War Propaganda
Wars are almost always based on lies, from the dawn of humanity until the modern era. The purpose of these lies—tales of war crimes and barbaric behavior—is, of course, to demonize the “enemy” and induce war fever and hatred among the populace, whose support and approval leaders prefer before entering a military confrontation.
Consider the outrageous lies told during World War I, where German soldiers were accused of grabbing Belgian babies, throwing them into the air and skewering them on their bayonets. It was all fake news, but believed by many in the fog of war and repeated for decades afterward. Then there are the endless lies about World War II, where the Germans were again subjected to fantastical atrocity propaganda.
Claims of work camp inmates having their heads shrunken, their skin made into lampshades, and their fat converted into bars of soap on an industrial scale for German housewives, among other bogus imputations, were repeated for a generation. And we’re all old enough to remember the lies peddled by the mass media and political leaders alleging then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his soldiers to murder babies in incubators during the invasion of Kuwait. Those claims were debunked, but did their job, enraging people around the world—until they were proven false Meanwhile, just a few years ago, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was hysterically charged with gassing his own people.
That slander, too, has been roundly discredited. Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armed forces are being accused daily of any number of war crimes ranging from mass rape and the cold-blooded executions of civilians to deliberately targeting apartment buildings, childcare centers and hospitals in Ukraine. In the Mideast, the Western media’s reporting on the conflict between Hamas, the Islamic militant organization that maintains broad popular support in Palestine, and the state of Israel is, as well, nothing short of incredible—but nothing new.
Widespread dissemination of atrocity propaganda has reached new heights, given the ease with which any wild accusation can be transmitted instantaneously around the globe. Luckily, some social media activists, including highly respected investigator Keith Woods, are systematically examining the information coming out of Israel in real time.
As honest investigators do, they affirm what is true and expose what is obviously fake news, war propaganda, unverified allegations or just plainly ludicrous assertions. On the other side, pro-Israel and pro-Zionist social media influencers, virtually every major American politician, and the corporate media are all working hand-in-glove, orchestrating a global propaganda campaign to portray Hamas fighters as bloodthirsty barbarians, hate-filled terrorists attacking Israel without reason. Highly publicized stories of mass rapes, brutal executions, and even babies with their heads chopped off are, however, being skeptically challenged as AFP goes to press. We have these internet sleuths and independent investigators to thank for taking a good, hard, unbiased look at this information and determining its credibility. It is interesting to note that, in the Mideast, according to the mass media, Israeli victims are described as being “killed.” Palestinian men, women and children, on the other hand, simply “die.” Of what? We are rarely told.
We know they are being “killed” because we have access to decades of film footage showing the countless victims of Israel—wounded, bloody, dying and dead Palestinians. But in the U.S. media, only Israeli suffering is worth the air time. At any rate, numerous questions still remain that mainstream newscasters should be addressing about the events Israel is exploiting to justify “Operation Flatten Palestine” or “Operation Civilian Slaughter,” whatever they end up calling the military siege of Gaza. For instance: • How was Hamas able to acquire 5,000 missiles without Israel or the United States knowing?
• Where do you hide 5,000 missiles in an area barely twice the size of Washington, D.C.?
• How did Israeli forces fail to detect explosions and bulldozers blasting holes in multiple spots along the thick concrete walls surrounding the Gaza “prison” through which Ha mas fighters entered Israel?
• Did Joe Biden actually see photos of beheaded babies as he said recently in a speech? The Jerusalem Post claims it has seen photographs of the corpses of burned babies, but were they beheaded while still alive by Hamas fighters? We want to see some persuasive proof before repeating those incendiary claims.
• If Israel has other atrocity photos, wouldn’t it show them to help sway vacillating world opinion?
• How did the Wall Street Journal “know” within hours of the onset of the attack that Iran had “planned and funded the operation”?
• Will Israel’s coming massacre in Gaza galvanize Islamic and Christian support for Palestine?
• Cui bono: Who benefits from these tragic events? How could it possibly be the Palestinian people unless Israel is actually defeated? As the world is subjected to this coordinated atrocity propaganda operation, nearly every U.S. official is lining up to pledge unwavering support for a Palestinian slaughter. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury has issued a blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu. No doubt demands for direct U.S. involvement are forthcoming. The orchestrated news stories being artfully disseminated—the majority unverified or taken out of context—are thankfully being examined and refuted in real time. Will it stop the warmongers occupying D.C. and Jerusalem? Doubtful.
Consider the outrageous lies told during World War I, where German soldiers were accused of grabbing Belgian babies, throwing them into the air and skewering them on their bayonets. It was all fake news, but believed by many in the fog of war and repeated for decades afterward. Then there are the endless lies about World War II, where the Germans were again subjected to fantastical atrocity propaganda.
Claims of work camp inmates having their heads shrunken, their skin made into lampshades, and their fat converted into bars of soap on an industrial scale for German housewives, among other bogus imputations, were repeated for a generation. And we’re all old enough to remember the lies peddled by the mass media and political leaders alleging then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his soldiers to murder babies in incubators during the invasion of Kuwait. Those claims were debunked, but did their job, enraging people around the world—until they were proven false Meanwhile, just a few years ago, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was hysterically charged with gassing his own people.
