Deciphering Israel’s Political Double Speak
Mid East Posts / Mondoweiss
01-May-2011 (9 comments)

I have a confession. I love the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
website. I can, and often do, read it for hours. It is a treasure trove,
home to some of the best propaganda on the planet.

The MFA
website is also home to the three sacred words. Words, which when
uttered correctly, underpin decades of US-Israeli rejection of a
peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine. With reverence and
hushed tone, I will now utter them:

Concession. Intransigence. Precondition.

The
first two are usually used together with the correct qualifiers, and
become “Israeli concessions” and “Palestinian intransigence”. This is
the discursive framework we use to characterise the history of
“negotiations” in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel will bend over
backwards to try to find a solution but the stubborn Palestinians stick
to their guns.

“Preconditions” are what the Palestinians use to
avoid negotiations. Preconditions like insisting Israel gives up its
right to settle in Judea and Samaria. Preconditions like insisting that
negotiations be based upon international law.

These words are
important, as they represent textbook truth inversions; reality turned
on its head, or what Orwell would have termed doublespeak.

When
asked, Israel’s supporters are hard pressed to name an actual Israeli
concession since 1948. ... >>>

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Thanks!

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Mon May 02, 2011 12:18 PM PDT

Good advice. I will follow!

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Reality-Bites

Iranmilitiaryforum.net jaan

by Reality-Bites on Mon May 02, 2011 07:59 AM PDT

Ignore those who react to your comments and copy & paste articles with "Khamooshi" and keep up the good work. 


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I think it is a well worth and

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Sun May 01, 2011 08:16 PM PDT

justified saying to be used here sometimes: "Javabe Ablahan kamooshist"!

;-)


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Simorgh jaan, or rather, Simorgh habibi

by Reality-Bites on Sun May 01, 2011 02:02 PM PDT

Thank you for the reminder. Alongside the "learn Arabic book", I'll be sure to order two Arabestan flags from amazon. One to fly above my own place and one to send to Iranmilitiaryforum.net as a gift for all his hard work on our behalf.

We'll show those pesky Iranians that 3000 years of history does not give them the right to fly the Iranian flag and claim sovereignty over Khuzestan Arabestan.


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Simorgh5555

Reality Bytes

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 01, 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Reality Bytes Brother,

Palestine was occupied by Zionists in 1948. We Arabs of Arabestan in Iran lost our independence in 1935. Unlike our brothers in West Bank or Gaze we cannot even speak Arabic in our schools or even fly the Arab standard. The Iranian flag is on every official building!

The Arabs of Iran will be free! 


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Damn, I'm falling behind!

by Reality-Bites on Sun May 01, 2011 12:48 PM PDT

That being the case, I'll get on amazon.com right away to order a copy of "Arabic for dummies".

After all, we gotta get ready for the liberation, right? 


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Simorgh5555

Yes brother Reality Bites

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 01, 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Inshallah Arab lands from Palestine to Arabestan in Iran will be liberated!

We have the support of Iranian Military.Net. He is an Arab brother just like us. He gives his full support to Arab causes.

Long live the Free Arab Peoples!  


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Simorgh jaan

by Reality-Bites on Sun May 01, 2011 12:20 PM PDT

That link you posted made for interesting reading, in particular this extract:

"...Abandoned by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which turned its attention to nearby Kuwait in 1990, the Arabistanis have looked beyond Iraq to the other Arab states for support. Drawing on Arab sympathy and monetary aid, the Arabistani nationalists compare their situation to that of the people of Palestine, another Arab nation under foreign military rule (ibid., 29-30)...."


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Simorgh5555

Khuzestan is Arab!

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 01, 2011 12:07 PM PDT

It happens in Iran as well!

Please read this extract from the UNHC Report:

 //www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,464dc689b9,3ae6ad638,0.html

 

 People: The Arabistanis are a Semetic Arab people made up of thirty tribal groups that are ethnically and culturally related to the Arab peoples to the west but are not closely related to Iran's majority Aryan population. The Arabistanis, who speak an Arabic dialect with a marked Farsi (Iranian admixture), are mostly Shia Muslims, adhering to the branch of Islam predominant in Iran, with a Sunni Muslim minority concentrated in the coastal areas. …


"The centralization of government, under the Pahlevi dynasty [1925], included the official elimination of the privileges of the Iranian state's numerous ethnic and religious minorities. In 1928 the inhabitants of Arabistan, again rechristened Khuzestan, came under intense pressure to assimilate, with ethnic clothing outlawed, Arabic language publications banned, and all schools order to teach only in Farsi, Iran's official language."

PLEASE HELP THE ARAB PEOPLE OF KHUZESTAN FROM DOMNINATION BY IRANIAN PERSIAN OCCUPIERS. WE DEAMND THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ARABIC AND NOT FARSI IN OUR SCHOOLS. 


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