The Israeli propaganda in Shirin's murder...an old strategy and absent justice...

Written by: Dr. Crimean Amani
Israel has a consistent strategy in dealing with the media's systematic assassinations, especially those that provoke angry global reactions. The promotion of this strategy takes place through a huge propaganda machine, the most important and prominent of which is the mobilization of the official Israeli voice with the popular with the media, with most of its writers and journalists of various spectrums, united to form a propaganda wall for Israel and its defender. In the assassination of the witness and martyr Shireen Abu Aqleh, the Israeli propaganda strategy was recalled, which depends / in general / on three elements:
The first: denial through the theory of inevitability condemning the occupation. The prelude to the theory comes by depicting the place as a battlefield and a battle between two parties: the Palestinians are the evil part of it as "terrorists", and the occupation army is the fighter against terrorism. Therefore, it is only natural that everyone who is present in the battle, including journalists, will be injured and killed. This is what we saw in the initial Israeli reactions to the assassination. For example, the statement of Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of the entity, carried accusations that armed Palestinians fired indiscriminately, which led to the death of the journalist, with an assertion that the Israeli government will continue to launch its raids against "terrorism," according to him. Also, most of the Israeli newspapers and the media showed pictures showing clashes between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Second: Attempting to comprehend the event: The event here, in the view of the occupation, is not the killing of Sherine in itself, but the overwhelming power enjoyed by the Al-Jazeera channel network and its harnessing of its various tools to expose the assassination and provoke a huge wave of popular and official global reactions to the crime. It has rightly proven that it is one of the first in the world in the ability to influence, stimulate interaction, focus on the event and multiply its momentum. Israel announced that it had requested a joint investigation with the Palestinian Authority, which in turn refused. This is what Israel is well aware of, and I do not know when there was even a joint investigation in such cases. However, the goal was not to investigate or whitewash the face of the occupation in front of the PA and the Palestinians, but to accommodate and control the angry global reaction to show that it is a democratic country that is likely to make mistakes during its battle against terrorism and that it is ready to correct the mistake.
And the third: shifting the compass of the novel from the center to the branches: after the torrent of independent investigations and scientific analyzes carried out by human rights groups and press institutions on the assassination of Sherine, which confirms the eyewitness account supported by videos with audio and video, that it is impossible that the assassination of Sherine was carried out with a Palestinian bullet, according to the analysis Line of sight, distance estimation, and bullet pointing. And it is proved that Shirin was killed by an intended Israeli bullet, and her colleague, Ali Al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a targeted bullet. The Israeli media began to move towards other forms of response that deviate from the main problem and spread negative propaganda to cast doubt on the true story through:
1. Turning the opponent into a demon, prompting the Israeli pens to attack Al-Jazeera and consider it a mouthpiece for extremists.
2. To shed light on the alleged ongoing threat that Israel faces, and to publish videos of pictures of dead Israeli civilians.
3. Attacking the Palestinian Authority and its leadership for being the reason for the incitement and fueling the situation. In the case of the assassination of Sherine, the Authority was accused of supporting what Israel called the "Jenin terrorists". Accordingly, the moral responsibility for the occurrence of losses is something that Israel does not bear alone, but rather the Palestinian National Authority.
4. Repetition, the repetition of the same narrative with its lies in the Israeli propaganda machine and its global extensions and by various officials, writers, journalists, and influencers on social networking sites based on “Lie… lie, then lie so that people believe you.”
By the time the truth can come out, the world will have forgotten the event and no longer care.
By the way, when Israel bombed the tower with missiles, in the May 2021 Gaza war, the tower, which houses dozens of offices of international press organizations, justified its attack by claiming that Hamas was using it. Until now, Israel did not provide any evidence for its claim, but it was not noticed that the global coverage of the war decreased significantly after the bombing.
Thanks to the modern means of communication that documented the killing of Sherine, and she was faster than Israel in sound and image in conveying the truth to the world and conveying the message of the eyewitnesses who were with her.

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