Without extensive narrative manipulation, it would never occur to anyone that bombing Gaza into rubble is a reasonable response to a single Hamas attack. Without extensive narrative manipulation, it would never occur to anyone that killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and starving hundreds of thousands more is a reasonable response to a thousand Israelis being killed.
And it’s taken extensive narrative manipulation to give anyone the impression the Israelis have ever dealt in good faith. Here is what they were after from before the start and how they planned to get it.
Perspective on the most shameless liars in memory.
1895 - Israel's "founder" Theodor Herzl:
“[We shall] spirit the penniless [Arab] population across the frontier by denying it employment. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly
1937 – Israel’s “Prime Minister” David Ben Gurion:
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places then we have force at our disposal.”
“we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “
1948 - Plan Dalet by Ben Gurion - destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, prevent the return of Palestinians to their homes and repopulate towns with Jewish immigrants.
“We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return… The old will die and the young will forget.”
1967 – Koenig Memorandum:
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
1978 - Sharon Plan - built settlements along the north-south mountain ridge above Palestinian population centers, and a lateral road network that linked the settlements with major Israeli cities.
1980 - World Zionist Org.
"state-owned lands and uncultivated barren lands in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] ought to be seized right away... Being cut off by Jewish settlements the minority population will find it difficult to form a territorial and political continuity."
2017 -
Plan Smotrich:
Making life intolerable will force many Palestinians to quit the country. “Victory by settlement,” will show the Palestinians they have no hope of ever obtaining a separate state.
Two state solution? In a pig’s eye. Human empathy? Morality? Common decency? Nope.
* 695 Israeli Civilians killed on 10/7. Many, how many were killed by the IDF? The Hannibal Directive was in effect on 10/7! It’s almost like this was set up to happen in order for Israel to “Destroy The Lawn”!
The Israeli’s have never acted in good faith and it’s taken the advent of Independent and Social Media to expose them and open the world’s eyes to the realities and true happenings of their decades long acts of criminality, murder and oppression. Banning Tik Tok in the US explains the power of transformative change. Will X be next?
When narrative manipulation causes a person or thousands of people to not merely doubt what their own eyes are seeing and their own experience is telling them, the marketing propagandizing trance has succeeded.
Israel's struggle for peace is a sincere one. In fact, Israel desires to live at peace not only with its neighbors, but also and especially with its own Palestinian population, and with Palestinians whose lands it military occupies by force. Israel's desire for peace is not only rhetorical but also substantive and deeply psychological. With few exceptions, prominent Zionist leaders since the inception of colonial Zionism have desired to establish peace with the Palestinians and other Arabs whose lands they slated for colonization and settlement. The only thing Israel has asked for, and continues to ask for in order to end the state of war with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors, is that all recognize its right to be a racist state that discriminates by law against Palestinians and other Arabs and grants differential legal rights and privileges to its own Jewish citizens and to all other Jews anywhere. The resistance that the Palestinian people and other Arabs have launched against Israel's right to be a racist state is what continues to stand between Israel and the peace for which it has struggled and to which it has been committed for decades. Indeed, this resistance is nothing less than the "New anti-Semitism".
Narrative manipulation is another phrase for lies are truth, and democracy is totalitarian.
The Engineering of Consent -- That monster, Bernays.
“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
O, "When the public is convinced of the soundness of an idea, it will proceed to action. People translate an idea into action suggested by the idea itself, whether it is ideological, political, or social. They may adopt a philosophy that stresses racial and religious tolerance; they may vote a New Deal into office; or they may organize a consumers' buying strike. But such results do not just happen. In a democracy they can be accomplished principally by the engineering of consent."
So, think about how narratives in the West have been largely written by and controlled by and held by and marketed by and sold by and manufactured by, well, those folk, a group which rhymes with "blues." And we are not talking Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf or Robert Johnson or Bessie Smith.
(Rather than 'blowback' and the notion that Israel lost control of Hamas, wouldn't the history of attacks on Israel make more sense as an intended consequence - sort of a perpetual 9/11?
After all, victimhood is the life-blood of Israel.)
Without extensive narrative manipulation, the world would have never found itself in such a mess where a genocide is being livestreamed on social media platforms while simultaneously being denied it was occurring in the mainstream media. Without extensive narrative manipulation, the good people of the planet would have shut down the ethnic cleansing within days and thrown the war criminals all in prison. Without extensive narrative manipulation, we wouldn't be seeing a ban of TikTok and other mediums where some semblance of free speech still exists. It's time to boycott and ban all narrative manipulation!