That slander, too, has been roundly discredited. Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armed forces are being accused daily of any number of war crimes ranging from mass rape and the cold-blooded executions of civilians to deliberately targeting apartment buildings, childcare centers and hospitals in Ukraine. In the Mideast, the Western media’s reporting on the conflict between Hamas, the Islamic militant organization that maintains broad popular support in Palestine, and the state of Israel is, as well, nothing short of incredible—but nothing new.
Widespread dissemination of atrocity propaganda has reached new heights, given the ease with which any wild accusation can be transmitted instantaneously around the globe. Luckily, some social media activists, including highly respected investigator Keith Woods, are systematically examining the information coming out of Israel in real time.
As honest investigators do, they affirm what is true and expose what is obviously fake news, war propaganda, unverified allegations or just plainly ludicrous assertions. On the other side, pro-Israel and pro-Zionist social media influencers, virtually every major American politician, and the corporate media are all working hand-in-glove, orchestrating a global propaganda campaign to portray Hamas fighters as bloodthirsty barbarians, hate-filled terrorists attacking Israel without reason. Highly publicized stories of mass rapes, brutal executions, and even babies with their heads chopped off are, however, being skeptically challenged as AFP goes to press. We have these internet sleuths and independent investigators to thank for taking a good, hard, unbiased look at this information and determining its credibility. It is interesting to note that, in the Mideast, according to the mass media, Israeli victims are described as being “killed.” Palestinian men, women and children, on the other hand, simply “die.” Of what? We are rarely told.
We know they are being “killed” because we have access to decades of film footage showing the countless victims of Israel—wounded, bloody, dying and dead Palestinians. But in the U.S. media, only Israeli suffering is worth the air time. At any rate, numerous questions still remain that mainstream newscasters should be addressing about the events Israel is exploiting to justify “Operation Flatten Palestine” or “Operation Civilian Slaughter,” whatever they end up calling the military siege of Gaza. For instance: • How was Hamas able to acquire 5,000 missiles without Israel or the United States knowing?
• Where do you hide 5,000 missiles in an area barely twice the size of Washington, D.C.?
• How did Israeli forces fail to detect explosions and bulldozers blasting holes in multiple spots along the thick concrete walls surrounding the Gaza “prison” through which Ha mas fighters entered Israel?
• Did Joe Biden actually see photos of beheaded babies as he said recently in a speech? The Jerusalem Post claims it has seen photographs of the corpses of burned babies, but were they beheaded while still alive by Hamas fighters? We want to see some persuasive proof before repeating those incendiary claims.
• If Israel has other atrocity photos, wouldn’t it show them to help sway vacillating world opinion?
• How did the Wall Street Journal “know” within hours of the onset of the attack that Iran had “planned and funded the operation”?
• Will Israel’s coming massacre in Gaza galvanize Islamic and Christian support for Palestine?
• Cui bono: Who benefits from these tragic events? How could it possibly be the Palestinian people unless Israel is actually defeated? As the world is subjected to this coordinated atrocity propaganda operation, nearly every U.S. official is lining up to pledge unwavering support for a Palestinian slaughter. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury has issued a blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu. No doubt demands for direct U.S. involvement are forthcoming. The orchestrated news stories being artfully disseminated—the majority unverified or taken out of context—are thankfully being examined and refuted in real time. Will it stop the warmongers occupying D.C. and Jerusalem? Doubtful.
By: Laurie Nicks
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Is It Really a Genocide in Gaza?
05/18/2024 2:44 pm
I’m torn regarding AFP’s continued use of the term “genocide” to describe what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians in Gaza. I noticed in the last few issues, AFP has been using that term, but is Israel really engaging in a genocide of the Palestinians? To be clear, it is impossible to deny that the Israeli army is just flailing around in Gaza, murdering thousands of people with little concern for civilians or the rules of warfare adopted after the horrors of WWI and WWII.
It is also clear that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza by targeting non-combatants that includes children. The U.S. actually has laws that prevent us from arming countries that commit war crimes, but it’s unlikely the cowards in D.C. would ever do anything longterm that threatens the millions in campaign money they receive from pro-Israel groups. This doesn’t seem like Israel is actually committing a genocide. The definition of genocide is, “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.”
Israel is certainly guilty of killing thousands of Palestinians, but the last time I checked there were more than 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. The Israelis are certainly guilty of brutally slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people, but what they are doing doesn’t look like genocide to me. ALAN NEWTON Illinois [Another simpler definition is: “Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part.” Since the founding of the state of Israel, nearly 5 million Muslim and Christian Palestinians have been killed, died of disease or starvation or been forcibly displaced due to the Israeli occupation, blockades and boycotts.
