(The adjective Orwellian describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" — a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four. - From Wikipedia)
Everyone of course remembers the recent Gaza massacre. Everyone of course also remembers the Palestinian and Human Rights Groups assertions of war crimes and genocide. And everyone of course remembers the Israeli spokezombies denying everything. (In case you object to the use of the term "spokezombie", I would suggest having a look at the clip where the Israeli military female spokezombie is denying with a straight face the existence of any kind of humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip while Palestinians have no water, electricity or heating at that very moment.)
Well, while browsing BBC Online News website, I came across this article describing some of the atrocities carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces:
An Israeli military college has printed damning soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians and vandalism during recent operations in Gaza.
...The Palestinian woman and two of her children were allegedly shot after they misunderstood instructions about which way to walk having been ordered out of their home by troops.
"The climate in general... I don't know how to describe it.... the lives of Palestinians, let's say, are much, much less important than the lives of our soldiers," an infantry squad leader is quoted saying.
In another cited case, a commander ordered troops to kill an elderly woman walking on a road, even though she was easily identifiable and clearly not a threat.
Testimonies, which were given by combat pilots and infantry soldiers, also included allegations of unnecessary destruction of Palestinian property.
"We would throw everything out of the windows to make room and order. Everything... Refrigerators, plates, furniture. The order was to throw all of the house's contents outside," a soldier said.
One non-commissioned officer related at the seminar that an old woman crossing a main road was shot by soldiers.
"I don't know whether she was suspicious, not suspicious, I don't know her story… I do know that my officer sent people to the roof in order to take her out… It was cold-blooded murder," he said.
Indicative of the age we live in, a senior Israeli official, as is to be expected, was asked to comment on the issue. This time it was Ehud Barak, the defence minister. It is in his reply that the Orwellian nature of the Zionist thinking becomes strikingly clear:
"I still say we have the most moral army in the world..."If this is not a clear example of doublethink, I would not know what is. As George Orwell stated in his seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" the definition of doublethink is:
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
(To anyone not familiar with "Nineteen Eighty-Four", I would strongly recommend picking it up in your local book store and having a read. Compulsory reading for 21st Century!)
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