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Should we re-examine endlessly repeated clichés?
In a previous installment in this series of clarifying
messages about Israel and the Middle East, we examined certain myths which,
by dint of constant repetition, had acquired currency and acceptance.
We looked at the myth of “Palestinian nationhood,” the myth
of Judea/Samaria (the “West Bank”) being “occupied territory,”
the myth that Jewish settlements in these territories are “the greatest
obstacle to peace,” and the myth that Israel is unwilling to “yield
land for peace.” And we cleared up the greatest myth of all, namely
that Israel’s administration of the territories, and not the unrelenting
hatred of the Arabs against the Jews, is the root cause of the conflict
between the Arabs and Israel. But those are not all the myths; there are
more.
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Do
the media feed us fiction instead of fact?
We all know that, by dint of constant repetition, white
can be made to appear black, good can get transformed into evil, and myth
may take the place of reality. Israel, with roughly one-thousandth of
the world's population and with a similar fraction of the territory of
this planet, seems to engage a totally disproportionate attention of the
print and broadcast media of the world. Unfortunately, much of what the
media tell us — in reporting, editorializing in columns, and in
analysis — are endlessly repeated myths.
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Those who demonize Israel are either misinformed or malevolent
If that proverbial man from Mars came to visit and
read the world’s newspapers, especially those in the Arab and Muslim
world, he would be convinced that Israel was the most evil nation in the
world and the source of all of the world’s strife.
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To see additional FLAME positions on a wide variety
of Middle East topics, click here.
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| An
Urgent Letter
from FLAME President,
Gerardo Joffe |
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July
2009
Dear Friend
of Israel, dear Friend of FLAME: |
All eyes are on our new president and on our new
administration. Many of us fear that this administration may perhaps
not be as understanding of and cooperative with Israel as the previous
one. And that, to judge from the first signals, may indeed be the
case. The first such signal was the meeting between Mr. Netanyahu
and Mr. Obama. Our president seems to have leaned quite hard on
Israel’s prime minister. He chose as his topic of special
attention the “settlements.” Regrettably, he re-warmed
the old formula that the “settle-ments” are the greatest
hindrance to peace and that, if they were removed or at least construction
of them would completely be stopped, peace would prevail.
But with all due respect to our president...
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