With Palestine again under attack I am pleased to be able to share with you extracts from the rule book issued to all members of the Western media corps. I used this during my six years of working at the BBC (the BBC played a major role in developing these important rules and guidelines that help prevent some of the worst Zionist lies dominating the media narrative):
Rule 1 (Rocket attacks against Israel)
The
rule here is simple: Never report on any rocket attacks against Israel
(also note: there is no Israeli town called Sderot). The are only two exceptions
to this rule:
- If Israel eventually attempts to stop the rocket fire. In that case you can
lead with a major story reporting that Israel has launched a massive attack against Palestinian civilians and
you can include the following statement at the end of your 26 page
report:
"The Israelis claim that their attack was in response to home made rocket attacks from Gaza/Lebanon.”
- If (as is very common) the rockets fall short (or explode before
being launched) and hence cause casualties in Gaza, then you must write a
major report with the headline "Israeli attack kills X civilians in
Gaza" (where the number X is determined by Rule 2 below).
Also note the following:
- If you are forced to mention Hamas and/or Hizbollah rockets (many of
which are powerful long range missiles provided by Iran and Syria) you
must refer to them using the terms: "home made", "harmless", and
"nothing more than fire crackers".
- You may also say things like "rockets were intercepted by the Iron
Dome system" so that it is not even clear that rockets were fired or by
whom. However, if you do mention the Iron Dome system ensure you say
that it is an "American supplied system" even though it was actually
funded, designed and built by Israel (Rafael Advanced Defence Systems)
- Never refer to the fact that the missiles cause deaths, injuries,
and major damage in Israel and require several million people in Israel
to stay in shelters for hours and days on end.
Rule 2 (Arab casualties)
If
there is any incident either in Israel or near its borders in which
there are claims of Arab casualties you must write a report with the
following headline:
“Israelis kill X Arab civilians including Y children”
For the numbers
X and
Y simply choose the highest figures from the following sources:
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- The Palestinian Authority
- Islamic Jihad
- Syrian State Television
- Al Jazeera
- Any person within 20 miles of the incident who is wearing a kaffiya or a Burka.
You do not need to state the source of your claim. In the
unlikely event that an Israeli spokesman claims either a different
figure, that the 'victims' were armed terrorists, or that the incident simply did not happen you may end your
report with the following:
“An Israeli spokesman claimed, without evidence, that they ‘acted in self-defence’.
Note
that there are certain circumstances where Arab deaths from violence
should not be reported at all. This is when Arabs themselves openly
claim to be the killers. This applies, for example, in the following
cases:
- Mass slaughter in fighting between different rival groups (Shia v
Sunni, Hamas vs PA, Hamas vs Al Qaeda, PA vs Islamic Jihad etc)
- Where the victims are accused of being Israeli collaborators
If news of these killings does leak out into the Western media then simply write a brief statement including the words:
“The underlying cause of the violence was the oppressive Israeli occupation”
Any claims of deaths of Israelis during such incidents can be assumed to be false and hence ignored.
Rule 3 (Demographics)
Remember the following important demographics in any report, especially relating to casualties:
- Every Palestinian, especially every member of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, is a civilian. Those who produce suicide
videos armed with machine guns vowing to kill as many Jews as possible
are simply civilians forced by the Israeli occupation into becoming
‘militants’.
- Any Palestinian under the age of 26 is a child.
- Any Palestinian under the age of 16 is a baby.
- Any Palestinian over the age of 32 is a grandfather/grandmother.
- Any Palestinian with any type of injury (including especially Hamas
terrorists injured when launching attacks against Israel) is disabled.
- Every building in Gaza is either a Hospital, School, Mosque, or a house filled excusively with women and children.
- There are no Israeli ‘civilians’ and certainly no Israeli ‘children’. They are just soldiers or settlers.
- Palestinian cities and towns are refugees camps.
- Israeli cities and towns are settlements.
Rule 4 (Terrorist attacks)
If Israelis are killed in a terrorist attack, then treat this as an opportunity to take a vacation from reporting.
However,
you should immediately return from your vacation if it is discovered
that an Israeli family in Jerusalem is planning to build an extra
bedroom to accommodate their new baby. In that case you should write a
story with the headline
Israelis destroy chance of peace by announcing new West Bank settlement plans.
At the end of the article you can use the following statement:
An
Israeli government spokesman claimed that the settlement plans were in
response to what they claimed was a ‘terrorist attack’.
The only exceptions to this rule are as follows:
- In the event of a suicide bombing you may interview the suicide
bomber’s family and write a sympathetic piece stating how the bomber
was a loving family person driven to his/her actions by the Israeli
occupation. Be careful to refer to the actual suicide bombing only in
vague abstract terms, never mentioning the victims or their families.
