The Washington Post today:
Diplomatic Efforts Unable to Derail Palestinians’ UN Gambit
“Gambit” is the kind of word that seems intended to send a certain message–as if there some kind of sneaky maneuver at work here. That’s especially true when it is contrasted with “diplomatic efforts.”
In this case, the paper is referring to efforts by superpowers (like the United States) to tell people with very little power (Palestinians) to pipe down. Whatever you think of Palestinian efforts to elevate their status at the United Nations, an alternate headline–“U.S. Gambits Unlikely to Derail Palestinians’ Diplomatic Efforts”–is hard to imagine.
More USraeli Company crap!
An excellent way to detect the difference between propaganda and fact is to test for reflexivity. If you can exchange the descriptors and end up with the same sense, it is okay. If the meaning changes dramatically, then you have propaganda!
Effort to stop that which we do not agree with……
Excellent post – and tishado’s criterion is perfect.
Tishido I am having trouble exchanging reflexivity.Im suffering through the names being read of those lost on 911.I remember israel weeping with us,and i remember their promise to stand with us against every enemy.I also remember Palestinians celebrating in the streets like it was new years.Maybe the pictures were all doctored .Maybe it was a zionist plot to make the palestinians look like our enemies.maybe on 9/11 you should just save it.
@ michael e: Tishado’s post is dated 9/9, and has absolutely no connection to the events of 9/11. He’s commenting on the nature of propaganda. That’s it. Nothing else. Maybe you’re the one who should just save it– your co-opting of a national tragedy to suit your own purposes, that is.
As for Israel standing by us: frankly, it’s the least they could do.
To all. Remeber that “michael e” was the one who asked that we should “name an Arab we can trust”, and who still supports a particular conservative media outlet even after it was caught in a hacking scandal in Britain — one that gave false hope to the family of a murdered girl — because it provides on outlet for the conservative view. Something the public sorely needs!
Mr. “e”, beware: I will make it my business to remind everyone who comes to this site who you are and what you stand for. A tiny country brutalized country that does not even have a military can’t get an even break and you try to implicate them in a crime they did not commit. As “John” says, you’re the one who should just save it.
Don…..I still stand by my statement “Name an Arab LEADER we can trust”Anytime you want to start naming them- im a ready to jot em down.
As far as trying to paint the Palestinian State as a tiny brutalized country ….instead of a people being used as fodder ,by a hate filled leadership structure ,who have made them the tip of the spear of a brutal belief system -aimed at the very heart of Israel , we are going to be at odds.
If Israel acts in a way that is seen a “brutal” against innocents -I would understand people rising up in indignation.It should be so.No one gets a bi on such things.But the next suicide bomber that blows a school bus of Israeli children to heaven will find me pointing at you as you nod in understanding……for THE BOMBER!So beware yourself.
I don’t remember your affiliation Don.What party speaks for you?Most of your buds here hide like cockroaches from saying where their political loyalties lie.Well the lights on.Your very own spotlight .Scurry or speak.
Michael e, name a WORLD LEADER that You trust. I’m listening/watching in anticipation. Who has proven to be an honest leader of Israel? Has there been anyone since Rabin? His honesty & pragmatism were most welcome to the communities around the world (who have expressed concern about resolving the ongoing dilemma in the Levant). But “the next suicide bomber” is not what ended HIS remarkable career… and cut short any resolution (which the Oslo accords attempted to provide).
You don’t have to worry about MY affiliation, michael e… and yours is obvious: a mouthpiece for Zionist radicals, “settlers”, and their ilk, who will continue to look upward to the U.S. for favors while they indulge in “low-intensity conflict” with an ‘enemy’ that THEY CREATED, who arm themselves with stones. But I’ll tell you that I voted for Goldwater, Nixon, Clinton & Obama, if that helps. ^..^
Well John there are many good governments that have proved their friendship to us.Israel is one of them to be sure.I do trust Israel as they are the only proven democracy in the middle east.Now I can’t name too many Democracies that have gone to war with each other.So yes there is an endemic faith and trust in those countries.
I do not believe that Israel has created an enemy.Except if you mean by their very existence.Read history.Hitler had kindred spirits in that part of the world who were only to happy to annihilate the jews in those days,The hatred for the jews there predates Israel by quite some time.I am not a zionist.Just a Catholic boy who believes that if things were reversed,and Israel’s enemies had “the bomb”….That this argument of who is the most violent of the two would end in the thermo nuclear destruction of Israel minutes after the bomb was secured.Israel wants peace but is forced to make hard decisions to secure that peace.Her enemies want her destruction.Plain and simple.Peace they will use to bide time.But I’m afraid their goal is, and always has been the same as Hitlers was for them.You ask a lot
Your voting record shows me you have tried to look at the man(Nixon) and not the party in the past.I think you made a horrible choice with Obama.I think you will find as I did that the Democratic party has become something less than what you believed they were…or are.