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by Paul Balles
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
 The sly and deceitful way that propagandists distort facts, events and
history never ceases to amaze me.
That kind of disingenuous propaganda came recently from both Israeli leaders and American Zionists. The latest was the attempt to gloss over criticism of the Israeli murder and destruction in Lebanon by claiming that the Hezbollah militia used civilians as human shields.
That's one way to attempt to divert attention from the thousands of bombs the Israelis dropped on hundreds of civilian targets all over Lebanon. A typical evasion, the Israeli claim has been coyly used to purge attention from the reality: Israel had no business invading Lebanon in the first place!
On the other side of the world, in the USA, arch Zionist Mortimer Zuckerman is using U.S. News to practice his journalistic chicanery. Only, in Zuckerman's case, the house of mirrors reflects distorted images of Iran.
Israel and its American propagandists desperately want to garner
support for unleashing pre-emptive strikes against Iran like the USA
did in Iraq. Zuckerman actually had the gall to come out and say so. He
concluded his article with:
The West will have to decide what is more dangerous–to attack the
infrastructure of the Iranians sooner rather than later or to deal with
an Iranian nuclear capability after the fact. The choices are not
between good and bad but between bad and worse–and the longer we delay,
the more dire those bad and worse choices will become.
The phrase "attack the infrastructure" can only mean "bomb the hell out
of Iran". In Iraq, the US military called it "shock and awe". In
Lebanon, the Israelis conveniently labelled the carnage “self-defence”.
Notice the deformed thinking in some of Zuckerman's claims:
In his opening, Zuckerman referred to:
"Iran's emergence as the Middle
East regional superpower." Is that reference supposed to overlook the
fact that Israel has between 200 and 600 nuclear bombs, disqualifying
it as a superpower? Zuckerman brazenly shifted the focus to Iran's
efforts to create any nuclear power.
Zuckerman called Iran "an oil-rich, fundamentalist, pro-terrorist,
anti-Semitic regime that has not only nuclear ambitions but the means
to realize them." That's the kind of fabrication and twisted
perspective that should have discredited Zuckerman as a journalist
years ago.
When writers refer to Middle Eastern countries as “oil rich,” the
reference is derogatory, as if there was something evil about having
large oil reserves. The reality is that Iran has wanted to develop
nuclear energy so that they could export more oil--their only major
resource--to support their economy.
Why does Zuckerman label Iran “fundamentalist”? Would he ever call
America “Zionist” because its leadership is under the control of the
Israeli lobbies and the evangelical Christian Zionists? He uses the
buzz words “pro-terrorist” and “anti-Semitic” to describe the Iranian
regime.
The pro-terrorist canard comes from the support that Iran provides to
the real Semites in the Middle East—the Palestinians and Hezbollah who
have suffered from Israel’s terrorizing. Zuckerman, of all people,
should know better than to refer to Iran as anti-Semitic. The Arabs are
the real Semites. Only the Sephardic Israelis qualify. The majority of
Israelis--Ashkenazi converts to Judaism--will never qualify as Semites.
About as ironic as irony can get, Zuckerman complained that "the south
of Iraq is now an Iranian quasi protectorate, with police and local
militias controlled by Tehran,"
You didn't hear that kind of complaint coming from the neocon Zionists
who pressured America into attacking, invading and occupying Iraq. Now
that the Zionist inspired mess has become unpopular, the Zionists are
employing one of their favourite tactics: shift ground.
Who leads these shifts? Journalists like Mortimer Zuckerman and the
propaganda mill at AIPAC. If they didn't renege on their positions,
they would lose some of their power to maintain threatening control of
the US Administration and Congress.
I could go on, but won't. I estimated at least a dozen more aberrations
of the truth, faulty reasoning, warped perspectives and ludicrous
conclusions in Zuckerman’s article. But that's the nature of the
Zionist propaganda machine: fabricate and delude.
In typical fashion, both Israel and its Zionist supporters in the USA
continue to indulge in their delusions and translate those into
fabrications for everyone else. Unfortunately, they find too many
buyers for their scams.
As William Mather Lewis wrote, "Today the world is the victim of
propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than
anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do
their own thinking."
Greg Myre, “Offering Video, Israel Answers Critics on War,” New York Times (5 December 2006)
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, ”The Mullah Menace,”, U.S. News (3 December 2006)
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