A technique of propaganda called "Turnspeak"
The Arab League makes use of a cognitive technique
of propaganda called "turnspeak", where you attack someone and then turn
it around 180 degrees and claim they attacked you. Because the truth is
the exact opposite of the information being disseminated it is psychologically
difficult to counter and leads to confusion.
Turnspeak leads to psychological confusion
and a feeling of being "burned-out" or "overwhelmed" with too much information,
effectively creating a blanket of "white noise" which makes clarity difficult
to achieve.
Joan Peters, former White House consultant
on the Middle East writes:
The term was first used by journalists
to describe German propaganda after it invaded Czechoslovakia in March
of 1939. To win sympathy for their invasion, the Germans practiced
what has become known as "turnspeak". They turned the blame back
on the Czechs for trying to precipitate an all-out war in the region. In
other words, the Czechs in their attempt to hang onto their land were ready
to plunge all of Europe into war.
How did the rest of Europe respond to this
lie? They believed it. World leaders decided that something had to be done
to preserve peace at any cost.
Author William Shirer, who was a reporter
in Europe at the time, distilled the truth simply when he wrote,
"Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely
a pretext...for cooking up a stew in a land he [Hitler] coveted, undermining
it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose...to
destroy the Czechoslovak state and grab its territories..." 1
The Arab claim that Jews are "Nazis" is not
without motive. They are trying to obscure their own close connection
with the Nazis. During World War II leading Muslims including Haj
Amin al-Husseini worked for the Nazis in Germany and called for a intifada
against Britain. Haji Amin al-Husseini was the grand mufti of Jerusalem,
as well as Yasser Arafat's close relative and mentor
The Arabs, especially Iraq, sided with
Germany during W.W.II. In May 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini issued a fatwa
- "summons to a holy war against Britain". The
Mufti's widely heralded proclamation against Britain was declared in Iraq,
and was instrumental in his 1941 pro-Nazi intifada in Iraqi. The Mufti
also requested Arab-Americans not to support FDR.
Yasser Arafat's actual name is Abd
al-Rahman abd al-Rauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to
obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and Mufti of Jerusalem.2
Saddam Hussein was raised in the house
of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's pro-Nazi
coup in Iraq in May 1941. Both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein were greatly
influenced by the Mufti during their time in Cairo during the 1950s.
See also History
of Fedayeen, PLO, Fatah, PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, etc Militant Palestinian
Groups and Yasser
Arafat worthy successor to Haj Muhammad Amin al Husseini
Side-by-side comparison of "turnspeak"
Many examples of "turnspeak" abound in today's
news media. For example a article in a leading Western news service
reported "The settlers are a roaming the west bank with guns and randomly
shooting at Palestinian civilians... making Palestinians prisoners in their
own villages", or another article that said "They [the settlers] are hunters...
They go into jail through one door and out the other." An even more
obvious example is Arafat's claims that Israel is stopping the peace process.
What "turnspeak" says:
(from Arab and Western media)
-
Israel is aggressive, expansionist
-
On the day that Israel declared
their statehood -- May 14, 1948 -- it was invaded by an alliance of Egypt,
Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Their motivation was the already clearly stated
intent of Israel to disregard international treaties
-
Israeli violations of human
rights are the worst in the world
-
The Israelis are barbaric in
their occupation of the territories
-
The Israeli methods are worse
than the Nazis
-
Israelis are Nazis
-
Palestinian holocaust
-
The Israeli government is a
gang of thieves
-
Israel is poisoning the Palestinian
water supply.
-
Israel is a terrorist state
-
Israel doesn't want peace
-
Israel rejects all overtones
of peace by Arab countries.
-
PM Sharon is a war criminal.
-
The nobel peace price should
be revoked from Shimon Peres
-
Israel routinely sanctions war
crimes.
-
Israel is terrorizing Palestinian
cities.
-
Israel shoots randomly at Palestinians
-
Israeli killing and organized
Israeli terror
-
Israel has annihilated Palestinian
villages for decades
-
Israeli media is inciting religious
hatred towards Moslems.
-
Moslem holy places are in danger
by Israel.
-
Mosques and Churches are being
made into Synagogues
-
The Jews want to destroy Al
Aksa Mosque (and Dome of the Rock)
-
Arabs have no legal rights in
Israel. Christians have no legal rights in Israel.
