some emotionally laden words and his reporting about this period that he's now discovered and he's discovered by this powerful and courageous video piece propaganda in the promised land the v aggression and seventy five minutes invested people can get some real eye opening like rick insight into the mideast struggle a very poor long struggle that might be one of the consequences one of the warnings that he's g that america thinks of the position of supporting israel almost the without any qualification or without any conditions you know it looks to me like when he wrote this article he's almost covering his bases a little bit old term and very very major television news networks and newspapers in the united states have long ago correct words they will not confront reality and they've given up and i think once you acquire fear it's very difficult here and there's something really critical here by not having these questions  about is it a brutal occupation and not being able to really review were those questions we care how our government and the response in the american media almost never refers to the israeli is the international law it's the context that's often missing from the current reporting is that the palestinian uprising is a revolt against a thirty four year long occupation and if there's no occupation in the story then the story doesn't really make sense and the occupation is frequently missing rick steves is a well fairly actually really well known travel writer travel guide and host of public very important that it be accurate this really palestinian conflict dominates american news coverage of international issues given that news coverage is americans means source of information on the conflict it becomes important to examine the stories the news media are telling us and to ask the question does the news coverage reflect the reality on the ground one of the things you have to keep in mind when you're looking at how media report on something like the israeli palestinian conflict is not only understand what's there in the story and more importantly what's not there it's being left out it's amazing that you watch  example in britain and you see something about the same piece of news that's very different from what you see about the same issue here and i met look at the british press the ways in which the palestinian victims are dismissed and downplayed in the american media the ways in which their deaths are justified in american coverage becomes even more glaring a really clear example of this is the b b c story on six palestinian kids killed by an israeli booby trapped in one of the next day by israeli says in the israeli government and security services have admitted they were probably didn't victims of an israeli booby trap if you look at the american coverage from the same day you'd struggle to think of it as even the same report practically blames the victims for their deaths in gaza a palestinian teenager was killed in a clash with israeli troops following the funerals of five boys they died thursday when one of them kicked an unexploded tank shell the messages filled out of the somehow the  covered the one that is violating your rights and taking away your freedom and uses systematic methods of violence to  sophisticated media like the new york times israelis whether they're israeli citizens or settlers or soldiers are presented in a very humane human way a way in which americans can identify with them twenty three israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting one of them was mark and rena robinson's twenty one year old son his name means god's gift saying in hebrew god  effects the coverage this institutional framework of american business and political interests in combination with the israeli public relations shapes media coverage of the middle east finally if any news stories critical of israeli and that there's even a watchdog element to this triumvirate that we just mention it's mind boggling people aren't aware of how occupied ideologically american media makes me me it just that one conflict with the palestinians on the ground but there's also back conflict in media space to control public opinion to basically keep us uninformed and to keep us from holding our government responsible because we might decide not to give israel the billions and billions of dollars that it's getting especially if we discover that it's occurring on a brutal occupation silencing us media coverage of the conflict is crucial to controlling the images and words used to explain the conflict has become an important extension of the struggle in the gaza strip israel is really fighting a war on two fronts the first is a military campaign  in the occupied territories against the palestinian people and the second is a p r campaign being waged here in the us through the american media to ensure continued support for israel's occupation alone pincus consul general for israel in new ordinator israel's p r efforts was recently quoted as saying we are currently in a conflict with the palestinians and engaging in a successful p r campaign as part of winning the conflict well if if you want the politicians to do year israel receives three trillion dollars in direct aid two thirds of which is military aid intended for the purchase of american made weapons in addition israel receives three billion dollars in indirect aid at least half of which is used for military ventures such as subsidizing israel still mystic armaments industry not included in this figure are other forms of military aid such as weapons given to israel free of charge including fighter planes and  helicopters total us aid to israel since nine hundred forty nine has amounted to over one hundred billion dollars making israel a country the size of new jersey the fourth most powerful military in the world in possession of the largest fleet of f sixteen fighter planes outside the united states the official number is about three billion dollars every year of military aid but actually that number is much bigger than that  steves discovered piece of propaganda and the promise land video is quite an eye opener if it's strong enough to make somebody like they can t of realize how much he has been and the like he uses the word in the in the colon like i say i think any american would watch of that committee and would come to the same conclusion that i can understand his outrage his being fooled being deceived is the number one source for anger and rage imo that we don't have any other thing that can make human beings more angry than being lied to and fooled especially for that length of time looted to it but media control we know we have consolidated and we know we have a corporate but is it safe or can we honestly say that it's a jewish mainstream media in america given that a small number of the jewish people in america and given how much  an excellent video that israel remains perhaps the last taboo topic that you really can't deal with very well but we need to do what's at stake speaking the truth of themselves and if they have learned anything from the holocaust then they should stop what they are doing to the blessed thing and people so like rick steves you want people to watch that video and more than likely they're going to sense that they've been fooled and