Palestinians: fake news and “alternative facts”

  •  There are plenty of Palestinian and Arab news sites that publish hoaxes, propaganda, lies and misinformation peddled for real news. Many Arabs and Palestinians believe that this junk is fact-based information.
  • This is a form of hate speech in front of which the West is deaf, mostly because journalists working for the Western mainstream media doesn’t want to understand what is said in Arabic or in English.
  • It was thought that the slanders against Jews were part of a sad past. It is not so. What purpose have these reports? Providing excuses for the killing of Jews.
  • Another “new” slander that the Palestinians have spread against Israel is that the Israelis are flooding the Palestinian communities of drugs for propagating moral corruption and destroy the health of Palestinians. This lie helps the Palestinians not to take any responsibility for the drug trafficking in the West Bank and Gaza coming from Jordan and Egypt.
  • This leaves open some questions: where is the complaint by the international community of the lies which encourage the murder of the Jews by Palestinian hands? And again: will the international community, once again in history, fail to tell the truth on the murder of Jews?

One after another, young Palestinians continue to carry out terrorist attacks against Jews. Because? We could start from the beginning: the campaign of incitement, indoctrination and lies that the Palestinian media have waged against Israel. This campaign has poisoned the hearts and minds of millions of Arabs and Muslims. So, it should not be surprising that young poisoned Palestinians grasp a weapon and decide to make the deadly work that have taught him being worthy.

Incitement against Israel can also be very slight. Who injects the poison does not always directly calls upon the Palestinian to “go and kill Jews”. For example, it’s enough to tell the Palestinians that the Jews “contaminate with their dirty feet the holy places of Islam”, to induce a Palestinian to go and kill a jew. Or when a Palestinian leaders repeatedly accuses Israel of trying to “Judaize” Jerusalem and to change its “Arab and Islamic character.” That’s how the Palestinians are urged to “defend” their town from the “evil conspiracy” of Israel.

The vicious rhetoric and the stories that feed the Palestinians provide a wide incentive and offer the ideology to potential terrorists.

As the preachers in the mosques, political activists, journalists and Palestinian officials have long been engaged with the objective to de-legitimize Israel and to demonize the Jews, also other Palestinians invent “news” to increase the number of Israeli casualties.

The epidemic of “fake news” – or hoaxes – and the “alternative facts” that have recently flooded the Internet, is not new to the Palestinian culture. In fact, the “fake news” have long been an essential part of the Palestinian campaign to delegitimize Israel and to demonize the Jews. Historically, for example, Jordan illegally occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1948 war and carried out an ethnic cleansing of the areas inhabited by Jews; in the 1967 war, the Israelis did nothing but regain their territories.

The number of “Apple”, Tim Cook, recently stated that the “fake news kill people’s minds.”

The Palestinians feed since long time hoaxes. It is a proven method to recruit terrorists and jihadists in the fight against Israel and the Jews. Because jihad to be allowed to “defend Islam”, sometimes must be provided narratives to give the impression that Islam is under attack.

There is no shortage of Palestinian and Arab news sites that publish hoaxes, propaganda, lies and misinformation passed off as real news. Many Arabs and Palestinians believe this junk is fact-based information.

This is a form of hate speech in front of which the West is deaf, mostly because journalists working for the Western mainstream media doesn’t want to understand what is said in Arabic or in English. These journalists choose to turn a blind eye to this indoctrination or underestimate how the hearts and minds of the Palestinians are deformed by that.

Take, for example, a recent report published by the Palestinian news websites, according to which Israel has sprayed pesticides on agricultural land in the Gaza Strip. According to the article, Israel uses planes to destroy Palestinian crops in order to ruin the Palestinian economy and deprive farmers of their livelihood.

Last week, some Palestinian information websites have pulled out a story that seems to come straight from an action movie. What purpose have these reports? Giving excuses for the killing of Jews.

The news is as follows: “An Israeli aircraft launched suspicious items like candy near the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.” According to reports in the article, the Palestinians who have examined the “candy” found that they contained toxic material. In other words, Israel is trying to poison Palestinian children. So it’s no surprise that a Palestinian teenager who hear news like that end up killing Jews, as happened last month in Petah Tikva, when a 19 year old Palestinian fired on the crowd and stabbed several Israelis.

Another old slander that the Palestinians have recently revived and spread against Israel is that the Israelis are flooding the Palestinian communities of drugs to propagate moral corruption and destroy the health of Palestinians. This particular lie helps the Palestinians not to take any responsibility for the drug trafficking in the West Bank and Gaza coming from Jordan and Egypt.

During a recent seminar in Gaza, a group of Palestinian “experts” said that “Israel” is responsible for the fact that “the Gaza Strip has been flooded with various kinds of lethal and dangerous drugs”.

False accusations such as these were made last year by the Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip, subject to the control of Hamas.

Ayman Al-Batnihi, police spokesman in Gaza City, arrived to declare that the widespread use of drugs is the result of an “Israeli conspiracy” to destroy the Palestinian youth and prevent them from engaging in the fight against Israel. Needless to say, the spokesman, as like the websites of Palestinian information, provides no evidence to support his false claims.

The slanders and lies do not come only from Hamas. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which depends almost exclusively by American and European funding, provides “junk information” to its readers. For example, in the daily “Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda”, based in Ramallah, under the PA control, appeared a news that Israel is “flooding” of drugs the Arab inhabitants of Jerusalem. According to the article, approximately 20,000 Arabs are victims of the alleged “conspiracy” hatched by Israel and have become drug addicts. “Israel’s objective is to destroy the young Arabs of Jerusalem and empty the city of its Arab inhabitants,” says the report.

According to news like this, the Jews would seem to also use PIGS to persecute the Palestinians. The Palestinian news websites regularly inform their readers that Israel release PIGS in the West Bank to destroy Palestinian crops and expel the Palestinians from their homes. These PIGS are carried by Jews in Palestinian villages as part of a plan to destroy the crops and intimidate the residents (some of whom claim that the PIGS attack them). The curious aspect of this “hoax” is that the Jewish settlers accused of using the PIGS to make war on the Palestinians are mostly “fundamentalist Jews”, the last people in the world interested in having to do with SWINES.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to lies on the Israelis, by which the Palestinians are soaked on a daily basis by their leaders, journalists and the media. This is also what the Palestinians think when they take a knife to drive it in the body of a jew.

Si credeva che le calunnie contro gli ebrei facevano parte del triste passato. Non così. Questo lascia aperta qualche domanda: dove è la denuncia da parte della comunità internazionale delle bugie che incoraggiano l’uccisione degli ebrei da mani palestinesi? E ancora: la comunità internazionale, ancora una volta nella storia, non riescono a dire la verità sull’omicidio di ebrei?

 

Source: ORIZZONTI GEOPOLITICI Blog di Luciano Bonazzi and Friends – Resistenza 3.0