Defending Israel Against Claims of Excessive Force
October 17, 2011 23:30 by Simon Plosker
Welcome to the new installment of Digital Diplomats.
With the media spotlight again focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict as the top news story from the Middle East and around the world, the time is right to launch a new series of Digital Diplomats media-training initiatives.
Our first series of videos focused on teaching people how to be effective advocates for Israel. Feedback from the thousands who enrolled in the program convinced us to follow up by looking at several core issues with greater depth.
The new series will consist of slide shows that illustrate the problems and how we can all contribute to solving them. Slide shows allow us to present powerful information in an entertaining and visually stimulating way while giving the viewers complete control over the pace of the information. You can move backwards or forwards as you wish without losing the thread of the message.
Our first slide show examines Israel’s media image as an aggressor using excessive force against the Palestinians.
Too often, the media fails to distinguish between Palestinian aggression and Israeli self-defense. Media coverage often gives the impression that Israel initiated violence when in fact Israel was responding to a Palestinian provocation.
In the slide show, we identify three ways that the media makes Israel appear to be the aggressor in the conflict with the Palestinians:
- Reporting on events out of order: News headlines often give the impression that Israel initiated violence when in reality, Israel was responding to violence against civilians initiated by Palestinian terrorists.
- Leaving out context: The media often fails to report essential information that leaves people unable to understand the rationale behind Israel’s policy or actions.
- Framing the news in terms of Israeli aggression: Reporters often speculate about how Israel will respond to violence, placing an aura of aggression around Israel even before Israel acts.
We hope that the information in our slide show will help Israel’s Digital Diplomats recognize how the media distorts the news and how to speak out against these distortions whenever they appear.
The Digital Diplomats program provides advocacy training and information to help people become effective advocates for Israel. Please share our materials with anyone who could benefit from them.
M Abels
5:38 pm
Oct 26, 2011
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bea green
5:41 pm
Oct 26, 2011
Even YOU are on the defensive! Go for the attack! Tell the media they’ve got it wrong. Tell them the Arabs have 20+ countries. Leave little Israel in peace.
Tell them about the help Israel offers to those in distress, like east Turkey today, the scientific research that helps people worldwide and tell them that Israel is a democracy, the only one in the area.
And, yes, tell the Israelis to deny some of the demands made by their ultra religious brethren. It skews the whole concept of a secular state.
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ben kagan
7:29 pm
Oct 26, 2011
Some of the printing is blocked out. Are you being censored or vandalized by someone?
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B. Fox
3:34 am
Oct 27, 2011
Those who hate Israel, hate Israels God. satan knows he can’t win the world unless he destroys all Jews and he trys his best but, never going to happen, Israels God is the Creator, the little god has blinded the hateful and soon to find out who the real God is.
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max
6:35 pm
Oct 27, 2011
Slide 8 is wrong. Delete “de-”.
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Jerry Meents
2:25 am
Oct 28, 2011
I am a veteran of the Israeli Army, The Dutch Army and the American Special Forces.
I learned that if I have to attack 100 enemy soldiers, terrorist or any other type of enemy, I will
use all the force I can muster to distroy them to protect miy soldiers.
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Brent Pudsey
2:40 pm
Oct 28, 2011
Excellent peice that shows the reason for the work you do and it explains your passion in a captivating and easily comprehended manner.
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Yakov Mor
8:54 pm
Oct 30, 2011
Excellent point. This is need to be shared.
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Jaylan
4:56 am
Dec 15, 2011
That’s a sharp way of thninkig about it.
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It All Started When Israel Fired Back… Again!
11:34 pm
Oct 31, 2011
[...] HonestReporting’s new slideshow “Defending Israel Against Claims of Excessive Force” contains many examples of the kinds of reporting repeated [...]
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raanan
6:49 am
Nov 01, 2011
Moslems Arabs and Palestinians a like – 1 billion people go for for their cause for a victory only.
They care nothing about the truth and justice,therefor the battle of one tiny and just people to show and convince the rest of the watching world is lost from the start.
