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Israel Advocacy Groups

C o H a VCoalition of Hasbara

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The Phases of War

1st phase – conventional war of bullets and bombs

2nd phase – computerised control of battle

3rd phase - terrorism

4th phase - global war of ideas, or media war (4GW)

5th phase – social media

6th phase – lawfare

7th phase - cyberwar



Target Groups by Government

1% - decision makers

9% - political activists

15% - politically aware public

Governmental and manyNon-Governmentalorganisations



75% - The generalpublic, universities, schools, trade unions, trade journals

Target Groups by Palestinians





a) Read and learn the facts of the conflict

c) Form a group of friends to meet and discuss issues, using social media tools

b) Develop your own narratives on both conflict related and non conflict related issues

d) Start a Rapid Response Group, Blog, Facebook, Twitter



Your agenda/narratives

The effectiveness of the Anti Terrorist Barrier

Palestinian occupation of the mind of the youth through education

Israel wants peace

What Israel has done for World

Common values with the Western world:Democracy, Aspiration for Peace, Tolerance

Palestinian lack of building a State and educating for peace

Naqba of Jews from Arab countries

Human Rights Abuses in the Palestinian Territories

What the Arab leaders are saying

New Palestinian State to be Free of Jews

The main issue is NOT settlements or borders, it is about a right to exist





Your agenda/narratives

The effectiveness of the Anti Terrorist Barrier

Palestinian occupation of the mind of the youth through education

Israel wants peace

What Israel has done for World

Common values with the Western world:Democracy, Aspiration for Peace, Tolerance

Palestinian lack of building a State and educating for peace

Naqba of Jews from Arab countries

Human Rights Abuses in the Palestinian Territories

What the Arab leaders are saying

New Palestinian State to be Free of Jews

The main issue is NOT settlements or borders, it is about a right to exist



Today’s Battleground

The Media

Social Media



Jewish controlled?



Distortions of images mostly fall into the following categories

Deliberate falsifying of pictures - boy run over by car



The image leaves no doubt – witness the unprovoked brutality of the Israelis against the innocent Palestinian

Note the background – a filling station…

two cars – fully grown trees

Images can be powerful…… but appearances can nevetheless be deceptive

“We see things not as THEY are but as WE are……..” Therefore…….. if he bleeds, he MUST be Palestinian.





Twitter: http://twitter.com/IsraelMFA

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jerusalem-Israel/Israel-Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs/101995411316

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/israel-mfa/

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/israelmfa

Delicious : http://delicious.com/israelmfa

Digg: http://digg.com/users/israelmfa

Friendster: http://profiles.friendster.com/israelmfa

Social Media Addresses of the MFA



*Meet John Smith, a British student

*John gets fliers on campus from radical political groups

*John goes to the web to do his own research

*If the fliers were about “Israeli Apartheid” or “Zionism” his private research will re-enforce the fliers

*He is now more likely to believe it after forming his own opinion based on his research



*Big lie theory and the rewriting of history

*Mass movements that lend legitimacy and use peer pressure as an effective tool

*People convince themselves, hard to then change their mind

*No longer reporting the news but asking people to help make / manufacture the news

*Volume is truth, truth is decided democratically



*You can help others by providing links to them. Even if your site is small, it can help.

*Check the words you use when providing a link and try an include key words in the link text if possible

*Write a page on the same topic and use relevant key words as often possible, then provide a link to them from your page

*When sharing a story link to the original source



Hi, Stuart Palmer.Media Asia (MediaAsia) is now following your tweets on Twitter. A little information about Media Asia:

48318 followers2672 tweetsfollowing 46923 people

Hi, Stuart Palmer.shaqmallory (alwayshere23) is now following your tweets on Twitter. A little information about shaqmallory:

77 followers234 tweetsfollowing 196 people



Distribution of “Hits” to Blog





















SUMMARY

The PA is responsible for distributing water into areas A and B and they are NOT using all the water that is allocated to them.

•The PA pump 200 mill cubic metres (MCM) of water from their own resources

•Israel under its obligations provide an additional 52 MCM

•The PA consumption is only 185 MCM



The PA has stopped all cooperation with Israel on water issues.

In addition the PA :-

Does not treat their sewage (Israel treats 75% of the waste water for agriculture, aiming for 90% by 2015)

Is not developing new water resources available to them

Has allowed of 300 illegal wells to be dug in the West Bank

Close to 30% of water is lost due to the illegal drillings, evaporation and leakages (for info Israel loses 10%)





“The dispute with the Palestinians is not territorial, it is ideological”- Israeli Ambassador to UK 11-2011

San Remo 1920

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country

Article 5 - No Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power

Article 6 - The Administration of Palestine…..shall encourage, in cooperation with the Jewish agency close settlement on the land, including State lands not requried for public purposes





Do the Palestinians Really Want a 2 – State Solution??

Hamas in Gaza: 'Palestine means Palestine in its entirety, and Israel cannot exist in our midst' - Fri. 29 Jul.

