"Propaganda attempts to force a doctrine on
the whole people. Propaganda works on the general public from the
standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this
idea." -Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
The vitriolic, anti-Semitic propaganda campaigns
disseminated by the Nazis in the 1930's, and throughout Ha'Shoah,
were as effective as they were brilliant. By way of their complete
domination and control of the German mass media, the Nazi propaganda
machine facilitated an unprecedented and unchecked barrage of
anti-Semitism that radically shaped public opinion. With Hitler's
propaganda machine running at full-throttle, it wasn't long before
the court of public opinion and Nazism's ministers of propaganda
found themselves on the "same page".
Sadly, we know how this story ends. Over the span of a decade, while
millions of Jews were brutally and systematically slaughtered in the
Nazi death camps of Europe, the rest of the world--conditioned over
time by the Nazi propaganda juggernaut to see the Jew as worthless
and "subhuman", did absolutely nothing to neither prevent nor stop
it. Himself a propaganda mastermind appointed by Hitler, it was
Joseph Goebbels who testified to its effectiveness with his infamous
statement:
"If you tell a lie big enough and
keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can
shield the people from the political, economic and/or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for
the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the
truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
The "Big Lie"
Much like its Nazi predecessor, "The Big Lie" of
today--a nonsensical fabrication spawned in the Middle East, has
rapidly evolved into an Arab propaganda locomotive powered by the
steam engines of anti-Semitic vitriol. The lie--this falsehood of
our time--purports that the "Palestinians", a mythical people whose
ancestral beginnings simply cannot be defined nor traced, were
ejected from their own land--to which they refer as "Palestine", and
thus were "victimized" by the creation of the state of Israel, in
May, 1948.
After failing miserably in their attempts to
militarily eradicate the Jewish state, the Arab countries
surrounding Israel subsequently and collectively unleashed their
propaganda juggernaut into the international marketplace of ideas,
where it has been globally fruitful. Seen as "refugees" unable to
"return" to a land they claim as their own, the
"Palestinians" have an international community--to include the
United Nations, the mass media, top universities and seminaries and,
of course, Jimmy Carter, in their corner.
With foreign governments--including that of the
United States, and a global media sympathetic to the "Palestinian
cause", Israel continues to become increasingly pressured to relent
and concede--relinquishing more of her land to a conglomeration of
Arabs sworn to her demise.
Perspective
"The Big Lie" of today
represents a propaganda machine that, once again,
has swayed public opinion in favor of all that is
anti-Semitic. Once again, the Jews have witnessed an
international community caustically aligning itself
against them, effectively pushing the Jewish people
not into the mass graves of genocide, but to the
brink of demographic suicide.
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