Israel shall have to rely on its own heart mind and mussles to survive.
Aprx. in the year 2125 moslems would be hit hard by their own might and will be abandoned by all nations back to nomadic times.
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Andi
11:23 am
Dec 15, 2011
I told my gradnmtoehr how you helped. She said, “bake them a cake!”
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LUIS FROM MEXICO
6:01 pm
Nov 02, 2011
Am I surprised by the bias media?……not anymore!!. Some reporters write against Israel and Jews because they are plain antisemites, but many others do it for money and money is something arabs have, and lots of it; they can buy people to write what is convenient for them and maybe Israel should start doing the same. I am not saying this is the right thing to do, but when the competition is doing something that works, do the same and compete.
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Adonica
4:46 am
Dec 15, 2011
A pvorocative insight! Just what we need!
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It All Started When Israel Fired Back… Again! | The Conservative Papers
8:57 am
Nov 09, 2011
[...] HonestReporting’s new slideshow “Defending Israel Against Claims of Excessive Force” contains many examples of the kinds of reporting repeated below. Source: IDF Spokesperson's [...]
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yoyo 220
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May 01, 2012
what does that maen
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Colin
10:26 am
Nov 18, 2011
I am never amazed at how poor the media is at ever telling it how it really is. This is a global trend, not just one found in this context. The mass media is not a public service, it is a private industry, and there is always a bias. I wish you luck in your endeavors to enlighten people, but this reminds me of something I was told as a boy, “No matter whether you know everything there is to know about something, there is someone who knows more and feels the exact opposite as you do about it.” The world is made up of a massive cultural mish-mosh…nobody is right.
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Arn Yeroshalmi
11:40 pm
Nov 28, 2011
Don’t let the HATERS get under your skin. They are mentally deranged and best be ignored!
This irks them and burns them up!
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Karin Berryman
3:56 am
Dec 26, 2011
I’m just finding a string of writing down the left hand side of the page, with the comments following. Something must be occupying about the other7/8′s of the page, but my computer won’t give me access.
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American
8:54 pm
Dec 31, 2011
TO DIS-HONEST REPORTING, HERE IS THE REAL TRUTH:
Historical, documented facts prove there was widespread collaboration between Zionists and Hitler…all for the purpose of possibly receiving jurisdiction over a minute piece of earth, Palestine! The Zionists ignored the plight of their dying Jewish brothers by denying them help, they actually publicly refused to assist in the rescue of hundreds of thousands of Jews, fully knowing they’d be exterminated in gas chambers. Even more shockingly, the Zionists displayed the ultimate abysmal contempt for their Jewish brothers by collaborating with Hitler’s Third Reich and knowingly actively participating in the war on the side of Hitler which resulted in their fellow Jews EXTERMINATION. There are many, DOCUMENTED examples in the historical record of this, here are only a FEW:
President Roosevelt convened the Evian conference July 6-15 1938, to deal with the Jewish refugee problem. The Jewish Agency delegation headed by Golda Meir (Meirson) ignored a German offer to allow Jews to emigrate to other countries for $250 a head, and the Zionists made no effort to influence the United States and the 32 other countries attending the conference to allow immigration of German and Austrian Jews. (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
On Feb 1, 1940 Henry Montor executive vice-President of the United Jewish Appeal refused to intervene for a shipload of Jewish refugees stranded on the Danube river, stating that “Palestine cannot be flooded with… old people or with undesirables.” (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
It is historical fact that in 1941 and again in 1942, the German Gestapo offered all European Jews safe transit to Spain, if they would relinquish all their property in Germany and Occupied France; on condition that: a) none of the deportees travel from Spain to Palestine; and b) all the deportees be transported from Spain to the USA or British colonies, and there to remain; with entry visas to be arranged by the Jews living there; and c) $1000.00 ransom for each family to be furnished by the Agency, payable upon the arrival of the family at the Spanish border at the rate of 1000 families daily.
The Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey received this offer with the clear understanding that the exclusion of Palestine as a destination for the deportees was based on an agreement between the Gestapo and the Mufti.
