings made. I have no need to own those of others.”
How does that quote read? Healthy? I don’t have to tell anyone what this reads like to me:
… An Israeli spokesman said Gilbert was “spreading vicious lies”, adding that he was “notorious for his radical far left opinions and his systematic demonization of Israel.” Gilbert rejoined: “This is a part of the propaganda war. We are not surprised and take this very calmly. We tell the truth and do not need to lie. If Israel think[s] we are lying, they can just open the borders and let the world’s press into Gaza. Then one will soon find out who is lying.” … in A Letter From Doctor Mads Gilbert in Gaza.
In the Gaza-Israel Coverage, The New York Times Purveys Pro-War Propaganda on Page One I read:
The July 23 article “Hamas Gambled on War as Its Woes Grew in Gaza” by New York Times reporter Anne Barnard wrongly states, “When Hamas sent a barrage of rockets into Israel, simmering hostilities, and back and forth strikes, erupted into war.” That statement about the war’s origin is pro-war propaganda. It has no basis in fact.
The statement contradicts the report issued by the authoritative “Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center” (ITIC), a private Israeli think tank that “has close ties with the country’s military leadership,” according to The Washington Post.
The ITIC July 8, 2014, report, “News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 2 – 8, 2014),” states: “For the first time since Operation Pillar of Defense [November 2012], Hamas participated in and claimed responsibility for rocket fire [on July 7, 2014].”
Thus, Hamas rocket fire only restarted on July 7 after a 19-month cease-fire. As we will see, this was nearly a month after Israeli forces launched massive military operations in the West Bank and Gaza starting on June 12. But those Israeli military operations were not the only provocation ….
More such grounded undoing of propaganda on Truthout.
