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Israel has held a unique position among “ civilized ” nations, in that it has been allowed to control the international debate about itself and its treatment of the controlled Palestinian territories, by forcing diplomats and the Western press to use a special vocabulary of redefined words. Here is where Israeli “Hasbara, ” the official government crafted version of events, comes into play. Hasbara defines its own “ reality ,” meant for consumption by the Goy world, intending to give the impression that Israel wants conveyed. Consider the propaganda effort by the IDF to pass-off an attack video of an Israeli missile striking a truck full of oxygen tanks as militants unloading Qassam rockets. A video grab released by the Israeli Defence Force and broadcast on Sky News shows an Israeli warplane targeting a truck on December 30, 2008 at an unknown location in the Gaza strip.Photo: AFP The Israelis obviously knew that they were watching bottles being rolled out of a flatbed, not winged r...