Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land: U S Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004)

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics. Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky. If you appreciate this film, please buy a copy from the Media Education Foundation. For more information and reviews, please see this link to the Media Education Foundation - http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda. The 2-disc DVD contains 8 hours of additional footage and interviews and is well worth the price. If you find value in the film, please buy a copy and support their efforts. PLEASE, please, please help me seed this film. Share it on other trackers. It's monumentally important that this story is told, particularly to the vast majority of the U.S. population that is ignorant of what is being done in your name. Technical Specs ===================== Filename.............: Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land.avi Filesize.............: 699 MB (or 716,068 KB or 733,253,632 bytes) Runtime..............: 01:19:14 (142,485 fr) Video Codec FourCC...: xvid Video Codec Name.....: XviD Video Frame Size.....: 560x416 (1.35:1) [=35:26] Video Bitrate........: 1100 kb/s Video Framerate......: 29.970 Video Frame Quality..: 0.158 bits/pixel Audio Codec..........: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate........: 124 kb/s (62/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.96r# Audio Framerate......: 48000 Hz Interleave...........: 1 vid frame (33 ms), p=504 Split: No IMRR.................: 1.00 Stream Type..........: OpenDML AVI