A reporter for the rightwing Israel National News network asks Americans in Times Square what they’d tell Israel on its 65th birthday. It seems to me these folks are being polite. Notice that the family from :27 to :50 or so are friendly but thoughtful. The guy brings up Palestinians and the West Bank and urges Israel to figure out its problems.
Then there’s the clueless dude at 1:10 from whom the network got its headline, “A huge achievement.” This is priceless:
A big congratulations, that’s a huge achievement– especially, I guess with all the perseverance you guys have had to go through and what not, it’s an absolutely monumental achievement. In America, like, don’t get me wrong– the media is kind of controlled by the Jews, it’s forefront in most American’s minds. I don’t think anybody doesn’t know about the struggles of your people. So it’s a massive achievement of course. Is that–?
The big guy at 1:47 or so in the NY Yankees hat is totally on to the question, won’t play ball. What do you wish Israel?
Peace. Peace. Just peace.
Thanks to Max Blumenthal.
For “balance” that reporter should go to Dearborn.
Explosion went off at the Boston marathon today, Sorry to hijack thread with that comment.
More on brainwashing
http://www.haaretz.com/news/remembrance-and-independence-2013/a-year-of-living-dangerously-an-insider-s-account-of-the-changing-face-of-the-israeli-army.premium-1.515604
“Another reason is the sophisticated mechanism of persuasion and encouragement to serve (in the IDF) − which at least in part borders on brainwashing − exerted by the state on high-school students via the school system, the army, the local authorities and private organizations that offer preparatory courses for IDF service. ”
But of course Israel is just a regular country
“The big guy at 1:47 or so in the NY Yankees hat is totally on to the question, won’t play ball. What do you wish Israel?
Peace. Peace. Just peace. ”
Well, hmmpf, what about “justice”? What about stop the Israeli criminality?
Bullshit is also core to the mission
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/peres-extends-holiday-wishes-to-nation-as-israel-turns-65.premium-1.515779
“”We had only one chance,” he said; “To overcome or to fall, to excel or to falter. We prevailed due to the heroism of our fighters. Theirs was a just war, and they upheld the purity of arms. Over the course of fewer than seven decades, attempts were made to annihilate us, and seven times, we prevailed and won.”
“Israel’s victory is one of humanity, not of land. But the dangers have yet to recede,” he said, and described the external dangers Israel faced as “an Iranian leadership… gripped by frenzy; Hezbollah, which has turned religious spirit into an arsenal of missiles; and Hamas, which has transformed a strip of land, teeming with civilians, into a powder keg.” Yet, Peres continued, “Israel has never ceased advocating peace.””