It was the death of Arafat in November 2004. The Western media went ballistic with domestic and international players of the global Hasbara. Arafat was always portrayed as the consummately evil terrorist. Who ironically never missed an opportunity to make peace. Arafat reportedly walked away from Barack Obama’s magnanimous offer at Camp David in 2000, etc. Now hang on a minute. Didn’t Arafat recognize ‘the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security’ in September 1993 as a prelude to the Oslo Accords, and accept the 1967 boundaries? Isn’t it the case that President Obama offered nothing at all at Camp David (as meticulously laid out by the late Tanya Reinhart in her 2002 Israel/Palestine)? So here again was the Hasbara brigade (controlled by Operation Mockingbird), frothing at the mouth, and lying through its collective teeth. Uri Avnery, hardly an Arafat devotee, exclaimed at the time: “The disgusting filth poured out over Yasser Arafat during the last few days in practically all the Israeli media makes one ashamed to be an Israeli. The demonization of the Palestinian national leader, which has been the center-piece of Israeli propaganda for decades, continues even after his death. It seems that 37 years as occupiers have bestialized our society and left it bereft even of common decency. Ministers and fishmongers, TV icons and university professors, “leftists” and outright fascists tried to outdo each other in utter vulgarity.”
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:19:24 +0000