The following quotes come from the above article "Fighting the Media"

http://www.rumormillnews.com/members/cgi-bin/config.cgi?read=4816

"A media war is always a war of the weak. If
you're not weak, all you can do is damage
control," Israeli official

CNN: "There is a difference between a
crowd with stones and Israeli firepower. The
reality of the images - tanks, helicopters -
raises the profile of the conflict to a totally
different level."

"The Palestinians can't beat us on the
battlefield, but they can win the media war by
creating pictures that put pressure on us."
Israeli official

The Israelis are complaining that the world media is siding with the Palestinians, and the above quotes appear to be a rationalization to explain why.

But what if another agenda is going on.

In the eyes of many, Israel is the agressor. Israel has been compared to Germany and Barak has been drawn as Adolph Hitler with mustache and Nazi uniform.

The United Nations is conducting a special inquiry into Israel's inappropriate use of force against unarmed Palestinians.

Egypt is accusing Israel of blowing up EgyptAir Flight 990 because it had more than 30 highly trained military officers who were returning from the United States where they had been trained in the operation of Patriot missiles.

The Arab world believes it has world opinion on its side in the war against Israel.

For years now Rumor Mill News has been stating that Israel was set up by the United Nations to be destroyed so the United Nations could make Jerusalem the first United Nations World City. Once this step has been taken, Jerusalem will be come the capitol of the United Religions (UR). Once this has been accomplished, the holographic projections of the Messiah will begin to fill the sky, and suddenly we will be swept into a One World Government.

In an article I wrote titled, "Will Bill Clinton Free Jonathan Pollard?" I wrote about the “Level Battlefield Doctrine.”
Pollard believes he is still being held prisoner because the United States has a secret policy which is anti-Israel.

I believe Pollard is wrong. It is NOT the United States that has this policy -- it is the UNITED NATIONS.

Once you realize that Israel is part of the final push to create a New World Order, you will understand what is really going on in Israel.

If the Jews who are not part of the New World Order don't wake up quick, they and Israel will be wiped from the face of the planet.

The following is from the article about Pollard:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=4312

"Why is an American Jew with duel citizenship, who gave, not sold, national security secrets to his other country which happens to be an ally, being treated so much harsher than spies who sold secrets to our enemies?

"Many people have speculated on what Pollard could really have learned, or what he still knows and has not told. William Northrup, a former special operations officer in Viet Nam and CIA contract agent believes the real reason Pollard is being held is because he uncovered a secret United States operation called the “Level Battlefield Doctrine.”

"To Northrup, the term “level battlefield” remains a benign epithet masking he policy’s truest intentions. The name is akin, Northrup said, to the term “incident at altitude” used to describe a crowded jetliner blowing up in mid-air. The Level Battlefield Doctrine’s ramifications are anything but benign. However, it has become the basis of American Middle Eastern policy, all be it, a secret one.

"The Level Battlefield Doctrine states that Israel is responsible for the tensions that exist in the Middle East. Under this policy, the United States has developed a “back door” relationship with middle eastern countries supplying them with weapons in return for oil.

"In 1983 Israel and the United States signed a Mutual Exchange of Information Agreement. While withholding intelligence from Israel, Northrop points out, the United States shockingly provided detailed intelligence assessments of the Israeli Defense force to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis then passed this information on to the Syrians and the Iraqis who were both clients of the Soviet Union. This provided a virtual windfall for Soviet military intelligence.

"Northrup also says that the United States routinely withheld information of impending terrorist actions from the Israelis while routinely passing the same kind of information on to the British, Spanish and Italian governments.

"The tense relationship came to a head during the Reagan Administration after the United States had sold a battery of missiles to Saudi Arabia. Israel planned to attack and destroy the missiles before they became operational. Pollard says Pentagon sources held “off the record” meetings in which they pointed to several intercepted Israeli communications as proof positive that the Israeli government intended to launch an attack on the Saudi missile base before it achieved “operation status”.

