THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

7d. The elusive Israeli society: One obvious monkey wrench in NA plans to solve the
"Jewish problem" of "Zionism" is the unexpectedly persistent leaning of the Israeli public to
nationalism and Judaism, despite heavy media saturation in favor of the global pan-religious
mindset. [Israeli media has been faithfully mimicking the global media in nearly every
indoctrination effort, but it seems to backfire here.] Although there is substantial shifting
towards NA religion through missionary infiltration, the Israeli media has not been nearly as
successful with the Zionist problem. Local media anchormen and politicians had met with
apparent success in promoting NA global values and denigrating nationalism; they have now
lost nearly all the ground gained for the Plan, due to the current mini-war perpetrated in a
brutal manner by the Palestinian Authority (and condoned by the UN) which has revived a
nationwide Israeli patriotism that was nearly comatose. Some Israeli globalists themselves
have left the ranks of the enlightened to rejoin the obsolete fight for Zionist survival.
The Israeli media itself is suffering from a credibility gap which never plagues the likes of
CNN or BBC - not least being local media people who have been caught clumsily fabricating
rightwing religious "crimes" for broadcasting. Eitan Oren, an Israel cameraman for a major
local TV network, filmed an initiation ceremony in 1995 for a non-existent "rightwing
extremist" group that vowed on camera to kill then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The
resulting footage was aired nationwide and provoked strong revulsion against the religious
nationalist camp, which escalated nearly out of control when the assassination actually took
place. However, much of the NA success in dividing Israeli society was reversed when the
bogus nature of the ceremony was discovered years later. A prolonged public outcry ensued;
Oren and his boss were briefly investigated by the Israeli Attorney General but never charged;
as of Apr. 2000 Oren has been serving time... on the Ethics Committee of Israel's Journalist
Association. And Israeli public distrust of their own media has grown exponentially. Small
competing news agencies now easily win a wide hearing when denouncing such people for
undermining Jewish identity and survival, slandering innocent segments of Israeli society, and
covering up liberal secular crimes. The Israeli justice system and NA-leaning government
officials have joined the media in dodging accusations of criminal collusion, coming from
Knesset members, independent journalists and watchdog groups such as Israel Media Watch.
These critics are occasionally joined by members of the liberal caste (such as the media paper
_The Seventh Eye_, Voice of Israel broadcaster Carmit Guy, and secular Knesset members).
The frustration of the Israeli media over their failure to influence Israeli politics is betrayed by
reactions which only serve to further discredit them in the public eye. Most recently,
professional colleagues expressed shock at the tone of media coverage when conservative,
traditional Moshe Katzav was elected Israel's President over ultra-liberal, media-beloved (and
NA enthusiast) Shimon Peres; they questioned the media use of "traitors" to describe those
who had exercised their democratic right, as well as the publishing of post-election polls
which "proved" that Peres should have won. (Berel Wein, _Jerusalem Post_, Aug. 11, 2000)
The same frustration was evident when, after vigorous media support of Shimon Peres against
Benyamin Netanyahu in the 1996 election for Prime Minister, the "wrong man" won then
also. The bashing of Netanyahu by Israeli media began the day after his election and
continued long after his resignation and election defeat in 1999; yet public support for him
remains strong enough for pundits to fear he may run in the next election.
The failure to delegitimize orthodox Jews in Israel is more clearly seen with passing time.
An interesting example is the mounting controversy over the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin (1995), which was reported with such anti-orthodox bias that at first religious
Israelis were blamed wholesale (and occasionally beaten in the streets by angry seculars).
While the media continues to assign guilt to the rightwing religious community for Rabin's