Exposing Hamas’ Cannibalistic Cognitive War Strategy
Implications for the Cognitive War
Meditate on the picture:
Here is the head of Hamas, whose boys systematically fire from the midst of civilians — in order to create civilian casualties they can then blame on Israeli counter-strikes — exploiting a death directly caused by his men, in order to appeal to western sympathy. It would be hard to imagine a more stunning portrait of the most depraved hypocrisy (and contempt for viewers who believe this display of compassion).
It is hard to imagine a more grotesque expression of a mutual corruption: trying to demonize your enemy before an outside audience whom you expect to side with you in the name of empathy for the very children you victimize. How disordered the emotional and moral world of the masterminds of this kind of manipulation must be.
Not only that, but Haniyah dragged into this humiliating display the prime minister of Egypt’s new “Muslim Brotherhood” government, trying to show support for the Palestinian branch, Hamas. Prime Minister Hesham Kandil jumped right in, kissing the baby, and subsequently testifying (in what BBC correspondent Wyre Davies found to be a “powerful statement”) that “his blood is still on our clothing.” Kandil is a fool eagerly trying to join in the morbid circus Haniyah and Hamas so frequently stage. Haniyah, thinking he could get away with it, has dragged Kandil into this shameless pornography of death.
One last reflection: Hamas’s strategy has long been to attack from behind civilians to provoke Israeli retaliation and then use the collateral damage of those victims as a way to blame Israel. This is in fact a key element of their asymmetrical war with Israel. As one Gazan explained to an Italian reporter towards the end of Operation Cast Lead (OCL):
The Hamas militants looked for good places to provoke the Israelis. They were usually youths, 16 or 17 years old, armed with submachine guns. They couldn’t do anything against a tank or jet. They knew they were much weaker. But they wanted the [Israelis] to shoot at the [the civilians’] houses so they could accuse them of more war crimes.
In other words, Hamas engages in the exceptionally rare wartime act of actively victimizing one’s own civilian population – specifically a war crime – in order to win a victory in cognitive war.
And they can only do so if a corrupt media on the scene (including NGOs and UN agencies), rather than expose their criminal strategies, play along and present the images of dead babies in the framework of the Palestinian narrative of Israeli victimization. The fact that Hamas thought they could clean up the scene and pull off a Gaza beach, successfully blaming the Israelis for the tragedy, speaks eloquently of their exceptionally low appraisal of the forensic acumen of the western press.
And they have good reason to so believe. After all, Goldstone, in his investigation into the abuses of the Palestinian people during OCL, never once looked into this kind of human shielding. Imagine if he had!
Alas. It’s hard to believe that if the press had learned the lessons of al Durah they’d still be suckered by this kind of display.
Now meditate on this picture, provided by Electronic Intifada to weaponize the tragedy against Israel.
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Didn’t that Mohammed guy, the spawn of the Allah-dude, say something along the lines of, “War is deceit.” ???
Islam is the millstone. If your plan doesn’t include the undermining, constraining or eradication of Islam, you don’t have a plan. What you have is a hope.
Not only are all manner of heinous acts tolerated, under the banner of jihad, but the Arab/Muslim relationship with blood is at the core. And herein lies the essence.
There is no clearer way to explain, the heretofore inexplicable, other than through this commentary and its embedded policy paper – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/13/islam-blood-a-groundbreaking-policy-paper-contained-herein-the-world-stands-on-a-precipice-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-109/
It has been circulating among requisite ‘think tanks’ and policymakers on Capitol Hill, and it is past time the western public jumped on board.
Knowledge IS power. Ignorance IS deadly.
These people keep saying that “we desire death more than you desire life”, so they should stop bitching when the Israelis give them what they want.
Thanks for the reminder of Annie Lennox and her antisemitic stupidity. I’m SO glad that I have all my favorite Eurythmics tracks on my faithful iPod, “Norman iPodhoretz,” and didn’t pay for a single one. Stole ‘em all off library CDs. Thanks for the free music, Ms. Lennox! You’re so generous! Maybe you can get some Arab-oil bribe money to replace mine. Meanwhile, the brave intelligentsia of Europe are ready to fight to the last drop of Palestinian blood…
Andrew Breitbart was right: The media are the enemy, everywhere, of peace, justice, prosperity, and civilization. G-d, I miss him. Meanwhile, antisemites pop up all over his sites’ comment sections whenever this sort of thing goes down. Is hating the Jews an airborne virus, or something in the water?
Pallywood is part guerilla theater, part propaganda. In the end, it’s just a lie in service of an agenda, and the media is a willing accomplice in the process.
I recall many years ago watching a news story covering a public funeral in Syria in which anger at the US and/or Israel by the crowd was a central element. My father, himself having grown up in Syria, pointed out the professional “wailers” – the old women in the crowd hired to express “grief”, pounding their chests, shrieking emotionally, shouting curses at the enemy. Like the Syrian wailers, Haniyeh and the Egyptian President, in embracing the dead baby, are engaged in theater, intending both to stir up the local crowd and win points via the “useful idiots” of the media.
The only thing that will work is using the lessons of the US Civil War and WWII. You have to break the civilians populations by proving that the governments in question cannot protect them.
My father commented that when he was in the Army of Occupation: “The Germans were beaten, they didn’t have any fight left.”
If Israel wants to win, they have to do the same. If not then they will have proven to be a people of principles and no character, caring more for their own self-righteous ideals than for the lives of their fellow citizens, and finally an enemy that will fight until beaten.
The NY Times seems to be buying the poor oppressed Gazana myth.
These people deem it honorable to have your little one die to “fight” against the Jews. Heck, these are the only people in the world that strap bombs on their babies and use them as shields. The “journalists” know this, they willingly choose to lie for their agenda. The islamists dragged Stevens through the streets of Libya just like this. And the picture is from Reuters — they know.
The similarities and tactics between the jihadist and the left constantly amazes me. They both share the same hatred for our traditional way of life and are devoted to its “fundamental” change and demise. Why more don’t see it amazes me even more. We are truly a stupid sheeple, who do not hear the screaming of the lambs as they are being slaughtered before our eyes, for the jihadist it is the will of God, for the leftist it is the will of Gov. Both are purveyors of poison, seeking to take hostage the heart and enslave the soul. One is religious and one is anti-religious, but both hold in contempt the individual and their independence. They are two sides of the same coin covered in the blood of the innocent. Evil has a face and it’s the face in the mirror, for who is the greater sinner, the one who does evil or the one who allows evil to be done?