mandag 1. juni 2015

Pallywood

In this blog I will say something about the Palestinian propaganda war on the Internet, which is quite extensive today. This propaganda war is also strongly present in Western media today.

On the Internet this campaign against Israel consists of falsified images and especially many videos, with rude lies and staged events.


The word "Pallywood" appeared in a debate in 2002, but Richard Landes of Boston University is credited with having given the term currency in 2005, with his 18-minute documentary film Pallywood. Landes shows footage from the Arab-Israeli conflict from alternative camera angles in an attempt to show that Palestinian cameramen have staged events. Landes argues that they do this to bias viewers against Israel, to win the media war between the Palestinians and the Israel Defense Forces, and to influence the broader perception of the conflict.
He believes that what he describes as media manipulation dates back to at least the war in Lebanon in 1982.


German journalist Thorsten Schmitz writes that the world's large news organizations, CNN and ABC News, and news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press, work almost exclusively with Palestinian cameramen when reporting from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian cameramen are also used on the West bank. Richard Landes has argued that the mainstream media are too quick to accept this freelance footage.
The Norwegian reporter Odd Karsten Tveit of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, used only Palestinian cameramen, when he traveled around in Israel. Working as a cameraman for the Western media is regarded as one of the most lucrative jobs in the Palestinian areas..

A video that tells a little about what it's about:
This video shows some of the spectrum of Pallywood. Hillary Clinton speaks out on Palestinian school books. She says, that these books do not give Palestinian children an education, but an indoctrination. Itamar Marcus, head of Palestinian Media Watch, shows what appears in children programs on Palestinian TV.


Why is there no peace between Israelis and the Palestinians. Western media often put the blame on Israel, but what about the Palestinian leaders? What do they do to make peace with Israel, when Palestinian children by their authorities are taught to hate the Jews, then it can be no peace in the foreseeable future.

A video of the intifada in 2000
Photos and movies from the Palestinian conflict in the Western media, could be worth more than a hundred guns, and that's what Pallywood really is all about. This video shows, what goes on behind the scenes and in front of the cameras.

How Palestinian cameramen use children, attempting to stress Israeli soldiers to get footage, which can be sent to Western media.


But now and then these Palestinian cameraman will succeed in getting footage they can use, as when a group of foreign and Palestinian protesters who tried to block a main road near Jericho, protesting against Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
A Danish anarchist beat an Israeli officer with a stick and tried to break his fingers. The Israeli officer struck the Dane in the face with the flat side of his rifle. Palestinian cameraman filmed the final sequence (the attack on the Dane) and this was sent to newspapers across the Western world.


Palestinian propaganda film. This video shows that the Western media often are participants in what might be called Pallywood. We see in the video Western journalists who work together with Palestinian activists.

From the Gaza War in 2014. The video shows killed people that lies in one of the morgues in Gaza. GAZA ‘CORPSES’ CAUGHT MOVING WHEN THEY DON’T KNOW THE CAMERAS ARE ON THEM


During the Gaza war in 2014, a multitude of falsified images were produced.
There is a lot of tweets, hashtags, slideshows and television broadcasts from the conflict, but the images are not taken in Gaza.


A Norwegian leftist filmmaker Vibeke Løkkeberg, also used such recycled images from Syria and Iraq, to describe the horrors of war in Gaza.


 The same picture below, published by a Sunni Iraqi group, which is in opposition to the Shiite-dominated government in Iraq.

The text says: Horrific crimes against innocent civilians in Zayona district of the capital Baghdad, a militia affiliated with Shiite government



We can understand that the pro Palestinian Løkkeberg is using falsified photos.
But what about the international media, as we previously saw from the video of the intifada in 2000, where media are using situations that are clearly staged.
Western media should have a little more focus on the propaganda of the Palestinian Authority, and especially Hamas?
The truth about Hamas, is in many cases misappropriated by Western journalists.
A German journalist filmed an episode in which Hamas chases people back to areas where Israeli leaflets warn that the area could be bombed.

What is the truth about IDF. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1MkAGuVyY

The killing of 23 Palestinians in Gaza, August 2014 by Hamas. Palestinians accused of cooperating with Israel. But they had been in prison for a long time when they were executed.
Hamas has warned the Gazans to not publicize the names of the executed, as presumably they want to include them in the list of people killed in Operation Protective Edge.
Amnesty International says this is a war crime. Also the pro Palestinian British newspaper The Guardian has concluded that this is a war crime. 


Gideon Levy

Israel is a constitutional state with freedom of expression, where leftist journalists like Gideon Levy of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is calling Israel an apartheid state, and he received a Swedish price, Anna Lindh Foundation Journalism Award in 2012 for an article he wrote about Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces. There are very few in Israel who share his views, but he is being used by pro Palestinian organizations in the West to discredit Israel. Also in the Norwegian national broadcasting Gideon Levy has made strong accusations against Israel as an Apartheid state.


Israel illegally detained a five year old Palestinian boy - The Wadi'a Maswadah Hoax July 12, 2013, there were headlines in many Western media with strong allegations that Israeli military illegally detained a five-year-old Palestinian boy and threatened the family. The boy was dragged away by Israeli soldiers, as the father was tied and blindfolded, because the boy had thrown stones. It was the left-wing human rights group B'Tselem, which is part of the Israeli peace movement, who created these news. B'Tselem report was caught by Al Jazeera, and from there into the Western media.