The answer of the Zionist leaders was negative, with the following comments: a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees. b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a “Jewish State” at the end of the war. c) No ransom will be paid This response to the Gestapo’s offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber.
In 1944, at the time of the Hungarian deportations, a similar offer was made, whereby all Hungarian Jewry could be saved. The same Zionist hierarchy again refused this offer (after the gas chambers had already taken a toll of millions).
The British government granted visas to 300 rabbis and their families to the Colony of Mauritius, with passage for the evacuees through Turkey. The “Jewish Agency” leaders sabotaged this plan with the observation that the plan was disloyal to Palestine, and the 300 rabbis and their families should be gassed.
On December 17, 1942 both houses of the British Parliament declared its readiness to find temporary refuge for endangered persons. The British Parliament proposed to evacuate 500,000 Jews from Europe, and resettle them in British colonies, as a part of diplomatic negotiations with Germany. This motion received within two weeks a total of 277 Parliamentary signatures. On Jan. 27, when the next steps were being pursued by over 100 M.P.’s and Lords, a spokesman for the Zionists announced that the Jews would oppose the motion because Palestine was omitted. (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
On Feb. 16, 1943 Roumania offered 70,000 Jewish refugees of the Trans-Dniestria to leave at the cost of $50 each. This was publicized in the New York papers. Yitzhak Greenbaum, Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, addressing the Zionist Executive Council in Tel Aviv Feb. 18 1943 said, “when they asked me, “couldn’t you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said NO! and I say again, NO!…one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance.” On Feb. 24, 1943 Stephen Wise, President of the American Jewish Congress and leader of the American Zionists issued a public refusal to this offer and declared no collection of funds would seem justified. In 1944, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People called upon the American government to establish a War Refugee Board. Stephen Wise testifying before a special committee of Congress objected to this proposal. (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
During the course of the negotiations mentioned above, Chaim Weizman, the first “Jewish statesman” stated: “The most valuable part of the Jewish nation is already in Palestine, and those Jews living outside Palestine are not too important”. Weizman’s cohort, Greenbaum, amplified this statement with the observation “One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe”.
In 1947 Congressman William Stration sponsored a bill to immediately grant entry to the United States of 400,000 displaced persons. The bill was not passed after it was publicly denounced by the Zionist leadership. (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
On Feb. 23, 1956 the Hon. J. W. Pickersgill, Minister for Immigration was asked in the Canadian House of Commons “would he open the doors of Canada to Jewish refugees”. He replied “the government has made no progress in that direction because the government of Israel….does not wish us to do so”. (The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1976)
The Zionists knew full well that the denial and refusal to assist these Jews to relocate to any other country other than Palestine sent these poor Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers.
AND…Another vile example of Zionist collaboration with Hitler (especially note the SOURCE of this excerpt at the end:
In early January 1941 a small but important Zionist organization, the NMO, submitted a formal proposal to German diplomats in Beirut for a military-political alliance with wartime Germany. Part of the proposal is quoted below:
“The NMO which is very familiar with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its officials towards Zionist activities within Germany and the Zionist emigration program takes the view that: 1.Common interests can exist between a European New Order based on the German concept and the true national aspirations of the Jewish people as embodied by the NMO. 2.Cooperation is possible between the New Germany and a renewed, folkish-national Jewry. 3.The establishment of the Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by treaty, with the German Reich, would be in the interest of maintaining and strengthening the future German position of power in the Near East.
“On the basis of these considerations, and upon the condition that the German Reich government recognize the national aspirations of the Israel Freedom Movement mentioned above, the NMO in Palestine offers to actively take part in the war on the side of Germany.
“The indirect participation of the Israel Freedom Movement in the New Order of Europe, already in the preparatory stage, combined with a positive-radical solution of the European-Jewish problem on the basis of the national aspirations of the Jewish people mentioned above, would greatly strengthen the moral foundation of the New Order in the eyes of all humanity.
“The cooperation of the Israel Freedom Movement would also be consistent with a recent speech by the German Reich Chancellor, in which Hitler stressed that he would utilize any combination and coalition in order to isolate and defeat England.”
