Video: “Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land”

 by Edward Ulrich, February 5, 2025




(Note: This is an older documentary from 2004, I recommend reading the text of this article before looking at it.  To watch this video full-screen, use this link.)

This documentary that was created in 2004 explains the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip at the time, when the areas were under military occupation by Israel.  It also explains how international media reports about what was occurring were being censored by organizations such as the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).


[Note: This is old news, but it contains interesting information about the role of groups such as AIPAC in how the media censors reports about such conflicts.  The documentary explains AIPAC’s role in biasing media reports about Israel at about 12:30.

Israel left the Gaza Strip in 2005, after which Hamas soon took control of the area, as explained in this article along with other issues such as the fact that Hamas is covertly controlled by the global elite.]

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I thought it was good to see that a ceasefire was recently called for in the current conflict in Gaza, but it is disturbing to see Trump’s new statements claiming that he wants to “take over” the area.

I should have communicated more about issues with AIPAC in the past.  In the early 2000’s when I was getting started communicating about political topics I posted an excerpt from the above video talking about issues with Israel and AIPAC, but I took it off when I did a redesign of this website because I became put off by some of the leftist aspects of the documentary, and also because I saw some supposed “debunking” of it.

Talking about AIPAC is often improperly considered to be “antisemitic,” and some people claim that it is the instrument that controls all of the U.S. media, however the non-Jewish CFR is actually what most significantly controls the media as this video explains.

However that is not to say that AIPAC does not also have a significant amount of control over the media, especially about topics related to Israel.  The above video does mention “political elites” as being a filter in the process but it does not mention the CFR specifically.  (And note that “political elites” should be listed at the top of the hierarchy rather than second, above “media owners.”)

AIPAC also has a wider role than just “media relations,” where it has a large amount of influence over almost all elected representatives in Congress.  For example Bernie Sanders recently said on Jon Stewart’s show that fear of having one’s political career destroyed by the Israel Lobby is “the root of everything” when it comes to the will of the public not being reflected by our representatives. (link)

An official definition of antisemitism includes “making stereotypical allegations of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions,” (link) therefore it often improperly makes people think that Zionist groups such as AIPAC are exempted from criticism.  In any event many Jewish people are opposed to those groups as well. (link)