I found this referenced over at LGF. I think it is an important article.
The flashy brash propaganda of brightly colored posters with big bold face type, long winded speeches, and front page assertions of loud lies are easier to combat than another type.
The propaganda of the background noise, carefully falsified and purposely vague is as deadly if not more deadly to the soul then its louder more colorful counterpart. Its very subtleness makes it almost impossible to warn others against.
They will think you are making much of something small with out understanding that even enough straw piled on a donkey’s back can crush it.
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That's not what makes this book evil. No, it's the fact that Berry sets this scene against a background in which Israelis are systematically driving all the Palestinians out of Israel; the Israelis are heavily armed by the British while the Palestinians have no weapons to counter them; and the Israelis have rounded up whole villages of Palestinians and slaughtered them, men and women alike.
These things are not what the scene is about. They are slipped in as background; they are treated as if they were the sort of thing that was really going on in Palestine in 1948.
This is the kind of thing that readers -- especially ones who don't know anything about history -- are likely to assume the writer has researched, so that it can be trusted. The book is fiction, so we know this particular character did not torture and kill the other guy -- that part is obviously made up. But the background is assumed to be real. And readers often come out of books like this thinking they now know something about the real world.
In fact, what Berry is providing is pure propaganda -- the propaganda created by terrorists and murderers to "prove" that Jews "deserve" to be blown up by suicide bombers. It is exactly as reliable as the widely-believed propaganda lie that either President Bush or the state of Israel -- or both -- actually carried out the 9/11 attacks in order to provide a pretext for invading innocent Muslim countries.
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-02-18-1.html
Steve Barry’s Bio and Profile: http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-berry-steve.asp
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