US ignores international mood and lays blame on Palestinians

The Independent ^ | 01 April 2002 | Andrew Buncombe in Washington

[bassmaner]

KGB was the bunch of directorates: intellegence, counter-intellegence and crime investigators, border guards, goverment communications and so on.

And they also had an "Active Measures" directorate, which spread disinformation and propaganda worldwide. That was the point of my original post -- in addition to all the other roles you mention, the KGB was the world's most effective propaganda organ, and the effects of all those lies are still reverberating around the world to this day.

[Lazamataz]

How would the headlines read if Israel was killing Palestine women and children with suicide bombers?

If Israel agreed to dissolve today, cede all the land to Palestinians, and kill all of its own citizens in an orderly manner -- cleaning up as it went along -- that would not satisfy either Europe or the Arabs.

Somehow, that just would not be quite enough.....

[bassmaner]

KGB was the bunch of directorates: intellegence, counter-intellegence and crime investigators, border guards, goverment communications and so on.

And they also had an "Active Measures" directorate, which spread disinformation and propaganda worldwide. That was the point of my original post -- in addition to all the other roles you mention, the KGB was the world's most effective propaganda organ, and the effects of all those lies are still reverberating around the world to this day.