© AFPsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pictured in Jerusalem on 3 September
Despite propaganda to the contrary, Israel is not a democracy and never has been
As an integral part its ongoing propaganda, Israel, along with its fervent supporters and
legions of
paid and anonymous agents, zealously repeats and disseminates - in the media, on university campuses, in blogs and comment sections, at conferences and more - the same old, tired Zionist myths.
Propaganda guides and tool kits, such as the "
global language dictionary", offer ready-made arguments and counter-arguments to
sell Israel to journalists and critics. Such talking points come with tips on what tone and rhetorical tactics to use, what words and formulas "work", and how to discuss "sensitive" issues, such as Israel's illegal colonisation and annexation of Palestinian land, Jewish settlements and the killing of civilians.
All of which are now set to get worse since US President Donald Trump has both rewarded and emboldened Israel by recognising its illegal and brutal colonisation (its "settlements"). By the same token he has offered yet another spectacular demonstration of the complete contempt of the United States for the rule of international law.
Setting such an example will only send the message to all the despots, autocrats and tyrants of various stripes around the globe that not only it is ok to steal, colonise, and brutalise weak and defenceless populations, but that you may even be rewarded by the West for adopting the "law of the jungle".
Comment: The whole thing is nuts. It's outright censorship, no doubt about it, but why? Why tip their hand? What was so important about this shooting incident in Florida to make them do that?
You've got a Saudi soldier 'losing it' and shooting dead American servicemen, then initial media reporting about an 'anti-American and anti-Israel manifesto found online thanks to SITE Intelligence [Mossad]', but then US authorities back down from that position and instead resist the temptation to spin a 'terror attack' out of it...
Instead they now have Twitter and other social media platforms actively 'cleaning up' mentions of the now-dropped terror narrative.
One wonders whether 'Israel' 'offered' the US this 'terror attack gift', but the Americans declined it so as not to offend Saudi Arabia and hurt mutual business arrangements (not least whatever set-up involves training Saudi Air Force pilots at Pensacola).
Then again, the above 'attack-that-was-not-a-terror-attack' may never have been earmarked for 'a terror production' in the first place. It was the second such shooting by a sanctioned officer at a US Navy base inside a week:
Sailor kills 2, wounds 1 before taking own life at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor base
The only thing we can be sure of is that efforts are underway by some in US govt/media to downplay the fact that the 'lone gunman' in Pensacola was a Saudi national.