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Paul J. Balles considers the three main strengths of Zionist
and American propaganda: simplicity, repetitiveness and the ignorance
of its target audience.
I've looked at life from both
sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all. - Joni Mitchell |
Hypnotists, magicians, politicians, sloganeers and propagandists
succeed or fail depending on how well they enchant people with
illusions.
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"The Israelis made their desert bloom."
- Zionist illusion
"There is no need to argue with the masses,
slogans are much more effective. Slogans are like strong drinks
to people. - Joseph Goebbels
"The Israelis built the only industrialized
economy in the entire Middle East." - Israeli slogan
"Propaganda must limit itself to a few
themes and repeat them incessantly." - Adolph Hitler
"The Israelis built the only liberal
democracy in the Middle East." - Illusionist chant
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the
bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." - Noam Chomsky
"The Middle East conflict is not about
Israel's occupation of the territories; it is about the refusal
of the Arabs to make peace with Israel, which is an inevitable
by-product of their desire to destroy it." Zionist
propaganda
"... Effective propaganda must limit
its points to a few and these points must be repeated until even
the last member of the audience understands what is meant by
them." - Adolph Hitler
"The Israelis treated the Arabs who remained
in Israel well. To this day the very large Arab minority, which
lives inside the state of Israel, has more rights and privileges
than any other Arab population in the entire Middle East."
- Disinformation magic by David Horowitz
"... the rank and file are usually much
more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always
be essentially simple and repetitious." - Joseph Goebbels
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Consider the next two quotations, with a shift in venue from
Israel to America, together:
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"The most brilliant propagandist technique
will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne
in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points
and repeat them over and over." - Joseph Goebbels
"See, in my line of work you got to keep
repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to
sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W.
Bush
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Here's why hype has worked for the Zionists, for Carl Rove,
for the neo-conservatives and, until his lies started to catch
up with him, for George W. Bush:
| "The essence of propaganda
consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally,
that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape
from it." - Joseph Goebbels |
The scientist Carl Sagan referred to essentially the same
effect on the public:
| "One of the saddest lessons
of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we
tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has
captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost
never get it back." - Carl Sagan |
Finally, a word from the master craftsman's first protégé:
| "Through clever and constant
application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise
as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched
sort of life as paradise." - Adolf Hitler |
Who are the later protégés? Consider the observation
of a master visionary:
| "Blinding ignorance does
mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" - Leonardo
da Vinci |
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