We're seeing the western political/media class bleating the word "unprovoked" in unison again, this time in reference to
the massive multi-pronged operation launched by Hamas against Israel on Saturday morning which reportedly
killed hundreds of Israelis.
"The United States unequivocally condemns the
unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians," reads a
statement from the White House.
"The loss of life in Israel as a result of the violent, calculated and
unprovoked attack by Hamas is heartbreaking," reads a
statement by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
"The
unprovoked terror attack today and the murders of innocent Israeli citizens are a stark reminder of the brutality of Hamas and Iran-backed extremists," reads a
statement by congressman and
house speaker contender Jim Jordan.
"This ignominious,
unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish state's right to self-defense,"
tweeted presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.
"This is an '
unprovoked attack on civilians': Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg,"
reads a recent Fox News report.
"
Unprovoked aggression by Hamas terrorists," reads a
tweet by former secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
"I forcefully condemn these cowardly, horrifying,
unprovoked attacks on Israel by Hamas,"
tweeted congressman John Fetterman.
"These attacks by Hamas against Israel were heinous and
unprovoked,"
tweeted Senator Mark Kelly.
"As a steadfast supporter and ally of Israel, I unequivocally condemn the
unprovoked and unprecedented terrorist attack launched by Hamas and stand with the people of Israel as it rightly defends itself,"
tweeted congressman Richie Torres.
"The
unprovoked attacks on Israel by Hamas through Gaza and via air and sea, are absolutely a terrorist attack,"
tweeted Democratic Party pundit Ed Krassenstein.
"I unequivocally condemn Hamas' horrific,
unprovoked attacks and call on all parties to take steps to prevent civilian harm,"
tweeted congresswoman Sara Jacobs.
I could cite many, many more examples, but I think that's enough to make the point I'm trying to make. Isn't it strange seeing the same oddly specific word choice inserted over and over and over again about the same event in statements by politicians and pundits, regardless of their political affiliation? When you lay them all out together it starts to sound highly suspicious, like someone always referring to his car as "my car, which I did not steal," or always introducing his spouse as "my wife, whom I do not beat."
It's clear by now that whenever you see the word "unprovoked" being forcefully repeated in a uniform way across the entire political/media class, whatever they're talking about was definitely massively provoked.We saw this exact same thing when Russia invaded Ukraine; from the very beginning western politics and media were saturated with the word "unprovoked", bashing the western public in the face with that message over and over and over again despite the obvious and undeniable fact that the war in Ukraine was most definitely provoked.As Noam Chomsky
quipped last year, "Of course, it was provoked. Otherwise, they wouldn't refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion."
And the same is of course true of the latest Hamas offensive. There are all kinds of arguments you could legitimately make about it, but one argument you definitely cannot defend is that it was unprovoked. As Palestinian-American writer and comedian Amer Zahr put it on Twitter, "75 years of ethnic cleansing. 15 years of blockade. Confiscation of Palestinian lands. Pogroms on Palestinian towns. Desecration of Palestinian sacred sites. Daily raids into Palestinian homes. Constant humiliation of a entire people. Nothing about today is 'unprovoked.'"
Calling Palestinian violence against Israel "unprovoked" is easily even more ridiculous than calling the Russian invasion unprovoked, because the abuses of Israeli apartheid are so well-known by the general public at this point. Multiple mainstream human rights organizations have accused Israel of administering an abusive apartheid regime which treats Palestinians as lesser people. Palestinians who live in the
open-air prison known as Gaza are deliberately subjected to
undrinkable water,
food shortages,
energy shortages and
bombing campaigns. Those outside Gaza are subjected to
racist, violent policing and
land seizure and live under a
different set of laws than Jewish Israelis. The entire people were forced out of their homes to make way for a new state for reasons that had nothing to do with them, and any attempt to resist this has seen them killed as "terrorists".
Of course the attack was provoked.
Isn't it odd that the western political/media class would begin uniformly asserting something so easily disprovable? So transparently false? Why would they keep choosing over and over and over again in each instance to make use of that specific word "unprovoked" in their condemnations of the attacks by Hamas?
The answer is that this choice is not so much something they are saying as something they are
doing. They're not attempting to communicate with their audiences,
they're attempting to circumvent the critical thinking of their audience and trick them into accepting a blatant falsehood as true.Skillful manipulators make frequent use of a cognitive bias known as the
illusory truth effect, a glitch in the way human minds tend to operate which makes it hard for us to differentiate between the experience of hearing a well-evidenced fact and the experience of hearing something that they've heard repeated multiple times.
If you want the public to believe something false you won't be able to use facts and evidence to make your case to them, so what you can do is just repeat something over and over again until it starts sounding like the truth. Repeat the lie enough times and boom, you've perception-managed westerners into viewing the world from an understanding that Israel did nothing to provoke Palestinians into their actions.
After the news broke about the Hamas offensive I tweeted, "Here come days and days of western news media slyly reversing the aggressor-defender relationship and reporting as though the violence began with the Hamas offensive, spontaneously out of nowhere."
But even I wasn't expecting the perception management to be this brazen.
Reader Comments
and since the inconvenient details are always left out... cuz... people don't care or too lazy to do a little background research. Sorta Kinda like when Poland's insane leader starting an "ethnic cleansing" of germans within Poland before WW2... not convenient... or Stalin's starving of millions in Ukraine...Eisenhower's real death camps where so many germans died of exposure AFTER the war ended.... there's a huge list actually.
Orwell said so many amazing things, patently true. .. like when he talked about the mist of history, complete whitewashing, completely ignored ,until it was forgotten and the truth was whatever they said it was.
