Believe it or not, it's true. Ever wonder who is the source for all the bad-faith bullet points unreasoning supporters of continued Israeli domination of the West Bank seem to come equipped with?
Courtesy of Ha'aretz, pollster Luntz has it all in one handy-dandy document, his "Global Language Dictionary," published just in time to use against Obama's hopefully more realistic approach to the I/P mess.
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Here are some propaganda pointers from this masterful document:
The arguments about demolishing Palestinian homes because they are not within the Jerusalem building code tested SO badly that we are not even going to dignify them with a Word’s That Don’t Work box. Americans hate their own local planning boards for telling them where they can and can’t put swimming pools or build fences. You don’t need to import that animosity into your own credibility issues. Worse yet, talking about "violations of building codes" when a TV station is showing the removal of a house that looks older than the modern state of Israel is simply catastrophic.
Also, It’s "militant Islam," not "Islamo-fascism." If you want the people in power in the American government and around the world today to listen and learn, you need language that doesn’t sound like it came from George W. Bush.
This, from the Appendix of "Toughest Questions," epitomizes the approach of the paper's sponsor, The Israel Project. Notice that the first answer states that Jews should be allowed to remain in non-Israeli Palestine, presumably in their hilltop fortress settlements, so it is no surprise that the second question is not answered, but evaded:
Q: Do you support the Palestinian right of return?
A: Living side by side in true sustainable peace, we must accept and embrace minority rights within each population. But we can’t turn back the clock for either side. We must look towards the future. Just as Jewish exiles and refugees have found a place in Israel, so must Palestinians have the right to return to the land of their own, Palestine. And just as Arab Israelis have remained and flourished in Israel, so must Jews be allowed to remain and flourish in Palestine.
Q: Will Israel dismantle settlements?
A: Peace is about more than land or borders. It is about jobs, prosperity and opportunity for all. I wish that by moving some lines on a map that peace would magically come to the region. Sure, it worked with Egypt, because their leadership was committed to an end to war. But it has not
worked with the Palestinians or Lebanese because they have not made such a commitment. Let me be clear about this. Every Palestinian child deserves a better future, and so does every Israeli child. If we can agree on that, and stop doing those things that hurt our children, we can
start on the road to mutual understanding and mutual respect.
The paper actually goes so far as to label Palestinian expectations that the quasi-military Israeli occupiers of the West Bank will leave as "ethnic cleansing."
We cannot see why it is that peace requires that any Palestinian area would require a kind of ethnic cleansing to remove all Jews.
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