There is no gainsaying, that the truth about Palestine Occupation has been buried beneath a mass of deliberate misinformation, distorted facts and insidious propaganda accumulated over a long period. Neutral observers, comprising of different nationals who have dealt with the problem of Palestine in the first place, as United Nations accredited officials have noted the distortion of facts as well as the difficulty of putting the Palestinian case before the world public opinion. Let us hear from some officials who have served in various capacities the United Nations:
Lt. General Burns, a one-time Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine, has mentioned that over many years it was only Israel’s side of the Palestinian story that has been presented to United Nations On his own part, Major- General Carl Von Horn, Chief Of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine from 1958 – 1963, while commenting on Israel’s propaganda said:
“We are amazed at the ingenuity of the falsehoods which distorted the true picture. The highly skilled Israeli information service and the entire press combined to manufacture a warped, distorted version which was disseminated with professional expertise through every available channel to their own people and their sympathizers and supporters in America and the rest of the world. Never in all my life had I believed the truth could be so cynically, expertly bent”
A one- time Commissioner- General of the United National Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) for five years, Dr. John H. Davies commented in this way:
“I found the world understanding of the Palestine refugee problem was at variance with truth.”
As Dr. Davies began to study the problem of the Palestinians in wider terms, he later on said:
‘A large proportion of the world, including the Western world, knew little about modern Palestine or the struggle that had been taking place there over the immigration of Jews and efforts to found a Jewish state. In so far as the American public was concerned, most people had never heard the Palestinian side presented.’
Still on the Jewish and western media propaganda. As a matter of fact, were these megaphones of the Zionist not so hell-bent in confusing and misleading the public on the Palestinian issue, they would not have been so blind to the transgressions of the Occupying authorities and the United States of America- the supporter and financer of the Zionist government in the Occupying Territories. For not only the enemies have forced the Palestinians from their lands, but they have brought in immigrants from the former Soviet Union and built settlements for them, from the financial aid they are receiving from the U.S. Sometimes one thought that the emptiness of the enemy’s statements is too obvious to deserve comment, but in order to right the wrong, it is important to write and expose their lies.
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