"The White House issued a warning to Israel stating that the United States would not tolerate an attack on a “loyal and valuable” ally. Saudi Arabia has oil. Israel does not.

"If Pollard and Northrup are right, then Pollard is in prison because he knows that the United States-Israeli friendship is based on a lie. If Pollard discovered this, and if Israel knows that the United States, while pretending to be a friend to Israel, is in fact making behind the scene overtures to her enemies, then is it any wonder that Israel would have planted a bug in the White House?

"If Pollard knew that the United States routinely withholds important information of terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens, then it is no wonder that Israel and Pollard view the United States as the enemy."

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: Date: 2000/10/22
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: Fighting for the best angle
: By Gil Hoffman

: (October 20) - As Israel and the Palestinians
: each try to make their cases to the world, Gil
: Hoffman examines how the international media has
: become a crucial battleground in the conflict

: CNN Bureau Chief Mike Hanna is a veteran
: journalist who knows what it's like to report
: under fire. But these past few weeks he has had
: to do his job while facing a barrage of a
: different kind.

: While Israeli security forces and Palestinians
: engage in battles on the streets of the West Bank
: and Gaza, both sides grapple simultaneously for
: control of international public opinion on the
: airwaves of CNN, the BBC, and other media outlets
: - a battleground considered no less important.

: Hanna says he has received hundreds of e-mails,
: letters and faxes from people on both sides of
: the conflict, plus a formal complaint from the
: Foreign Ministry. The ministry complained, both
: here and through its consulate in Atlanta, that
: Israel is not being given equal time and is being
: portrayed as an aggressor. The complaint singled
: out the reporting of two Palestinian CNN
: stringers in Gaza, who had used the word 'we'
: when covering the Arab uprising.

: "We're not asking that CNN become an agent of the
: Israeli government," says Gideon Meir, the
: ministry's deputy director-general for public
: affairs. "What we are asking from this important
: media organization is honesty and even-
: handedness. Right now we don't see it."

: Hanna responded that "the network has attempted
: to be as fair and comprehensive as possible,
: covering both sides and giving as wide a spectrum
: of opinion as possible. CNN constantly monitors
: the balance of people interviewed."

: For Hanna, the conflict is business as usual, and
: not a "media war," as it has been called by both
: Israelis and Palestinians.

: "The media is not fighting any wars, honestly,
: just reporting the facts on the ground," he says.
: "In general, we have been doing a pretty fine job
: under very difficult circumstances. The emotions
: involved in the situation on all sides are
: intense, and people are far more sensitive then
: they are at other times."

: THE CNN complaint is part of a new proactive
: approach being taken by a government that had
: been lax in its media outreach efforts since
: taking office nearly a year and a half ago.
: During the course of over a year, the Foreign
: Press Association complained that Prime Minister
: Ehud Barak had failed to meet with them and had
: not appointed a spokesman willing to be
: interviewed on camera in English.

: Israel finally began its own serious media effort
: two weeks ago, setting up a press center at the
: Isrotel in Jerusalem and appointing Science,
: Culture and Sports Ministry Director-General
: Nahman Shai to coordinate the information efforts
: of the Foreign Ministry, the IDF, the police, the
: Government Press Office and the Prime Minister's
: Office.

: What changed the government's attitude, according
: to Shai, was the footage broadcast around the
: world of 12-year-old Mohammed Aldura being killed
: in the crossfire in Gaza as his father tried to
: protect him. That public relations nightmare
: ruined the good reputation Barak had been
: building up for months, and necessitated the
: appointment of Shai and a team of spokesmen to
: explain Israel's position in the conflict.

: In naming Shai, Barak not only chose a man
: respected in Israel for the calming effect he had
: on the nation as the IDF spokesman during the
: Gulf War. He also brought back a figure from the
: last conflict in which Israel was portrayed
: favorably in the international media.

