----- Original Message ----- From: joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: The campaign begins...
> I friend writes.....
>
> I haven't read Fisk's article yet, but your note reminds me that last
> night, while watching the "Joan of Arc" movie on TNT, I was treated
> to an anti-Palestinian commercial by some concocted outfit calling
> itself the Committee for Security, or something like that.
>
> The ad was noteworthy for two reasons. First, because it appeared
> on an entertainment station, rather than CNN or one of the other news
> stations. In other words, it was political propaganda aimed at the
> widest possible audience. Secondly, the ad was explicitly and broadly
> anti-Palestinian rather than anti-PLO, anti-Arafat, or anti-terrorist.
> The content of the ad was clearly designed to make the amalgam,
> Palestinians = Terrorists. An ad like that would make no sense as
> a one-time standalone statement; it is almost certainly the beginning
> of a sustained and well-funded media propaganda campaign.
>
> I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this stuff, with the
discreet
> collusion of people on high. (Why discreet? Because it is contrary to
> our government's official position of neutrality on internal ethnic
groups.)
>
> I wouldn't press the analogy with fascism, because that is largely a
> manifestation of capitalism-in-extremis. Rather, I think this is a
> campaign aimed at the American side of Israel's demographic time-bomb,
> namely, the entry of large numbers of Arab-Americans into active political
> life within the U.S.
>
> Naturally, such a campaign will also (especially) target American Jewish
> leftists, who tend to shatter the facade of monolithic Jewish support of
the
> official Israeli line.
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> Anyone else see this kind of advertisement?
>
> Joanna
>
>