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Some Pro-Israel posts here might be from paid shills

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An appropriate response to the attitude of the thread's creator.

Who in here is a paid shill? I want answers! I'm outraged across the internet!

There is a significant percentage of Arabs who celebrate the death of any and all Jewish people. So he gets to declare one side evil for why? Because the people of both sides were each born into an impossible situation?

He always appears angry. I'll let him be angry.
 
I'm sure there's tons of paid shills online working for the State Department or DoJ. If you go to Arstechnica, just look at any articles regarding NSA spying and Snowden leak revelations. On the comments section, there's a consistent amount of downvotes on any comments against the NSA spy state, and a bunch of trolls that keep supporting government tyranny.
 
At least they get paid to be shills. Some shill for causes without monetary incentive, that's pretty stupid if you ask me.
 
Phokus said:
Israel would lose military aid from the US and any international support they have if they do that. <--- you do not know that at all.

....Not only that, but they would get economic sanctions placed on top of that.<--- economic sanctions you truly are delusional!!!

Despite the fact that the US is Israel's lapdog, there are certain lines Israel can't cross without damaging themselves greatly.<-- you really have no clue do you?

I don't expect someone like you, with an IQ of a potato, to understand this of course.<--- hahah pot calling kettle black!

What happened to counterstrike, btw? Playing the latest COD on Xbox is probably more your alley as the 12 year olds who infest online console games are about your intellectual equals.
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I bet your being paid to be pro Palestinian even when the odds are not in your favor......my advice -- take the money and run...........
 
Phokus said:
Also Matt, which one of these people are you? (This is in response to Israel bombing 4 children playing soccer on a beach recently):

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What's sad about that is that those views are not all that uncommon in Israel. Some fucked up shit.
 
Phokus said:
I came across this interesting post at reddit

http://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...al_ship_bombs_palestinian_children_on/cizaozx

The user links to a bunch of stories about how Israel is paying people to post pro-Israeli propaganda on Facebook/twitter/reddit, etc.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-students-propaganda_n_3755782.html[1]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...they-tweet-proisraeli-propaganda-8760142.html[2]
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.541142[3]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/[4]
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs...nts-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook[5]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/students-offered-grants-if-they-tweet-pro-israeli-propaganda/5391610
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A couple other examples:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100616145027/http://giyus.org/

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The JIDF is rather infamous for not even hiding the fact that they do this shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Force

I've seen some absurd defense of Israel throughout the years here at ATPN, now i'm wondering how genuine some of those posts are.
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Is there a link to payroll available? I could seriously use it.

You guys get so tiresome with this foolishness. No one can possibly disagree with you on principle. The only possible explanation for our disagreement must be a monetary interest, or brain defect, or whatever. Chesterton defined this as bigotry.
 
Phokus said:
I came across this interesting post at reddit

http://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...al_ship_bombs_palestinian_children_on/cizaozx

The user links to a bunch of stories about how Israel is paying people to post pro-Israeli propaganda on Facebook/twitter/reddit, etc.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-students-propaganda_n_3755782.html[1]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...they-tweet-proisraeli-propaganda-8760142.html[2]
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.541142[3]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/[4]
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs...nts-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook[5]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/students-offered-grants-if-they-tweet-pro-israeli-propaganda/5391610
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A couple other examples:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100616145027/http://giyus.org/

aEwFULE.png


The JIDF is rather infamous for not even hiding the fact that they do this shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Force

I've seen some absurd defense of Israel throughout the years here at ATPN, now i'm wondering how genuine some of those posts are.
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Even if this is true, who cares? Asserting that someone is a "paid shill" is pure ad hominem because it ignores the argument being presented. Worse yet, there is no evidence of any particular person being a shill but the allegation gets repeated over and over again, even though it is most likely false in a given case. We can speculate about shills all day but it has nothing to do with the substance of the discussion. All your thread does is provide a canned, meaningless talking point to the anti-Israel crowd, which distracts from the real discussion.
 
Of course, this is Hamas' fault for putting Israel in a position where they have to pay someone to defend Israel on the internet.
 
soulcougher73 said:
You guys are looking at this all wrong. Best to wipe both of them out and start over. I'm pro-death and anti-religion ...
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You are just as bad then. I'm merely pro-death pro-death. I'm only pro-death for people whom are pro-death, but I'm not pro-death for people that are strictly pro-death pro-death otherwise that would be silly.
 
woolfe9998 said:
Even if this is true, who cares? Asserting that someone is a "paid shill" is pure ad hominem because it ignores the argument being presented. Worse yet, there is no evidence of any particular person being a shill but the allegation gets repeated over and over again, even though it is most likely false in a given case. We can speculate about shills all day but it has nothing to do with the substance of the discussion. All your thread does is provide a canned, meaningless talking point to the anti-Israel crowd, which distracts from the real discussion.
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Spot on. Thank you.
 