: Shai says the media has a tendency to side with
: the underdog in any conflict. This, he adds, gave
: Israel an advantage in the Gulf War when it was
: fired upon, but puts Israel at a disadvantage in
: this conflict, in which its strength is superior.

: "It is a universal law that you can never win a
: media war when you are stronger militarily and
: are winning on the ground," says Col. (Res.)
: Ra'anan Gissin, a 20-year veteran of the IDF's
: spokesman and strategic planning offices, who was
: called in to assist the IDF information
: ("hasbara" in Hebrew) effort with his mother-
: tongue English.

: "A media war is always a war of the weak. If
: you're not weak, all you can do is damage
: control," Gissin explains.

: Hanna confirmed that the difference in power
: between Israel and the Palestinians is emphasized
: on CNN, saying, "There is a difference between a
: crowd with stones and Israeli firepower. The
: reality of the images - tanks, helicopters -
: raises the profile of the conflict to a totally
: different level."

: Gissin says the government is making an effort to
: minimize the damage by feeding the media
: constantly with Israel's side of the story and
: inviting them to join Israeli troops on patrols
: to see what soldiers have to deal with.

: During the Sharm e-Sheikh summit, Shai and other
: spokesmen wandered the Movenpick Hotel in search
: of bored reporters. They distributed five-minute
: cassette tapes with images of the Ramallah lynch
: of two Israeli soldiers and of Palestinian
: children learning how to handle weapons at
: Islamic Jihad training camps, plus packets with
: resumes of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists
: freed from prison by Palestinian Authority
: Chairman Yasser Arafat.

: "The Palestinians can't beat us on the
: battlefield, but they can win the media war by
: creating pictures that put pressure on us,"
: Gissin says. "That's why we made sure to beat
: them at their own game and exploit their mistake
: by making sure the world saw the lynchings in
: Ramallah."

: FOR Shai, the gruesome images of the brutal
: lynching and mutilation of two reserve soldiers
: by a mob of Palestinian rioters were key in the
: government's effort to take the upper hand in the
: media war.

: "I'm not sure there's a way to win this war, but
: we are doing better than before and we are
: getting closer to balance with the Palestinians -
: which is an achievement," asserts Shai after an
: Isrotel briefing this week. "The old pictures of
: the boy are still seen, but with new images of
: the lynching and of the funeral of [Hillel]
: Lieberman," the American-born rabbi murdered on
: his way to save Torah scrolls from being burned
: at Joseph's Tomb, which was destroyed by
: Palestinians after the IDF withdrew.

: Shai defends the government's decision to pursue
: a video of the lynchings shot by an Italian
: cameraman and make it available to the foreign
: press. After other reporters had their tapes
: confiscated by Palestinian police or rioters, the
: government was ready to offer a large sum of
: money for the video. The station made the tape
: available for free only after the cameraman had
: left the country out of fear of a Palestinian
: reprisal.

: (This week another Italian TV correspondent,
: Riccardo Cristiano, lost both his GPO press card
: and his Jerusalem posting after sending a letter
: to the Gaza daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida in which he
: denied that the film had been shot by his own
: station and also declared himself committed to
: "the journalistic procedures [of] the Palestinian
: Authority.")

: "We discussed it with Barak, and he said to make
: sure the story [of the lynchings] would be
: known," Shai says. "Not that I'm in favor of
: putting such pictures on TV, but we at least
: wanted there to be an option... There are no more
: sacred cows in the [media] war."

: Presiding over a briefing room packed with a mix
: of battle-hardened veteran Middle East
: correspondents, uninformed and confused recent
: arrivals, and cynical Israeli journalists, Shai
: projects the same reassuring air of confidence
: that made him a national hero during the Gulf
: War.

: However, his heavy Israeli accent and less-than-
: perfect command of English are a stumbling block
: preventing him from adequately giving the press
: required information. Reporters mocked Shai for
: consistently mispronouncing the word
: "hostilities" and for saying that missing
: businessman Elhanan Tannenbaum had "disappeared
: at his own initiative."

