Section 2: Background for Understanding Misreporting The Gaza War: Understanding what happened through cartoonists eyes The Apartheid Canard: Inclusion of Arabs in Israel vs Exclusion of Jews in Palestinian areas and Arab lands Israel in Cartoonists Eyes: Double- standards and hypocrisy Conclusion: Can Israel get fair coverage? Pressing201409_Part2.pptx jrv 9/14/14 The Gaza War: Understanding What Happened Through Cartoonists Eyes MSM physics of Cause & Effect Accommodating both sides ceasefire demands and through the eyes of MSM columnists: Trudy Rubin in Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/27/14: One reason for the amazing extent of Hamas underground tunnel network which Israel is trying to destroy is that digging tunnels is one of the few new sources of jobs. Shovel-ready jobs, if ever there were But all these tunnels and tunnels deep into Israel arent they undermining the Al-Aqsa Mosque? Effect on Us What really happened ...bringing the death toll of Gazans to 1,939. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians have died. BUT Seeing the Hamas goal of Israels destruction in the context of worldwide Islamic jihad through eyes in the East and the West Beyond the summer 2014 Hamas war: The Apartheid Canard Creative Community for Peace Compare Arab Inclusion on the Israeli Side Now how about Americas ally Saudi Arabia? MYTH: ISRAELS SECURITY FENCE NEAR THE GREEN LINE IS AN APARTHEID WALL This is two lies in one. It is a fence/barrier, not a wall- approx. 300 miles long. About 97% is made of chain-link material. The remaining 3% is concrete, designed to repel sniper fire in particular urban areas. The fence was built in 2003 in response to thousands of suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israeli citizens by Palestinian Arab terrorists, sponsored and armed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. The fence was built to keep out terrorists, not Arabs. It is not an obstacle to peace. In the years since the construction of the fence, terrorist attacks have declined by more than 90%. The fence is Israels legitimate defense against a ruthless and amoral terrorist aggressor. It has saved thousands of lives, including Arabs. Beyond the summer 2014 Hamas war: Perceptions of Israel through Cartoonists Eyes Old anti-Semitism: Jews kill babies New anti-Semitism: Jewish state kills babies THE CASE FOR MORAL CLARITY (from Prof. Alan Dershowitz) ** WAR CRIMES BY PALESTINIAN ARABS (HAMAS IN 2006 GAZA WAR) ** 10,000+ ROCKETS, MISSILES FIRED INTO ISRAELI TOWNS AND CITIES * Inq 3/13/11: Militants break into Itamar Jewish home in dead of night, slit throats of sleeping father, mother, kids 11 and 3, and an infant * Inq 6/16/08: Israel considers exchanging for two soldiers bodies guerrilla who repeatedly smashed 5 year-old girls head against rock before crushing her skull with a rifle butt Today, these are the peaceful symbols of Israels peace partners in the search for Arab-Israeli peace: PLO Fatah Hamas The new Fatah logo is consistent with official PA maps used in official documents, government offices and schools that do not acknowledge Israels existence and mark all of Israel as Palestine. Other symbols central to Fatah ideology also appear in the logo, including a rifle and a key symbolizing the Palestinian claim of ownership to houses within Israel (New Fatah logo erases Israel, PMW bulletin, December 12, 2012).not acknowledgeIsrael as PalestinerifleNew Fatah logo erases Israel Our book, Pressing Israel, ends with a question: Conclusion: The Media War: Can Israel Get Fair Coverage? TEN CRITERIA OF ANTI-SEMITISM VIA ANTI-ZIONISM 1)Denying Jews Their Right to Self-Determination 2)Using Symbols and Images Associated with Historical Anti- Semitism 3)Comparing Jews to Nazis 4) Accusing Jews and Israel of Inventing or Exaggerating the Holocaust 5)Demonizing Israel 6)Delegitimizing Israel 7)Holding Israel to a Double Standard 8)Promoting Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Against Israel 9)Condoning Terrorism Against Jews, Supporting Terrorist Organizations 10)Targeting Jewish Students for Discrimination, Harassment, or Intimidation Among the causes of anti-Israel media bias: Empathy for the Underdog (Underdogma) - Israel has gone from the 1948 homegrown militia fending off invasion by five Arab states armies to the post 1967 Six Day War victory, high-tech army Goliath looming over slingshot