Baron of the Falsehood Industry

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If you want to know how to demonize the State of Israel, read the interview Haaretz's Gideon Levy gave to a British newspaper, The Independent. The Israeli journalist's web of lies makes Pravda– in its worst days– seem like a serious and credible newspaper. Almost every day, I'm alerted to negative pieces about Israel published in the world press. Once in awhile, they include legitimate, justified criticism. After all, Israel is not free of mistakes or anomalies. One can't always cry "Gevalt." Other times, they include heaps of exaggerations, lies, and distortions. This is a known problem, but it's not worth refuting every such piece.. There is just not enough room – not only in this section, which deals with the industry of lies, but in the entire newspaper – to review or refute all the unfounded allegations and myths. But, every now and then, one discovers new lows of contempt toward and humiliation of Israel. And those need to be refuted.

First I'll mention that at the beginning of this week, a young Israeli, a stranger, asked me how I am able to sit in a television studio with Gideon Levy and not boil over with rage. I explained to him that I am proud to live in a state where there is a Gideon Levy who is allowed to write and attack freely. Any other option would be far worse. Another person asked me whether I had read Levy's interview in The Independent. I answered negatively. But after so many others alerted me to that interview, I read it. It was not an easy experience.