: One factor differentiating the current situation
: from previous conflicts is the constant coverage
: of CNN, the BBC, and electronic media; they are
: especially hungry for non-stop updates with new
: information and pictures.

: According to Shai, the faster news cycle
: influenced the government's efforts to achieve
: maximum coverage of the lynchings before it
: undertook reprisal attacks against PA facilities
: in Ramallah and Gaza.

: "We didn't have time to wait a day, when the
: media moves on to another matter in minutes,"
: Shai says. "This is a TV war, and TV dictates."

: Foreign Ministry Spokesman Aviv Shir-On says the
: accelerated pace of media coverage puts Israel at
: a disadvantage, because reporters have less time
: to learn the facts. Israel receives better
: treatment in print media than on television, he
: says, because the extra time allows the reporters
: to better examine a situation and learn the
: facts.

: Video also does not make it clear when the IDF is
: taking precautionary actions, like shooting
: rubber bullets and using tear gas grenades.

: Shir-On agrees with Shai that the media has
: changed its coverage in Israel's favor since the
: first days of the clashes.

: In explaining the turnaround, he cites four main
: Palestinian mistakes: pictures of Palestinian
: police and Tanzim shooting at Israeli troops,
: which corrected impressions that while Israel
: shoots, the Palestinians merely throw stones; the
: destruction of Joseph's Tomb; the burning of the
: Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho; and the
: lynchings.

: DESPITE the good intentions of Barak and Shai,
: Immigration Absorption Minister Yael (Yuli) Tamir
: this week accused her own government of "failing
: in the press war" and not making enough of an
: effort to defend its policies, especially in the
: US.

: Tamir, who recently returned from three days in
: New York, says she was "horrified" watching
: coverage of the conflict there. She called upon
: Acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami to recall
: New York Consul-General Shmuel Sisso, whom she
: blames for not properly coordinating her visit
: and for not fighting for time in New York-based
: media.

: Also nearly invisible on the American airwaves is
: camera-shy Ambassador to the US David Ivry.

: "Everyone says this is a press war. We have a
: legitimate point of view to present, but we are
: losing because we are barely making an effort to
: get the message out," Tamir says.

: While various officials and aides have been sent
: to the US for three-day shifts, Tamir recommends
: appointing a spokesman to run Israel's US
: information effortas it did here with Shai.

: The minister praised Israeli and Jewish leaders
: living abroad for defending Israeli policy in the
: absence of government representatives, including
: David Makovsky, a former Jerusalem Post executive
: editor and a senior fellow at the Washington
: Institute for Near East Policy who frequently
: appears on ABC's Nightline and PBS' NewsHour with
: Jim Lehrer.

: Makovsky confirmed that "there has been an
: absence of an Israeli voice" in coverage from the
: US, which he says is due in part to a tendency on
: the part of the government to think that with
: today's global communications it can handle the
: American media from Jerusalem.

: ADL National Director Abe Foxman says the
: government has succeeded in getting its best
: spokesman, Barak himself, on the most crucial
: American news shows. But he criticizes Deputy
: Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, Jerusalem Mayor
: Ehud Olmert and Meretz MK Naomi Chazan for
: participating in a controversial ABC Nightline
: broadcast from east Jerusalem last week that he
: says made Israel look bad.

: Foxman says that Sneh - often criticized for
: appearing on many American TV programs even
: though his English is far from fluent - is
: "honest and sincere," but that he could not have
: made Israel look good on that broadcast "even if
: he spoke the Queen's English."

: Regarding politicians who attempt to represent
: Israel to the foreign press despite poor English,
: Shir-On says, "Many public figureshere think they
: can convey a message, when in reality, they are
: the only ones who think so." Problems like this,
: he says, are beyond the Foreign Ministry's
: control.

