Palestinian exceptionalism: the art of propaganda
The Palestinians have made quite a name for themselves.
They’re not good at creating a viable economy. But they’re very good at getting others to give them financial assistance.
They’re good at tunnel-building. They’re good at ghoulish mayhem and murder. But what they’re best at is propaganda. At that, they excel.
As Gerard Baker writes: “If there were a Goebbels prize for propaganda, Hamas would win it every year.”
And this despite their habit of stirring up trouble wherever they go. As commenter “Unwillin’ Barkis” has written on this blog:
I cannot think of another group of people – short of gypsies – that are more unwanted than Palestinians. They’re unwanted even among their own religious brethren, that being much of their own fault. I can’t think of another ethnic group in modern history that have done more to destroy humanitarian goodwill than they have, and they’re quickly on track to become the transnational refuse of Earth by the end of the century.
Palestinians have managed to attempt to overthrow government after government of their host countries in order to take over if they can, get more power for themselves, and/or spread the word of their Cause. Their host countries have said “no thanks” in no uncertain terms – for example, Black September in Jordan:
After the 1967 Six-Day War [with Israel], Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas relocated to Jordan and stepped up their attacks against Israel and what had become the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The PLO’s strength grew, and by early 1970, leftist groups within the PLO began calling for the overthrow of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy, leading to violent clashes in June 1970. Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson’s Field hijackings of 6 September 1970. This involved the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seizing three civilian passenger flights and forcing their landing in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press. Hussein saw this as the last straw and ordered the Jordanian Army to take action.
… [T]he Jordanian military attacked again in January 1971, and the fedayeen were driven out of the cities, one by one, until 2,000 surrendered after they were encircled during the Ajlun offensive on 23 July, formally marking the end of the conflict.
Jordan allowed the fedayeen to relocate to Lebanon via Syria, where they later became involved in the Lebanese Civil War. The Palestinian Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen’s expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen.
“Became involved in the Lebanese Civil War” can be translated from WikiSpeak as “played an enormous role in sparking the war.” At any rate, the history of the particular Arabs known as “Palestinians” explains why Egypt has not allowed any refugees into its country during the present post-10/7 conflict.
Another very important thing about the Palestinians which accounts for their status as victims favored above all others by leftists and the international community is that aiding them is big business for the UN and NGOs.
But I think the greatest fortune the Palestinians have had is that their designated enemy is Jewish. If it were some other Arab country, the world would yawn and look the other way. A good analogy for this in the US is when a white person kills a black person versus black-on-black crime; it’s the latter that gets so little publicity. So Palestinians have an ideal built-in situation for their message, which uses the antiquity, ubiquity, and intensity of anti-Semitism to enhance the appeal of Palestinian propaganda.
The Palestinians are smart, too, especially about creating the proper propaganda to match the audience and the target. The Holocaust is deliberately evoked through Palestinian imagery and rhetoric in order to accuse the Jews of perpetrating one. The blood libel, of even greater antiquity, is also frequently and knowingly employed. It is especially painful to Jews who are aware of Jewish history, and especially effective with the wider population of the world because of its harmonic resonances.
Yes agents of influence by ignatius relates how the lebanese prime minister called the squirrel that wouod be franjieh in the story allowed fatah to openly carry weapons consequently the other factions notably the maronites armed themselves and eventually there was a crisis point
There is a oblique reference to the old man of palestinian nationalist who it turned out is amin al husayni
And every bit of it is manufactured. The photos are taken from other wars or famines the videos are staged. Gaza City (where this takes place) is a movie set where all this is done. In other places in Gaza life goes on as normal with no signs there is a war going on. It’s all bullshit.
BobJustBob:
That’s why it’s called “Pallywood.”
Or Gazawood…
Would suspect Hamas Propaganda works is because Leftists, here and Europe wants to believe.
So no fact checking is tried
its much like the liturgy of arms control, that informed the validity of the strike on fordow,
https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/2025/07/29/the-qurans-use-of-explicit-hebrew-theological-terms/
very interesting
With their continued savage behaviour the ‘Palestinians’ are making a very good argument for their own genocide. Not that I approve of that, mind you. But who wants to share living quarters with venomous serpents and fire ants?
The serpent and its minions have ever been skilled in the art of deceit. They can’t speak in the light of truth, so they whisper from the shadows half truths to introduce doubts until the gullible and the willfully blind are convinced that good is evil and evil good.
As I have pointed out before, there has never been a country called palestine. The palestinians are as real as mandalorians.
The “Palestinians” have proven time and again that they are the least deserving people of having their own nation.
The Corrupt Global Media’s agenda WRT
I-P indicates that they ARE NOT influenced by Hamas propaganda…
…since they are fully on-board with it.
(BTW, the same is true of the UN.)
E.g.,
“Huckabee accuses CBS of deceptive editing of interview on Israel”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/huckabee-accuses-cbs-deceptively-editing-interview-israel
They are only good because the press freely aids them. Real Journalism would expose them in an instant.
Because of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, couldn’t Hammas be tried under Hostis Humani Generis? They are most definitely the enemy of mankind. Try them in Absentia, find them guilty and then hunt them down and eliminate them.