SOURCE –> [Quoted from the Original Document in German Auswertiges Amt Archiv, Bestand 47-59, E224152 and E234155-58. Complete original text published in: David Yisraeli, The Palestinian Problem in German Politics 1889-1945 (Israel: 1947) pp. 315-317]
More horrific evidences:
In a tape-recording made by an orthodox moderate named Yitzhak Frankental and later published in the Israeli press, Rabbi Rabinovitch says that if soldiers come to uproot settlers he intends “to scatter the area with roadside bombs like the Arabs do” (quote is his words).
Zionist Rabbi Schachter says: “It is forbidden to pray for peace in Eretz Yisroel, because the Israeli-Arab wars are the ‘beginning of the redemption’ and if there is peace, it will delay the redemption.”
Founder of zionism, Theodor Herzl, promoted anti-semitism to further the zionist cause. He states very clearly in his own diary: “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews…become worse…this will assist in realization of our plans…I have an excellent idea…I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth…The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.” (from Herzl’s own Diary, Part I, p. 16)
At the Zionist Congress in London in 1937, Dr. Chaim Weizmann established policy with his words: ” The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No’….From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people…The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world…Only the branch of the young shall survive…They have to accept it.” (from the book: Holocaust Victims Accuse, p. 25)
One of the founders of the Haganah (the Zionists’ paramilitary militia-army before the 1948 war), Ze’ev Jabotinsky, declared that settlement of the “land” is the only “law”. He declared: “There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supercedes all–Jewish settlement of the land.” (from the book: Righteous Victims, p. 108)
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira says: “In any situation in which a non-Jew’s presence endangers Jewish lives, the non-Jew may be killed even if he is a righteous Gentile and not at all guilty for the situation that has been created,” ….AND another of his quotes… “Also, anyone who weakens our own state by word or similar action is considered a pursuer…Hindrances—babies are found many times in this situation. They block the way to rescue by their presence and do so completely by force. Nevertheless, they may be killed because their presence aids murder. There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.” – Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira. (Source: coteret.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews)
Quotes of Ben Gurion – Israel’s founding Father and war criminal extraordinaire:
“Dedication to the Zionist cause also produced a clear-minded but amoral aspect to Ben-Gurion’s character and behavior. On the one hand he once admitted: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel…we came here and stole their country”. On the other, he prescribed the following: “We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.” ” [Excerpt from the book: A Concise History of the Middle East - by Arthur Goldschmidt & Lawrence Davidson, p. 309]
In 1937 Ben-Gurion says: “We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places …. and, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places-then we have force at our disposal.” (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66)
Ten years later in 1947 Ben-Gurion says: “The strategic objective [of the Jewish forces] was to destroy the urban communities, which were the most organized and politically conscious sections of the Palestinian people. This was not done by house-to-house fighting inside the cities and towns, but by the conquest and destruction of the rural areas surrounding most of the towns. This technique led to the collapse and surrender of Haifa, Jaffa, Tiberias, Safed, Acre, Beit-Shan, Lydda, Ramleh, Majdal, and Beersheba. Deprived of transportation, food, and raw materials, the urban communities underwent a process of disintegration, chaos, and hunger, which forced them to surrender.” (Simha Flapan, p. 92-93)
FACT: real Jews are 100% AGAINST zionism:
The Rebbe of Satmar, Hungary, Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, a high-ranking rabbinical scholar of uncontested holiness, is one of the greatest giants in all of Jewish history. He called zionism “the work of Satan”, “a sacrilege” and “a blasphemy”. He forbade Jews to have any participation with anything even remotely associated with zionism and said that zionism was bound to call the wrath of God upon His people. He maintained this stance with unwavering bravery from the very onset of zionism. He wept that the Holocaust was a direct result of zionism as a punishment from God. In his book Vayoel Moshe (middle of Section 110) he states: “It is because of the Zionists that six million Jews were killed. The fact is that this is the bitter punishment stipulated in the Talmud (Tractate Ketuboth 111)
The great Rabbi from Shinova, who was the son of the Holy Sanzer Rabbi of Poland said this 100 years ago, at the dawn of Zionism: “You should know, that when a Jew recites ‘Hear O Israel, G-d is our Lord, G-d is One’ he should have in mind to reject all idolatry in the world, and Zionism is also idolatry, and he must reject it as well.”
