Wednesday, December 28, 2022

FDD is now encouraging Holocaust denial

 When you know that if you do something it will backfire and deliver the result you always said you dreaded, but you go ahead and do the thing anyway, you prove to the world that you had a change of heart or that you fell into a state of insanity.

 

This much can be said about the article that was written by Jacob Nagel who is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a notorious Clifford D. May outfit. Nagel’s article came under the title: “Patriot Missiles to Ukraine: Will Israel’s Iron Dome Follow?” and the subtitle: “The war in Ukraine has forced countries to clearly identify their national interests.” It was published on December 23, 2022 in the National Interest.

 

What Jacob Nagel did, undoubtedly speaking in the name of Clifford May and his Foundation, is that he tried to deceive the readers in a manner that’s so insulting to their intelligence, the writer’s doing is bound to backfire and go a long way toward the creation of a paradigm where denial of the Holocaust will become commonplace. To understand why this will be the case, you need to get familiar with how deceptions are used in the most subtle of ways to spread disinformation.

 

Recall a time when you were watching your favorite television show, and while absorbed by the scene, your attention was gently deviated toward the image of a consumer product you normally see in paid-for commercials. Well, that gentle deviation was also a paid-for commercial except that the producers of the show decided to use the most subtle of methods to advertise the product. They did so knowing that a subliminal message piggybacking on your favorite show will have a greater impression on you than would an ordinary commercial.

 

And this is precisely the method that Jacob Nagel has used to resuscitate the long dead hoax that was once known as the Israeli Iron Dome. It is that Jacob Nagel has piggybacked on the American decision to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, and spoke about the fictitious Iron Dome in the same breath. He did all that as if the story of the Patriot and that of the Dome were equivalent, maybe even interchangeable.

 

Look how deftly Jacob Nagel fashioned the nexus with which he associated America’s decision to send the Patriot to Ukraine with Israel’s potential move to do likewise with the Iron Dome. Here is the relevant passage, reproduced in condensed form: “Biden announced one important change to US policy. Washington will now send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. In some ways, the move also puts a spotlight on Israel”.

 

Now that life has been breathed into the once dead Iron Dome, Jacob Nagel began the task of restoring the respectability that was bestowed dishonestly on the hoax at the start. To that end, the writer gathered the false attributes that were conferred on the non-existent system, and bestowed them anew on the resuscitated cadaver. And while doing that, Nagel started the false discussion as to why Israel has refused to transfer the system to Ukraine. Here is how he did all that:

 

“The country refused to provide Ukraine with its Iron Dome air defense system, with its more than 90 percent success rate intercepting rockets, missiles, and UAVs. The reasons for Israel’s refusal are several. It harbors fears that if the system were to be deployed, it would be captured by Russia on the battlefield. From there, it will be sent to Iran for analysis. This could enable the regime to find ways to counter the system in the battlespaces where Iran’s proxies and Israel are squaring off. This would benefit Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in future confrontations with Israel. The outgoing Israeli government made clear this was not a risk it was willing to take. The new government will probably say the same”.

 

Jacob Nagel went on to say that Israel had three more reasons why it would not send its Iron Dome to Ukraine — each of which is as phony a reason as the other. First: there is a shortage of weapons, cried Nagel. But the truth is that shortage of weapons has been an American concern developed by the fact that the country handed weapons to its allies as if they were all threatened by someone. In contrast, Israel had a year and a half since the last Gaza War to replenish its arsenal of Iron Domes. If these things were real, there should be enough of them by now to send to Ukraine and defend Israel against a Hamas attack. But they are not real, which is the reason why they could not be given out. This is what the Ukrainians have learned. It is why their President expressed profound contempt for the Israeli government, and why Jewish Central declared him to be an excommunicated non-Jew.

 

And when the American military said it will take time to train the Ukrainians to use the Patriot, Nagel popped up out of nowhere, and said it will take even more time to train the Ukrainians to use the Iron Dome. That’s how he became phony in the superlative. Lastly, Nagel said that Israel did not want to upset the Russians by arming the Ukrainians. But Israel always said the Iron Dome was a defensive weapon designed to save lives, which is something that the Russians say they are for. Their objection concerned the supply of long range missiles that can hit the Russian homeland – and the Iron Dome, even if it existed, never pretended to do that.

 

It should be clear by now that Jacob Nagel’s discussion had one objective: To make the world believe that the nonexistent Iron Dome does exist, and that it needs a permanent stream of cash from America to continue existing. And this, my friend, is how hoaxes are created and maintained using disinformation.

 

Well, the Israelis may convince the American Congress of fools that they are telling the truth. But the American public, like the rest of the world, is not buying this garbage. What’s happening instead, is that people everywhere are waking up to the possibility that if the Jews would go this far to make you believe a hoax is true, could it not be that the Holocaust is a hoax maintained alive by disinformation?

 

Clifford May’s outfit says it is a distinct possibility.