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Hamas Spews Propaganda into Gaza's Airwaves
by John M. Curtis
(310) 204-8700
Copyright
July 14, 2014
All Rights Reserved.
Giving notorious Iraqi propagandist Mohammed Saeed
al-Sahhaf “Baghdad Bob” a run for his money, the official Hamas news agency
Al-Aqsa TV & Radio, continue to the tradition of feeding the population garbage,
devoid of facts and detached from reality, only designed to buoy Palestinian
spirits. “Their infidels are
committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured Baghdad is safe, protected,” said Baghdad Bob April 12, 2003, the day Baghdad
fell to U.S. forces. Now Al-Aqsa TV
& Radio take over where Baghdad Bob left off, spewing constant lies to Gazans
about the imminent defeat of Israel, paving the way for a grand return of
Palestinians to the promised land. “[We] direct a military strike with rockets at the Tel Aviv area and its surroundings
with a J80 rocekt after 9 p.m,” said masked and camouflaged Al-Aqsa spokesman
Abu Ubeida, warning Israel of the impending attack.
Meanwhile, Palestinian death toll hit over 160, without one Israeli death
after Hamas unloaded over 950 rockets.
“Our rockets have struck Tel Aviv!” blared a defiant voice on the PA
system of Gaza’s main mosque.
Cheers from boys and men could be heard shouting, “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is
Great.” For Gaza’s Hamas chief 52-year-old Ismail Haniyeh or Hamas’s 58-year-old Ramallah-based
political chief Khaled Meshaal, more collateral damage in Gaza helps the
Palestinian cause. Firing rockets,
like suicide bombings, is Palestinian “resistance” in the face of superior
Israeli military might. Despite
telling Palestinians they’re routing the Jewish State, more casualties translate
into more international sympathy—and possible cash. It’s of little consequence in Gaza
or Ramallah that Hamas’s rockets hit no Israeli targets, cause no damage or are
destroyed by Israel’s Iron Dome antiballistic missile system.
Al-Aqsa TV & Radio knows how to keep a beaten down population hopeful,
touting great military success against the “Zionist entity.” “When we heard the threat last
night, we were overjoyed. It’s
excellent,” said 19-year-old Muhammad Abu Asi, admitting his family watch and
listen only to Al-Aqsa TV & Radio.
While they have access to the Internet where major wire services and news
agencies report the grim war data more accurately, Asi, like many others, prefer
to be deluded by pernicious propaganda.
“The resistance is striking more powerful blows than ever before . . .
[Israel] lies to cover their losses, because they know that would be a victory
for us. We’re sure we’ll win,” said Al-Aqsa, feeding Gaza’s beleaguered population the fantasy
world needed to endure the suffering.
Meanwhile world leaders at the U.N. and elsewhere understand the
intolerable suffering.
With Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization joining forces April
23, Abbas can’t escape from the current rocket war that he hopes forces Israel
back to the bargaining table.
Whatever game Abbas plays, it’s currently backfiring, using the downtrodden in
Gaza as cannon fodder to his fund raising efforts. Throwaway rocket attacks touted by
Gaza’s new Baghdad Bob does nothing other that make the young and old alike
suffer. When Al-Aqsa TV & Radio talk of “victory,” they’re referring to the ongoing fantasy that
armed struggle against will eventually result in a glorious victory conquering
Israel. Instead of sitting down
with Netanyahu and U.S. mediators, Abbas has chosen the same path as Arafat, who
died Nov. 11, 20004 of suspicious causes, never realizing his dream of an
independent Palestinian state.
Abbas looks like he’s heading to the same fate.
Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV & Radio continue to hammer the old myth that Israel
stold all Palestinian land when it was handed the British Mandate of Palestine
and declared a sovereign state May 14, 1948.
Arafat formed the PLO in 1964 with the hope of joining a glorious Arab
war to conquer Israel. When the PLO
joined Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Jordan, backed by Algeria, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisa to launch the Six Day War, the Arab states
endured a humiliating defeat June 10, 1967 with Israel annexing Egypt’s Gaza
Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Jordan’s West Bank, Syria’s Golan Heights and East
Jerusalem. Palestinians had no
sovereign territory before the British Mandate of Palestine or the 1967 War, yet claim
Israel “occupies” their land, driving the outrageous propaganda flowing from
Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV & Radio, promising victory over the “Zionist entity.”
Palestinine’s propaganda machine must keep the lies going, routinely
attacking Israel at the expense of the civilian population to prove that the
“dream” is still alive of victory over the “Zionist entity.” Adopting the same language as
Hitler’s Third Reich, referring to Israel as the “Zionist entity” furthers the
same anti-Semitism that spurred the “Final Solution” or Holocaust of European
Jews. Unlike back then, Israel
stands—with the help of the U.S.—as the most powerful military in the Mideast,
preventing a repeat of what Hitler did to the Jews in WW II. “We continue to broadcast
Palestinian strength. There can be
no dialogue between Palestinians and the Zionist occupation,” an Al-Aqsa news
anchor, admitting that he can’t allow Palestinians to have the truth. “Rockets of the resistance strike
Ashkelon,” said the Al-Aqsa anchor, not admitting they fell into an abandoned
field.
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