The latest victim of his PR war is the most popular band in the world - the Beatles. He has invited them to Israel to celebrate the anniversary of 1948 a year when Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their lands. Palestinians mourn this time as the Nakba or catastrophe.
The Beatles should take a look at the reasons behind Israel’s PR war. After July 2006 when Israel murdered over 1,000 innocent Lebanese civilians the countries PR gurus met to try to understand why they’d lost the propaganda (hasbara) battle.
They concluded that its difficult to counter images of innocent murdered civilians and that Israel’s PR image must be inproved as “you need to shoot a picture before you shoot them.” Dr Ra’anan Gissin
This is the level and point of this media onslaught in the UK they wish to improve the “Worlds worst brand“, to improve the image of a country dripping with the blood of innocents.
To be a part of this PR effort is to help cover past and ongoing crimes.
Lets hope the Beatles haven’t forgotten the revolutionary peace loving spirit of the Sixties which they embodied, singing “when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.” If they haven’t forgotten they will turn down the offer to help a military power, which regects peace, celebrate its past ethnic cleansing exploits.
Stop celebrating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and give peace a chance.
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Dumb question...
28.01.2008 23:00
disgruntled
Ethnic Cleansing update
29.01.2008 07:58
The expulsion of the Jews was part of the racist genocidal Arab plan for ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and Palestine in 1948. This was announced by the Arab league, but it was instigated and planned in part by the Nazi Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al Husseini, and his able relative, Abdel Khader Al-Husseini. The strategy included ambushes such as this one, constant shelling and sniper fire, a blockade of the Jerusalem road that resulted in near starvation, and invasion by armies of the Arab states. Over a thousand Jewish civilians were killed in Jerusalem during this campaign.
Jews had been expelled by force from Jerusalem in the past by Christian Roman emperors and by the crusaders, only to return to the eternal capital and national and religious center. The expulsion of the Jews was the culmination of the Arab plan for ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem in 1948, planned by the Nazi Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al Husseini, and his able relative, Abdel Khader Al-Husseini. The strategy included ambushes such as the convoy massacre, constant shelling and sniper fire, attacks of Irregulars and of the Jordan legion on the Jewish quarter and a blockade of the Jerusalem road that resulted in near starvation. Over a thousand Jewish civilians were killed during this campaign.
The Jewish Quarter had been under attack by Arab irregulars for many months and in desperate straits. Following the invasion by the Transjordanian Arab Legion, pressure increased. Despite the empty propaganda statements of anti-Zionist historians, the fledgling Jewish army was no match for the Jordan legion with its artillery, armored vehicles and British officered troops. Those who insist on Jewish superiority in numbers must explain why there were no soldiers available to rescue the Jews of the old city of Jerusalem. Troops that were sent to its defense were either so battle weary that they fell asleep on duty, or so unfit for battle that they didn't know how to use their weapons. For many months a tiny Haganah force tried to defend inhabitants of the Jewish quarter, who numbered over 2,000 - mostly religious Jews and many non-Zionist. A large part of the original Jewish community of 5,000 had fled in the pogroms of 1936. These were Jews whose families had lived in Jerusalem for many generations. They had built some 59 synagogues and a rich tradition. On May 28 the defense of the old city finally collapsed, and Abdullah Al-Tell, commanding the Transjordan Legion, evacuated the Jewish civilians to West Jerusalem, taking the Haganah defenders prisoner. Al Tell had no choice, because otherwise Arab mobs would have murdered the civilians. So he claims. Of course, al-Tell had the choice of not conquering a defenseless civilian position, and of course he had the obligation, having conquered it, of ensuring the safety of its civilian residents, their belongings and their holy places. But nobody examines such issues if an Arab army is involved.
No "right of return" was invoked for these refugees, expelled from homes where their families had lived in peace for hundreds of years. Nobody in the world protested this ethnic cleansing. Nobody protested the fact that the Jordanians destroyed 58 of the 59 synagogues of the Jewish Quarter, or that they used the headstones of graves in the Mt. Olives cemetery to pave walkways for their latrines.
In the Six day war of 1967, Jerusalem was re-conquered by Israeli forces.
updater
No chance for anti-zionists against anti-semitism
29.01.2008 12:34
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idt
What would Jesus..., sorry, John Lennon have done?
29.01.2008 14:44
Dunno about McCartney though.....
NP: Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Gringo Farr