Jhhnn said:
Dunno about "paid", but Israeli shills are ubiquitous. Here's the handbook-

http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf
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Those bastards! How can America allow the distribution of such evil as this?

Writing this handbook has been a difficult task. Trying to strike a balance between support for Israel, and a realisation that some things just aren’t black and white has been our goal. We hope that what has resulted is useful to Jewish students everywhere, and that ultimately Israel is strengthened through our efforts. Jewish students in the Diaspora are not unconditional supporters of Israel, just as Israelis have different political preferences. Unfortunately, many Jewish students express their dissatisfaction with some government action or other by ignoring Israel, giving up on her just when she needs the most help and support. In our
Hasbara Handbook we have rejected the old-fashioned position which states that every Jewish student must support everything that Israel does. Rather, we believe, Israel is an imperfect country, invariably run by imperfect governments. Mistakes are made, approaches are taken that are hard to understand, but one thing remains constant – the Jewish state has a right to exist, and her citizens have a right to safety.
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Clearly no one could say such things without being paid to say them.

woolfe9998 said:
Even if this is true, who cares? Asserting that someone is a "paid shill" is pure ad hominem because it ignores the argument being presented. Worse yet, there is no evidence of any particular person being a shill but the allegation gets repeated over and over again, even though it is most likely false in a given case. We can speculate about shills all day but it has nothing to do with the substance of the discussion. All your thread does is provide a canned, meaningless talking point to the anti-Israel crowd, which distracts from the real discussion.
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Well said, sir.
 
I took what the Israelis offered me for Internet posts over to the Palestinians and said "can you top this?" They said yes, so I took their money too.

I went back to the Israelis and told them what the Palestinians were paying me. They thanked me for the idea... citing that the more money Hamas is giving away uselessly for internet posters, the less they have to buy stuff to blow up innocent people with. So I got a raise from the Israelis.

I took that back over to the Palestinian side and said "I'm posting for Israel again, their offer is now higher than yours." The Palestinians upped my pay.




Haven't posted much for either side yet. I just like the money.
 
Phokus said:
I came across this interesting post at reddit

http://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...al_ship_bombs_palestinian_children_on/cizaozx

The user links to a bunch of stories about how Israel is paying people to post pro-Israeli propaganda on Facebook/twitter/reddit, etc.
________________
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-students-propaganda_n_3755782.html[1]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...they-tweet-proisraeli-propaganda-8760142.html[2]
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.541142[3]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/[4]
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs...nts-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook[5]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/students-offered-grants-if-they-tweet-pro-israeli-propaganda/5391610
__________________

A couple other examples:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100616145027/http://giyus.org/

aEwFULE.png


The JIDF is rather infamous for not even hiding the fact that they do this shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Force

I've seen some absurd defense of Israel throughout the years here at ATPN, now i'm wondering how genuine some of those posts are.
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There are several company's that offer internet "clean up" services, and viral marketing, this isn't news. So other than making accusations against other members, was there some point to this post?
 
Where can I sign up to get paid for it btw.

I'll be Clint Eastwood in "A Fistfull of Dollars" and badmouth both sides 🙂

J/K
 
MongGrel said:
Where can I sign up to get paid for it btw.

I'll be Clint Eastwood in "A Fistfull of Dollars" and badmouth both sides 🙂

J/K
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If the pay was right, I'd take any side of any issue. My guess is that the actual money you receive is commensurate with the amount of impact you have posting on a forum, almost nothing.
 
I'm not a paid shill. But if can you direct me to where i can be paid i will gladly post over and over that i hope Israel follows through and finishes the job.

Also, i hope they do follow through and finish the job.
 
Sinsear said:
I'm not a paid shill. But if can you direct me to where i can be paid i will gladly post over and over that i hope Israel follows through and finishes the job.

Also, i hope they do follow through and finish the job.
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Yeh, they could just round up all the Pals & gas 'em because the same thing happened to European Jews 75 years ago. Funny how the oppressed take on the same headset as their oppressors when they're on top, huh?
 
Jhhnn said:
Yeh, they could just round up all the Pals & gas 'em because the same thing happened to European Jews 75 years ago. Funny how the oppressed take on the same headset as their oppressors when they're on top, huh?
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You realize you are supporting people who want to do that all over again.
 
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