COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Inside Assad's
prisons: Horrors facing female inmates in Syrian jails revealed
You failed to properly label the source of this utterly
ridiculous article.
It should read: "article courtesy of Israel's Ministry
of Truth."
Assad is liked by most Syrians. He is a strong proponent of
religious liberty in a part of the world where that is not common. He has the
support of the country's many Christians.
None of those statements can be made about the government of
Israel.
One really has to ask why The Independent could not show
better judgment than publishing such stuff.
There is an old journalistic principle regularly ignored by
the corporate press today: the bigger the claim in a story, the better scrutinized
it needs to be.
Israel's government goes by the old big lie theory, tell a
story loudly enough and often enough, and many will believe it.
The theory comes straight from Joseph Goebbels, and Israel
is, without a doubt, its biggest proponent today.