In a letter written by the famous Rabbi Tzadok Hakohen of Lublin, Poland, before World War II: “THE CONCLUSION IS TO BE DRAWN THAT IF THE ZIONISTS GAIN DOMINION THEY WILL SEEK TO REMOVE FROM THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL BELIEF IN G-D AND IN THE TRUTH OF THE TORAH. ALL THE INTENT OF THESE INCITERS AND SEDUCERS IS TO CAST ISRAEL INTO INFIDELITY, WHICH IS DESTRUCTION. Tzadok Hakohen”
In a letter from Rabbi Aryeh Leib Alter, known as the Sfas Emes, which he wrote early in the Zionist period, the Rabbi says: “Now behold Satan has come and confused the world….A thick cloak rest over the eyes of the leaders of the Zionists. ONLY OWING TO THEIR LACK OF FAITH AND ABSENCE OF BELIEF IN G-D DO THEY FAIL TO REALIZE THE EXTENT OF THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THEIR PROMISES TO THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLES AMONG WHOM WE LIVE, OF ALL THE WORLDLY DELIGHTS PROVIDED THEY GIVE AID TO THE ZIONISTS. THEY EVEN URGE THEM TO EXPEL JEWS FROM THEIR MIDST. Every sensible person will realize the help they are providing the enemies of the Jewish People…. Aryeh Leib Alter”
In this book, in chapter 26, Rabbi Yitchak Aramah states that the Decree of Exile for the Jewish People is so serious that even if the Jewish People were to terminate the Exile from the Holy land ONE DAY before the willing of G-d, the entire People would be in great danger by virtue of having violated the prohibition of ending the Exile as discussed in the Talmudic Tractate Kesuboth 111.
Plus…there are so MANY MANY more proven historical documents, records, statements, and events, all of which show a multiplicity of CLEAR evidences proving beyond doubt that Zionism is terrorism, against Jews, against peace, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with true Judaism. Read all about it yourself, and you will if you have ANY genuine interest in the real, unadulterated TRUTH!
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Jerry Meents
3:08 am
Nov 21, 2012
I have never have seen somuch BS in my live.
Where are all those documents? and it seems that all those Anti-Semits can read the Talmud and the Torah very good. I like to know were they have learned to read Hebrew
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Dave Longeuay
7:22 am
Jan 08, 2012
I meet people all the time who repeat the misinformed media about Israel being a bully, not fighting fair and so on. I also see politicians like Ron Paul who want Israel gone. The world needs all the help it can get to continue fighting terrorism like Israel does.
Actually, after researching for a novel I wrote, I learned so much about Israel’s reestablishment in 1948. I was taken back at how hard the Jews pursued peace with all Arabs. They even allowed thousands of Arabs to become Israeli citizens. To prove that, Israel has 1.5 million Arab/Israeli citizens living in their land today!
Why isn’t the press reporting that?
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Alan Miller
3:54 pm
Feb 28, 2012
In reply to “TO DIS-HONEST REPORTING, HERE IS THE REAL TRUTH:” Like all black propaganda, a series of lies masquerading as the truth with not one reference to any supporting documentation. One liar quotes another liar to prove a point, then the first one quotes the second!
Grow up and worry about the fate of the western world if Islam becomes dominant.
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barbossa
12:57 am
Nov 19, 2012
You know it is more than just defending Israel, because our Bibles tell us to, altho that is VERY important, but once you know and understand WHO the jewish people are to the english speaking peoples, you will begin to understand the importance of just who we (americans) are and who and what the country of Israel is. So if you are intetested I recomend the 100% FREE booklet, ” The United States and Britain in Bible Prophesy.”
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