Lies Can’t Sanctify the Apartheid State
Journalists, authors and media experts play an important role in shaping public opinion. It is no-brainer that like so many governments around the globe that Israel would use her cronies to create a positive image about the rogue state that is guilty of practicing one of the worst forms of apartheid system our generation has ever seen. And nothing could be better if such sycophants can be found from within the victims.
Let’s take the example of Khaled Abu Toameh (KAT), an Israeli Arab who writes for the Jerusalem Post. He is often touted as a ‘real’ journalist with a ‘unique’ voice of ‘straightforward’ reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. He proposes that Israel should simply wait until the Palestinians stop killing each other and create a credible political entity that can make a deal. He also says, “Israel is a wonderful place to live and we are happy to be there. Israel is a free and open country. If I were given the choice, I would rather live in Israel as a second class citizen than as a first class citizen in Cairo, Gaza, Amman or Ramallah.” With comments like these it is only a question of time when this much touted “brave” journalist from the Occupied Territories would be honored with the Pulitzer Award in journalism!
Walid Shoebat, another Palestinian, now makes a living by selling similar stories. As a convert from Islam to radical Christianity, he is described these days as a "reformed sinner". He claims to have once been a PLO terrorist who "participated in acts of terrorism against Israel," and was imprisoned "for incitement and violence against Israel." However, according to an investigative piece in the Jerusalem Post, there is no record of the terrorist attacks in which Shoebat claims to have participated. He claimed of growing up in a culture of violence and religious fundamentalism, which when examined by the New York Times was found highly unlikely. He objects to the creation of a Palestinian state, referring to the West Bank as "Judea and Samaria". He suggests that Israel should retake and populate the Gaza Strip and that Israel should exile anyone, even a native Israeli, who "questioned Israel’s right to exist.”
Nonie Darwish, an Arab American, is the founder of a group called Arabs for Israel. Like Shoebat, she claims to have been “born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and the Gaza Strip.” She says that the Israeli army assassinated her father in 1956. She is now a Christian who has become a spokeswoman for the cause of radical Christian Zionism.
The trio first came to the attention of most American Muslims before the last year's presidential election in the USA when some 28 million copies of a DVD - Obsession - Radical Islam's War Against the West - were distributed freely as an advertising supplement in newspapers in key battleground states. The DVD was paid for by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit group established by the film’s Israeli producer with the goal of exposing what it called the threat of radical Islam. The hour-long film featured graphic, violent images and made comparisons of Islam to Nazism. Interestingly, the arguments used to attack Islam and Muslims in America were the same arguments that anti-Semites used in pre-World War II Nazi Germany to attack the Jewish community. It was a clear case of Islam-phobia at its worst since it was scripted, produced and distributed by the same group that smells anti-Semitism with the slightest criticism of the rogue state of Israel. As former victims they seemed to have learned the trade of xenophobia, bigotry and hate-speech quite well from their former tormentors! It is also obvious that they have been able to create Quislings or its American version “Benedict Arnolds” to parrot for the pariah state of Israel.
(For the full version, see Media Monitors Network: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/64935)
Let’s take the example of Khaled Abu Toameh (KAT), an Israeli Arab who writes for the Jerusalem Post. He is often touted as a ‘real’ journalist with a ‘unique’ voice of ‘straightforward’ reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. He proposes that Israel should simply wait until the Palestinians stop killing each other and create a credible political entity that can make a deal. He also says, “Israel is a wonderful place to live and we are happy to be there. Israel is a free and open country. If I were given the choice, I would rather live in Israel as a second class citizen than as a first class citizen in Cairo, Gaza, Amman or Ramallah.” With comments like these it is only a question of time when this much touted “brave” journalist from the Occupied Territories would be honored with the Pulitzer Award in journalism!
Walid Shoebat, another Palestinian, now makes a living by selling similar stories. As a convert from Islam to radical Christianity, he is described these days as a "reformed sinner". He claims to have once been a PLO terrorist who "participated in acts of terrorism against Israel," and was imprisoned "for incitement and violence against Israel." However, according to an investigative piece in the Jerusalem Post, there is no record of the terrorist attacks in which Shoebat claims to have participated. He claimed of growing up in a culture of violence and religious fundamentalism, which when examined by the New York Times was found highly unlikely. He objects to the creation of a Palestinian state, referring to the West Bank as "Judea and Samaria". He suggests that Israel should retake and populate the Gaza Strip and that Israel should exile anyone, even a native Israeli, who "questioned Israel’s right to exist.”
Nonie Darwish, an Arab American, is the founder of a group called Arabs for Israel. Like Shoebat, she claims to have been “born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and the Gaza Strip.” She says that the Israeli army assassinated her father in 1956. She is now a Christian who has become a spokeswoman for the cause of radical Christian Zionism.
The trio first came to the attention of most American Muslims before the last year's presidential election in the USA when some 28 million copies of a DVD - Obsession - Radical Islam's War Against the West - were distributed freely as an advertising supplement in newspapers in key battleground states. The DVD was paid for by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit group established by the film’s Israeli producer with the goal of exposing what it called the threat of radical Islam. The hour-long film featured graphic, violent images and made comparisons of Islam to Nazism. Interestingly, the arguments used to attack Islam and Muslims in America were the same arguments that anti-Semites used in pre-World War II Nazi Germany to attack the Jewish community. It was a clear case of Islam-phobia at its worst since it was scripted, produced and distributed by the same group that smells anti-Semitism with the slightest criticism of the rogue state of Israel. As former victims they seemed to have learned the trade of xenophobia, bigotry and hate-speech quite well from their former tormentors! It is also obvious that they have been able to create Quislings or its American version “Benedict Arnolds” to parrot for the pariah state of Israel.
(For the full version, see Media Monitors Network: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/64935)
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