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January 26, 2005
On Psy Ops
Cole has an interesting note:
http://www.juancole.com/2005/01/israeli-arab-news-cycle-i-found-this.html
"So the Israeli Army has a psy-ops unit that used to be very active but has been less so recently, and is now being revived. This psy-ops unit plants articles in the Arab press about groups like Lebanon's Hizbullah, painting them as vicious terrorists. Then it comes to Israeli newspaper like Haaretz with translations, and urges that the pieces be written up for Israeli and Western audiences. .......
So is MEMRI, which translates articles from the Arabic press into English for thousands of US subscribers, in any way involved in all this? Its director formerly served in . . . Israeli military intelligence. How much of what we "know" from "Arab sources" about "Hizbullah terrorism" was simply made up by this fantasy factory in Tel Aviv?"
In the context of an earlier comment by me, I think you know my opinion of what is happening. As for MEMRI, I have long held that it is clearly an Israeli agitprop op, but this raises wierd circularity issues.
However, at the same time, one can be more or less sure that the materials were not utter khayali crap, but rather probably had relationship with reality, for versimiltude.
Posted by The Lounsbury at January 26, 2005 07:39 PM
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