Here is Joel Rosenberg's comment on the
propaganda film. My apologies for its delay: it got stuck in a spam filter
even though Joel is of course whitelisted.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I
finally made the time to watch that rather long video all the way
through. Nice production values; much better than the usual Pallywood
production, despite all the BBC footage. Pretty good agitprop, although
without the flair of, say, Michael Moore.
I'm sure you'll be familiar with the points
made at
http://www.jcrc.org/israel/p3l/P3L-Review.pdf -- from the
beginning, the filmmakers deliberately distort the history around 242
(it wasn't accidental that 242 carefully avoided talking about Israel
withdrawing from "all" or "the" territory seized in the 1967 War or that
it established a quid pro quo for withdrawal -- the famous "land for
peace" formulation) and don't stop there.
I'm not sure how much of the BBC footage
that was included was a Pallywood production -- but do let's not forget
that the BBC is sufficiently embarrassed by its own anti-Israel bias
that it's deliberately suppressed access to an internal report on that
very bias -- see
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2398870.ece .
As to Pallywood, it's a pretty slick
operation -- as long as there's no cameraman filming stuff beyond the
set. When there is, you get the unintentionally humorous video of the
phony funeral procession, where some of the cast hasn't been clued into
the fact that the body is still alive, and where they flee in terror
when the corpse comes back to life when it gets dropped . . .
Actually, I think the lack of widespread
broadcast of that particular video puts paid to the notion of the
effectiveness of the Israeli agitprop operation -- hell, they couldn't
even get the very best of Pallywood's Funniest Videos on NBC, CBS, ABC,
or Fox . . . ? How many Americans know the name "Shalhevet Pass"? How
many know that the "Jenin Massacre" was a deliberate hoax? That the
Sabra and Shatilla massacres weren't even the largest massacres of Arabs
by Arabs in Lebanon that year?
But, sure, this sort of stuff is, as you
suggest, believed throughout the Arab world -- the same Arab world that
thinks that 911 was a Mossad operation.
If this is what comes from the
well-coordinated ZOG agitprop operation that Chomsky and Fisk obsess
about, what would incompetence look like? Pallywood?
Kind of indicative, though, that the film
was dedicated to the memory of Edward Said -- an Arab propagandist who,
repeatedly and blatantly, lied about his own history in order to promote
the Palestinian narrative . . . and was, as far as I can tell, just
barely this side of never called on his lies by the mainstream US media.
(Justus Reid Weiner's "'My Beautiful Old House' and Other Fabrications
by Edward Said" -- see
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ad97b0d3dbd.htm for one
copy -- remains the definitive debunking of Said's personal history.)
I'm tempted to spend a bit of time, well,
fisking Fisk and Chomsky, but what would be the point? And if I'm going
to do that, should I also point out that Pravda was not always entirely
truthful?
If the point is that it's easy to get
footage hostile to Israel from the BBC, or pious pronouncements from
Fisk, and Chomsky, and the noxious Hussein Ibish, this isn't exactly
news; if the point is that propagandists sympathetic to the Arabs will
avoid discussing exactly how the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza came
to their present remarkably unpleasant lives, I hope that's
well-established by now.
As to the filmmakers finding the hands of
the Elders of Zion everywhere, again, no surprise.
That said, it's clear that much of the
daily lives of the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are miserable*,
although I did miss the part about how the most miserable of the
miserable are the Gazans -- who, let's remember, are no longer under
Israeli occupation, and are free to move about, planting rocket
launchers where they will, from one end of Gaza to another.
But, sure, it's worse than unpleasant, and
is clearly going to get moreso. Partially replacing the Arafat
kleptocracy with Hamas hasn't proven a big win for the Pallies; granted,
Abu Mazen and his "enemies" haven't found quite the right formulation
for false promises to get the US and most of the European aid flowing
again, although some certainly has. The UNRWA dole does keep coming in,
but it's basically a recipe for permanent misery.
Yup; it's bad there, and it's going to get
worse for the Palestinians. (Over the years, in our discussions, I've
repeatedly pointed at the Malthusian tragedy that is Gaza -- it's
getting worse there, and will continue to.)
Complain as they understandably will about
checkpoints and -- more and more -- the Fence, it's clear from the
results that it's just that Fence and those checkpoints that have
seriously interfered with the ability of the erstwhile shahids to
detonate themselves in pizza parlors and kindergartens, and until the
horse learns how to -- err, the Palestinian Arabs learn that killing
Jews is counterproductive, that's going to continue to be their problem.
Still, the filmmakers did seem to avoid
their own logic, such as it is: if the cause of Arab terrorism are all
the difficulties that the evil Israelis keep ratcheting up on the poor
defenseless Palestinians, it gets hard to explain how the increase in
restrictions since the Fence started going up has been met, by and
large, with a decrease in detonating shahids. Is the frustration among
the Palestinians somewhat less now when there were fewer checkpoints and
fewer settler . . . and more bombings?
This is where, I suppose, the filmmakers
would have my secret ZOG masters have me solemnly intone that Arafat, in
the famous formulation, never missed the chance to miss the chance to
have his Palestinian state and a real peace by playing Clinton and
Netanyahu at Wye River and Clinton and Barak at Camp David, but I don't
think there was a chance. The Sudetenland didn't assuage the German
thirst for lebensraum, and Judea, Samaria, and wouldn't do the same for
the Palestinians.
Well, I've rambled on enough, I guess; time
to wrap this up with a solution -- and, of course, it's not going to be
a practical solution, because, well, there isn't one. In the long run,
there really only is room in what once was the Palestine Mandate for two
states, not three. In the long run, the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and
Gaza are going to have to murder somewhere around six million Jews,
figure out a way to get their Jordanian cousins to take them in . . .
. . . or see how much farther downhill they
can go before they reach bottom.
best,
jr
* And, frankly, one would think
there'd be enough real misery to film that there wouldn't be a need
to coach a fellow in a phony narrative about having delivered his
child in an ambulance from the hospital room where the baby was
delivered.
-- Joel Rosenberg
http://twincitiescarry.com
http://joel-rosenberg.com
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