FAKE NEWS: HAARETZ CLAIMS BANNON WANTS TO START AN ACTUAL WAR IN THE UK

Wow, look at that hand! It's almost like he's shooting somebody.

Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper that is surprisingly owned by Jews (I naively thought all newspapers everywhere were owned by foreigners) has claimed, in one of its headlines, that former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon is calling for an actual violent uprising in the UK to enforce Hard Brexit. 

I won't go into whether that would be a good thing or not, as the point here is the fakeness of fake news.

Under the headline BANNON CALLS FOR BREXIT SUPPORTERS TO TAKE UP ARMS AND FIGHT TO TAKE BACK THE U.K., the Tel Aviv-based newspaper tried to spin some rhetorical flourishes commonly used by politicians to make Bannon sound like he was calling for actual bloodletting on the streets of the Brexit-divided country.

Steve Bannon, Trump's former adviser, told Nigel Farage on LBC radio Sunday: "You're going to have to fight to take your country back, every day. Whether it's Italy, France, England, or the United States. If we quit, they're going to be in control."

Theo Usherwood, LBC's political editor, said: "That sounds like a call to arms.” To which Bannon replied, "Absolutely. This is war.”

In a legal sense, if Bannon had been calling for actual violence, he would be liable to arrest, especially as he was in the UK at the time the comments were made. But what we have here is the common use of metaphor and analogy, which Haaretz dishonestly tries to spin into an actual incitement to violence.

The term endorsed by Bannon -- "a call to arms" -- has quite a different meaning from the phrase "take up arms," although it is possible to use both in a rhetorical sense of "fighting" a political "battle." In fact, much of the terminology in politics has a military origin and is used in a purely metaphorical way. 

Politicians constantly fight "campaigns" in which they will "shock and awe" their opponents, and talk about "D-Days" when important decisions have to be made. Meanwhile political journalists will refer to "bloodlettings" and even "the night of the long-knives" when people are fired from positions in government. I won't even bother to tell you how often the term "war" is used in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with bombs, guns, and death.

For Haaretz to run a story with a headline that changes Bannon's endorsement of the phrase "a call to arms" to saying that he was actually calling for people to "take up arms" is a prime example of how the globalist press constantly distorts and spins everything all the time.

The German military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz famously said "War is a continuation of politics by other means." The endless lies and distortions of publications like Haaretz show that "The mass media is a continuation of war by other means." The question you have to ask yourself is who is attacking who in this war and why.

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