Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff
By Khalid Amayreh, Occupied Palestine
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With the holocaust-like Israeli onslaught in Gaza entering its fourth week, and with thousands of Palestinian civilians mercilessly killed and maimed by the Israeli war machine while hundreds others still buried under rubble, Israel is planning a public relations campaign aimed at “making the world forget the bad images” from Gaza very soon. The Israeli Foreign Ministry this week contacted an American PR firm requesting a “detailed PR plan” that would enhance Israel’s image following the Gaza blitz . Some military experts have compared the rampant havoc wreaked on Gaza with conditions in the German City of Dresden following the devastating aerial bombings by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the closing weeks of the Second World War. According to the Israeli press, the Israeli Foreign Ministry Hasbara (propaganda) department has created a special task force to prepare for the aftermath of the Israeli blitz in Gaza. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz said the task force would be charged with repairing damage to Israel’s image. “The working assumption is that Israel has suffered a blow to its image in the West in the wake of heavy civilian casualties in the Strip.” Palestinian activists and human rights organizations operating in occupied Palestine have released gruesome images of hundreds of badly mutilated children killed or maimed by the continuing Israeli aerial bombing and artillery bombardment of residential areas. Palestinian officials have described the ongoing Israeli offensive as a real holocaust. “What Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza is a real holocaust. Israel is murdering civilians en mass, destroying homes, mosques and public institutions,” said Ismael Haniya, the Prime Minister of the Hamas government during a speech on Tuesday. On Thursday, Palestinian hospital sources of more than 1100 Palestinians, mostly children and other innocent civilians, killed and over 5000 people injured, many critically, as a result of the wanton bombings by Israeli F-16 fighters. Israel has been using excessively disproportionate fire power, including Bunker buster bombs and White Phosphor shells, against a totally defenseless civilian population. The Israeli paper said Israeli officials were worried that “negative sentiment” toward Israel would grow the moment the full picture of the Israeli blitz emerged. Israeli hasbara officials have recommended several steps aimed at enhancing Israel’s image, including the intensive involvement of the Israeli army in facilitating the transfer of food and medicine to the bombed-out inhabitants of Gaza. One Israeli press officer reportedly recommended the employment of the so-called ” candy tactic” as an “image booster.” The “candy tactic” takes the form of filming Israeli soldiers while giving candies to Palestinian kids, especially after the perpetration of an especially-terrible massacre. Non the less, Israeli sources admit that no matter how effective Israeli hasbara efforts could be, the shocking reality on the ground in Gaza will be proven indelible. This is why the Israeli foreign ministry is suggesting that the Jewish state embark on a reactivated peace process with the Palestinian Authority |
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Fiona said,
January 16, 2009 at 16:12
Tragically, I feel the world will quickly forget the Palestinian people once this current outrage is over. The harassment and abuse of Gazans and West Bank inhabitants will continue by Israel, business as usual. Mainstream media will quickly go back to only reporting if and when a Palestinian suicide bomber kills Israeli civilians. Israeli atrocities will go unnoticed and no one will care.
The human race seems to have a very short attention span and a new outrage somewhere else will become the fashionable cause of the moment, capturing the attention of most. Over twenty years of this fight to bring the plight of the Palestinian people into the human consciousness has taught me a lot, and to not have high hopes is first and foremost.
Ric said,
January 16, 2009 at 19:03
“…released gruesome images of hundreds of badly mutilated children killed or maimed by the continuing Israeli aerial bombing…”
Bet you a dollar not a one of those pictures will ever appear in the American press or magazines or on the so-called news shows. We just can’t let reality intrude on the ignorant fantasies of the Americans, can’t have them seeing what their tax dollars and their blind support of the Israeli mad dogs have done.
Ray O Hope said,
January 16, 2009 at 19:27
WE WELL NEVER FORGET OUR DEAD CHILDREN, AND NOT JUST THOSE IN THE LATEST GENOCIDE IN GAZA TODAY, BUT ALL OF THE PALESTINIAN ,LEBANON AND IRAQI CIVILIANS THAT WAS KILLED IN COLD BLOOD FROM 1947 TO DAY, ALL OF THE WESTREN WORLD LEADERS THAT HAVE A HAND IN THE KILLINGS MUST HANG.
Dr. Dan said,
January 16, 2009 at 20:02
They count their “precious” 6 million the same way they count their wounded??
Count the injured Gazans in the SAME WAY the Israelis count THEIR injuries. The measure I am referring to is the one employed by Israel.
Here is an example of its use. In September 2007, the international media reported that 69 Israeli soldiers had been wounded when Palestinian militants fired a rocket into the Zikim army base near the Gaza Strip. The rocket struck a tent where the soldiers were sleeping.
It is worth noting the details of the attack. Israeli officials related that, of the 69 wounded, 11 had moderate or severe injuries and one was critically injured. A few more had light wounds. The rest, probably 50 or more, were injured in the sense that they were suffering from shock.
