Framing Pakistan: How the pro-Israel media enables India's surrogate warfare

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O.K. Let us try to evaluate this conspiracy theory as well.

by Maidhc Ó Cathail
(Thursday, May 27, 2010)

In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbour, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.

Author's opinion. Who gives a hoot?

The latest example of US media complicity with the Indo-Israeli alliance came in the aftermath of the much-hyped Times Square “car-bomb” incident. Typical of the media orgy of Pakistan-bashing that followed the discovery of an SUV packed with 250 pounds of non-explosive fertilizer was a piece written by Newsweek’s Indian-born editor, Fareed Zakaria, in which he brands Pakistan as “a terrorist hothouse.”

Author very cleverly trying to dilute the facts by discrediting the Newsweek Post by FZ without establishing anything to the contrary to what FZ claimed.

“For a wannabe terrorist shopping for help, Pakistan is a supermarket,” writes Zakaria. “There are dozens of jihadi organizations: Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Al Qaeda, Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani’s network, Tehrik-e-Taliban, and the list goes on. Some of the major ones, like the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, operate openly via front groups throughout the country. But none seem to have any difficulty getting money and weapons.”

FZ only pens down facts very well established. No one is surprised when they read the above.

Zakaria is in no doubt about who’s to blame.

“From its founding, the Pakistani government has supported and encouraged jihadi groups, creating an atmosphere that has allowed them to flourish,” claims the CNN pundit.

To back up his assertions, Zakaria cites no less an authority that Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States. In Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, which Zakaria considers a “brilliant history,” Husain Haqqani claims that support for jihad has been “a consistent policy of the state.”

Again facts. Following can help:

http://www.twq.com/05winter/docs/05winter_haqqani.pdf
Foreign Policy In Focus | Islam and Pakistan

Case closed for the prosecution? Perhaps not.

The Pakistani diplomat’s credibility as an objective critic of jihadism is undermined somewhat by his intimate ties to the Israel-centric neoconservative network. A former fellow at the Likudnik Hudson Institute, Haqqani co-chaired Hudson’s Project on Islam and Democracy. Its director, Hillel Fradkin, was a Project for a New American Century signatory to a 2002 letter to George W. Bush equating Yasser Arafat with Osama Bin Laden in an effort to convince the White House that “Israel’s fight against terrorism is our fight.”

Haqqani also collaborated with another neocon, Stephen Schwartz, on the Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace. A project of the notorious Islamophobe Daniel Pipes, it is widely suspected to be an attempt to “divide and conquer” the American Muslim community. In short, if Tel Aviv had handpicked Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, they could hardly have found a more suitable candidate than Haqqani.

Also advancing “the Pakistan Connection” to the Times Square plot is Haqqani’s onetime collaborator Stephen Schwartz. Writing in Rupert Murdoch’s staunchly pro-Israel Weekly Standard Schwartz pushes “the Pakistani Taliban did it” storyline. Faisal Shahzad’s arrest, he writes, “lends credibility to the claim by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the branch of the Afghan terrorist movement operating there, that they planted the unsuccessful car-bomb.”

Like Zakaria, Schwartz holds Pakistani authorities responsible.

“Pakistani reality cannot be evaded,” he writes. “The jihadist domination seen in the Pakistani army and intelligence services (ISI) is visible everywhere South Asian Muslims congregate. It explains the reluctance of the Pakistani government to fulfill its commitment to fighting the Taliban. And it equally accounts for conspiracies like that foiled in Times Square.”

The one evading “Pakistani reality,” however, is Schwartz. If any government is to be held responsible for terrorism carried out by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), it is not in Islamabad but in Tel Aviv or New Delhi.

Classic cases of raising strawmen. Discredit Haqqani and everything and everyone that he has been related to and prove that there is a conspiracy being hatched against Pakistan.

Who is Haqqani? Pakistan's ambassador to U.S.
Who appoints the ambassdors? Pakistani government.
What is being claimed in the section above? Haqqani who has been appointed by the Pakistani government has been consistently working against the interests of Pakistan over the last years while still being in favour with the Government of Pakistan that he is discrediting.

Seeing thru the B.S: Who does Haqqani really hurt above = Pakistan Army.

As Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, revealed in a recent interview: “We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions training and arming terrorists.”

According to Duff, “The Pakistani Taliban is in close cooperation with, supplied, financed, armed and trained by Israel and India to attack Pakistan.”

Duff’s claims are based on a February 2010 fact-finding tour of Pakistan, where he was briefed by the highest levels of the country’s military and intelligence establishment, including Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff.

Speculation/ Hear-Say/ unestablished opinions/ not an iota of evidence.

Fearful of offending their Israel-conscious paymasters in Washington, the Pakistani military and intelligence services have been forced into the humiliating position of leaking their side of the story through the Veterans Today website.

According to the ISI leak, the Times Square terror plot was a “false flag operation to implicate the Pakistani Taliban and then threaten and force Pakistan to ‘do more’ in North Waziristan.” This was followed by “a massive media disinformation war” to induce the belief that “all global terrorism is emerging from the Pakistani tribal pocket of North Waziristan, and that the ISI/army is either hands and gloves with the Taliban or not willing to do more.”

Pure propaganda. Even the author foolishly accepts it. And by his claims,

Who is the doer here = ISI.
Who does ISI work for = Pakistan Army.
What was the objective of the leak = To avoid the army going in to NW.
Who lives in NW = M/s Haqqani and Gul Bahadur a.k.a Taliban.

Hand & Gloves?

Clearly, Israel and India share a common geostrategic interest in the destabilization of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated, “Our ties with India don’t have any limitation….”

Selective/out of context / opportunistic quoting. Does not stand even the first test of Propaganda.

Israel, however, has proven itself a rather dubious ally—as a growing number of Americans are beginning to realize. Perhaps one day policymakers in New Delhi will have a similar awakening. But for the time being, the media component of its alliance with Tel Aviv affords India a powerful weapon to wage surrogate warfare against Pakistan.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/74770:victory::victory:

Starting with false premise, avoiding facts, raising strawmen, offering hear-say as evidence, admitting objectives and propangda of Pakistan Army and then finally drawing an illogical conclusion.

So much so that after Leo Panetta's visit following have been the developments:

There has been admittance that FS was linked to Pakistani Taliban.
There has been news that Mehsuds and the bad Taliban are going away from the good Taliban territory.


So even the propagandists in PA are losing their touch. Nice reading by the way.

I almost fell of my bed reading the part when John held Jane in his arms and lifted her frail body and carried her thru the french windows to the portico where the evening Spanish summer Sun had turned everything in to a haze of gold so shimmery that the whole sight seemed to be turning crimson while yet so subtle that Jane felt weak thru her legs and gave herself completely in to John's arms who was fascinated looking at her soft napeline and basking in the heat of her mellow body and raised her lips to his AND THAT IS WHEN THE INDIANS AND ISRAELIS CAME AND SHOT THEM.

Good luck Pakistan.