Here’s a great article on why so many people around the world so eagerly and easily believe the clearly idiotic narrative about a Palestinian genocide at the hands of Israel:
The Soviet Union and subsequently the current Russian regime have developed and propagated a fabricated narrative and recruited, trained, planted, and supported a network of agents to carry out a wide-reaching campaign of deception and ideological subversion with the intent to advance their geopolitical interests in the Middle East and beyond — and that this Russian effort is at the heart of modern day global antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.
https://profound.af/the-invisible-weapon-acade58e7c3f
Everything that includes the “decolonization” narrative has roots in the Soviet propaganda of the Cold War era.
In what concerns Israel, Stalin helped create it but then was mortally wounded when Israel aligned itself with the US. He started a massive anti-Israel campaign which continued after his death:
In 1964, as a brilliant counter to a strengthening state of Israel, the KGB created the PLO, mirroring other guerrilla Marxist-Leninist “liberation” movements the Soviets were supporting or launching elsewhere to expand global influence and control and to counter the US.
Russia has taken over where the USSR left off:
The global mindshare of the “Palestinian liberation” movement is an extremely valuable Russian political asset, utilized as a mechanism for leverage not only against Israel, but in the greater Middle East and even the West as a strategy in their fight against US dominance.
In its support of Hamas, Russian propagandists use the same methods as they did during the BLM riots:
“Russian operatives created hundreds of fake personas on social media platforms and then posted thousands of advertisements and messages that sought to promote racial divisions in the United States. This was a coordinated propaganda effort.” — Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States, William J. Aceves
Obviously, there are enough useful fools right here in the US (and other Western countries) who chant woke slogans of their own free will. But they didn’t spontaneously arise out of ether. They were trained up by Western institutions infested by Soviet agents since 1930s.
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Meh, this seems like a reversal of the old “The CIA did it” talking point that leftists everywhere spout to explain geopolitical events of any significance. I know you’ve criticized this tendency before.
In my opinion, “The KGB did it” is an equally banal narrative.
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The Cold War was fought between progressivism and conservatism. In 1989 it looked like the world Left lost. But today it’s clear that it won. At least, for now.
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Huh? It seems like you’re equating the USSR with progressivism. Are you then equating all the post-WW2 US presidential administrations up until 1989 with conservatism?
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The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics was, indeed, very far to the left of the political spectrum. Any US administration was to the right of the USSR. Anything by definition is to the right of the far far left. Some US administrations were more to the right of USSR. Others were less to the right of the USSR. But they were all to the right.
By the same token all US administrations have been to the left of Hitler’s Germany.
I can draw q diagram if it helps. I have to say, though, that I am surprised people don’t know that a Socialist country led by a Communist party is far left.
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Soviet Propaganda worked together with Arafat in late 1963.
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SA was involved with the creation of Israel. The current government probably identifies with the Palestinians because previous administrations identified with the Israelis.
https://www.sajr.co.za/untold-story-of-jan-smuts-and-the-founding-of-israel/
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What many people do not know is that China used to be the largest donor to the PLO until 1987.
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The dominant group within the the PLO, the Fatah, was not leftist in any real sense, they were and are Arab nationalists. Same as Nasser, Saddam and the Assads, all of whom crushed their Communist rivals without mercy.But the Soviets were always pragmatic when it came to allies and happy to fund and arm anti-Western nationalists, starting with Turkish and Chinese nationalists.A Jewish national movement in Palestine was useful as long as it was directed against continued British rule, once the Brits were gone, Arab nationalists opposed to the West and local pro-Western monarchies were more useful.Today some Islamist groups like Hamas and the Houthis are useful, other like the Syrian HTS are not. I remember people who are now very, very upset about the situation in Gaza making jokes about about Russia bombing last hospital in Aleppo.
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