: Likud MK Uzi Landau says the government has
: failed with the foreign press, primarily because
: "it does not have a policy to explain. After
: years of the government presenting Arafat as a
: peace partner and attempting to hide Palestinian
: incitement against Israel, it is not sufficiently
: prepared to criticize the Palestinians."

: Landau criticizes Barak for having no information
: mechanism until Shai's appointment, which was too
: late. He believes the government should continue
: to maintain its new information system after the
: conflict is over.

: That would be helpful for the Foreign Press
: Association, whose chairman, Reuters Deputy
: Bureau Chief Howard Goller, says "the Prime
: Minister's Office has suddenly woken up to the
: fact that there are nearly 300 media here, hungry
: for information, day in and day out.

: While Goller represents only the reporters
: stationed here year-round, Shai's office
: estimates that the number of foreign press
: covering the conflict has reached over one
: thousand.

: Goller says the treatment of the foreign press
: has improved in recent weeks because of the
: appointment of English-speaking Ben-Ami in place
: of David Levy, and the hiring of the efficient
: David Baker as the Prime Minister's Office's
: foreign press coordinator. But until Shai was
: named, no one was regularly available to answer
: questions for the government in English, as David
: Bar-Illan did during the Netanyahu
: administration.

: "Shai's appointment was a necessity because the
: Prime Minister's Office did not have the
: infrastructure for dealing with the foreign media
: on a regular basis," Goller says. "This is a
: situation we would have liked all along, before
: it became an emergency."

: Shai acknowledged the criticisms, saying that he
: "jumped into the cold water" of his new post at
: Barak's request and that since then, the
: government's information effort has become
: organized and improved.

: "Maybe next time, if someone is already in
: charge, he will be appointed in advance. We had
: to build a whole operation from scratch, but now
: we are ready," Shai says.

: Dismissing allegations that Barak waited too long
: to hire someone to run the information campaign,
: Shai sighs, "I don't know what too long is, but
: it does look like it's going to be a long
: campaign."

: LANDAU reserves most of the blame for what he
: considers slanted international coverage with the
: government, because he says it does not
: adequately explain its position when it is given
: a chance. But he also is convinced that both CNN
: and the BBC have a "clear anti-Jewish bias."

: For Andrea Levin, head of the Boston-based
: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
: in America (Camera), reporting bias is her
: business - and when it comes to the current
: conflict, she sees lots of it.

: Levin says the main problem with the coverage is
: the failure to mention the long pattern of
: Palestinian incitement that puts the conflict in
: context. Instead of dating the start of the
: conflict from the time of the visit of Likud
: leader Ariel Sharon, which was coordinated in
: advance with Palestinian security chief Jibril
: Rajoub, her organization says the intense
: violence between Israelis and Palestinians didn't
: start until the next day, when Moslems were
: falsely told that the Jews wanted to tear down
: al-Aksa mosque.

: The unreported sermon on the Temple Mount that
: day called on Palestinians to "eradicate the Jews
: from Palestine."

: Camera accuses the media of falsely accusing
: Israel of using excessive force.

: "Contrary to most reports, the Israelis are using
: notable restraint," Camera's website says. "When
: at all possible [soldiers] shoot in the air, then
: use tear gas; if that doesn't work they use
: rubber bullets and try to shoot at the legs. When
: all else fails, they use live ammunition, but
: still do not aim to kill."

: Levin also accuses the media of not reporting the
: Israeli warnings to Palestinians to leave
: targeted buildings in Ramallah and Gaza that
: minimized casualties, or the release of Hamas
: murderers from PA jails.

: Camera's counterpart is the American-Arab Anti-
: Discrimination Committee, the largest Arab-
: American organization. Its communications
: director, Hussein Ibish, agrees with Levin that
: the coverage has been "horrendous" and
: "wretched
: beyond our wildest imagination" - but he believes
: the bias is in favor of Israel.

: The major media sin, according to Ibish, is
: "describing the territories as if there were no
: occupation and no requirement by international
: law for Israel to withdraw from the territories."

