We are in a Propaganda War.
It is time to blow the Shofar all over the world
If you go to war in your land against an adversary that oppresses you, you shall blow a teruah with the trumpets and be remembered before the Lord your God, and thus be saved from your enemies.
Since the rebirth of Israel in her legal historical and Biblical lands, she has not lost a war, not one, unlike America which has lost every war it has fought since WWII. And she will win the military war against Hamas. But, today, that is not enough. Not in a world of social media. Israel must win the Propaganda War and she is losing that war badly in the 21st century. She can learn about winning propaganda wars from Americans who are experts: the Russia Hoax and Biden computer, and DEI come to mind, and the term Islamophobia.
Just like the Nazis blamed the Jews, the world blamed Israel for her response to the October 7, 2023 massacre. Here is an example of one of many. In his January 6 opinion column in Le Journal de Montreal, Réjean Parent condemns Hamas’ October 7 massacre, but quickly claims Israel’s counter-terrorism operations against that very same threat, are “as barbaric as that of Hamas.”
Jew hated has not changed over the millennia, especially since the Holocaust. Sadly, the Jewish response has not changed either.
There was no one to speak up for the Jews in Europe. A willful blindness. We were supposed to learn from that time about the danger of hate.
When it comes to the Jews, we never learn.
Islam is preaching the same hate as the Nazis and the world says nothing. Worse, the world stands with these people.
MARCH FOR GAZA WASHINGTON
On September 16, 1919, Hitler issued his first written comment on the so-called Jewish Question. In the statement, he defined the Jews as a race and not a religious community, characterized the effect of a Jewish presence as a “race-tuberculosis of the peoples,” and identified the initial goal of a German government to be discriminatory legislation against Jews.
The “ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of the Jews altogether.”
Since the Jewish people have returned to their legal, historical and Biblical Jewish homeland of 3500 years, the call remains the same. Nothing has changed. The world continues to stand with the Jew haters.
For far too long we have heard “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” What does that mean?
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” is a rallying cry for terrorist groups and their sympathizers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to Hamas, which called for Israel’s destruction in its original governing charter in 1988 and was responsible for the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israeli civilians, murdering over 1,200 people in the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. It is also a common call-to-arms for pro-Palestinian activists, especially student activists on college campuses. It calls for the establishment of a State of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, erasing the State of Israel and its people. Another phrase “Globalize the Intifada” which uses the Arabic word for “uprising” or “shaking off,” encourages resistance and also calls for widespread violence against both Israelis and Jews across the globe.
Sounds a lot like the goals of the Nazis that the world ignored, until it was too late. America knew about the Holocaust and did nothing.
Never Forget?
Seems the Jew-hating propaganda machine is still going strong as it has for millennia.
The Jewish people, the State of Israel, have proven over and over that we can win any military war. But that is no longer enough. Not today in a world of moral relativism and DEI. Today, safety requires that one win the propaganda war. And Israel has failed. Israel is told to ceasefire after the horror of October 7. As described to me by Dr. David Nussbaum:
The barbarity involved in the cross-border murders included the beheading of infants, binding families together with wire, dousing them with accelerants and incinerating them at intense temperatures that melted flesh and charred bones beyond recognition, horrifically gang-raping of prepubescent girls, teenagers, and women of all ages, leaving victims with not only bloody crotches, but broken legs and hips, before murdering them and dragging their bodies through the streets of Gaza to admiring and celebrating throngs of well-wishers; the innocent civilians of Gaza.
Israel is told to concern itself with the people IN Gaza rather than her own citizens.
What did Churchill say about war? The man who led Britain in her attack against the Germans and her Allies?
“Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. We shall not flag or fail. Never, never, never give up. It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
Seems these actions are endorsed for all but the Jews and the Jewish state. The Prime Minister of Israel has been told by America to “compromise.” America, the country that left no stone unturned to destroy the Nazis and the Japanese. Where are the calls to Ukraine and Russia, in the second year of a devastating war, for a ceasefire or compromise?
The Biden administration has told the Israeli government that it wants the country to end its large-scale ground campaign in Gaza and transition to a more targeted phase of its war against Hamas. America,the country that flattened Germany and dropped atomic bombs on Japan – countries far from their borders.
During an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sullivan said, “The basic recipe, which is peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, a two-state solution with Israel’s security guaranteed—these pieces are not, in a way, operating in completely separate spheres. They are linked and connected; they were before Oct. 7, they remain linked today, and they’re something that we’re going to have to continue to work on.” And Biden now wants to circumvent Netanyahu.
Thankfully, in the footsteps of Churchill, Prime Minister Netanyahu does not intend to change the goals of the war or compromise on less than total victory.
“The goals of the war are well known …chief among them the elimination of Hamas, the release of our hostages and the promise that Gaza will never pose a threat to Israel.”
‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ‘
From the time of the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel, she has been under attack from her Muslim neighbours. After every war there is a promise of peace, and then came land for peace. That resulted in Israel being bombed to pieces, over and over again. And the horrific barbaric massacre of Jews October 7 by Muslims from Gaza – from which the Jewish people were removed in 2005 for the sake of peace. It was a unilateral withdrawal of all Israeli security forces and settlements from the Gaza Strip in August–September 2005. The withdrawal also included the evacuation of four Israeli settlements in the West Bank – Judea/Samaria.
