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5 hours ago Fayez Al-Sheikh Al-Salik 101 visits I did not find a harsher sarcastic description of the war than the phrase “All Quiet on the Western Front” with which the German novelist Eric Maria Mark ended his novel “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which was published in 1930 as the strongest testimony of condemnation of World War I, as if no disasters had occurred! It is noteworthy that the writer had joined as a fighter among the fighters who voluntarily participated with his country’s army during That war was due to the strong propaganda that portrayed the war as a war for the homeland, and this novel has remained imprinted in my mind since I read it when I was a middle school student more than forty years ago. The most important thing that distinguished the novel is that it swam against the sweeping populist trend at that time in Germany, removed the cover of hypocrisy from the “false narratives” of wars, exposed the falsity of bright slogans, and demonstrated the flaw of propaganda based on Absence of minds; Within the fictional text, the author of the report sent his encrypted message to the leadership, falsely stating, “All is quiet in the Western field, at a time when the hero and narrator of the story were breathing their last on the same quiet battlefront!” As an analogy between the fictional text and our war, which has entered its third year, we find that wars are not limited to armed confrontations, but rather extend to intellectual and media wars in which words and ideas are used to influence public opinion and shape narratives. The French writer David Colon says in his book “Information War… How do states control our minds? To a frightening world in which battles are conducted by invisible means, from images designed to sow doubt, to false news that is more convincing than the truth, and then algorithms that formulate political feelings on the scale of national interests.” The writer said, according to the Al Jazeera channel website, “We have become waging a war for which we have not taken into account, without declaration, fronts, or clear enemies, and it is a war without end, because its weapon is information itself, and because its broader field is humanity – you and me.” When we become the goal and the means at the same time.” In the novel “All is Quiet on the Western Front,” the hero joined with seven young men who were not more than twenty years old in the war of the Axis and the Allies, in response to German propaganda, its bombastic slogans, the resonant speeches of its politicians, and the fraudulent narratives, misleading stories, and fabrication of speech. Or as the poet said: I see under the ashes the flash of embers… and the fire is about to burn out. With the two sticks it is stoked…and the war begins with words. The words of war in Sudan began since the fall of the head of the ousted regime, Omar al-Bashir, by targeting the transitional period, where the remnants organized organized campaigns through social media aimed at sabotaging the process of peaceful transition, democratic transformation, and civil rule, and campaigns were activated to destroy the morale of the revolutionaries, lose confidence, and ignite fires. Disagreements, stirring up strife, and creating confusion among the Democratic Movement camp. The remnants’ media machine continued to pump out its false campaigns, which reached its peak with gatherings for iftars during the holy month of Ramadan, and which did not hide its agenda of attacking the transitional period, even if the cost of doing so was burning the entire country. These were the first indicators of the accursed war, but rather represented sparks of a fire that remained hidden under the ashes inside the souls. Charged, and these indicators emerged from the same group that practiced psychological projection, as defense mechanisms for the purpose of escaping bearing the consequences of involvement in kindling the flames of war, so they sought to “criminalize other parties and hold civil forces responsible by creating lies and breathing into their spirit, so that wildfire spreads, and their false narrative becomes facts.” The Islamists used the strategy of “mind manipulation,” which is a complex process that includes the use of psychological, social, and technological techniques with the aim of influencing the consciousness of Target audience, control their feelings and behavior; Thus shaping their political and social positions. The strategy follows modern technical means such as social media to publish and repeat certain news, videos, and pictures, and launch rumors after preparing people and preparing them to believe any rumour. Based on wishful thinking during times of natural and human disasters and wars, during these circumstantial contexts, the soul searches for everything that satisfies its psychological needs. Rumors create worlds parallel to the facts, and even though rumors are built on one piece of information that may be true; However, it may provide six false information, or fabricated events; With the aim of entrenching the relevant narrative within the souls, the strategy uses psychological influences in its narratives to arouse feelings of fear and raise levels of anger in the hearts of the target audiences so that they are prepared to engage in war. This strategy exploits “certain normative social values that constitute general principles of society, such as the values of “honor, honor, and dignity.” The parties that create rumors, or repeat real news, exert societal pressure on the targets and block them into accepting the narrative of the parties sending the repeated messages, and these pressures reach It culminates in the practice of emotional blackmail, and branding violators with the stigma of “treason, employment, and mercenary work.” The strategy of “manipulating minds” aims to exhaust the mind until it loses focus and does not differentiate between falsehood and truth, fantasy and reality. Then the individual’s mind dissolves within the mind of the group, and what is known as the herd mentality, thus facilitating the process of control, and the individual’s mind is then afflicted with what we can call the “deficit of dialectical thinking” syndrome, dealing with issues with a dualism (black and white), isolation, and separation. Between the introductions and the results, or between the events and the reasons. Here I will infer how to deal with warnings issued by the leader of the Federal Assembly, Babiker Faisal, about the failure to reach a settlement through the framework agreement. Instead of understanding the statement in its objective context