-
The settlers are roaming the
west bank with guns and randomly shooting at Palestinian civilians.
-
The settlers are making Palestinians
prisoners in their own villages
-
Arab villages are surrounded
by barbed wire fences (barbed wire concentration camps)
-
They [the settlers] are hunters...
They go into jail through one door and out the other
-
Palestinians have been living
in Palestine for thousands of years.
-
Claims of historical or religious
ties of Jews and [the land of] Palestine are incompatible with the facts
of history...
-
Palestinians outside Israel
have an even higher standard of living than Israelis
-
Arabs who live in Israel live
in the same third world conditions that exist in most Arab countries
-
Iraq, Egypt, Syria and (now)
Iran have purer democracies than even the United States
-
Israeli press is government
run.
-
The Jews are preventing the
Arab countries from having democracies.
-
Palestinian Terrorists are martyrs.
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Yet the counterpart is probably closer
to the truth:
-
[Militant] Islam is aggressive,
expansionist.
-
On the day that Israel declared
their statehood -- May 14, 1948 -- it was invaded by an alliance of Egypt,
Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Their motivation was the already clearly stated
intent of the Arabs States to disregard U.N. declarations.
-
Arab States violations of human
rights are [some of] the worst in the world
-
[Some] Islamic States have been
barbaric in their treatment of minorities (Kurds, Armenians, etc.), women's
rights (honor killings) and criminals (cutting off hands, body parts, beheading...)
-
Many Arab leaders were Nazi
sympathizers, see above.
-
Jewish holocaust
-
The Palestinian Authority is
a gang of thieves.
-
Palestinians have on occasion
poisoned the Israeli water supply [or poisoned Israeli produce].
-
The Palestinian Authority is
a terrorist entity
-
Arafat doesn't want peace
-
The Arab States reject all overtones
of peace by Israel.
-
Arafat is a war criminal.
-
The nobel peace price should
be revoked from Arafat.
-
Arafat (and the Arab States)
routinely sanction war crimes.
-
The military wing of the PA
is terrorizing Israeli cities.
-
Palestinian Terrorists shoots
randomly at Israelis
-
Terrorists killing and organized
Palestinian Authority terror
-
Arab States have annihilated
Jewish villages (in Arab States) for hundreds of years
-
Arabic media is inciting religious
hatred towards Jews.
-
Jewish holy places are in danger
by Islam.
-
Synagogues and Churches are
being made into Mosques.
-
The Wakf is actually destroying
the Temple Mount artifacts
-
Jews have no [reduced] legal
rights in the [some] Islamic States
-
The Palestinian Terrorists are
roaming the west bank with guns and randomly shooting at Israeli civilians.
-
The Palestinian Terrorists are
making settlers prisoners in their own villages.
-
Jewish Settlements are surrounded
by wire fences.
-
They [the Palestinian Terrorists]
are hunters... They go into jail through one door and out the other
-
Jews have been living in Palestine
for thousands of years.
-
Claims of historical or religious
ties of "Palestinians" and [the land of] Israel are incompatible with the
facts of history...
-
Arabs who live in Israel have
an even higher standard of living than Arabs outside Israel
-
United States and Israel have
democracies, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Iran are not.
-
Most Arab press are government
controlled
-
The Arab Leaders are preventing
the Arab countries from having democracies
-
Victims of Palestinian Terrorists
are martyrs.
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1."From Time
Immemorial" by Joan Peters, 1984
2.The
Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was later the notorious Nazi who
mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam. He was wanted for war crimes in
Bosnia by Yugoslavia. His mix of militant propagandizing Islam was
an inspiration for both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Husein: He was also a
close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple Mount
Mufti. "Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud
al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious
Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini." Howard
M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf, 1976). The Bet Agron
International Center in Jerusalem interviewed Arafat's brother and sister,
who described the Mufti as a cousin (family member) with tremendous influence
on young Yassir after the Mufti returned from Berlin to Cairo. Yasser Arafat
himself keeps his exact lineage and birthplace secret. Saddam Hussein
was raised in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader
in the Mufti's pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941.
This page was produced by Joseph
E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious
History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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Source: "From Time Immemorial" by Joan
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