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Videos Expose Palestinian ‘Pallywood’ Propaganda
Two videos published on YouTube yesterday will see little, if any, airtime on major news networks or cable news operations in the West. Why? Because they expose the “Pallywoood” propaganda efforts Palestinians and their sympathizers don’t want people in the West to see.
With Israeli troops operating on the ground in Gaza and Hamas terrorists increasingly backed into a corner, Professor Richard Landes warned of what may be around the corner in the lead paragraph of a piece published Dec. 31 at Augean Stables:
Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It’s in the Hamas playbook… and will be until the media gets sober. Here’s the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played.
He went on to describe the Palestinian propaganda strategy (a.k.a., “Pallywood” — as in Palestinian Hollywood):
The pattern has long been clear, and most recently carried out with explosive effectiveness in the Lebanon war of 2006… when Israel is winning, get yourself a civilian massacre.
Next time you find yourself watching a television news report from Gaza, consider the source and remember the words Landes used to conclude his piece mentioned above:
Time for a media spectacular.
And Israel will only be the most obvious loser.
Hat tip: Jamie Allman, host of Allman in the Morning on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis. He had Dr. Landes as a guest on his program this morning.





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at 07:53 on January 9th, 2009
Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days...
when Israel is winning, get yourself a civilian massacre.
Statements don't get much more loaded than the ones above.
A comparison of military resources, of the State of Israel and Hamas, provide much better context to understand why civilians are being massacred at a ratio of 1:100. The current death toll in Gaza is 763 including 200 children. 11 Israelis have died.
Israel's arsenal includes:
Source: zmag.org
Nuclear Weapons:
Source: globalsecurity.org
Manpower:
Source: zmag.org
Money:
Source: zmag.org
By comparison, Hamas:
Source: zmag.org
Source: cfr.org
at 10:46 on January 9th, 2009
The story is at best self-incriminating. It takes for granted, as its headline clearly states, that Hollywood, the 'mother of Pallywood', is the ultimate propaganda war-monger driving machine. Your speculation on Pallywood pales in comparison to your attributed driving-force, Hollywood.
The neologism, Pallywood, if you actualy imagine Palestinian media advisors are as evil and 'Mad Ave.' as the etymological ancestor Hollywood, may attempt to swing world opinion, as the denial by Israel of journalists' entry into Gaza at the start of their attack was, are both clearly a far cry or scream from your vain inhumane ignorance of the fact that women and children are both targeted and killed, 100s if not 1000s, by the Israeli terror of the Gazan population.
at 10:48 on January 9th, 2009
Heritage and con10t -- Since you don't believe the facts presented above, both of you should read this post, Two Weeks Later, War of ‘Spin’ Continues in Gaza, which offers further evidence that shows Israel is not at fault in this conflict.
at 07:11 on January 27th, 2009
Pallywood, a fact? IDF propaganda youtube hate video, facts? Your tether to facts and therefore reality is worn thin and dysfunctional.
The spin of media is like a tornado and requires a centered organized mass like the mega-million dollar israeli mis-information campaign and lobby. most of the spin here like your story above is spin off of the spin.
contrary to that there are concerned individuals like myself who actually find facts, check them and report them. its not a perfect world but then there is a reply field on nowpublic.
To somehow fantasize a Pallywood and some concentrated organized method for putting facts of israeli war crime in gaza online simply denies the essense of the internet as the democratic media voice. the more spin you publish the more individuals you will egg on to pick up their keyboard and search and fact check and bury your innuendo and cute slogans like Pallywood that disrespects the 420 gazan children mass murdered by israel.
Sometime you will realize that the mass media world is over and you have to simply put your watergate ethic - lie until backed in a corner and have to tell the truth - behind you and realize that in israel acting justly and prosecuting its war criminals, giving palestinians back their land, the 1967 borders, sharing jerusalem equally, and removing their throttle and siege and blockade, and even paying retribution as aid for building their universities and industries for a time, therein lies peace. to assume that with justice and liberty and the end of oppression and occupation, palestinians will still fire back is pathological, unrealistic and somehow painting palestinians as being without a common nautre shared by human beings everywhere.
but then that would mean the settlements, water resources, competition for business in the region would open up. israel is a bit like an unsuccessful microsoft (i believe an early version of windows was in fact writen in israel) and it will be rendered a security threat, unusable in an open translocal world, as open source and linux software has shown.
your stories are like unsuccessful microsoft ads in the face of an enormous number of open source individuals. you must see that and get on with building a peaceful, open, tolerant, inclusive operating system for peace.
at 16:33 on January 29th, 2009
Mr, Con10t
I agree you should find out the facts and in that spirit you should read President Clinton's memoirs, "My Life".
Clinton hosted negotiations with Israeli PM Barak, and Arafat. Barak offered the Palestinians just about everything you say Israel should offer, 1967 borders (or close to it), removing blockcades, paying retribution, etc.
And what did the Palestinians do? They rejected it and started a war.
The loser of three major wars generally does not get 98% of what they want (In fact, never in human history has this happened). They've now lost a fourth war and in my humble opinion Israel now owes them nothing.
So read Clinton's book and see what else he has to say about the insanity masquerading as leadership among the Palestinians. I'm sure you'd enjoy the facts.
at 07:23 on January 27th, 2009
Pallywood as you see is like Hollywood flexible in its imaginary ideology. Point made.
at 13:43 on January 29th, 2009
con10t -- You had better lay off the liberal Kool-aid. It's causing your sensibility to wither.
at 01:10 on January 30th, 2009
No! No! We couldn't be dupes! This has all got to be propaganda! Oops! it is. pali-kind.