Pallywood Classics from the Gaza War

Sorry for the "Clip Show". Time to share a few of our favorite Pallywood classics from the last two years.  Not surprising, in the recent war Palestinians and their Western enablers have been dabbling with the use of AI, rather than simply recycling photos from Syria or  Bolivia.

Some of the early AI attempts show a surprising lack of attention to detail.  Note the starving three armed mother in Gaza wailing while holding her starving child.

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Another 3 armed mother in Gaza

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The legless boy and his, un, "dog"?   Gotta love the readers context.

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Who can help but be moved to tears by this young child in Gaza, cradling his beloved 5 legged cat in the rubble?

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Legless children seems to be a genre in Pallywood. Less often mentioned is their remarkable, one might even say miraculous,  recovery.

Were you expecting recycled Bolivian mummies?  Does anyone ever expect recycled Bolivian mummies?

These two naturally mummified Spanish children are from the 19th century These remains were preserved by the region’s dry, mineral-rich environment, a process that allowed the bodies to remain intact for over 150 years.

If children were actually found under the rubble, why are Palestinians recycling150 year old mummy photos?

Apparently smallpox is rampant in Gaza, "spreading at a terrifying speed".  This is spite of the fact that its been irradicated across the world.  The last reported "wild" case of smallpox in the world was in 1977, according to the CDC. 

Pallywood is all about the lies, after all.They think we are stupid.

What are your favorite Pallywood images from the war in Gaza?   Send us a link and we'll update our post.

 

Maps of Disappearing Palestine: The Prequel

The more things change....

You've likely already encountered the ubiquitous  "Maps of Disappearing Palestine" propaganda card seen at every anti-Israel event.

Meet its great-grandfather.

The subtle change in language is fascinating, and is reflective of the attempts to create a serviceable Palestinian narrative suitable for Western consumption.

The earlier map (circa 1967) refers to Arab land- the Palestinians had not yet become a "people".  It also acknowledges the area was under the British mandate- and was not an independent Palestinian state. Surprisingly the first panel documents the tremendous growth of the Arab population during the years of the mandate,  as economic migrants were drawn to the economic opportunities created by the Zionist pioneers.

The influx of workers from across the Arab world into pre-state Israel was well documented.

Robert F Kennedy, a cub reporter for the Boston Post stationed in Mandate Palestine wrote in 1948:

The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs, in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944, came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.

From the July 1934 Journal of Foreign Affairs:

There is a constant infiltration of Arab labor, on which there can scarcely be a practical check, from neighboring Arab lands.  It will increase as the country's prosperity increases. The crossings of the River Jordan are barred for eastward Jewish Traffic, but there is traffic westward for the Arabs of Transjordan....The Jews are not permitted to develop Transjordan; its Arab inhabitants are free to come in to Palestine to take advantage of opportunities of employment which do not exist on their home country and which have only been created in Palestine by Jewish capital and Jewish enterprise.

The second panel describes the terms of the UN partition plan,  conveniently leaving out the fact that the Jewish population agreed to the division of land, and the Arab population turned it down.  60 percent of the land allocated to the Jewish state was to be the arid desert in the Negev.

The third panel shows the aftermath of Israel's war of independence, and neglects to mention Jordan's control of the West Bank, or Egypt's control over Gaza.  Instead\ they describe it as  Palestinian Arabs  "in their own homes under Arab rule".  Contrary to the usual claims of 650,000 refugees, this  claims 400,000  "refugees in exile outside Palestine".

The last panel shows the conclusion of the 6 day war.  In this defensive war,  Israel reclaimed its historic heartland- Judea and Samaria, and captured the Sinai peninsula and Gaza. This is the map deliberately excluded from the modern incarnation- because the return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt proved Israel's commitment of land for peace.

Both the 1967 map and its more modern counterpart misrepresent residency, ownership and sovereignty, and provide evidence, yet again, that while the Jewish people have history,  the Palestinian people  continually struggle to create a convincing "narrative".  Nothing has changed in 50 years.