Why do the UN the EU and America keep demanding that Israel give up land for peace and back away without a true victory? I’ll tell you. Innate, systemic endemic Jew hatred and the fact that Israel did not and still does not have a proper Propaganda War to fight back against the calls for her destruction.
We failed, again, after Oct 7 – the world made a moral equivalence between the barbarity of Hamas and the defense of the Jews in return. Israel ended up at the ICJ the International Court of justice. Avi Lewis wrote in the Globe and Mail:
“This should not be a surprise. After almost 100 days of livestreamed starvation and blood-soaked rubble in Gaza, Jews and non-Jews around the world are saying: enough. In the face of Israeli’s defiant impunity, the international community has an absolute moral and legal obligation to step in to stop this insensate convulsion of violence and destruction.”
Wonder what he would have written during the time of the Nazis.
Muslims world wide have taken a page out of the Nazi handbook on Propaganda
Jews are told over and over that we run the world. OK.
So let’s run a first class Propaganda War!
From the Ethics of the Fathers: “Rabbi Tarfon used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it.”
The first step we need to take in the propaganda war is to expose the whole notion of “Palestinians” as a fraud.
Zuheir Mohsen was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper “Trouw”, Mr. Mohsen acknowledged that “the Palestinian people” were a propaganda invention:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
However, the moment we claim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan”.
Israel’s local enemies are no more “Palestinians” merely because they call themselves that, than a biological male is a woman merely because he calls himself that. Israel’s enemies are Arab Moslems some of whose ancestors lived in the territory of the British Palestine Mandate. They were not “Palestinians” then, and calling them that now only helps to legitimize their claims to be the rightful owners of the entire territory of the British Palestine Mandate from the River to the Sea – which excludes Israel and the Jews. If you have to use the word “Palestinians”, at least put it in quotes, or add “so-called”.
“Our Man at the UN”
“A few years ago while in New York we learned that Abba Eban would speak next day at the Security Council. The information, which had originated with our consulate, was leaked to the shops cluttering the East Side, gained momentum as it reached the Bronx and spread like wildfire all over Brooklyn. Thousands of kids on that day pestered their fathers with “Pop, take me to hear Abba!”
It had been a run-of-the-mill day at the U.N., with the Soviet Union righteously accusing the U.S. of military intervention and the U.S. saying “look who’s talking” for the umpteenth time. There had been some verbal fireworks, but in the end the Council had settled down to its usual routine of resolutions and vetoes.
And then, in a hall hushed with expectation, the Chairman of the Council invited Mr. Abba Eban of Israel to take the floor.
The gallery had filled up in anticipation of the great linguistic event. Many put on earphones through which they could listen to the speech in all living languages, except, alas, Yiddish. Experienced ushers sternly warned the gallery not to cheer whenever the honourable speaker mentioned Israel. Members of the various delegations leaned forward in their seats, in a great effort to grasp the high-flown and sonorous English sentences which would start flowing in a moment from the lips of our representative.
Attendants distributed the text of Eban’s speech among the delegates, who immediately started marking in red pencil the words that called for further study at home. The Canadian representative tuned in to the French translation, which he could understand more easily. The UN Secretary General inconspicuously opened the Big Webster lying on his knees.
Abba kicked off in splendid form. His third sentence effortlessly combined “maeruesse” and “gastlicum,” last used by King Alfred. Then came a roiling masterpiece of linguistic architectonics: “Thrummed perlapts orgulous of their gules, forbid ronyons and bona-robas affied to their cheveril fitchens, dearn gallymaufries and obidicuts, to you all I say: “Avaunt nuthooks, stop pheezing and sneck-up’!” Next was a word which visibly electrified the whole Council: “Disexposticulation.” The delegates feverishly thumbed through their dictionaries.
The interpreters were sweating profusely in their booths, with the expression of hunted deer in their eyes. And American Jewry on the gallery sighed raptly and breathed with difficulty, in the throes of ecstatic pleasure: “Where on earth does he find such words?!”
The speech had its content, but who cared?
What mattered was to rake up the largest number of points during the quiz show. The Turkish delegation for instance, was willing to wager that “syphogloom” meant “a missing vertebra in a fossiltoothed cetacean” whereas the Latin American delegates were convinced that it simply refered to “a copper pan for frying snails.”
As Abba sensed his audience warming up, his sentences became more flowery and he switched to Classical Gaelic. The Belgian delegate had not yet discovered that by mistake he had been listening to the Chinese translation all the time. The Secretary General gave up, snapped the Webster shut and went out for a breather. The British delegate demonstrated its superiority by listening to Abba’s words without the benefit of earphones and dictionaries; everyone knew that they were simply showing off and that they would later receive the speech translated into everyday English.
The speech ended with a winged appeal to the world’s conscience to improve its English. The interpreters collapsed in their booths; the delegates were white and exhausted. The Secretary General returned; the delegates crowded around.
The gallery audience broke into spontaneous cheers.
“Whole sentences!!!” – one of them shouted, his face transfigured with adoration, “whole sentences I didn’t understand! There’s nobody like Abba.”
– from “So Sorry We Won” by Ephraim Kishon and cartoons by Kariel Gardosh (Dosh). Translated by Yohanan Goldman Kariel 1st Printing November 1967, 2nd printing December 1967, Third Printing March 1968.
Typed from the book just now by Sebastien Zorn (yours truly).