So, if we apply the same standard to Gaza, that would mean 1.5 million Gazans have been wounded. Or is there still some doubt about whether the weeks of bombardment of Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on earth, have left the entire civilian population in a deep, and possibly permanent, state of shock?
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llyn said,
January 16, 2009 at 22:06
NO, NOT THIS TIME! LIVNI, BARAK AND OLMERT, EVEN THE CROOK BIBI HAVE GONE TOO FAR NOT ONLY WITH THE ATTACKS AND GENOCIDE BUT THEIR WORDS HAVE SHOWN THE WORLD HOW INSANE THESE PEOPLE ARE AND PICTURES OF ISRAELIS STANDING ON HILLTOPS IN SDEROT CHEERING AND LAUGHING AS F-16’S DROP BOMBS ON THE PEOPLE OF GAZA ALSO SHOW THAT THE CITIZENS OF ISRAEL ARE LOST IN A WORLD OF INSANITY JUST LIKE THEIR LEADERS.
I HAVE OFTEN FELT THAT PEOPLE SO ANGRY BECAUSE OF THEIR STORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST (SOME WERE PROVED UNTRUE) WERE EVER ALLOWED TO FORM AND RUN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THE LEADERS, AFTER ALL, WERE FOR THE MOST PART NOT WELL EDUCATED AND THERE WAS ALWAYS A SENSE OF ANGER AMONG THEM ESPECIALLY TOWARDS PALESTINIANS AND ARABS WHO HAD DONE NOTHING BUT HELP JEWS. HOWEVER ZIONISTS HAVE TAKEN OUT THEIR WRATH ON PALESTINIANS FOR ANY AND EVERYTHING THEY WANTED TO GET EVEN AT THE WORLD FOR AND NOW IT HAS TO END.
PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD, TAKE THE ZIONISTS OUT OF PALESTINE AND PUT THEM IN A GERMAN STATE – THEY ARE EUROPEANS NOT SEMITES. THEY SIMPLY DO NOT BELONG HERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST – THEY NEVER WILL – THEY CANNOT – IT IS NOT IN THEM. PALESTINIANS AND ARABS AND EVEN JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES LIVED TOGETHER IN PEACE, WE HAVE THE SAME BACKGROUND, THE SAME HEARTBEAT, THE SAME SOULS. THESE EUROPEAN ZIONISTS, THEY DO NOT FEEL THE BEAT, THEY WILL NEVER BE PART OF THIS PLACE, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO BELONG THEY WANT TO BE THE MASTERS AND THE REST OF US THE SLAVES BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. BETTER YOU TAKE THEM NOW.
fourthreichisrael said,
January 17, 2009 at 06:15
Please pass on the photos and make posters from them to march in Peace vigils for Gaza.
E-mail them to everyone that you know; with the inauguration of Obama coming up soon, distribute these everywhere possible, Obama must do something substantial to help the Palestinians.
This is the most important post that I have as of yet, and I have more than one web site.
This is exactly what Obama needs to see.
It is aside by side photos – documenting the Jewish Holocaust and the Gaza Holocaust.
If the world could get exposed to these side by side photos that expose the horrifying, genocide, beyond words massacres, it might just change public opinion, so I ask you, please, please, please, on behalf of the Palestinian People pass this around post it on blogs, FaceBook, MySpace, Care2, Live Journal, Blogspot, etc…
Feel free to post it here on DesertPeace since you get so many people coming here.
I truly believe that this post is so dramatic in showing the Holocaust of the Palestinians, since it has as I said, side by side photos of both Holocausts.
WWII and the Holocaust in Gaza RIGNT NOW!
Tell it to Obama:
http://fourthreichisrael.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/tell-it-to-obama/
Roy said,
January 17, 2009 at 07:52
I rest my case with the western media…there is no hope that oneday they would seek more even-handed approach to the crises. It does not matter if the whole world would forget or would stay alerted to the zise of the crime committed…what matters is that arabs and palestinians will never forget…the day is coming when arabs will balance the book with the zionists
Editor, Prophetic Imagery said,
January 30, 2009 at 16:27
Copied below is a link to Dom Martin’s prophetic imagery to the 2008/2009 GAZA GENOCIDE. The drawings are from Dom Martin’s series, ‘Palestine’s Wailing Wall’, which were created in 2004, and were first printed in his book of poems titled: “COEXISTENCE: Humanity’s Wailing Wall”, (2006). Some of the drawings were subsequently reprinted in his current volume of poems: “GENOCIDE: The New Order of Imperialism”, (2008).
http://www.propheticimagery.com
Human compassion is progressively in solidarity with Palestine’s incarcerated grief and suffering, as well as with all grief and suffering brought on by the yoke of imperialism.
Trusting in universal concurrence on this.
Kindly spread the message, for the realization of greater enlightenment and healing.
The Editor
http://www.PropheticImagery.com