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Inquiry exposes massive Israeli media manipulation campaign in US
Published: 20 August, 2010, 03:06
Edited: 23 August, 2010, 22:07
TAGS: Scandal, Middle East, USA
Files declassified in America have revealed the covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the US.
The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important.
The files can be downloaded from the website of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern Policy.
Alison Weir of the Council for National Interest in the US, an advocacy group on Middle East policy, said this information was not a surprise for her, as she did her own studies on this subject.
She believes Israeli influence is corrupting the American media, which no longer represents the views of the country's people.
“Part of their agenda is to make Americans fear and hate Arabs and Muslims and also, I fear, to make Muslims and Arabs fear and hate Americans,” Weir told RT. “This is very troubling and going on day by day.”
Grant F. Smith, who is a director of the institute in Washington, explained to RT what had been uncovered.
“These files are from a sealed Senate investigation which was the result of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the US Department of Justice looking into groups that brought $36 million into the US to plant stories in the US media and promote Israeli foreign policy objectives in the US,” he said.
“They are extremely relevant, because they reveal, for example, a vast effort to divert US attention from the Israeli Dimona nuclear weapons facility by saying it was merely a research center," he added. "They carefully tracked how that story was playing in the US media.”
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This is the Word that the Chosen One's and their American converts have chosen to spread...'Arab Hatred', they see + kill 'Terrorists' everywhere ...even Lawful Resistance,Women +Kids. The Arrogance of Fascism! (and GOD chose these characters?).Who could deny Hatred to a people Oppressed+Occupied for four decades?..it's richly deserved and no amount of propaganda will alter that ,both here in the real world and increasingly in the U.S... Spend the millions on something that might please a God...Compensation to the Sons and Daughters of Darkness perhaps?
At the risk of upsetting a few in the US, it does appear that most Americans are either too self interested, too self occupied, or too indifferent, to even notice that thier media is, at worst, directly owned by pro Israeli groups and individuals, and at best heavily influenced by pro Israeli groups and individuals. From the few US citizens left who do notice, most simply don't care enough to do even the simplist things about it, such as getting thier news from other countries / sources, etc. The very small minority who do notice, do care, and do try to do something about it appear hamstrung by the ignorant masses and the stranglehold pro Israeli groups enjoy. Change has to come from within, something that appears a very long way off in the US of A