And yes it’s obvious that the world leftist media would hyperventilate with self righteous indignation.
Im not an attorney, just asking a question.
Islam and Marxism – two religions that allow, encourage dishonesty and deceit.
Both worship power and death.
Both are “shame cultures” rather than Judeo-Christian “guilt cultures”.
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Remember these parallels the next time you throw up your hands and wonder why intelligent people actually agree (or mouth agreement) with the Palis…Especially the counter-intuitive cases like “Queers For Palestine”.
They are almost always post-Western. If nominally Jewish or Christian – they are liberation-theology Episcopalians or Reform/Reconstructionist post-Zionist Jews. In most cases they are simply adrift.
It’s all liars together… in a sense they know each other better than we know them.
The Euro-Marxists think they can ride the Muslim tiger for their own purposes, and not be consumed.
The Muslims think they will finally expand dar-el-Islam into Europe.
No love lost between them – the only romantic fools in both these attempts at conquest have been unsuspecting, apolitical Judeo-Christians.
Ben David,
Comes very very close.
If anyone noticed “process” and it’s defense became paramount in the pre-Trump years.
I’ll try again, BenDavid is very very close.
Looks like Tucker Carlson is back to “just asking questions”…of “[not exactly] the best and the brightest”…
“Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus;
“Assessing the continued misrepresentations about Hamas and Gaza by Tucker Carlson and Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar”—
https://instapundit.com/737394/
A lot of wisdom in BenDavid‘s post.
The Apelbaum post immediately proceeding the one linked by miguel cervantes, on August 9, 2025 at 6:38 pm is even more directly relevant to Neo’s topic.
https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/2025/07/18/the-vaticans-role-in-coordinated-anti-israel-propaganda/
And now of course, tagalong Albanese say Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at the UN in September.
Absolute dolt is little Anthony being led along by his lesbian ChiCom Foreign Minister.
In conjunction with the link in AesopFan’s comment @11:10 pm:
“What Have We Not Yet Grasped About the Strategic Implications of Gaza’s Underground Challenge;
“The implications of the underground challenge on the current fighting in the Gaza Strip and on the situation in Gaza afterward”—
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/gaza-tunnels/
H/T Powerline blog.
Khaled Abu Toameh on the threat Hamas poses to certain Arab countries…
“Hamas’s Plan to Undermine America’s Arab Allies”—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21827/hamas-undermining-america-arab-allies
“They’re quickly on track to become the transnational refuse of Earth by the end of the century”
If they are not already.
This is what troubles me most about the “Palestinians”. They are like nitro-glycerin. They’ve had decades to change their goals and by extension their behavior. They are trouble and when they leave Gaza for other nations they bring trouble with them.
And history shows that “trouble” means chaos and violence. Heck look at the chaos they instigate in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia. Not even Arab nations want them any more.
Israel has learned the hard way they cannot be left alone in Gaza. So what can the world do with a people who have refused to change their ways, cannot be left alone, and cannot without serious negative consequences be allowed into other nations?
But that boeing jet, sarc
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/foreign-royal-family-own-more-of-london-than-king-charles-as-worrying-trend-laid-bare/ar-AA1K9T2l
@ Rick67 > ” So what can the world do with a people who have refused to change their ways, cannot be left alone, and cannot without serious negative consequences be allowed into other nations?”
God’s complete destruction of certain ancient cities, including a few Israelite ones, has begun to make more sense to me.
The Palis have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity (as GB Shaw sort of said about a forgotten British govt official, missed … to lose an opp [not app] and Arafat admitted they had missed opps before.)
“Hamas decides when the war ends: hostages are released and Hamas surrenders” is what all Israelis should say.
Well abbi ebban said thaf, he misunderstood what that means for palestine so called they want conquest not peace
Precisely.
How can one “miss an opportunity” to “make peace” with an opponent IF the goal is to destroy that opponent?
The ONLY “opportunity” they’ve “missed” is the opportunity to destroy Israel…though not for lack of trying.
Which is why they must KEEP TRYING…until they succeed…
…keeping in mind they only have to “succeed” once….
An argument can be made that Israel is the most morally restrained country in the modern world. I don’t necessarily accept the argument, but it certainly has some valid points.
What other country faces repeated, sometimes brutal, attacks on its people only to be globally condemned for responding in any way?
What other country tries so mightily to minimize civilian casualties when it attacks its enemies, yet is endlessly vilified for any civilian casualties that do occur?
What other country endures a relentless global propaganda campaign portraying it is nothing short of pure evil?
Israel could end this war tomorrow if it chose to act in the way it is endlessly portrayed. But of course it should not and will not. Because even at its most aggressive, most ‘controversial’, it has a moral compass.
That doesn’t mean the Israeli government never makes mistakes; of course they do. It does mean. Israel should be given a decent amount of grace and latitude by any rational observer (of which there are precious few)
Related…
Mama, don’t preach?
“Madonna asks Pope Leo to visit ‘suffering’ children in Gaza ‘before it’s too late’”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/madonna-asks-pope-leo-visit-suffering-children-gaza-its-too-late