The facts don’t support the Palestinian narrative, so new “facts” have to be manufactured. My latest in FrontPage:
A supporter of the Palestinian jihad against Israel tweeted Thursday: “Israel is now using white phosphorus on the city of Beit Hanoun in Palestine! It can burn human flesh until it reaches to the bones. White phosphorus is prohibited globally and it’s been considered as a war crime!” Included was a gruesome photo of a woman whose hair had been partially burned off and her face severely burned as well. There was just one minor detail that the tweet omitted to mention: the photo was not from Gaza in May 2021, but from Afghanistan in 2009.
If the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were really as brutal and inhumane as the international media and supporters of the Palestinian jihad (not that there is any significant difference between those two groups) claim, it ought to be easy to find evidence of Israeli atrocities. Instead, such enormities are so thin on the ground that they have to be manufactured in order to shore up the Palestinians’ tenuous (at best) claim to victim status.
Nor is this anything new. It has been going on for years. Israelly Cool reported in February 2020 that Palestinian “journalist” Mustafa Batnain tweeted a “heartbreaking photo from Gaza” depicting a baby inside a cardboard box, presumably the little one’s only shelter amid rampaging, savage, brutal IDF forces. Once again, there was a catch: the photo was actually not from Gaza at all, but from Idomeni, Greece. It’s all in a day’s work for the Palestinian factory of Israeli atrocities.
The photo was just the latest of innumerable examples of the deception that is perpetrated on an industrial scale by Palestinian propagandists in order to make Israel seem to be an oppressive occupying power. The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process details the breadth and sophistication of this deception.
Israelly Cool also reported a month before that about a supporter of the Palestinian jihad against Israel, Sarah Hassan, who posted a photo on Twitter of a boy crouched beneath a cart, surrounded by snow, trying to keep warm. “Gaza…poverty…cold!” wrote Hassan, but IsraellyCool noted that “never got lower than 6 degrees Celcius [sic] in Gaza over that time period” – that is, 43 degrees Fahrenheit, so there couldn’t have been snow piled up everywhere. What’s more, this photo, like Batnain’s, doesn’t really come from Gaza at all; it was taken in Afghanistan in 2006.
A cornerstone of the “Palestinian” cause in the court of world opinion is projection and deception on a massive scale. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, declared: “War is deceit.” (Bukhari, vol. 4, book 56, no. 3030) He also elucidated the conditions under which deceit was permissible: “It is not lawful to lie except in three cases: Something the man tells his wife to please her, to lie during war, and to lie in order to bring peace between the people.”
Palestinian leaders have refined lying during war into a fine art. Palestinian spokesmen set out to portray Israel as an outrageously repressive regime, routinely committing atrocities against the Palestinian people, who deserved aid from the international community as much as the Israelis warranted condemnation.
This initiative, too, has been wildly successful. The United Nations condemns Israel far more often than any other nation; many of these condemnations have been based on reports about Israeli atrocities that were entirely fabricated. World opinion has largely turned against Israel as well, as it has an international reputation today of being one of the world’s most unjust and repressive regimes.
Hamas was so anxious to have Palestinian civilian casualties that it could parade before the world in order to gain propaganda victories that in April 2018, as protests raged at the Gaza border, the terror group offered $500 to “Palestinians” for getting shot and wounded at the border, and $3,000 to the families of those who got themselves killed during the protests. This was too much for Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Islamic Affairs and Supreme Sharia Judge, who denounced Hamas on official Palestinian Authority TV: “The Palestinian people…doesn’t care about those [Hamas] with ‘the emotional stories of heroism,’ those with the slogans of heroism – slogans that when you hear them, you think that the people saying them are inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque after they liberated it. And afterwards you discover that they’re only selling illusions, trading in suffering and blood, trading in victims, [saying]: ‘You Palestinians, our people, go and die so that we’ll go to the TV and media with strong declarations.’ These [Hamas] acts of ‘heroism’ don’t fool anyone anymore. The Palestinian people…sides with the PLO.”
Whether it did or not, and there was considerable evidence that it did not, that Hamas was sending Palestinians to die in order to manipulate world opinion against Israel was certain.
This is a propaganda success that Josef Goebbels and the editors of Pravda would have envied, and it became the foundation for more. Having established the Palestinians as a tiny indigenous people whose land was stolen by rapacious, well-heeled, and oppressive foreigners, it was time to return to the negotiating table – not in order to achieve any genuine accord with Israel, but to exploit the victimhood status of the new tiny people they had invented in order to win valuable concessions from the Israelis.
And it worked. Today, as the Palestinian jihadis target Israeli civilians anew, it is working once again.
gravenimage says
The Palestinian Propaganda Machine Cranks Into High Gear
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More “Pallywood”. Yet all too many in the west are eager to believe this dishonest tripe.
somehistory says
Logic says that if these things were really happening…and it’s claimed every time hamas or hezbollah or some other terror group starts attacking Israel…Israel wouldn’t care; and by now, would have wiped the mozlums out of Israel for good.
Logic and reason. And remembering….remembering that the lies fly every time.
E T says
Bassem Eid’s open letter to MY Fellow Palestinian Brethren starts with “ I know the past days have been incredibly devastating and equally bewildering. Why is the world letting Israel do this to you? I am writing to you, my Palestinian brothers and sisters, to open your eyes from the disinformation that your real captor, Hamas is feeding you.
To my Palestinian brethren, I implore you: please do not let Hamas brainwash you into thinking it has “achieved” anything on your behalf.
do not fall prey to its lies and manipulations. Hamas is not a social Justice movement and certainly does not care about you and me. it is a criminal gang that only cares about increasing its own power at all of our expense. Your lives start to improve only when the Hamas reign of terror ends. Only then will you taste the fruits of real peace with your Jewish cousins.
Yes, I know that to some in the media Hamas has more or less achieved its goal in this vile destructive war it started 10 days ago. it has spread fake news…………….?
OLD GUY says
Islam wouldn’t lie, would they? Palestinian, Muslim and Islam are one in the same all fighting to destroy Israel at ant cost. Using the international media to deceive the world population about who the BAD guys are is just part of the game plan. The honest question is who fired the first shot, that appears to be on Palestine and Hamas.
seelistenunderstandAmir says
Where can we find a document from an international recognized institute that approve the said by the Palestinian propaganda, that Israel is using phosphorus bombs in Gaza?
Why should Israel use such forbidden materials while it can use a conventional bombs in vast quantities?
Is Israel that stupid to volunteer its throat to be cut by the UN members?
If any body can submit such papers, established by an reliable laboratory, please do it and urgently.
And
when the Gazan will make their inventory top check what they have earn and/or lost in these 10 days of war?
I ask it because I worry about this people that live in a misery, I am not sure if it is against their will or they do support it, and poverty and in sickness and more troubles, without doing a thing to change it. It is not a faith. This can be changed. There must be someone to say that it is enough. That will make the change. That will take the lead and make a change. This change will direct Gaza (Gazans) in a new direction. In the direction of growing and improving their lives. The only one to make a benefit are the poor Gazans.
I wish you Gazans to get rid of your current regime and get another one that will look to improve to general situation in Gaza and the situation of each Gazan individually.