The narrative has been manipulated for the last 80 years at incalculable, human, social, and financial costs. The dictatorship is here and now as Washington is shambolic. Americans have to decide whether to rebuild the American Dream or settle for a "domestic dictatorship" where the decline continues.
"A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship."
"Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire."
*The above quotes are from historian Chalmers Johnson's trilogy, written 20 years ago. He saw all this coming and tried to warn his country. He died shortly after publishing the three volumes, Nemesis, Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire
All these talking points are lies. One by one. "Rape" never happened. Hamas did not "kidnap" anyone, the MANY armed resistance groups (not just "hamas") took hostages in order to free innocnet Palestinian people (thousands) who are held hostages by Shin Beth and IDF WITHOUT CHARGE. So, whose hostages and whose kidnapping? To call genocde in Gaza "hamas endangering" is the same as the genocide monster Golda Meir said "We cannot forgive Arabs for forcing us to kill their children". Who ON EARTH would touch civilians AT ALL if the goal is "fighting Hamas"? Who? Only depraved medieval barbarians like Israel. This is what serial killers do: they kill whole families in order to "punish" their father. Hamas never said anything about "destroying Israel", they only want a two-state solution in terms of pre-1967 borders (read their charter, goddammit). The rest of the decent world INDEED wants to dismantle the Reich-style race-State and establish a normal state with equal right for all. Hardly "genocide of Jews", is it? ISIS, just do you know, was brought to action, armed and trained by Zionists in Israel and the US. ISIS never targeted anyone Jewish, only human heritage of Muslims and Christians, and secular states like Syria. I am not sure why repeat such stupid, meaningless, stale and outdated power-state propaganda about people you have no idea about. Here are a few words by the great journalist Tim Anderson: "Hamas is far from alone. There were almost the same number of operations each by the Al-Quds (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa and Al Asifah Brigades (Fatah) – 90 and 81 respectively. However, it seems that Al-Qassam may have used more heavy weapons. Overall Al-Qassam accounted for about one-quarter of the combined Palestinian Resistance operations. All this makes even more illusory the supposed Israeli aim of eliminating “Hamas”. It is notable that the militia of Fatah (the dominant party of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority: PA) is very active in armed resistance, given that the Fatah-led PLO ‘recognises’ "Israel" and the Fatah-dominated PA’s prestige is at an all-time low, given its collaborationist role in recent decades. The Fatah Resistance groups (mainly the Al-Aqsa Brigades but also Al-Asifah) may be vindicating the party to some extent, in the eyes of Palestinian people. Smaller resistance groups linked to the PFLP (Abu Ali Mustafa) and the DFLP (Omar al-Qasim) carried out another 21 operations in February. Two operations were also recorded for the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (on 21 Feb and 22 Feb)." - March 2, 2024.
Without extensive raping torturing murdering and mutilation by Hamas, no one would have thought that Hamas was a depraved terrorist organization that needed to be destroyed. Without Hamas kidnapping children and women, no one would have thought Hamas was a bunch of war criminals. Without Hamas hiding its weapons and using civilians as human shields, no one would have thought Hamas was violating the rules of war and deliberately endangering the civilians of Gaza it rules. Without Hamas declaring its goal was to destroy Israel and kill all Jews and eliminate all infidels and throw all gays off rooftops, no one would have thought they were the ISIS of Gaza.
"Without Extensive Narrative Manipulation ... " nothing of this would have happened. Wise words from Caitlin.
Who or what made this manipulation possible? How did the masses not only in the USA but all over Europe become willing zombies? How did they fall in line with the naked lie and turn away from the truth to be found if they bothered to scratch the surface? Are they willing to give up their comfortable lives so that some poor sods in far off lands can live?
The slaughter of the Gazan people is absolutely unacceptable. It should not be happening. There has to be some way we can stop it. Who can we talk to? I tell you, Trump's son Donald Jr. sends me emails. I will respond to them in no uncertain terms. The Gaza massacre must end.
And it’s taken extensive narrative manipulation to give anyone the impression the Israelis have ever dealt in good faith. Here is what they were after from before the start and how they planned to get it.
Perspective on the most shameless liars in memory.
1895 - Israel's "founder" Theodor Herzl:
“[We shall] spirit the penniless [Arab] population across the frontier by denying it employment. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly
1937 – Israel’s “Prime Minister” David Ben Gurion:
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places then we have force at our disposal.”
