Goebbels wannabes: Meet the Israeli propagandists
The Israeli propaganda to justify its genocidal campaign in Gaza has been embarrassing.
Israel has accompanied its genocidal campaign in Gaza — having killed over 11,000 innocent civilians, nearly half of them children so far — with propaganda that would, in ordinary circumstances, qualify as comedy. But these are unprecedented times.
Ali Abunimah wrote in The Electronic Intifada about the sheer ludicrousness of the great Israeli find of a small piece of rope, a chair, a baby bottle, a packet of diapers, a toilet, a shower, and a small kitchen inside a children’s hospital in Gaza as “evidence” of it being used by Hamas fighters as a shelter for their captives. The brave Israeli soldier who made the remarkable discovery recorded it all on camera for posterity.
Only the most rabid Zionists and supporters of this ongoing massacre of the innocents will be duped by such blatant dishonesty of the Israelis.
The Israeli propaganda machinery has been in full gear at the Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility. The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) have completely cut off all supplies to Al Shifa and are indiscriminately shooting at anyone going inside or stepping out of the hospital and its various buildings.
The hospital’s director, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, told Al Jazeera that “no one from the Israeli army had contacted him since the hospital was stormed and that water, electricity, and oxygen were completely cut off inside.”
The IOF’s assault on the hospital has meant that the struggling days-old babies in incubators had to be taken out of the life-saving machines and wrapped in blankets as incubators became unusable due to a lack of oxygen supply.
The IOF made a shameless attempt to use this crisis of their own creation for propaganda purposes. A tweet from the IOF account, showing the unloading of incubators from a van, read: “The IDF is in the process of coordinating the transfer of incubators from a hospital in Israel to Gaza.” As if the problem in the Gaza hospital was a lack of incubators and not the cutting off of oxygen supply by the Israeli genocidaires.
The brazenness is galling.
In another garish propaganda move, an IOF soldier is photographed helping a 79-year-old Palestinian man named Bashir Hajji with a walking stick. But once the propaganda picture was done, Hajji was executed in cold blood.
“There is growing evidence that executions like Hajji’s are far from lone events,” Middle East Eye reported. “On Monday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that it had documented the execution of dozens of Palestinians by the Israeli army during their displacement from Gaza City and its north to central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, even though they did not pose any threat.”
The Hasbaraniks in the IOF produced another gaudy pantomime. The IOF terrorists were shown distributing water bottles to a group of Palestinians at a beach in Gaza.
One survivor recounted the events following the shooting of the propaganda film: “They gave us water in front of the camera, and after filming was over, they took our luggage, destroyed it, and we ran away while soldiers shot under our feet.”
In their attempts at being the next Joseph Goebbels, the Israeli Occupation Forces are turning out to be Ed Wood knockoffs, churning out pulp fiction in unprecedented numbers.
But cheap theatrics isn’t exclusively an IOF thing. They have iconic leadership in the Israeli government to look up to for inspiration.
The propaganda bar set by the top Israeli leadership is touching the floor — if it’s not already inside the ground of the Al Shifa hospital, resting with the non-existent Hamas bases that the Israeli propagandists have been talking about ad nauseam without ever producing any proof.
Enter Israel President Isaac Herzog. Holding up a pristine-looking copy of Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, Herzog, in a TV interview, declared that it was found in a children’s bedroom in a civilian home in Gaza. He pointed out that the book was marked with Post-it notes.
Having equated the Palestinian resistance fighters with ISIS and slandered them with the Nazi label, the only logical place this blatant propaganda was heading was a copy of Mein Kampf being found in a Gaza house, as one Gazan journalist had predicted some weeks ago. Worse, being found inside a child’s room in Gaza.
Although Herzog didn’t say it, the implication was probably that the Israelis were killing Gazan children by the thousands because they started reading Hitler’s treatise in infancy.
Herzog, however, has stiff competition. When it comes to risible propaganda peddling, Benjamin Netanyahu takes the cake.
In September 2012, at the United Nations General Assembly, the genocidaire extraordinaire held up a cartoonish diagram of a bomb with a fuse — the kind they show in cartoon shows for kids — showing the purported progression of the Iranian nuclear programme.
Marked lines on the cartoon bomb were three stages of the progression of the Iranian bomb: “1st STAGE”, “2nd STAGE”, and the “FINAL STAGE”. Using a red marker, Netanyahu proceeded to draw a red line at the completion of the “2nd STAGE” while announcing (somehow without breaking into hysteric laughter): “At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs. That’s by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear program.”
The Israeli paranoia with regard to the Iranian nuclear programme is nothing new. Every few weeks, they announce, as Abunimah recently remarked, that “Iran is always two months from a nuclear bomb.”
The current Israeli desperation, however, is understandable.
There isn’t really any convincing way one can spin the visuals of a father carrying his son’s body in two grocery bags, a sobbing mother giving her shrouded child one last hug before burial, or the sight of writhing and crying days-old babies forced out of incubators due to the Israeli assault on Gaza’s biggest hospital into anything other than what it exactly is: a genocide.
A genocide streamed live across platforms all over the world.
No amount of propaganda can hide the obvious.
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