[Cross-posted from European Tribune – where dissent is NOT troll rated!]
See my previous diary …
○ Global Community Gathers in Russia
A missed penalty by Lionel Messi [link from 2005] resounding across the Middle East, especially across the security wall dividing the Jewish State of Israel and the Land of Palestine.
The New York Times faced a dilemma. How to downplay this stinging defeat for Israel in world opinion? The Times has a correspondent in Buenos Aires, Daniel Politi, and here’s what he did [NYT] in today’s sports pages; he did not quote Higuaín or any other player for Argentina. Instead, he spent 22 paragraphs partly peddling an alternate conspiracy theory: that Argentina canceled not for political reasons, but because the team feared “violence” from Palestinians. (Some pro-Palestinian activists had been waving bloody shirts at a peaceful demonstration in Barcelona, where the Argentine team is fine-tuning before Russia.) .
The article at least pointed out that Israel’s sports minister, the notorious Miri Regev, had moved the scheduled match from Haifa to Jerusalem, a propaganda ploy meant to imply a stronger endorsement of Israel.
Continued below the fold …
Captain Messi: There's #NothingFriendly about Israel killing peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza! @Argentina, don't team up with Israeli apartheid. Cancel "friendly" match in Jerusalem! https://t.co/Ye2WZXXGSf #ArgentinaNoVayas #Nakba70 #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/CgSXKKS9Kb
— PACBI (@PACBI) May 17, 2018
○ Israel searches for scapegoat after Argentina match called off
○ ‘The Israeli military said,’ the New York Times reports
Continued with yesterday’s match between Iceland and Argentina …
Messi blew his chance to win the match when he had a penalty saved by Hannes Por Halldorsson.
Hannes Halldórsson (Iceland): "It's been my dream to play against the best player in the world, Lionel Messi, and it was an honor to save his penalty." #WeAreMessi #Messi #LeoMessi #WorldCup #Argentina #ARG #Rusia2018 pic.twitter.com/W5yHLQL1XH
— Leo Messi 🔟 (@WeAreMessi) June 16, 2018
Following Argentina’s humbling draw with Iceland, Saturday, in which Lionel Messi missed a crucial penalty, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has hilariously claimed Messi’s miss was due to Argentina’s last-minute withdrawal from a pre-World Cup Friendly with Israel.
Liberman suggested in a tweet; however, the footballer star’s skills would have been sharper had his team not pulled out of its final warm-up game in the wake of pressure after Israeli forces killed at least 125 Palestinians and injured over 10,000.
“In Argentina’s against Iceland game we saw just how much Messi needed the warm-up game against Israel,” Liberman tweeted after Messi missed a penalty and were eventually held to a 1-1 draw by Iceland.
Liberman also hailed Iceland as a “giant” after the performance.
When the Media Collude with the IDF to Whitewash Gaza War Crimes | Tikun Olam |
A professor who is a friend sent me an invitation he recently received to participate in a conference in Israel later this month. He was so shocked by the agenda that he sent me the e-mail. It’s being organized by the Tel Aviv University think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies. There is no such thing as an Israeli think tank that is non-partisan or independent. Virtually all have a strong agenda and are funded by foundations, individuals or entities aiming to promote their own agendas. INSS is no different. In its case, its intellectual patron is the Israeli military-intelligence apparatus. It was conceived as an academic affiliate of the military and its founders and most of its personnel have a turnkey relationship between the army and academia.
The conference is called The Cognitive Campaign: Gaza as Case Study. This is entirely a misnomer. The title is a bunch of academic jargon concealing an intent to degrade the memories and sacrifices of the Palestinian victims. The conference originated in an article from last March, which two of INSS’s key figures published on its website: Preparations for the Nakba March: Hamas’s Cognitive Campaign.
I’ve done some research to try to uncover the origin of the term “cognitive” as used in this context. Usually, figures like Gabi Siboni (an IDF colonel serving in the army reserves) and (Dr.) Kobi Michael (director of the Palestinian desk at the ministry for strategic affairs, whose primary agenda is to disrupt the BDS movement through covert action), who are publishing such claptrap feel the need to dress up their theories in some suitable academic veneer. This makes what would otherwise be an entirely tendentious bit of propaganda appear to be a serious intellectual exercise.
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From an earier debate here @BooMan …
○ Gaza and the Dahiya Doctrine of Beirut posted by Oui @BooMan on Feb. 20th, 2012
- This piece was lying around and reading the BooMan – Hurria debate reminded me to pick it up and finish it as a diary. Yes BooMan, the actions of war by Israel in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza are meant as terrorism and should be called as such. The Israelis, through their arrogance and under the US umbrella of impunity, have publicized their actions on many occasions.
○ The Dahiya Doctrine and Israel’s Use of Disproportionate Force
○ New IDF Strategy Goes Public