I would rate Israel's false propaganda among the most deceptively effective in the world. Israel manages to get top politicians singing it's song.

The facts do not seem to matter much. Opposition to Israeli aggression in Western countries is sporadic and misinformed. This is at least partly due to Israel's success in embedding their ban, that opposition to Israeli aggression is equivalent to "anti-Semitism" "anti-Zionism" "anti-Israeli prejudice" etc.

Another technique is constant reminders about Hitler's systematic slaughter of Jews"the final solution". It follows that therefor people are supposed to approve any Israeli military measures in perpetuity against anyone or any state whenever it chooses to state that their military action is necessary to defend Israel etc. Little or no justification is needed. Phoney and constructed excuses are acceptable. Lebanon is a good example of Israel's unjustified and disproportionate military action as the following article points out.

Before Israeli propagandists accuse me of anti-Semitism, if I'm not too late, I would like to state that I believe the Israel state should be accepted by its neighbours. I do believe that with Israeli leadership the middle east could be transformed into a garden of Eden of peace and prosperity for all peoples. The Jews are a great and talented people. Israel and its neighbours should learn to value each other and co-operate to achieve benefits for both. But they are on the wrong path at present, misled and militarily dangerous to themselves and neighbours. I deeply hope they do not end up by destroying themselves and others. - but look for constructive ways to build a secure, happy, prosperous future for all people in the middle east.

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Five Myths That Sanction Israel's War Crimes

By Jonathan Cook, July 26, 2006

This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist” who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against American professors who have the impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs have minds and feelings like the rest of us.

It was a revealing experience, at least for a British journalist rarely exposed to the depths of ignorance and prejudice in the United States on Middle East matters -- well, apart from the regular wackos who fill my email inbox. But five minutes of listening to Horowitz speak, and the sympathy with which his arguments were greeted by Laura (“The Professors -- your book’s a great read, David”), left me a lot more frightened about the world’s future.

Horowitz’s response to every question, every development in the Middle East, whether it concerns Lebanon, the Palestinians, Syria, or Iran, is the same: “They want to drive the Jews into the sea." It’s as simple as that. Not even a superficial attempt at analysis; just the message that the Arab world is trying to finish off the genocide started by Europe. And if Laura is any yardstick, a lot of Americans buy that stuff.

Horowitz is keen to bang the square peg of the Lebanon story into the round hole of his claims that the “Jews” are facing an imminent genocide in the Middle East. And to help him, he and the massed ranks of US apologists for Israel -- regulars, I suspect, of shows like Laura’s -- are promoting at least four myths regarding Hezbollah’s current rockets strikes on Israel. Unless they are challenged at every turn, the danger is that they will win the ground war against common sense in the US

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