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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Palestine Think Tank » Analysis Counter-terrorism, No thanks! Documents Hasbara Deconstruction Site Israel Newswire Palestine Religion Zionism » Stuart Littlewood – How Low will Israel Stoop to Win the Propaganda War?

One of the main goals of PTT has been to debunk, uncover and counter the ways that Israel and its advocates use the tools of propaganda. They are very good at their propaganda, especially because they have the economic possibilities to exploit it to its maximum potential. PTT (and Peacepalestine blog before it) has been analysing the Hasbara Handbook and The Israel Project on many occasions. One of The Israel Project’s most devious aspects is that it was “born” to look like it was just a lot of caring individuals, young mothers, especially, who wanted to express their beliefs in the way they were convinced that Israel was getting bad press that it didn’t deserve, and with their free time and good will, they would be benefitting the cause close to their hearts. As they were just regular folks like you and me, we wouldn’t even think of looking at it as a major propaganda or marketing ploy, nor in any way directly related to Israel, which, in fact, it is all of those things and more. The “moms” were a fake (in fact, they don’t even promote themselves that way anymore, since everyone discovered that Miri Eisin, in the photo, one of the “moms” ,is Olmert’s Press Advisor) and it is precisely what we’d all fear and suspect it was. This is but one aspect of TIP which makes it an item worth looking into and exposing. We are in the process of compiling our own “Counter Hasbara Guidebook”, an on-going project, and the new additions to the revised version of TIP give us more stimulus to achieve this project. In the meantime, we offer this excellent commentary by Stuart Littlewood, a companion piece to the Balles article we published yesterday. -mary rizzo

“The Israel Project”, a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to “shared values” between Israel and the civilized West.

Palestine Think Tank » Analysis Counter-terrorism, No thanks! Documents Hasbara Deconstruction Site Israel Newswire Palestine Religion Zionism » Stuart Littlewood – How Low will Israel Stoop to Win the Propaganda War?.

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