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Israeli War Minister Threatens Palestinian Holocaust |
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Written by Paul Joseph Watson
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after
threatening Palestinians with a "holocaust," but the same media who obsessed
about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "wipe Israel off the map" misquote are scurrying to
defend Vilnai's disgraceful comments.
"The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range,
they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we
will use all our might to defend ourselves," Vilnai told the Army Radio on
Friday.
However, in a Reuters report, despite the fact that the rest of the statement
was translated into English, the incendiary word "holocaust" remained in its
original Hebrew version - "shoah".
Why Reuters would choose to print the rest of the statement in English yet
cherry-pick one word to remain in Hebrew is obvious - they don't want to draw
any attention to the fact that Vilnai is threatening the Palestinians with a
holocaust.
But you can't have your cake and eat it.
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allegedly called for Israel to be
"wiped off the map," the media blindly repeated the quote ad infinitum, and it
became second nature for them to carelessly drop it into any propaganda piece
intended to hype Iran's supposed threat to Israel and the world.
Barely a day goes by that Israeli, American and British warhawks don't spew the
phrase like a broken record in an attempt to create a catchy cliché and brand
market the next jaunt of imperial blood-letting.
No matter that, according to numerous different translations, Ahmadinejad never
used the word "map," instead his statement was in the context of time and
applied to the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem. Ahmadinejad was expressing
his future hope that the Zionist regime in Israel would fall, not that Iran was
going to physically annex the country and its population.
To claim Ahmadinejad has issued a rallying cry to ethnically cleanse Israel is
akin to saying that Churchill wanted to murder all Germans when he stated his
desire to crush the Nazis. This is about the demise of a corrupt occupying
power, not the deaths of millions of innocent people.
On the other hand, even as Reuters is forced to admit, Vilnai's use of the word
"shoah" is intrinsically allied to the context of "Discussions of the Nazi
Holocaust of Jews," adding, "Many Israelis are loath to countenance its use to
describe other contemporary events."
So will the media make reference to one of Israel's top minister's expressing
his wish to inflict a Palestinian "holocaust" in all future reports about
Israel's geopolitical motives, just as they do with Ahmadinejad's supposed call
to wipe Israel off the map?
There's more chance of Yasser Arafat and Menachem Begin coming back from the
dead to broker a peace settlement.
Source: Prison Planet
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