•Hamas foreign minister Al-Zahar reiterates Hamas' rejection of two-state solution and commitment to gaining 'Palestine in its entirety' by force. He also declared that Hamas would view any Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, or a compromise agreement with the Palestinian Authority, as only a 'first stage' towards the destruction of Israel in its entirety. 'At this moment in time, we say to you, first of all: We want Palestine in its entirety - so there will not be any misunderstandings. If our generation is unable to achieve this, the next one will, and we are raising our children on this. Palestine means Palestine in its entirety, and Israel cannot exist in our midst.'



Is there a Palestinian occupation of the mind of the population against peace through education

Are the Palestinians Educating their citizens for peace?







NGO Direct government funding

Indirect government funding

Total government donations (in NIS)

Percentage of total donations

Adalah

EU; Switzerland; joint funds from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland

Netherlands (via Oxfam Novib) Non-transparent

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)

Germany; Spain; EU; Netherlands; Norway; UK; Netherlands; joint funds from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland

Sweden (via Diakonia); Netherlands (via Kerk in Actie)

1,480,469 (in 2009) 53%

Breaking the Silence

Spain; EU; UK; joint funds from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland

Netherlands (via ICCO); Sweden (via Diakonia); Ireland (via Trocaire); Denmark (via Dan Church Aid); UK (via Christian Aid)

1,983,472 (2010) 76.30%

B’Tselem

Switzerland; Denmark; EU; Netherlands; Norway; Spain; UK; joint funds from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland

Netherlands (via ICCO; Oxfam Novib); Sweden (via Diakonia); Denmark (via Dan Church Aid); Ireland (via Tocaire); UK (via Christian Aid); Germany (via EED)

5,388,869 (2009) 62%









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PMW - studying Palestinian societythrough window of Palestinian media:

SportsCulture

Crossword puzzlesEntertainment

Children’s pagesTV music videos

PoetryBook reviewsTV sermons

andSchoolbooks



“Normalization in sport a burning issue”[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 21, 2011]



Headline: “The street and the [sports] association oppose normalization [with Israel], emphasizing: There are rules to raising the flag of Palestine” “The normalization tournament in Canada [with Israel] has created a strong outcry on the Palestinian street, with the publication of the details of the football match in forum discussions on the Internet and photographs showing participation by Palestinian girl players in a match alongside Israeli girl players. This has caused agitation and anger on the Palestinian street when it comes to such games… Abd Al-Majid Hujjah, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Football Association, announced that the Association intends to appoint an investigative committee to look into the circumstances of participation by groups of girl players in a normalization encounter with Israelis in Canada. He emphasized that the investigative committee will submit its recommendations prior to legal steps being taken against the players. Hujjah said that the position of the Palestinian Football Association on the issue of normalization [with Israel] in sports is well-known already, having been publicized, officially, on more than one occasion. This position has been disseminated among everyone involved and it rules out any contact by the Palestinian Football Association with any activity related to the Israeli side.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 21, 2011]



Culture,educational TV for kids


Israel Advocacy Groups Girl points to places on map: "We went to the Sea of Galilee (lake in Israel) and to the Dead Sea."Boy points on map: "Jaffa, Haifa." (Israeli cities)Girl: "And Jericho."Boy: "And Jenin and Nablus."Host: "So you've visited many different places in Palestine, and that's very good. It's very good that we're always visiting new places in our state, Palestine."

[PA TV (Fatah), May and August 2010]

Palestinian Mufti, Muhammad Hussein: Jesus taught Islam not Christianity

"We're talking about an ongoing chain [of prophets of Islam], from Adam to Muhammad, representing the call for monotheism and the mission of Islam… The prophets were all of the same religion [Islam]… [e.g.] Jesus was born in this land in Bethlehem… He also lived in Nazareth, moved to Jerusalem, so he was a Palestinian… We respect Jesus, we believe in him [as a prophet of Islam], just as we believe in the Prophet Muhammad.“ [PA TV (Fatah) April 21, 2009]



Religiously based non-recognition:

Palestinian Authority:

Conflict with Israel Is mandatory religious

war for Islam


Israel Advocacy GroupsMahmoud Habbash, Minister of Religion:"Allah has preordained for us the Ribat (religious war) on this blessed land. We are committed to it by Allah’s command. Let no one be mistaken or under the illusion that Ribat (religious war) is a choice and nothing more. It is a commandment that necessitates hardship and requires the person to rush to fulfill this command. If Allah has chosen you for Ribat on the land of Ribat, you, the choicest of God’s servants, then this is an honor. The enemy is patient, it is waiting for the nation to collapse. The struggle over this land is not merely a struggle over a piece of land here or there. Not at all. The struggle has the symbolism of holiness, or blessing. It is a struggle between those whom Allah has chosen for Ribat and those who are trying to mutilate the land of Ribat."[PA TV (Fatah), Feb. 12, 2010]



Obstacles to Peace

1- Non-recognition of Israel 1b Religious war 2- Demonization and hate

incitement 3- Support and glorification of terror and violence



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