- In the event of a particularly brutal terrorist attack, such as the
slaughter of an entire family in their home in which a baby is
decapitated, you can, if news of the attack reaches outside Israel,
write a brief report with the following words:
“Although the Israelis claim that a terrorist
attack occurred at X, it is more likely to have been the result of a
disgruntled Thai worker, Jewish militants intent on sparking anti-Arab
violence, or simply a family dispute. ”
Make sure you
never mention the widespread celebrations that take place throughout the
Palestinian territories. Instead you should quote a Palestinian
Authority spokesman, who having just led the celebrations with
proclamations such as "This will be the fate of all Jews" in Arabic
tells you in English that the Palestinian Authority do not approve of
the attack as it damages their cause, and that in any case such actions
are the natural response to the Israeli occupation.
Rule 5 (Terminology)
- The word ‘terrorist’ must never be used except when referring to
Jewish residents of the West Bank accused of acting provocatively in the
presence of an Arab.
- Any Arab in a combat zone is unarmed if they are not carrying
a mobile missile launcher. Any kind of guns, knives, swords, rocks,
sticks or heavy metal items are, as a matter of course carried by
unarmed Arabs since it is part of their cultural heritage.
- In any report you must insert the word “settler” after the word
“Israeli”, unless it is known that they live outside of Central Tel
Aviv, in which case you must add the word “fanatical” before “Israeli”.
- When mentioning the name of any Israeli city or town (i.e. settlement) you must also include the words occupied territory.
- When mentioning any Israeli politician you must insert the word
“hardline”, “extremist”, or “right-wing” before their name (if in doubt
it is best to insert all three words).
- In any report about Palestinians use the following words: “authentic”, “welcoming”, “poor”.
- When mentioning any Palestinian politician you must insert the word
“moderate” before their name, even if they are a leader of Hamas.
- Be
especially careful when referring to Arab-Israelis. If an Arab-Israeli
is killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack, or in a cross border
shooting/rocket attack then you must refer to them as "Palestinian" (but
be careful not to mention who caused the killing). In other
circumstances you must refer to them as Israelis to ensure that nobody
knows that there are Arab-Israeli citizens prominent and represented in
all strata of Israeli society.
Rule 6 (Ethics and Morality)
- Israel is the only country in the world that must behave with
absolutely perfect ethics and morality in every single aspect of public
and private life. Hence, even the smallest deviation from perfection
(such as if you can find an Arab worker earning less than a Jewish
worker, or an Arab rioter being manhandled by a policeman) can be
treated as a major news story.
- Arab countries, and especially the Palestinians, do not have to
abide by any rules of morality or ethics at all. Hence, institutional
antisemitism, violence, child abuse, racism, sexism, indoctrination of
children, and the fact that 99.99% of the population dreams of
massacring every Jew in the world are all examples of acceptable
cultural behaviour and so must never be reported (doing so will result
in you being disciplined for Islamaphobia or for being a Zionist
stooge).
Rule 7 (Geography and Religion)
- Never look at a map of the whole Middle East. That way you will
never have to reveal that Israel is less than the size of Wales or New Jersey
surrounded by Muslim countries with a land mass over a thousand times
as large.
- Although you can refer to the fact that 20% of Israel's population
are Arabs you should only do so if you include the words "oppressed
minority", "abused", "underclass", "impoverished".
- Never ask why over 50% of Israel’s Jewish population appears
to have dark or even black skin. This might otherwise force you to
reveal that not all Israeli Jews are of
European/American origin and that they are actually native Middle Eastern and
Ethiopian.
- Never ask why there are 0 Jews living in Gaza, 0 Jews living in the
PA occupied part of the "West Bank", 0 Jews living in Jordan, 0 Jews
living in Syria (down from 16,000 in 1947), 0 Jews living in Iraq (down
from 200,000 in 1940), 0 Jews living in Algeria (down from 150,000 in
1940), 0 Jews living in Libya (down from 50,000 in 1940), 0 Jews living
in Lebanon (down from 10,000 in 1940), 30
Jews living in Egypt (down from 100,000 in 1940), 2000
Jews living in Morocco (down from 270,000 in 1940) , 0 Jews living in
Saudi Arabia, etc. Do, however, say that Israel's policies make
it an apartheid state committed to ethnic cleansing of all Arabs.
- Never ask why Israel is the only country in the Middle East whose Christian population is expanding.
- Never ask why Jerusalem is mentioned over 600 times in the Old Testament
and 0 times in the Koran. Do, however, refer at least once in every
report to the fact that Jerusalem is sacred to Muslims.
Rule 8 (Using photographs)
Rule 9 (Speaking to the natives)
Never
interview an Israeli Jew (Israeli Arabs, especially those belonging to
the Islamic Movement can be used instead). The only exceptions to this
rule are:
- Haaretz reporters
- Anti-Zionist academics, writers, politicians and lawyers
- Amos Oz
- Any recent American Jewish immigrant living in the West Bank who uses Biblical quotations every other sentence.
