All governments lie, but Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. Israel does not deform the truth; it inverts it. And all of us who have covered the occupied territories have run into Israel’s Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully report as required under rules of American journalism, knowing they are untrue. By painting a picture of an army that never attacks civilians, that indeed goes out of its way to protect them, the Big Lie says Israelis are civilized and humane, and their Palestinian opponents are inhuman monsters. The Big Lie allows believers to take comfort - a comfort they are desperately seeking - in their own moral superiority, at the very moment they have abrogated all morality.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:22:29 +0000
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