See What Israel Really Did in 1948. NOTE: This is a critical fact often omitted when the history is presented and this leads to a very distorted view of what happened in 1948. The misleading story often told is that "Jews declared Israel and then they were attacked." The fact is from November 1947 to May 1948 the Zionists were already on the offensive and had already attacked Arabs. In the months before Israel was declared, the Zionists had driven 300,000 non-Jews off their land. In the months before Israel was declared, the Zionists had seized land beyond the proposed Jewish State. Here are some sources: http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2005/08/sources-for-israelipalestinian.html "The Zionists were by far the more powerful and better organized force, and by May 1948, when the state of Israel was formally established, about 300,000 Palestinians already had been expelled from their homes or had fled the fighting, and the Zionists controlled a region well beyond the area of the original Jewish state that had been proposed by the UN. 62 Now it's then that Israel was attacked by its neighbors - in May 1948; it's then, after the Zionists had taken control of this much larger part of the region and hundreds of thousands of civilians had been forced out, not before." pp. 131-132 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565847032/ref=nosim/representativ-20 The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East by David Hirst http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560254831/ref=nosim/representativ-20 "By May, its armies had taken over parts of the territory assigned to the Palestinian state. The Irgun-LEHI Deir Yassin massacre in April had already taken place, one major factor in causing the flight of much of the Arab population. This fact was reported with much enthusiasm in official statements of Irgun and LEHI, specifically, by the terrorist commander Menachem Begin, who took pride in the operation in which some 250 defenseless people were slaughtered, including more than 100 women and children, with 4 killed among the attacking forces. Recently discovered personal testimonies of the leaders of the operation reveal that the majority favored eliminating whoever stood in their way, including women and children, and proceeded to do so, murdering captured and wounded." p95 Fateful Triangle The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896086011/ref=nosim/representativ-20 Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition by Norman G. Finkelstein http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844421/ref=nosim/representativ-20 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851685553/ref=nosim/representativ-20 "The problem is that a large majority of people who are using the Internet do have a framework, but it's the framework that comes from the indoctrination that they've been subjected to. Namely, what the propaganda model applies to and it also generalizes to the academic, you know, to the schools and the colleges, and to the general intellectual community. There is an intellectual community of which the media are a part, which, I don't have time — I'll talk about it if you like, but it does give an extremely skewed picture of the world." http://readingchomsky.blogspot.com/2008/10/authorsgoogle-noam-chomsky.html Jump to question (27min into the 53 min video) about if Propaganda Model holds for the Internet (the part the clip comes from) & my playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLWSC5p1XE&annotation;_id=annotation_929027&src;_vid=MdRvabDdVBY&feature;=iv&list;=PLF636FF0EA3E2DA2B#t=27m37.7s or Jump to start of political talk by Chomsky, skipping past linguistic theory ( (16 min into the 53 min video) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=MdRvabDdVBY&feature;=iv&list;=PLF636FF0EA3E2DA2B&annotation;_id=annotation_693326&v;=rnLWSC5p1XE#t=16m34s

• published: 09 Jun 2012
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