“we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “
1948 - Plan Dalet by Ben Gurion - destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, prevent the return of Palestinians to their homes and repopulate towns with Jewish immigrants.
“We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return… The old will die and the young will forget.”
1967 – Koenig Memorandum:
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
1978 - Sharon Plan - built settlements along the north-south mountain ridge above Palestinian population centers, and a lateral road network that linked the settlements with major Israeli cities.
1980 - World Zionist Org.
"state-owned lands and uncultivated barren lands in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] ought to be seized right away... Being cut off by Jewish settlements the minority population will find it difficult to form a territorial and political continuity."
2017 -
Plan Smotrich:
Making life intolerable will force many Palestinians to quit the country. “Victory by settlement,” will show the Palestinians they have no hope of ever obtaining a separate state.
Two state solution? In a pig’s eye. Human empathy? Morality? Common decency? Nope.
* 695 Israeli Civilians killed on 10/7. Many, how many were killed by the IDF? The Hannibal Directive was in effect on 10/7! It’s almost like this was set up to happen in order for Israel to “Destroy The Lawn”!
The Israeli’s have never acted in good faith and it’s taken the advent of Independent and Social Media to expose them and open the world’s eyes to the realities and true happenings of their decades long acts of criminality, murder and oppression. Banning Tik Tok in the US explains the power of transformative change. Will X be next?
When narrative manipulation causes a person or thousands of people to not merely doubt what their own eyes are seeing and their own experience is telling them, the marketing propagandizing trance has succeeded.
How can I donate a lot more to your mission? Respond!
Israel's Right to Be Racist By: Joseph Massad*
Israel's struggle for peace is a sincere one. In fact, Israel desires to live at peace not only with its neighbors, but also and especially with its own Palestinian population, and with Palestinians whose lands it military occupies by force. Israel's desire for peace is not only rhetorical but also substantive and deeply psychological. With few exceptions, prominent Zionist leaders since the inception of colonial Zionism have desired to establish peace with the Palestinians and other Arabs whose lands they slated for colonization and settlement. The only thing Israel has asked for, and continues to ask for in order to end the state of war with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors, is that all recognize its right to be a racist state that discriminates by law against Palestinians and other Arabs and grants differential legal rights and privileges to its own Jewish citizens and to all other Jews anywhere. The resistance that the Palestinian people and other Arabs have launched against Israel's right to be a racist state is what continues to stand between Israel and the peace for which it has struggled and to which it has been committed for decades. Indeed, this resistance is nothing less than the "New anti-Semitism".
READ ON AT,
https://palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2289.html
Narrative manipulation is another phrase for lies are truth, and democracy is totalitarian.
The Engineering of Consent -- That monster, Bernays.
“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
O, "When the public is convinced of the soundness of an idea, it will proceed to action. People translate an idea into action suggested by the idea itself, whether it is ideological, political, or social. They may adopt a philosophy that stresses racial and religious tolerance; they may vote a New Deal into office; or they may organize a consumers' buying strike. But such results do not just happen. In a democracy they can be accomplished principally by the engineering of consent."
http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/politics/bernays_1947.pdf
+--+
So, think about how narratives in the West have been largely written by and controlled by and held by and marketed by and sold by and manufactured by, well, those folk, a group which rhymes with "blues." And we are not talking Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf or Robert Johnson or Bessie Smith.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/boots-on-the-bridges-and-in-the-water
Extensive narrative manipulation for this event kicked off with the "Hamas attack'.
Let's not get trapped into repeating the lie.
Evidence Mounts That Israeli Intelligence Allowed Hamas Attack to Occur:
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/85422/evidence-mounts-that-israeli-intelligence-allowed-hamas-attack-to.html
Use the time stamp to start at (27:05) How was the attack possible?:
The Israel Attacks: Beyond the Obvious with Efrat Fenigson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E&t=1800s
Is the Gaza-Israel Fighting “A False Flag”? They Let it Happen? Their Objective Is “to Wipe Gaza Off the Map”?:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-gaza-israel-fighting-a-false-flag-they-let-it-happen-their-objective-is-to-wipe-gaza-off-the-map/5835310
Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0
(Rather than 'blowback' and the notion that Israel lost control of Hamas, wouldn't the history of attacks on Israel make more sense as an intended consequence - sort of a perpetual 9/11?
After all, victimhood is the life-blood of Israel.)