: "The American press is in an Alice in Wonderland
: world where the whole conflict is a neighborhood
: dispute and not a military occupation, and the
: territories are a weird and vile neighborhood in
: Israel that is full of insane people," Ibish
: says.

: Ibish sees a tendency in the Western media to
: humanize Israeli victims of atrocities, because
: they are Western, while disregarding the stories
: behind the deaths of non-Western Palestinians.
: The case of Mohammed Aldura, Ibish says, is the
: exception that proves the rule, because he was
: humanized by the media worldwide.

: "Newspaper editorials have written that the
: Palestinians deliberately send children to be
: killed in an effort to win world sympathy," Ibish
: says. "A lot of the commentators have said the
: reason for the conflict is that all Arabs want to
: kill all Jews, that the point of the conflict is
: genocidal antisemitism by crazed Arabs who want
: all Jews dead. They have portrayed the
: Palestinians as lashing out for no discernible
: reason at a government that wants to give them
: everything they can possibly hope for."

: Like Nahman Shai, Ibish sees the conflict as a
: media battle. But according to him, the Sharon
: visit gave the Palestinians an advantage, which
: continued when Israelis were seen shooting at
: demonstrators. Ibish calls the image of Aldura's
: death "one of the most damaging in the history of
: Zionism."

: However, much groundwas lost by the lynching of
: the IDF reserve soldiers, which Ibish says was a
: tremendous blunder that undid a great deal of the
: Palestinian momentum.

: MAKOVSKY, who directs the Washington Institute's
: Project on America, Israel and the Peace Process,
: says that the issue of media bias is not as black
: and white as often portrayed in Israel.

: "Arafat is taking it on the chin here [in the
: US], because people take the conflict beyond the
: images," Makovsky says. "The issue is much more
: complicated than a couple of visual bytes. So
: long as Arafat doesn't stop the violence, the
: silence is deafening."

: Makovsky cites a recent CNN poll that showed 44
: percent of Americans say they identify with the
: Israelis, and only 11% with the Palestinians.
: Those figures are reflected on the op-ed pages of
: America's newspapers, where most editorials and
: columns run in Israel's favor.

: Foxman also says that with the exception of the
: BBC, he does not think the media is biased. "The
: press is not the enemy of Israel," he says.

: Even Levin says that there has been an effort
: recently to greater understand Israel's
: predicament and a lot of thoughtful analysis by
: editorial boards that reflect a growing awareness
: of what is happening. But she spares no criticism
: for the BBC.

: Ibish, meanwhile, says the BBC has done a
: credible job of trying to be fair.

: Along with its efforts against CNN, the
: government has sent complaints to the main office
: of the BBC in London. Regional Cooperation
: Minister Shimon Peres went to London to meet with
: the head of the BBC news division.

: BBC's Jerusalem Bureau Editor Sarah Beck said
: that throughout the conflict, the reporters in
: her bureau have "just been doing their job,
: broadcasting as objectively and accurately as
: possible. We have tried to put on both points of
: view as evenly as possible, which is reflected by
: the fact that the BBC receives criticism and
: praise on both sides."

: Northwestern University Medill School of
: Journalism Professor Richard Schwarzlose teaches
: his students how to evaluate bias in the media in
: his History and Issues in Journalism course.

: In his own evaluation of the American press
: during the conflict, Schwarzlose found the
: coverage fairly balanced.

: "When it comes to coverage, it is Arafat and the
: Palestinians who have been getting the bad press,
: because he is seen as the one balking, who can't
: control his people," Schwarzlose says. "The boy
: and his father made the press pro-Palestinian,
: then the Ramallah murders were given prominent
: coverage, especially with Israel seen as the
: natural ally of the US. But in general, the
: coverage has been very fair."

: Which means that although Israel may have the
: military might to prevail on the battlefields of
: the West Bank and Gaza, it is far less certain
: whether it will ultimately win the war being
: fought on the media battleground.