Israeli journalists and human rights organizations on the extreme left is also part of Pallywood.
B'Tselem, is part of the Israeli peace movement who had the backing of the Israeli left, founded in 1989 by a group of Israeli lawyers, academics, journalists from the political left in Israel. B'Tselem stated goal is to document human rights violations in the occupied territories. In December 1989, B'Tselem received a human price of former US president Carter (Carter-Menil ) together with the Palestinian group Al-Haq.
B'Tselem has been strongly criticized by the political right in Israel, who believe that they contribute to terrorism and weakens Israel Defense Forces. From Arutz Sheva: B'Tselem report on the Gaza war in 2014.
They are also accused of accepting money from European countries. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, of the Norwegian socialist government also gave money to the Israeli peace movement,  B'Tselem is part of this movement. From Jerusalem Post: Norway was the biggest donor to Israeli NGOs, NGO Monitor reported, with NIS 4,598,507 donated to local organizations both directly and through third parties.


There are several non-governmental human rights organizations on the left side in Israel, who are paid by pro Palestinian organizations in Europe, like "Breaking the Silence"
Breaking the Silence, was paid for accusing IDF in 2009 when they signed an agreement with the British leftist organization Oxfam, to carry out interviews with soldiers who will testify about [Israeli] "immoral acts" and violation of human rights. The British organization donated 74,595 NIS to the organization Breaking the Silence. This is an Israeli organization that uses testimony from  anonymous Israeli soldiers, to discredit Israel. When Israelis and Israeli NGOs are part of Pallywood, then it is clear that the Israeli reputation abroad deteriorate, and this is what Pallywood is all about.



Palestinian propaganda can unfold today, because many people have very little knowledge of Middle Eastern history for the last hundred years

The picture shown below is also part of Pallywood.

The picture shows Palestine before 1948, then the partition plan for Palestine in 1947, The next photo shows what Israel occupied in 1967 and what is left in 2011. It aims to show how the Palestinians with United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine were deprived of their land. An injustice from the world community, and from Israel, who has conquered some of what was left after 1948.


A brief summary of the history of Palestine.

Turkey ruled the Middle East for 400 years, from 1517 until 1918. After 1st World War, Turkey was on the losing side. The British and the French took control of the Middle East, and the British ruled what was called the mandate of the Palestine until 1948.
There has never been a Palestinian state in the area.  Today East Jerusalem is called a Palestinian city. If we go back to 1948, Jerusalem was a Jewish city, there lived a hundred thousand Jews in both west and east Jerusalem, forty thousand were Muslim Arabs, and twenty thousand Christian Arabs. There is evidence that the Jewish ethnic group has been the largest in Jerusalem dating back to 1700

But let's go back to what happened after the 1st World War and the peace process which was administered by the League of Nations.
Britain's takeover of Ottoman land in the Middle East was also administered by the League of Nations.
It all started with the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
San Remo Conference following year.
The peace process was concluded with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1924.
The League of Nations used the name Palestine on the geographic area of the British Mandate, a name that was used in Europe but not by Turks and Arabs.
Two years later, in 1922 the League of Nations approved
Balfour Declaration, and gave Britain the mandate authority for the geographical area of Palestine.
Britain was then required to provide this mandate political, administrative and economic conditions that would ensure the establishment of a Jewish national home. It should also be facilitated for Jewish immigration.
This mandate is still international law, including the controversial areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
When the UN Charter was adopted, Article 80 of the UN Charter;
should ensure that previously existing rights in the League of Nations to States and peoples, will be continued.

But what about the Arabs who lived in Palestine?
Were their interests taken into account?
Yes it was!
In 1922, when Winston Churchill was Colonial Secretary in England
Palestine was divided between Jews and Arabs, where Arabs got ¾ of Palestine Mandate 77%
and Jews ¼, or 23%
Jews were not allowed to settle east of the Jordan River.


The picture below shows the partition plan for Palestine.

With UN Resolution 181 in 1947, the area that the Jews was given in San Remo in 1920 and from the League of Nations in 1922, was split up, contrary to League of Nations Mandate, and also contrary to the UN Charter Article 80, which said that previously signed international legal agreements
to land and people, could not be broken.
Today, Arabs 21 states and Israel have one.

The Partition Plan for Palestine could become international law if both parties have signed, but the Arabs rejected this proposal.


Dr. Jacques Gauthier, a lawyer of international law
who have spent many years on the international legal aspects
of the establishment of Israel and the status of Jerusalem.
He says that the establishment of Israel did not happen with partition plan for Palestine, it was never a binding agreement, because the Arabs rejected the proposal.
Israel was established in San Remo in 1920 and became international law in 1922.

The first time the idea of a partition plan for Palestine was brought up was in 1937. The British Peel Commission would then divide Palestine into a Jewish and Palestinian Arab state.
The Palestinian Arab Abdul Hadi, who was a spokesman for the Arab Palestinian delegation to the Peel Commission, was strongly opposed to the conclusion of the Peel Commission, and rejected completely the idea of a Palestinian state.
There is no such country as Palestine, he said, Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. Palestine is alien to us.
Jordan occupied the West Bank in 1948, in violation of UN Resolution 181
From 1948 to 1967, there was no question of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, from any Palestinians or any Arab country. The only thing that were in the minds of the Arabs at that time was to destroy Israel.


Dr. Jacques Gauthier: https://vimeo.com/16094246

The history of Palestine: http://jansandvik.blogspot.no/2014/11/the-palestinian-people_33.html