Speaking of which: (lest we forget)
Israel Did 9/11:
https://www.sott.net/article/215222-Israel-Did-9-11
Without extensive narrative manipulation, the world would have never found itself in such a mess where a genocide is being livestreamed on social media platforms while simultaneously being denied it was occurring in the mainstream media. Without extensive narrative manipulation, the good people of the planet would have shut down the ethnic cleansing within days and thrown the war criminals all in prison. Without extensive narrative manipulation, we wouldn't be seeing a ban of TikTok and other mediums where some semblance of free speech still exists. It's time to boycott and ban all narrative manipulation!
The narrative has been manipulated for the last 80 years at incalculable, human, social, and financial costs. The dictatorship is here and now as Washington is shambolic. Americans have to decide whether to rebuild the American Dream or settle for a "domestic dictatorship" where the decline continues.
"A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship."
"Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire."
*The above quotes are from historian Chalmers Johnson's trilogy, written 20 years ago. He saw all this coming and tried to warn his country. He died shortly after publishing the three volumes, Nemesis, Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire
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Keep sharing please
All these talking points are lies. One by one. "Rape" never happened. Hamas did not "kidnap" anyone, the MANY armed resistance groups (not just "hamas") took hostages in order to free innocnet Palestinian people (thousands) who are held hostages by Shin Beth and IDF WITHOUT CHARGE. So, whose hostages and whose kidnapping? To call genocde in Gaza "hamas endangering" is the same as the genocide monster Golda Meir said "We cannot forgive Arabs for forcing us to kill their children". Who ON EARTH would touch civilians AT ALL if the goal is "fighting Hamas"? Who? Only depraved medieval barbarians like Israel. This is what serial killers do: they kill whole families in order to "punish" their father. Hamas never said anything about "destroying Israel", they only want a two-state solution in terms of pre-1967 borders (read their charter, goddammit). The rest of the decent world INDEED wants to dismantle the Reich-style race-State and establish a normal state with equal right for all. Hardly "genocide of Jews", is it? ISIS, just do you know, was brought to action, armed and trained by Zionists in Israel and the US. ISIS never targeted anyone Jewish, only human heritage of Muslims and Christians, and secular states like Syria. I am not sure why repeat such stupid, meaningless, stale and outdated power-state propaganda about people you have no idea about. Here are a few words by the great journalist Tim Anderson: "Hamas is far from alone. There were almost the same number of operations each by the Al-Quds (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa and Al Asifah Brigades (Fatah) – 90 and 81 respectively. However, it seems that Al-Qassam may have used more heavy weapons. Overall Al-Qassam accounted for about one-quarter of the combined Palestinian Resistance operations. All this makes even more illusory the supposed Israeli aim of eliminating “Hamas”. It is notable that the militia of Fatah (the dominant party of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority: PA) is very active in armed resistance, given that the Fatah-led PLO ‘recognises’ "Israel" and the Fatah-dominated PA’s prestige is at an all-time low, given its collaborationist role in recent decades. The Fatah Resistance groups (mainly the Al-Aqsa Brigades but also Al-Asifah) may be vindicating the party to some extent, in the eyes of Palestinian people. Smaller resistance groups linked to the PFLP (Abu Ali Mustafa) and the DFLP (Omar al-Qasim) carried out another 21 operations in February. Two operations were also recorded for the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (on 21 Feb and 22 Feb)." - March 2, 2024.
Without extensive raping torturing murdering and mutilation by Hamas, no one would have thought that Hamas was a depraved terrorist organization that needed to be destroyed. Without Hamas kidnapping children and women, no one would have thought Hamas was a bunch of war criminals. Without Hamas hiding its weapons and using civilians as human shields, no one would have thought Hamas was violating the rules of war and deliberately endangering the civilians of Gaza it rules. Without Hamas declaring its goal was to destroy Israel and kill all Jews and eliminate all infidels and throw all gays off rooftops, no one would have thought they were the ISIS of Gaza.
"Without Extensive Narrative Manipulation ... " nothing of this would have happened. Wise words from Caitlin.
Who or what made this manipulation possible? How did the masses not only in the USA but all over Europe become willing zombies? How did they fall in line with the naked lie and turn away from the truth to be found if they bothered to scratch the surface? Are they willing to give up their comfortable lives so that some poor sods in far off lands can live?
So many questions; as many answers.
The slaughter of the Gazan people is absolutely unacceptable. It should not be happening. There has to be some way we can stop it. Who can we talk to? I tell you, Trump's son Donald Jr. sends me emails. I will respond to them in no uncertain terms. The Gaza massacre must end.
“It’s not what happened, it’s what people BELIEVE happened!”