Quick book recommendation

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http://www.amazon.com/Nations-United...7113396&sr=8-1

Nations United is a chronology of UN's efforts to destroy Israel. It's a quick read @ ~160 pages including a wealth of citations and background material.

Amazon Editorial Review:

"This is the most comprehensive and informative assessment of Zionism=Racism I have seen. May it enlighten a naive and insufficiently Jewishly educated student constituency." Shoshana Cardin, Former President Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Former President of JTA and Former Vice Chairman of United Jewish Communities and United Jewish Appeal. "Dr. Alex Grobman's book, Nations United, presents historical and intellectual analyses of a pivotal moment in Jewish, Israeli, and world history as impacted by the United Nations. We learn why the ideals of Zionism are now interpreted as racism throughout much of the world. Jews and Christians, students and scholars, thinking people of all ethnic groups, religions and moral perspectives will now understand how pure ideals can be made derogatory. This is a book that you will want to read!" Marlene Post, President, Hadassah International; Chair, birthright Israel North America; Past National President, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America --Marlene Post, President, Hadassah International

Fact by fact, Nations United builds an irrefutable case against the UN for disseminating virulent antisemitism aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel. By explaining each stage in the development of this process, Dr. Grobman shows us how lies and half-truths can once again cause the destruction of the Jewish people. For those who want to understand why Israel finds little support from the rest of the world, and to refute the Left's prevarications and distortions about Israel, you will find this book indispensable. Gary Bauer, president of American Values --Gary Bauer, president of American Values

Grobman's work is both invaluable and definitive. His excellent research, clear writing style, and use of photos make the work easy to follow. His argument is balanced and therefore forceful. The United Nations is the largest Naked Emperor of our time. It is a union of dictatorships against democracies, an institution in which mediocrity and bureaucracy triumph over genius and creativity, and where issues are not diplomatically resolved but rather fomented and allowed to fester. I recognize Grobman's United Nations because once I worked there. Human rights violations of every kind are allowed to flourish under its aegis, both at Turtle Bay and in the world at large. The UN has proved ineffective in every single area including that of genocide and preventable disease save one. Its single (diabolical) accomplishment has been in legalizing and internationalizing Jew hatred. Grobman makes this very clear. This work is an essential weapon in the cultural war against propaganda and Big Lies that currently dominate university life in the West. Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Author, The New Anti-Semitism and The Death of Feminism --Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.

In many countries throughout the world and especially on college campuses, Israel continues to be viewed as a racist state. When the UN passed the Zionism equals Racism (Z=R) resolution in November 1975, it gave legitimacy to claims that Israel "harms civilian populations, oppresses minorities, and establishes restrictive immigration laws and religious statutes as part of her ideological raison d'etre." The danger is that this becomes a new stereotype through "popular culture, the media, literature and daily speech," taints Israel and becomes "the legacy of the West."....The UN is a major forum where this major antisemitic offensive is waged; and Grobman convincingly and objectively demonstrates how this continues to undermine Israel and the West. The attacks against Israel are, after all, an assault on American and Western democracy, its values and its way of life. Unfortunately, the West has yet to learn this critical lesson. Grobman provides valuable ammunition to refute the outrageous charges against Israel. An extremely timely and indispensable weapon against those who seek to destroy us. -- Rabbi Bernard Rosenberg, Ph.D.

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See also:

http://hnn.us/articles/119104.html

Dr. Grobman is a Hebrew University trained historian. His is the author of a number of books, including Nations United: How The U.N. Undermines Israel and The West, Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? and a forthcoming book on Israel's moral and legal right to exist as a Jewish State to be published by Balfour Books.

“One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage." -- Sun Tzu

The recent Arab riots on the Temple Mount and inside Jerusalem’s Old City are part of the ongoing war against Israel. The Arabs employ a number of psychological techniques to demoralize Israelis in order to convince them that their county has usurped Arab lands, is unjust and morally bankrupt. Their ultimate objective is for Israel to abandon the idea of a Jewish state, allow the Arabs to establish their own country, and then purge the Jews.
In this “war of nerves,” the Arabs borrow from revolutionaries including Carlos Marighella, a leader of the Brazilian guerrilla organization ALN.
Marighella urged his followers to use the mass media, foreign embassies, the U.N., international commissions, and Vatican representatives to spread their lies and false rumors in order to discredit the government. Acts of terror, assassination, sabotage and kidnappings further create an environment of uncertainty, anxiety and apprehension. 1

During the first Intifada (December 1987 to October 1991), the Arabs manipulated the international press by placing individuals affiliated with the PLO and other Islamic political groups into their media bureaus. Rather than hide these connections, the Arabs used them to enhance their attraction to their employers. 2

Developing personal relationships with Israelis who oppose Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, meeting with them in Israel and taking them on tours of the refugee camps helped solidify support for the Arabs, and created a sense of guilt among those who know little about the history of the conflict .3

Semantics is another weapon used against Israel. Instead of describing insurrections as riots, the Arabs call them demonstrations. This is in keeping, they assert, with their basic right in a democracy to protest against unfair government policies. What they don’t say is that the riots are designed to hasten the demise of Israel. After the Arabs continually used the term “demonstration,” members of the media adopted it as their own.

When a demonstration becomes violent after the military intervenes to disband the crowd, the Arabs allege that they are being oppressed. Often they charge Israelis with committing atrocities. This is after trying to goad the army into committing indiscriminate acts of force, particularly against women and children.

