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Is Nothing As It Seems? 29 Is Nothing As It Seems? 29 Is Nothing As It Seems? Is Nothing As It Seems? very powerful rabbi. She remarked that her It now appears this entire incident may presence in the class was unusual for two have been staged as a propaganda move by reasons: First, she was young; Kabbalah was Hezbollah (see: generally taught only to learned scholars over http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/20 forty years of age. Second, she was the only girl 06/07/was_qana_staged/). According to in the group; this esoteric teaching was subsequent reports (corroborated by CNN traditionally reserved exclusively for men. journalists) the building in which these According to this young lady's vision, unfortunate people died was never hit by the the rabbi induced a highly charged, trance-like IDF and actually "collapsed" six to eight hours state that transported the entire group directly after the closest bomb (some 20-30 meters before the throne of God. The rabbi together away) fell. CNN Journalist Ben Wedeman noted with all the men fell prostrate before the that there was a large crater next to the building, magnificent being, while she walked directly up and observed that the structure appeared not to to Him and asked, "And who is the God that sits have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike. in the throne behind yours?" She recalls that the The roof of the building supposedly hit by an spell was immediately broken, and the entire Israeli bomb was intact. group was returned bodily back to the reality of The following is part of a story filed by the classroom. The rabbi, furious with her Tom Gross, former Jerusalem correspondent for unpardonable insolence, banned her from any the London Sunday Telegraph and New York further lessons. Daily News (see: She had looked into the eyes of infinity http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/9028.htm): and "knew" that it was more than the vision before her. As for me, the moment I heard her One senior British journalist, working By Jean-Claude Gerard Koven By Jean-Claude Gerard Koven story, the shell encasing my previous concept of for another company, last week let slip how the reality cracked. I began to cultivate the facility news media allows its Mideast coverage to be The tangle of deception in the Middle East has to look for the "truth behind the truth." The distorted. CNN senior international us completely fooled. If you're willing to look more I refined this practice, the more I also correspondent Nic Robertson admitted that his past the obvious nonsense fed to us by the came to deeply appreciate her gift. The human anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about prolific propaganda mills, you'd discover a mind finds comforts in answers, not paradoxes. civilian casualties in Lebanon was stage- story far different from anything you might We like things to be predictable, managed from start to finish by Hizbullah. He have conjured in your wildest dreams. understandable, and containable. But that is not revealed that his story was heavily influenced the way of it when one looks beyond the surface by Hizbullah's "press officer" and that Twenty-one years ago I lived in Israel where illusions shimmer. Hizbullah have "very, very sophisticated and for a while. It was one of those 'tween times In the depths, nothing is certain; realities slick media operations." when the last skirmish was still fresh in people's shift and swirl in an endless roil of expression. When pressed a few days later about his memories and the Intifada (Arabic for uprising) Every perception has behind it another unseen, reporting on the CNN program Reliable was another two years in the coming. There was deliberately hidden reality - like a master Sources, Robertson acknowledged that a lot of laughter and partying then-something puppeteer cunningly manipulating the illusion Hizbullah militants had instructed the CNN the Israelis really knew how to do. My biggest manifesting before you. It is an infinite camera team where and what to film. Hizbullah concern in life was discovering the best falafel holographic matrix that forms the substrate of "had control of the situation," Robertson said. stand in Tel Aviv. experience. The part of you that believes where "They designated the places that we went to, I remember the many little kiosks that you are now is real isn't supposed to know this. and we certainly didn't have time to go into the would juice fresh carrots right next to vendors Another part of you already does. All we're houses or lift up the rubble to see what was offering some of the most delicious figs doing here is reconnecting the dots. underneath." imaginable. That was the year my wife-to-be, If you prefer to keep your world neat Robertson added that Hizbullah has Arianne, and I toured around the globe in search and tidy, this would be a good place to get off "very, very good control over its areas in the of everything. We fancied ourselves spiritual the bus. The rest of this journey takes you far south of Beirut. They deny journalists access seekers and, with the exuberance of puppies, across the Rubicon and across opaque waters into those areas. You don't get in there without attended workshops and seminars, led that are uncharted. their permission." meditation groups wherever people would have I recently wrote an article (see: us, and generally did everything we thought was http://prismhouse.com/upiforum/122.php.) According to a letter allegedly written by Dr. appropriate for those on "the path." about the current flare-up of hostilities in the Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite That was also the year I met Phyllis Middle East. The roles of the two principal now living in Germany, to the editor of the Schlemmer, internationally known psychic and players, Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel, the game of author of The Only Planet of Choice. It was Force (IDF) are clearly defined, as is their currying the favor of world opinion is often through her that I first learned of channeling and intense hatred of each other. Despite the played with a reckless disregard for human life became smitten with the prospect of one day occasional politically correct rhetoric, each is (see: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi- being able to connect to higher intelligence. bent on the total incapacitation, if not bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=152781.) Although Arianne and I gained much from destruction, of its adversary. "But what," I Phyllis and her close companion (now husband) subconsciously wondered, "is the illusion I lived until 2002 in a small southern Israel Carmel, with whom we studied healing, behind the one I am allowed to see? Who is village near Mardshajund that is inhabited by a the most profound teaching came unwittingly really pulling the strings?" majority of Shias like me. After Israel left from a young girl. I can neither recall her name The footage and commentary fed to the Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to nor what she looked like. I just remember that public is a distillation sanctioned by those who take have its say in other towns. Received as she had an extraordinary ability to "see" things, make such decisions in network newsrooms. successful resistance fighters and armed to the and how much it scared her. Who among them has the courage to reveal teeth, they stored rockets in bunkers in our town One vision she shared with us remains where their orders come from? And who is as well. The social work of the Party of God indelibly etched on my psyche to this day. I pass ultimately calling the shots behind those who (Hezbollah) consisted in building a school and it on now, not because it is a light burden to run the networks? One can only wonder a residence over these bunkers! carry - it isn't - but because it is time each of us whether their reporting is often deliberately became willing to see more deeply into the slanted, or simply inaccurate. For example, let's murky depths. look into the IDF's highly publicized July 30th (This article by She recalled a particular vision in which bombing of Qana, in which 56 Lebanese Jean Claude Koven is continued on Page 30.) she found herself studying the Kabbalah with a civilians were reported dead.