Kudos to Candace Congratulations to Candace Owens, who, as reported by AFP in the April 1 issue, was fired by propagandist and Israel-firster Ben Shapiro. Owens spoke truth to power and paid the price. Black celebrities are often given a second chance in polite society if they walk back their “antiSemitic” comments—read: and donate to the ADL or SPLC, such as Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Kyrie Irving, ad infinitum. I hope she doesn’t debase herself to salvage her career. Owens made observations that luminaries such as Ben Franklin, Voltaire, Henry Ford, and countless others have made for centuries. If she stays true to her convictions, I’d like to read more of her commentary in AFP. AFP is the last refuge, it seems, for those who hold rational viewpoints toward Israel and Zionistrelated subjects.
ROBERT SHARP West Virginia Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing Considering the ongoing genocidal ethnic cleansing in Gaza. which has evolved into a deadly famine, I would like to recommend to the distinguished editors of AFP to start referring to the famine in Gaza as the Holodomor —a totally engineered terror/ hunger famine YEHUDA LITTMAN New York Why Not Arrest Antifa? In regard to AFP’s article, titled “Judge Defends the First Amendment and the Rule of Law in Rundo Case” in issue 11/12, the question that needs to be asked is: “Why won’t the feds arrest violent Antifa groups? And why do only certain violent white nationalists get arrested?” Twenty-five years ago, I mistakenly believed I was an anti- fascist. I would attend Antifa events and attack “white supremacists.”
The Washington Post once published a picture of me with a Confederate flag I’d ripped out of some guy’s hands at a rally in Annapolis. During this time, I also wondered, why don’t the police arrest us? I abandoned Antifa’s anti- fascism because I realized it was itself fascist in the way that term is understood amongst the far left. Later, a girl I used to date called me to pick her up because police were raiding a concert organized against George W. Bush’s inauguration. When I got there, I watched Democrat lawyers arriving in suits at 2 a.m. to tell the police to stop interfering with Antifa. Eventually, I put it together. The feds don’t arrest Antifa because Antifa is a vigilante militia used by the feds to inflict political violence against perceived enemies of the ruling elite. They play the same role the KKK once played in the South. And certain white nationalists never get arrested for the same reason. The FBI uses them to make sure anything that looks and sounds violent without ever engaging in the kind of violence that actually threatens the ruling class.
WILLIAM A. WHITE Maryland Stop the Pandemic Treaty There is not much time left to save the republic and salvage what is left of our freedom. You ask, just what is she talking about? Let us start with Covid, which the World Health Organization used to establish global control along with the world’s elites. There isn’t much time left to stop this takeover. We must flood our legislators with demands to vote for legislation to stop the pandemic treaty in its tracks. We can stop this attack if we follow the actions of Abraham Lincoln, who, during the Civil War, prayed and implored our Creator for help and then issued a proclamation for prayers, repentance, forgiveness, and Thanksgiving. The war ended, and we were one nation under God, not two nations. Spread the word far and near, so we can remain a free nation.
MARY NOVAK Oregon Are Protesters Sincere? I’m sure there are many sincere protests somewhere for the Palestinian people, and it seems most of the people protesting on college campuses here in America are sincere. But, to me, the overriding narrative is not about Gaza but the destruction of the United States. Too many college protesters in America seem to have more in common with the “revolutionaries” in Iran 45 years ago: “Death to America.” If one wishes to know what’s going on, ask yourself who is writing the narratives. These peocuse others. A world not owned by the Rothschilds is exploding into being under the hand of God! TONY SNOW Arkansas Law of the Jungle ple don’t care about the Palestinians. At a far-left rally for Gaza at George Washington University, an extremist on the microphone says: “There’s only one solution, intifada revolution. We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America.”
ALAN KNUTSON Via email Crush the Rothschilds There is good news for those not glued to Rothschild media lies. Blowback of all kinds is beginning to be heard worldwide. As all should know by now, the world is no longer tolerant of Talmudic/ Kabbalic types who are no longer welcome to lecture the world’s goyim population as to what they may or may not do. Two of the worst are Fed Chairman Janet Yellen of the ultra-criminal Federal Reserve. The other is Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Both are part of the insane Talmudic team running the U.S., each telling China to stop trading with Russia “or else,” but finding out that their power has dissolved, just as the truly insane and totally satanic “Netanyahoo” is panicking due to his acknowledging that the Talmudic control of the U.S. is rapidly diminishing into just a well-paid-off Congress that he bullies with ease. The people, however, are fed up forever with genociders and Christian haters who continue, for the moment, to do as they please to the world. The world is no longer held to the faked godliness of this satanic bunch who cannot talk without lying, whose lives are perverse in every manner. Their time is over, and many of them will very soon be held to pay for their vast criminality, which often includes mass murder of which they love to acJames Madison once wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But the Bible proclaims correctly that no man is angelic and saintly. All are sinners, falling short of God’s glory. That includes those with their hands on the levers of civil secular government power, as well as the rest of us not endowed with that privilege. There is evil injustice to be seen in either extreme: all-domineering government and anarchy. Where should we draw a happy medium between these two extremes? I like the quote from President Thomas Jefferson: “No man has a natural right to aggress upon the equal rights of another, and this is all, from which the laws ought to restrain him.” Government should do nothing for its own aggrandizement, but should only act as a referee, to make sure individual citizens do not attempt to advance themselves at the expense of other people’s equal rights. No civilized society should live by the Law of the Jungle