Contrived shootings, protests, arrests for the Western media is another technique Arabs use. Dutch television showed an Arab boy being aggressively arrested by Israeli soldiers while he was walking on the street. To ensure that the TV crew noticed that he was “innocent,” he yelled to them to take notice of what was happening.

An investigation later revealed that the youth had purposely violated curfew after seeing the TV crew. He knew he would be apprehended, that his violent arrest would be recorded and the broadcast would help to discredit Israel. This was an isolated event, yet Israeli intelligence claimed that journalists knew how much they would have to pay for a stone throwing or a demonstration. The Arabs instructed the journalists when and where to stand in order to get the best shot. 4

At the beginning of the second intifada in 2000, Muhammad al-Dura, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy, was reportedly shot by Israelis in a cross fire near the Netzarim crossing in Gaza while being shielded by his father. The episode was filmed and broadcast on France TV 2.

Though few Americans ever heard of Muhammad al-Dura, to “a billion people in the Muslim world, “ his name had become “an infamous symbol of grievance against Israel” and “a potent symbol of the genocidal intentions of Israel's government. “ 5

After conferring with Israeli soldiers and photographers who were at the scene and reviewing unedited videotape from the area of the incident, Israeli physicist Nahum Shahaf found that the Palestinians had cooperated with foreign journalists and the U.N. to arrange this staged production.6
Historian Richard Landes began investigating the case as a blood libel after seeing this incident as “One Jew allegedly kills a gentile child in cold blood, and all Jews everywhere are responsible. That's the beginning of the wave of anti-Semitism that literally has marked the 21st century, and we have not seen the end of it. This is where cyberspace can play a crucial role.”7
Landes coined the phrase “Pallywood” to describe this and other “pernicious productions staged by Palestinians in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news.”

While examining footage from another alleged incident, Landes noticed a Palestinian with “blood” on his forehead ostensibly from a head wound running without any sign of trauma. 8

After giving what appears to be a Molotov cocktail to a colleague, the Palestinian darts into the crowd. In the next frame, he is put on a stretcher and taken to an awaiting ambulance, while keeping his head high though allegedly suffering from a head injury. “It’s really obvious that it’s fake,” Landes concludes.9

In the Gaza beach explosion on June 9, 2006, eight Palestinians were killed and 30 or more injured. Though very compelling evidence shows they were killed by Palestinian land mines, the Palestinians accused Israel.
The foreign media sided with the Arabs. Landes noted “And herein lies another real tragedy: The eagerness with which the media seize upon anything negative about Israel, and the reluctance with which they reveal anything negative about the Palestinians, have radically skewed the world's view of what's going on here.”10

In Rhetoric, Aristotle claimed that “Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.” When it comes to the Arabs, many in the West and Israel have yet to use their natural instinct.

1. Carlos Marighella, Mini-Manuel Of The Urban Guerrilla (Toronto: Abraham Guillen Press and Arm The Spirit, 2002), 28-32; Maurice Tugwell, “Terrorism and Propaganda: Problem and Response,” Conflict Quarterly (Spring 1986): 5; Abu Iyad with Eric Rouleau, My Home, My Land: A Narrative of The Palestinian Struggle (New York: Times Books, 1978), 69, 136-138; Shaul Mishal and Reuben Aharoni, Speaking Stones: Communiqués from the Intifada Underground (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994).

2. Ron Schleifer, Psychological Warfare in the Intifada (Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2006), 94.

3. Ibid. 31, 78.

4. Ibid.21, 48, 95, 97.

5. James Fallows, “Who Shot Mohammad al-Dura,” Atlantic Monthly (June 2003); Nidra Poller, “Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura Affair,” commentarymagazine.com (September 2005); Doreen Carvajal, “The Mysteries and Passions of an Iconic Frame,” NYT (February 7, 2005); James Fallow, “News on the al-Dura front-Israel finding that it was staged,” Atlantic Monthly (October 2, 2007); Martin Patience, “Dispute rages over al-Durrah” BBC News (November 8, 2007); Gabriel Weimann, Communicating Unreality: Modern Media and the Reconstruction of Reality (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1999).

6. Amnon Lord, “Who Killed Muhammad Al-Dura? Blood Libel-Model 2000” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs No. 482. (July 15, 2002)

7. Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, “One on One: Framing the Debate” The Jerusalem Post (March 27, 2008). For more information on Professor Landes efforts in this area, please see Second Draft; The Augean Stables (blog) and Understanding the Goldstone Report. 8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

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Govt of Israel has to take a large share of the blame for this with it's arrogant refusal to communicate with the outside world apart from dragging poor Mark Regev out of his bed at all times of the night.

No one in their right mind would have chosen our current representative at the UN who is ugly, has no communication skills and has had a personality bypass. Israel's face to the world should be as engaging and photogenic as Dan Gillerman, Shimon Perez or dare I say Mark Regev.

The cabinets refusal to commission an International Newschannel to explain events, it's lack of interest in using Israel's great intellectual resources of psychologists and other experts to counter this propaganda is frankly idiotic.

If the Government of Israel wishes to continue its policy of conceeding the worldwide media to the Pals then they are themselves undermining the state of Israel, placing their own people in danger and making life hell for Jews in the Diaspora who have to put up with the resulting attacks on schools and Synagogues.

In an answer I received to an email to David Horovitz, editor of the JP, Mr Horvitz said that he "pleads at every opportunity for an international newschannel." If the cabinet will not listen to him then what hope for the advice of anyone else?

Pallywood in conjunction with the international left and liberati is engaged in a successful international psychological war only because they are allowed to get away with it. Who reads books anymore? When the horse has already bolted all the authors have to show is it's shadow.