At the end of the day, I'm just hoping people someday realize there are not "2-sides" to these wars... they're orchestrated, there's one side... the maestro you can call him.
Ukraine, Israel, South Korea, Taiwan, India/Pakistan are always in a "conflict". When engineered, the "conflict" becomes "war".
What is the result? Every other narrative goes dark: the financial crisis, the immigrant invasion, the plandemic, the election fraud, the food shortage, the energy shortage, the climate crisis, child sex trafficking and satanic ritual abuse, corruption and bribery in government, the Maui false flag murder and land grab.
To maintain critical thinking about events, keep all of these threads in mind. They did not disappear, they have just been overlaid with the "war narrative".
And now they tell us that these Hamas terrorists are driving around Israel in cars, jumping out and gunning down Jews in the street? Hundreds of them? What??!? Nobody is able to stop them? Really?!??
Of course this is the media narrative, and the whole world believes it. Just like they believed COVID, and they believed Russia invaded Ukraine for absolutely no reason, and Saddam had nuclear and biological weapons, and 19 Arabs armed with box cutters, who were unable to fly a Cessna , accurately flew huge jets into the WTC and the Pentagon. They will believe anything.
Dwoods44 codis You are absolutely right DW. "the financial crisis, the immigrant invasion, the plandemic, the election fraud, the food shortage, the energy shortage, the climate crisis, child sex trafficking and satanic ritual abuse, corruption and bribery in government, the Maui false flag murder and land grab." The human public is stupid, easily manipulated and have the memory of gnats. The elite psychopaths have been doing this for thousands of years, and they have refined gaslighting down to a fine art. This superb article describes it and explains the methods: [Link]
IMHO, the "Hamas" terrorists are Mossad false flag killers, murdering their own people for the "greater good," which will be revealed in due course, probably the "Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem," by ethnically cleansing all of Israe l of every race but Jews, the world's perennial "victims."
I suppose we are both old enough to remember the PLO and Jassir Arafat. The latter being long-time leader of the left-leaning Palestinian organisation, which got substantial support by the Soviets, and the Eastern Bloc in general.
Hamas, as a matter of fact, was founded by Mossad to counter the PLO influence.
Although I do not exclude the possibility that an asset got out of hand, one way or another.
Another thing that smells really fishy - a LOT of weapons shipped to Ukraine turn up in Israel now. Some sources allege that most of the Merkaba IV tanks were disabled with British ATGM. Imagine that ...
First, I think the "tight border" argument is irrelevant. The militants prepared outside, and entered with violence.
But here another article, seemingly only margninally related : [Link]
Not only the Brits, but the US end EU also support the Isreali genocide and mass murder.
The kicker is, all this nations (the remote US to a lesser extend) have significant muslim immigrant population. Another possible instigator could be a muslim countries (or a group) that counts on a contagion effect. Riots of muslims in Western Europe would fall on fertile soil, and trigger an already angered, destitute and confused local population. Which would keep these countries more than busy with their own internal problems, forgoing any aid to the Near East.
Just a hunch.
It's all distraction and life goes on, let the idiots kill each other, it's no skin off my nose.
Moreover - if you can't choose sides in this conflict twixt one entity desiring "prison" for those they consider inferior, versus those who know they ain't, then you are essentially complicit in the crime Isreal has committed long-time many generations against the Palestinians in their homeland.
There is no other way to view the situation, and if you don't recognize the harm of Zionist, then I suspect you most likely are triple-jabbed on and on your way out either way.
I know what side I am on.
Do you?
So, if I was in a prison against my will, I would fight to get out hoping that others out there must not condone the prison I'm within, but either way that makes no difference - if you are in a prison you either die there or fight trying to get out and in my opinion fighting to get out is not only honorable it is the only thing that gives a chance for liberty against oppressors.
"Thank you all for your civilized comments. Words have power in the etheric levels of creation, more than we realize, and the Buddha's advice is very valuable.
"Happy poo, I am not insensible to the terrible events in Israel, but I draw your attention to this site, of which very few people are aware: [Link]
"Let us be aware of what is happening, and has been happening, for decades. The world's Zionist-controlled media are extraordinarily selective in what they choose to tell the public, and if we want to exercise compassion or moral censure for what is happening in our world, (such as in Ukraine,) we really must make the effort to inform ourselves of the whole truth. There is so much suffering in our world, and it is likely that more, and much worse, is to come. We cannot stop it. All we can do is direct mental motives of compassion and peace towards ALL those who suffer, on all sides.
"I often on this site condemn Israeli actions, and wider Jewish support for them, in the strongest terms. I lived 3 months in Israel, I worked for Jews for many years, I have many Jewish friends, and I maintain that being born into Judaism is a very difficult and heavy choice for any soul to make. They are the saddest, most fear-ridden race in the world, and this leads them to commit vile and atrocious crimes against the wider humanity. They are utterly enslaved to their national narrative, consumed with fear and shame, and if one truly understands their mindset, and views their situation and actions objectively, one can only feel sadness and compassion for this most unfortunate race. As well as their victims.
I was once married to a Russian born Israeli Jew. Because of her, I visited Israel and met a number of her Jewish friends and family. I was struck by the Russian Jews playing classical music on street corners. I was struck by the open military carrying rifles on buses which creates a fear based atmosphere. As you note, they have been educated/manipulated on "survival" and "race protection". These are fight or flight mechanisms, and they do not lead to intelligent or compassionate discussion.
Zionist War Crimes 2004 Documentary, This is the real deal from the people who lived there and not propaganda. This is not Main Street News Media.
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