Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)
The problem with disseminating propaganda
THE world is flat. The holocaust did not happen. The Guptas were honest businessmen. Jacob Zuma was the best president South Africa ever had. And the hate-filled anti-Semitic dissimulations spouted by Adiel Ismail (Weekend Argus, March 17) are not based on indoctrinated lies and distortions, but on truth and fact.
With the disgraceful stench in our own backyards – over 140 Esidimeni psychiatric patients murdered due to the Department of Health’s greed and incompetence, two young children horrendously drowned in the effluence of pit toilets, out-of-control crime, child abuse, rape, murder, violent protests and taxi violence as a regular occurrence, gang warfare in the streets and at schools – and with so much adversity, poverty, ignorance, maladministration, government corruption and blanket racism, our country has descended into one of total degeneration. Furthermore with Malema spewing his dangerous racist hate speech and incitement to violence, the possibility of land grabs, news of terrorists harboured and the danger of terrorist attacks in our country, media focus should be directed to what horrifically concerns us who live in South Africa.
Nonetheless, four letters which appeared in the Weekend Argus the previous week disproved
Ismail’s prior untruths about Israel. Discounting every fact and all common sense in those letters, Ismail continues to rant the same old antiIsrael propaganda, insisting Israel be blamed for gross human rights abuses.
In fact and on the contrary, Israel does not indulge in any form of human rights abuses. That evil must be left to IS, Islamic terrorism and countries like Iran and Syria (“Israel is victim of the worlds’ greatest slur campaign” – Richard Kemp on Sky News). Not only does this tiny tract of land, miles away from us, now stand in the forefront of development, incentive and progress in water and land conservation, information technology, science and medicine – Israel is also one of the foremost leaders and protectors of human rights.