Israel and its widespread propaganda - an interview
http://www.infopal.it/gilad-atzmon-israel-and-its-widespread-propaganda/
Infopal. Interview with the musician and writer Gilad Atzmon.
(English and Italian version)
Angela Lano. In your article “Pillar of Biblical Cloud” you wrote that Israel is trying to win the election in January by presenting a “pile of Palestinian corpses”. Do you think that this new military operation against Gaza has a propaganda” reason?
Gilad Atzmon: It certainly is there to serve Netanyahu’s and Barak’s personal political interests. I believe that these two warmongers had, initially, a limited military operation in mind, but now it is escalating, and, as in the case of Lebanon 2006, it is pretty much out of control. Due to some obvious state of detachment, Israelis fail to learn from their past.
AL. Why do the Israeli lawmakers use biblical references for their wars against Gaza?
GA: Because Israel is the Jewish State, and Biblical rage fuels Zionism and Israeli politics with ’spiritual’ meaning.
AL: We know that many of them have a secular background.
GA: Jewish secularism is a funny concept. It is a ‘spiritual-less’, Godless ‘religion’. Secular Jews don’t believe in God but, rather too often, they kill in his name.
AL. The pro-Palestinian discourse is deeply infiltrated by Zionist elements or groups, even within the second and the third Freedom Flotillas. How do you explain such a phenomenon?