To ensure this rule is adhered to it is safest to simply never
speak to any Israeli Jew. Hence, make sure that whenever your are in
Israel you either stay in the (Arab) American Colony Hotel Jerusalem or
are hosted by a member of the Palestinian Authority or a person with a
Haaretz press pass.
Rule 10 (Peace activists)
Any non-Arab in the region who is involved in violent anti-Israel activities is a
peace activist.
If such a person dies under any circumstances then you must state
before any evidence is produced that this person “was killed by Israeli
troops”. You must also put out an urgent call to all journalists in the
world to write about nothing else for the next 7 days. Also contact
every playwright to request a play dedicated to this martyr of the
Palestinian cause.
Rule 11 (Arabic speeches)
Never
use the services of an Arabic translator to find out what Arab leaders
and clerics are telling their own people, as in “We will not rest until
every Jew is dead”. This will ensure you do not have to waste time
telling readers that they have directly contradicted what they told you
in English (as in “We want peace with Israel”). It will also save you
having to explain (or even report) that wild anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories are believed by 99.999% of all Arabs. A simple rule of thumb
is the following:
Any statement X made to you by an
Arab in English is to be treated as unimpeachable truth. Any statement Y
made by an Arab in Arabic that contradicts X, can be treated as false
and hence ignored.
In the unlikely event that news
of the translation gets into the main stream media you simply have to
report that the translation is the work of MEMRI – a Zionist
organisation dedicated to mis-translation to make Arabs look like
anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynistic psychopaths. If, even after that,
the translation is proved to be accurate then you can simply say that
the statement was "theatrical rhetoric which was never supposed to be
meant literally".
Rule 12 (Israeli evidence)
Be
aware that in most major stories where you are able to cast Israel as
the devil incarnate, the Israelis subsequently produce hard evidence
(videos, documents, etc) that prove they were not guilty of the claims
that had been made. In such cases there is no need to report this
evidence. However, if you wish to remind readers of the original story
you can include the following words at the end:
“Israel
has claimed that some of these accusations are not true, but sources
cast doubt on the authenticity of the Israeli evidence”.
Rule 13 (Tactics of War)
- Targeted assassinations of terrorists carried out by Israelis are, under all circumstances, heinous war crimes. When reporting such crimes always use the words widespread international condemnation
and invoke the spectre of a UN Security Council resolution. Never
mention that the assassination was carried out with such careful
planning and skill that no civilian was harmed during the operation.
Also never mention the direct threat the terrorist posed to Israel, nor
the Israelis previously killed by the terrorist.
- Targeted assassinations of terrorists carried out by any country other than Israelis are, under all circumstances, causes for jubilation. When reporting such crimes always use the words widespread international support
although you can include the words "concern expressed by some Muslim
militants". Never mention the fact that, unlike assassinations carried
out by Israelis, dozens of innocent civilians were also killed. Also
never mention the fact that the terrorist did not pose a direct threat
to the country carrying out the attack.
- Never mention the fact that in Palestinian suicide terrorist
attacks, children are always specifically targeted. Just stress that
such attacks are the inevitable result of the 'occupation' and
'poverty'.
- The total blockading of a country's borders and carpet bombing of
its cities by nations from the other side of the world (as in, e.g.
Libya) is a highly commendable tactic even though the country poses no
threat to its neighbours. Stress the tyrannical nature of the regime
being bombed (and do not remind readers that 6 months earlier you were
telling them what a wonderful reformer their leader was) and never
remind readers about the civilians living there (who mostly hate the
regime)
- The blockading of Gaza's sea border to stop weapons deliveries, and
the targeted bombing of its terror facilities by its neighbour (Israel)
who the Gazans have shelled indiscriminately, is a heinous war crime,
that must be the subject of multiple UN resolutions, enquiries, and
'peace' flotillas. Never mention the tyrannical nature of the Hamas
regime but focus only on the civilians living there (without mentioning
that they support the regime and all rejoice in the deaths of Israeli
citizens). You should also point out the 'hypocrisy of the West' in not
imposing a no-fly zone on Israel.
Rule 14 (Peace Partners)
Under
no circumstances ever mention that the Hamas Charter calls for the
death of all Jews and cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for its
inspiration. Similarly, never mention that, even after the Oslo accords,
the Palestinian Authority has never renounced its own charter calling
for the destruction of Israel and that every one of its leaders openly
seeks the destruction of the Jewish State.
Rule 15 (The Final Option)
If you have any doubt about the content of a story, or if you
simply cannot be bothered to write anything yourself, then simply copy
and paste whatever Al Jazeera is saying on its website.
