A space as large as the infinite universe – maybe even larger, separates the two adjectives: “whopping,” and “measly.” In fact, you will understand my disappointment if I said I played the lottery and won a measly ten dollars. That’s because ten dollars do not get you far these days.
On the other hand, you will understand my elation if I
told you I won a billion dollars playing the lottery. That’s because a billion
dollars can make anyone’s dream come true.
Those two adjectives, and others like them, are tools kept
in the toolbox of the spin doctors who use them to stretch or to compress the
meaning of a third party’s argument. They help the spin doctors stretch or compress
or mutilate an argument, thus make you believe in something that’s vastly
different from what the argument intended to convey in the first place.
Some people have embraced the culture of distortion so
thoroughly, however, distorting the reality of a situation comes naturally to
them without them using the adjectives that would risk giving them away. One of
these people is Clifford D. May who wrote a piece clearly showing how adept he
is at inflating the work of some people, and deflating that of others, thus
create a gap between them that’s as large as the infinite universe – maybe even
larger.
Clifford May’s article came under the title: “Reporters
in Gaza have never been free,” published on August 16, 2022 in The Washington
Times. As can be seen, a substitute adjective: “never” is used here to begin
the process of deflating one side of the argument (the Palestinian,) and in so
doing, making the other side (the Israeli) look larger than it is.
Here, in condensed form, is what Clifford May says the
Palestinian group Hamas has done, which he finds objectionable and wants the
whole world to condemn:
“To show it still rules the roost,
Hamas issued restrictions on foreign journalists working in Gaza, following the
conflict that erupted between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Among the
restrictions: a prohibition against reporting on Gazans killed by misfired
Palestinian rockets and a requirement that Israel be blamed for the battle. In
addition, Hamas ordered foreign correspondents to employ Palestinian ‘sponsors’
who must submit reports on where those correspondents go, what they do and any ‘illogical
questions’ they ask. The new rules warned that sponsors must ‘demonstrate
national spirit, defend the Palestinian narrative and reject the foreigner’s
bias to the Israeli narrative.’ The Foreign Press Association protested these restrictions.’
Discussions ensued and, the FPA happily announced that Hamas officials had come
around. Director of the government media office in Gaza, agreed. A happy
ending, right? Not exactly. The Associated Press pointed out: ‘Even if the
rules are officially withdrawn, Hamas has still signaled its expectations,
which could have a chilling effect on critical coverage.’ That, too, fails to
reflect a reality which is this: Reporters in Gaza have never been free and are
not now”.
All you need to do to gauge the horrific mutilation that’s
packed in that passage, is be a resident of Planet Earth to see that what
Clifford May propagates here, is a bunch of hooey disguised as sumptuous meals
offered to news junkies who would dig-in before bothering to inspect what they
are about to stuff into their bodies. It is that the truth is out there for all
to see.
For example, when a war erupts between Hamas or a Palestinian
group, Gaza opens itself to foreign correspondents who see all that happens there,
and they report on it. By contrast, Israel does nothing more imaginative than broadcast
all about the Gaza rockets that miss Jews in Israel, and pinpoint instead the
Palestinian or Druze children who live there – and kill them. Clifford May and
all those like him expect you to consume this garbage like a child takes in
fairytales.
In fact, when you go over each sentence in the Clifford
May narrative, you will realize that to produce it, the writer did nothing
better than reprint the general directives issued by Jewish Central, and
accused Hamas of issuing them without acknowledging where they originated.
Worse of all, is the reality that when the Jews of Israel
proved they can get away with distortions of this magnitude, their confidence
buoyed so massively, they dared to transfer their mentality to other
jurisdictions, most notably America, which is one of the many English speaking
victims to succumb to the fascist censorship that the Jews have spread around
the globe by accusing those who resist them of being antisemitic and working to
bring about Holocaust II.
Now that Hamas woke up to the reality that Israel and its
worldwide cohorts have been making gains playing the game that they do – has decided
not to play the game itself – but to shine light on it so as to show the
foreign press the need to be even-handed in their coverage of what happens in
Gaza. What Hamas did was rule that the foreign press must treat Palestinians the
same way they treat Jews, but then rescinded the rules to let the foreign
correspondents formulate them by themselves.