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 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.
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.
Israel illegally detained a five year old
Palestinian boy - The Wadi'a
Maswadah Hoax
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.
Breaking the Silence: http://www.thetower.org/1999-watchdog-breaking-the-silence-was-paid-to
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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.
