20 July 2014
Lethal Narratives
Many
of you are drowning in floods of information, can’t keep up with your
email correspondence, don’t have time to read the best compilations let
alone the middling ones, not even time for the “must reads” sent by
trusted sources… But I encourage you to buy and read my book, Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth.
It sheds original light on events that are turning our world upside
down, with the Middle East as the pivot. While Israeli civilians run for
the bunkers to escape the murderous intentions of Hamas rockets and
Israeli soldiers confront Hamas mujahidin on their own territory in the
confines of the Gaza Strip, “international opinion” has mobilized for
another round of lethal narrative warfare. On the third day of an
all-out Hamas offensive against Israeli civilians, the lethal narrative
kicked in. Today it has reached the height of frenzy. And Western media
have gone berserk, in step with the raging crowd.
Metula News Agency [Cessez-le-feu humanitaire (info # 022007/14) ]
reports today that several journalists that wanted to leave Gaza were
blocked at the Erez Crossing by Hamas operatives. Why? Might they fear
that once outside Gaza, journalists would report the truth about what is
happening there? Western media fervently defends the fighting forces of
a jihad movement that would just as easily behead them as enslave them,
but would never allow them to report freely as they are doing today.
Even though they abuse that freedom, they enjoy it.
The
question is not “why do they act against their own interests”? It’s
like asking a gun why it shoots bullets at this or that target. A gun is
a weapon in the hands of a gunman. The media, academia, international
organizations, charities…the list is endless of entities and
institutions that have become weapons of 21st century jihad
conquest. Israel, a democratic nation, is the target of an all-out
genocidal assault from the Hamas branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and
one week after it mobilizes in self-defense, Kill-the-Jews stampedes are
on the march worldwide, and the facts have disappeared from mass media.
We are assailed by something that is not reportage. It is not biased,
one-sided, twisted; it is non-existent, and it fills the eyes and ears
for hours on end. It’s not news, not journalism, it’s lethal narrative. A
weapon. And it works.
Kill-the-Jews stampede in Paris on July 13, 2014
My brief article published in Tablet http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/179169/anti-israel-protestors-attack-paris-synagogues
was based on information available at the time. When the July 14th
holiday weekend ended I started to receive eyewitness accounts from Web
sites, Jewish radio, and my own sources. It became apparent that the
original Agence France Presse release, used by outlets worldwide, was
concocted in lethal narrative format. Now we have videos of the
“demonstration” from start to middle to semi-finish at Place de la
Bastille that reveal its true nature. It was not a peaceful gathering
slightly tarnished by a few rowdies at the last minute. [annotated links
to videos below] Distinguished members of the Jewish community who were
in the synagogue, including the Chief Rabbi of France, testified to the
violence of the attempted intrusion. A [bad] translation of a text by a
member of the congregation is posted on Tablet.
Interviewed
on radio Communauté Juive, a peace & love novelist, Valerie
Zeccati, eloquently described the mobs that fanned out from the Bastille
into the nearby Marais: they were filled with murderous rage, they
wanted to kill, they were thrilled by their own blood lust, the masses
of demonstrators applauded them as they ran screaming, “We’re going to
smash the Jews!” The “imam” on the sound truck declared “No provocation,
and segued to a resounding allahou akhbar followed by other blood lust cries.
A
widely circulated video shows the young men who were in fact protecting
the synagogue from the mob that was trying to break in. I haven’t been
able to find out who shot the film, but it is emblematic of the vision
of the Hamas attack on Israel: the attackers have been edited out,
making the Jews look like the aggressors. And that’s the purpose of the
film.
One
of the organizers of that stampede (they called it a demonstration)
ingenuously explains that the contingent that went up rue de la Roquette
[in fact they ran, screaming their heads off] were just on their way to
a métro station. A member of a Jewish pro-Palestinian [and now
pro-Hamas] organization claims the roughnecks from the Jewish Defense
League started the fight. Four of them sitting on a bench somewhere
along the route insulted the demonstrators and threw things at them. She
doesn’t explain how they lured the mob of hundreds all the way up rue
de la Roquette to the synagogue, 400 meters from the Place de la
Bastille. Or why, once they got there, the mob decided to attack the
synagogue instead of taking the métro.
These
apologists have a lot of explaining to do. Why did the mob first try to
break into the synagogues on Rue des Tournelles and Place des Vosges.
They couldn’t get in because there were enough riot police there to stop
them. How about the horde that chased a young couple walking their four
month-old son in his stroller. They had to run for their lives. The
harrowing tale is posted on the Metula News Agency Facebook page. Did
the over-enthusiastic “pro-Palestinians” mistake them for Jewish Defense
League adversaries?
The bobo weekly Nouvel Observateur ratcheted up and hammered out the revisionist version that, when you think of it, undermines the Agence France Presse whitewash. Yes, there was violence, but it was all the fault of the Jews. Subsequently in a France 24
debate a German freelancer with a steely smile took a ride with the
revisionist version: not only are the Israelis merciless in Gaza, the
Jews are persecuting pro-Palestinians in Paris.
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