Chris Floyd: Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza

[scarletwoman]

Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza
Here is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth about what is happening in Gaza from any corporate media in the United States. The only thing you will find there are regurgitations of Israeli spin, which are themselves only regurgitations of the kind of spin that American militarists have put on their own depredations -- for centuries now. Up and down the American media and political establishments, you will find nothing but bleatings about Israel being "forced" to launch its vicious blunderbuss attacks against heavily populated Gaza because of the "recent spate of Hamas bombings" since the end of a six-month ceasefire.

This is of course a damnable and deliberate lie. Papers in Israel -- in Israel, but not the United States -- are reporting the truth: the murderous assault on Gaza was planned not only before the six-month ceasefire ended -- it was planned before the cease-fire even took effect. Indeed, the cease-fire was part of the military plan to decimate the civilian areas of Gaza; it was a hoax, a scam, a deliberate feint to buy time for military preparations -- precisely the same strategy followed by the Bush Regime (and its bipartisan Establishment supporters) in "going to the UN" to seek a "peaceful solution" to the "Iraqi crisis" -- when the invasion was already in the works.

Haaretz reports on the Israel's deceit in the latest outrage, in the aptly titled piece, "Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about":

Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces "Cast Lead" operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, which began Saturday morning. The disinformation effort, according to defense officials, took Hamas by surprise and served to significantly increase the number of its casualties in the strike.

Please read the whole piece.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. even this will be scoffed at by the local mob which

thinks that AIPAC walks on water, Israel can do no wrong, and anyone who DARES criticize Israel is anti-semitic and a racist.

Just wait. They will come. There aren't many anymore, but they are here. Reality is not important. Blind support for Israel is their motto.

[scarletwoman]

2. Doesn't matter. The truth is the truth, no matter how many want to deny it.

No colonialist nation-state is EVER going to be sacred to me.

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[Dragonfli]

8. I think we need more scarlet women like you in this place

Because I know that you meant what you just typed!
:patriot:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. And deservedly so...

When are people like the author going to learn that facts matter and distorting them with hyperbole hurts the over all message. This is another classic case of that. Cool calm reasoning with irrefutable facts work. Nonsense like this article discredits the entire progressive movement.

[scarletwoman]

6. Okay, let's have your refutation of Chris Floyd's citations. Go for it. (nt)

[azurnoir]

9. So you are claiming Ha'aretz is nonsense?

Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about (From Haaretz)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050426.html


What becomes apparent from Ha'aretz article is that the Israeli government was planning and arming for this offensive receiving missiles and fuel from the US and shrieking, pointing the finger and creating distraction by claiming but never proving that Hamas was waas receiving arms from Iran for the duration of the cease fire which Israel ended on November 4 and the Pro's here on DU obediently backed them up.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. no, the newbie is here to defend:

AIPAC
ISRAEL's invasion and occupation of Gaza

and to attack anyone who seeks to shed light using facts and history. . . because those things really paint Israel's policies in a truly bad light. And Israel cannot afford the truth to get out. You will see plenty of such hacks on the intertubes over the next few days, especially newbies. Soon, they will start with their claims of anti-semitic behavior, racism, and support of terror. Just wait and watch. That is always their next cry and hue.

[Violet_Crumble]

11. I think that's a bit unfair...

I haven't been able to keep up with all the threads recently coz of the massive volume, but I haven't seen HP defend AIPAC, nor attack anyone at all. While there's posters that do engage in the behaviour you describe, just like there's been a few new DUers who launched into hateful stuff about Jews, HP at least to me, is someone who puts a bit of thought and substance into their posts and doesn't screech and yell at people, even if I don't agree with a lot of what they say. But they definately don't do the CyberWarrior Battle thing and that makes them someone I'd like to see stick around....

[malaise]

14. 100% correct n/t

[Bryan Sacks]

12. idiotic bullshit n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Thank god for the internet and articles like this,

otherwise I would probably still be an uninformed and unaware Zionist/Israel supporter like I was back in the pre-internet days. The days when the mainstream media controlled the information flow to the public and the news from the Middle East was ladled out with the usual dose of pro-Israel spin.

[scarletwoman]

5. I thank Al Gore, myself. But yes, we should indeed be thankful to have access to information

outside of what the corporate propaganda organs deem allowable.

We are being fed an unrelenting diet of a calculated narrative meant to deceive us. For now, at least, there are still truthtellers to be found, shining a light that breaks through the fog of propaganda.

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[StudsT]

7. thanks for sharing that scarletwoman - it is an important past of the story that is ignored by M$M

:toast:

more from article...

As Glenn Greenwald notes, Israel's massive bombing of civilian areas -- even if couched in terms of "retaliation" for scattershot strikes on Israeli territory by a political faction -- constitutes "a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions." Greenwald also adroitly turns Barack Obama's campaign kowtowing to Israeli militarism on its head:

Obama on the campaign trail]: "The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if -- I don't even care if I was a politician -- if somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."

Can't the exact same mentality be deployed to justify everything Hamas has done and is doing, to wit: "if a foreign power were brutally occupying my country for four decades -- or blockading my country and denying my children medical needs and nutrition and the ability even to exit -- I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Palestinians to do the same thing"? But the last thing that our political class ever extends is reciprocal, two-sided analysis to this dispute.

StudsT

[malaise]

13. Thanks for this

I know better than to look for truth from M$Greedia.

[ellisonz]

15. Of course Israel anticipated this contingency...

The cease fire has very clearly been heading toward extirpation.