For years I’ve thought of busting this famous meme, but I don’t think could do better than this video from ARI. It goes through each panel, noting that it’s either an outright lie or drops crucial context.
https://youtu.be/btVFgqkgkzw?si=YUIz503kVfv6lCdW
A few quick points:
▪️The first panel shows the bulk of the land green, despite much of it being unlivable at the time and not owned or settled. They just color it all green as some sort of collective rights claim for “Palestinians” which is invalid from an individual rights perspective and inaccurate from any sort of state control.
▪️The second panel never existed, but now the white and green switches from collective group claims to actual state control. It was the UN plan, but the day after Israel declared independence all the neighboring Arab states declared war and tried to obliterate Israel and send the Jews to the sea.
▪️Keep in mind, the invading Arab states were never trying to ensure a Palestinian state or any such freedom. They were trying to grab the land for themselves and send the Jews to the sea. If they had won, the land would be controlled by the autocratic states of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc.
▪️The 3rd panel is a lie. The green areas were controlled by Jordan and Egypt, they weren’t “Palestinian land” and those countries would have laughed at that claim back then.
▪️There’s no panel showing Israel taking Gaza from Egypt and and greatly expanding into the Sinai, which they used to strategically defend itself from Egypt trying to launch attacks in another attempt to send the Jews to the sea. But when Egypt stopped being a menace they gave back the Sinai.
▪️The last panel drops all the context that “Palestinian land” was just a series of warring factions with no ability to ever have a remotely functioning state. Because that wasn’t their goal. Their goal has never been to have a government that protects Palestinian rights and land, the primary goal and obsession (as always) is to throw the Jews to the sea.
A more accurate meme will be posted in the comments.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