as Faisal wanted, the Islamic propaganda mechanism was active in taking the statement out of its correct context, and their ambassadorial sites were active in publishing the man’s speech in the form of a “framework or war” threat instead of the warning! What is certain is that everyone who heard Faisal’s speech in full understood that the intention was “Warning about the occurrence of an incident, not threatening it.” This is like warning the people of an area that is witnessing environmental deterioration in which mosquitoes are breeding, so you say to them, “Either you drain the swamps or malaria will destroy you,” or like urging the state to support farmers, so you say, “Agriculture or famine.” It is no secret to anyone that taking the conversation out of its context was not an innocent act, but rather it was a calculated act intended to manipulate the minds of the citizens, to demonize the civil forces. He branded them as treason and collaborators, on the one hand, and to throw ashes on the eyes by exonerating the party with an interest in igniting the fuel of war. The instigators of hate speech against the civil forces continued to play on the strings of strong feelings, exploiting the emotions and emotions of the masses, and their characteristics, according to the definition of the French philosopher Gustave Le Bon, in his book “The Psychology of the Masses.” He stated that the characteristics of the masses are irritability, temper, inability to conduct rational judgment, the melting of personal opinion into the opinion of the group, and the absence of a critical spirit. And exaggeration in the display of emotions and feelings. The masses remain constantly vulnerable to incitement, to the tickling of feelings, and to planning the process of manipulating the counters of the “collective mind, for the purpose of mobilization and mobilization. The planners exploit several elements in the process of mobilization, and the formation of what is known as the critical mass. The elements of religion and race in Sudan come at the top of the elements of mobilization. We have seen attempts to restore history and approach the present with what is frequently reported about the “Mahdist” revolution, and talk of racist strife about the “Arabs of the diaspora” until The “societal division” plan succeeds, thus paving the way for jumping to Plan B, which is the separation of western Sudan in the event of failure to resolve the war militarily. The effectiveness of these elements increases if they are linked to a foreign conspiracy and an existential danger threatening the nation. The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler previously used in his war propaganda a rule that says, “If you want to control people, tell them that they are in danger, and warn them that their security is under threat, and that the opponents are traitors and agents.” In the Sudan war, the Islamists succeeded in building a solid narrative. Taking advantage of the behavior of the Rapid Support Forces, which is the force that emerged from the womb of their army, and in order for the “narrative” to be attractive and influential, they prepared the crime scene for it, then they lured the evil forces south from the island to Sennar, and left them to do what they wanted, and tamper with everything; Military garrisons in Khartoum, and to score political points by talking about human rights and Janjaweed violations, and supporting civil forces for this. Before the first shot was fired from the barrel of a soldier’s rifle, the huge propaganda machine continued sending its messages through social media to spread racist hate speech, create chaos, militarize public space, and work to normalize citizens with the culture of moral and physical violence. Amidst this ferment, it was natural for the cords of rational voices to fade, and in return, the “narratives of fraud” floated. And misinformation” on the surface, and questions searching for the truth recede, such as: Why was the war? And who started its fire? Did the war begin on the morning of the fifteenth of April 2023? Did the war begin with the deployment of the Rapid Support Forces and their opening to the north and their besiegement of the Marawi base? Or with the Rapid Support Commander going to Darfur? And what are the reasons for the mobilization of Islamists led by Anas Omar, Naji Abdullah, Muhammad Ali Al-Jazouli, Haj Adam, Ibrahim Mahmoud? And what is the impact of these campaigns on raising The pace of tension? Then what about the speeches of the seditionists and the “firewood carriers” before April 15? Who fired the first bullet in the Sports City? And what brought the army forces to the Rapid Support camp there at the dawn of that fateful day? ? Was there a third party who knew that by firing the first shot the fireball would roll at that speed? How did the Shadow Forces and the “Al-Baraa” Brigades emerge from the first day of the outbreak of fighting? Where was she? Why does a political organization have an armed militia? Speaking of external factors, the question remains: What is the extent of the regional and international influence on the war, both negatively and positively? Then, what is the relationship of the “Framework Agreement” to the outbreak of war? What was the content of the agreement?; Here, I do not have the slightest doubt that a large percentage of those who oppose it did not know its details, or only learned about it, and they are still ignorant of its provisions after the propaganda killed them and made them victims of an organized robbery and a systematic crime. There are hundreds of questions that the war propaganda promoters and its makers do not dare to raise, such as what was achieved from the war in three years? How many civilian casualties are there? How many dead on both sides? When will refugees and displaced people return to their areas? How did millions of Sudanese suffer and their dignity be undermined because of the war? Since the war has its effects on people’s lives and livelihoods, the questions related to the size of the economic cost cannot be ignored, and this includes the destruction of infrastructure, the destruction of factories, lost investment opportunities, the plunder of resources including “bloody gold,” armament and supplies; But instead of raising such questions, warmongers and hatemongers exploit the “strategy of manipulating and controlling minds” for the benefit of the war agenda. Then pass on their narrative and write reports at the level of “All is calm in this heartbroken country.” See also, the American envoy to the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, entered the Cabinet, hours before he left the capital…
