Thursday 31 October 2019

The Occupation of the American Mind

Despite receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from those who have actually seen it, The Occupation of the American Mind has been repeatedly attacked and misrepresented by right-wing pressure groups and outright ignored by virtually all mainstream media outlets and North American film festivals. To bypass this campaign of misrepresentation and suppression, we’ve decided to make the film available for FREE online so that people can make up their own minds about its analysis of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Please watch and share widely!

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18 comments:

  1. from Wiki:

    The Gaza War, also known as Operation Cast Lead (מִבְצָע עוֹפֶרֶת יְצוּקָה‎), also known in the Muslim world as the Gaza Massacre (مجزرة غزة‎) and the Battle of al-Furqan (معركة الفرقان‎) by Hamas, was a three-week armed conflict between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel that began on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January 2009 in a unilateral ceasefire. The conflict resulted in between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths (4 from friendly fire).

    On 4 November 2008, Israel raided Gaza, killing six Hamas militants. The Israeli military claimed the target of the raid was a tunnel that they said Hamas was planning to use to capture Israeli soldiers positioned on the border fence 250m away. Hamas officials claimed that the tunnel was being dug for defensive purposes. Hamas replied to the Israeli attack with a barrage of rocket fire. On 20 December, Hamas announced it would not renew the ceasefire. Operation Cast Lead commenced on 27 December 2008.


    So the rockets/mortars fired in Nov/Dec were in retaliation for a single tunnel raid on Nov 4, not a full-scale Israeli attack.

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  2. Your video "re-framing" only works if the large scale Israeli invasion begins on Nov 4, and NOT December 27, as it actually did.

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  3. If only the problem was one of framing/reframing of ceasefires.

    The real problem is that the Palestinian PoV simply doesn’t get a fair hearing at all in the US (and to a lesser extent also Europe). How much airtime does the US MSM spend on the ever advancing Occupation, for instance? As Frank Luntz would put it: ‘don’t spend time on territory, spend it on terrorism!’

    We all know why this is so. US Hasbara is one of the most sophisticated PR/propaganda jobs in all of history.

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  4. And I on't remotely trust Wiki on IP. Far too easily infiltrated by Hasbarists...

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  5. No, the real problem is that the Palestinian PoV is CRAP. THEY are not an "Israel" problem. THEY are an Arab border state problem. Palestinians need to become Egyptian/ Jordanian/ Syrian/ Lebanese citizens. And Palestinians in the West Bank need to either accept their new country (Israel) or LEAVE!

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  6. No Palestinians are attacking Israel from Jordan...

    Jordan is the only Arab country that has granted citizenship to Palestinians. Still, many Jordanians see their presence in the kingdom as temporary. Although there is no official census data for how many inhabitants are Palestinian, they are estimated to constitute half of Jordan's population, which is estimated at seven million.

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  7. The Palestinian problem PALES in comparison to the Syrian refuge problem:

    In the last few years Jordan's economic growth has slowed, averaging around 2%. Jordan's total foreign debt in 2011 was $19 billion, representing 60% of its GDP. In 2016, the debt reached $35.1 billion representing 93.4% of its GDP.[15] This substantial increase is attributed to effects of regional instability causing: decrease in tourist activity; decreased foreign investments; increased military expenditure; attacks on Egyptian pipeline supplying the Kingdom with gas; the collapse of trade with Iraq and Syria; expenses from hosting Syrian refugees and accumulated interests from loans.[15] According to the World Bank, Syrian refugees have cost Jordan more than $2.5 billion a year, amounting to 6% of the GDP and 25% of the government's annual revenue.[16] Due to the introduction of Syrian refugees in Jordan, wage growth went considerably down as there was a competition for jobs between refugees and Jordan citizens. The downfall that began in 2011, continued till 2018. The country's top five contributing sectors to GDP; government services, finance, manufacturing, transport, and tourism & hospitality were badly impacted by the Syrian civil war.[17] Foreign aid covers only a small part of these costs, 63% of the total costs are covered by Jordan.[18] An austerity programme was adopted by the government which aims to reduce Jordan's debt-to-GDP ratio to 77 percent by 2021.[19] The programme succeeded in preventing the debt from rising above 95% in 2018

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    1. This is the usual claptrap about 'look over there: much more serious!' that Hasbarists love (aka 'we're bad but those over there are much worse!'). Deflection, nothing more.

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  8. And Palestinians in the West Bank need to either accept their new country (Israel) or LEAVE!

    Even IF they were willing to do so, Israel will NEVER offer it. It's called 'the demographic nightmare'. The Jewish state will never accept a large non-Jewish population as fully fledged citizens, as it would endanger the 'Jewish character' of Israel.

    That's been the game from day one: maximise territory and minimise non-Jewish citizens in it.

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  9. What I find amusing about the Conservative/right wing position is the following.

    You people are generally paranoid bout your society being taken over by some external element (mainly Muslims of lately) but when Jews do precisely that... hey, no problemo!

    Jews in Palestine once constituted less than 5 %, you know?

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  10. Forced migration ('transfer', a word even the Zionists shy away from!) of Palestinians to some Arab country X would of course also create in that country what the Cons/right wing so fear for their own. It's really double standards all the way down!

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  11. No, this:

    Refugees of the Syrian Civil War (Syrian refugees) are among the estimated pre-war population of 22 million (2017)[1] citizens and permanent residents of the Syrian Arab Republic, which the United Nations (UN) identified as 13.5 million (2016) requiring humanitarian assistance, of which more than 6 million (2016) are internally displaced, and around 5 million (2016)[2] are crossed national boundaries which majority these sought asylum and placed in Syrian refugee camps established in Turkey (3,614,108),[3] Lebanon (929,624),[4] Jordan (662,010),[5] Egypt (131,433),[6] and other countries since onset of the conflict in 2011. The Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) was established in 2015, which is a coordination platform including neighbouring countries (with the exception of Israel) and Egypt.

    ...is avoidance.

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  12. Is UNHCR going to pay for all the Syrian refugee's (in perpetuity) like they do for all the Palestinian refugees w/UNWRA? Or only the displaced Syrian displaced UNWRA Palestinians?

    The "refugee problem" isn't just "Israel's fault" anymore.

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  13. Why aren't the Saudi's taking in Palestinian and Syrian refugees?

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  14. There needs to be a policy for settling/integrating refugees into the region. They can't all get shipped to Europe and the US and/or live as "refugees" in host nations or "camps" in perpetuity (as has happened to the Palestinians).

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