using Palestinians Palestinian Arab intimidation of media - magnified, obsessive reporting on Israel due to its free, robust press vs. Arab-world state-dominated, closed government-run press Jews averting their eyes from imbalanced reporting (as we did for years from millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants from the creation of Israel) There are responsible voices out there. Heres one in our book: It documents Christian Life Under the P.A. ** RIGHTEOUS CHRISTIAN GROUPS SUCH AS: - CUFI (Christians United For Israel) - FOI (Friends of Israel) PALESTINE MANDATE GEOGRAPHY 101: Land for Peace David vs Goliath If you look just at this map, you see a bigger Israel than the West Bank and Gaza Not really an Israeli Goliath against a Palestinian David, but Land for Peace? Maybe the sacrifice would not be existential. ** the West Bank = Judea and Samaria ** MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY 101 Israel: * 112-mile coastline * 260 miles at longest * 60 miles at widest * 3 9 miles at narrowest * 8019 square miles (about size of New Jersey) * 1/19 size of California * fit into Florida 7 times * fit into United States 768 times * 1/625 (1/6 of 1%) of Arab world * counting Iran: ratio is 650-1 ISRAEL RELATIVE TO MUSLIM WORLD * surrounded by 22 hostile Arab-Muslim states * population of Arab-Muslim states including Iran: 350 million * 56 Islamic countries * 1.4 billion Muslims worldwide * 6.2 million Jews in Israel * regional population ratio of 56: 1 * 1.2 million Arabs living in Israel as full citizens * 13.5 million Jews in world almost 5 million fewer than in 1939 Israel alone in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) Israel??? Then do it right, BOYCOTT THIS !!! Made/ Developed in Israel (some of the hundreds): * The cell phone * Windows NT and XP operating systems * Pentium-4 microprocessor, Centrino and Atom chip * Voic technology * AOL Instant Messenger ICQ * ReWalk (Argo Med. Tech) * Collplant (facilitates wound healing, bone repair, nerve regeneration) * The Better Place electric-car network * Given Imaging (ingestible video camera) * BriefCam video-synopsis technology * Decell Technologies (realtime road traffic information) * The EarlySense (continuous monitoring solution for hospital nurses) * EpiLady (the first electric hair remover) * Hazera Genetics (yielded the cherry tomato) * HydroSpin (unique internal pipe generator) * Intel Israel * Leviathan Energy (innovated the Wind Tulip) * MobileEye (combines a tiny digital camera with sophisticated algorithms) * Netafim (worldwide pioneer in smart-drip and micro-irrigation) * Ormat Technologies (geothermal power plants) * Panoramic Power (provides current energy monitor solutions) * PrimeSense (interaction with 3D machine vision technologies) * Pythagoras Solar (made the worlds first solar window) * Solaris Synergy (floats solar panels on water instead of land) * The Space Imagery Intelligence unit of Elbit Systems (space camera) * TA Count (real-time microbiology) * Takadu (provides monitoring software to leading water utilities worldwide) * Turbulence (worlds first hypernarrative, interactive movie) * Waze (worlds fastest-growing community based traffic, navigation app) Plus, highest number of high-tech and bio-tech start-ups per capita in world, highest number of medical equipment patents in world and largest number of NASDAQ companies outside of US and Canada 12 Israeli Nobel Prize winners (vs. 6 Arab Nobel Prize winners) Whats the answer to the Can Israel Get Fair Coverage? question? US Stop using terms designed to denigrate the Jewish homeland connection to Israel Lean on our leaders and advocates to stop using these terms And then demand that the Western media stop using them too And if not Now, When? ** FORFEITING THE LANGUAGE FORFEITS OUR HERITAGE AND HISTORY ** -Israel: How a small nation makes a big difference - shares with the world, humanitarianism - beacon of shared Judeo-Christian values - democracy, respects civil rights, womens rights - asset and ally of U.S. - an oasis in hostile, totalitarian/authoritarian Islamic desert -Social Justice -Tikkum Olam - Medical Care for all: Biology trumps Ideology - Safety and Security of Jewish community is bound/ dependent on a strong Israel *** HELP WIN OUR FUTURE BY HELP WINNING BACK OUR PAST *** *** BE AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE TRUTH ** *** LET MY PEOPLE KNOW ***