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July 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The five star al-Mashtal hotel in Gaza. Photo: Trip Advisor.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”. I don’t know exactly what John F. Kennedy implied when he said this, but I reckon these words suit perfectly the awkward situation we are in right now. We are living in the world where sticks and stones actually can’t break our bones that much, even if the stones are replaced by “Qassam” and “Grad” missiles. We’ve got our answer for that – thank God and the IDF. But words, lies and modern mythology have turned into much more effective weapons against state of Israel, which no Iron Dome can withstand.
They are being used on a daily basis by our foes of different types – from madcap leftists to Islamofascists and have actually turned into their common trademark. It is hard to fight a myth, even if it is totally unrealistic, as Kennedy pointed out. People nowadays are too lazy to listen or read even a short explanation, which is, naturally, much longer than any myth or lie itself.
And it takes much more time to uncover and verbalize the truth, which can dissolve the stuff people are being fed by the media. For example, here is the story of a German poet and anti-Israel activist Irena Wachendorff, who fabricated her “service in the IDF” during the First Lebanon war. She claimed that her father is Jewish and fled to England in 1936 and her mother survived Auschwitz. The Jerusalem Post and Jennifer Pyka, an investigative journalist from Munich, managed to discover that this top Israel-hater was not Jewish and her father was actually an officer in the Wehrmacht, which can perhaps explain her heartfelt support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
But it took two years to dig this out and Wachendorff managed to smear Israel for decades, “shielding” herself by completely false heritage – “IDF military service” and “Jewish parents”. And it is going to take some time until her true identity becomes known to enough people around the globe, so her words will be treated as deceitful and poisonous.
But not everything in this struggle against anti-Israeli mythology is that difficult. There are some battles which can be won easily, if they are fought, of course. Several days ago I stumbled upon an Arab website advertising fashionable recreational tours to the Gaza Strip. Yeah, I am not on any medication and talking about the very same Gaza which is always referred to by the Palestinians as “the greatest concentration camp on the face of the Earth” (с). “The Ghetto of the Palestinian suffering” (c) and “The Aushwitz of our Times” (c).
This article, written in Arabic and published on June 18th, has pictures! Lots of illustrations of the infrastructures desperately needed for a fully operational death camp – you know, the usual stuff: 5-star hotels, slap-up malls and shopping centers, swanky restaurants and well-groomed beaches with racing boats. Yeah – you can check it out right here – http://ashams.com/artn.php?ID=9349
They say a picture is worth 1000 words? Well, you got yourself a book, guys!
How can it be used for myth busting? Oh, that is easy and kinda cheap, comparing to other less effective options. Every sponsored link in Google, Yahoo or other search engine asked to find something on “Palestinians”, “Gaza”, “Israeli apartheid”, “Zionist crimes”, “occupied territories” and etc., should lead to that page. That is not too expensive and in this way it will soon become one of the most visited pages, telling the “awful story of Palestinian tragic suffering”.
Well, we can help the cause by making a translated English copy of the page. It might boost tourism in Gaza and who knows, maybe they will suddenly decide that making money off that is much more fun and safer than shooting missiles. Well, here I am probably dreaming but at least one thing is certain – the myth of “Palestinian Ghetto” will be busted.
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