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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsrael's propaganda machine is finally starting to misfire ( Patrick Cockburn- The Independent )
Israel's 'dream of Israeli and Palestinian children playing together' is somewhat hypocritcal when you look at the 230 children killed in GazaJuly 29, 2014
To many readers the New York Times coverage of the war in Gaza comes across as neutered or as having a pro-Israeli bias. But not to Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador in Washington, who lambasts the paper for failing to mention that a million Israelis were in bomb shelters yesterday as 100 rockets were fired at our civilian population.
Mr Dermer is considered so close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has been called Bibis brain. He is also a former student and employee of Frank Luntz, the Republican strategist who produced a confidential booklet in 2009, promptly leaked, advising Israeli spokesmen how best to manipulate American and European public opinion. Dont confuse messages with facts, Dr Luntz advises the spokesmen as he explains how facts should be selected and best presented to make Israels case.
It is a sophisticated document based on wide-ranging opinion polls, suggesting, for instance, that the removal of Israeli settlements from the West Bank should be denounced as a kind of ethnic cleansing. Dr Luntz stresses that spokesmen must demonise Hamas, but above all emphasise that they feel for the sufferings of Palestinians as well as Israelis. As a sample of what they should say, he gives: The day will come when Israeli children and Palestinian children will grow up together, play together, and work together side-by-side not just because they have to but because they want to.
The problem about this approach is that it sounds particularly hypocritical when, according to Unicef, 230 children have been killed in Gaza, an average of ten a day, and 2,000 have been wounded by Israeli bombs, shells and bullets. Israeli spokesmen are now denying their responsibility for the most notorious and televised atrocities such as the strike on the UN hospital last week. This is an old PR tactic, though not one recommended by Dr Luntz, which is sometime referred to as first you say no story, then you say old story. In other words, deny everything in the teeth of the evidence on day one and, by the time definitive proof of the massacre comes through, nobody notices when you have to admit responsibility.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israels-propaganda-machine-is-finally-starting-to-misfire-9636417.html
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Israel's propaganda machine is finally starting to misfire ( Patrick Cockburn- The Independent ) (Original Post)
Jefferson23
Jul 2014
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Hey, it's tough to compete against the bodies of blown up civilians. But they do their best.
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2014
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Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)1. Hey, it's tough to compete against the bodies of blown up civilians. But they do their best.
Day after day after day.
Of course, Israel's whole war is built on lies. Everybody knows it.
Roy Serohz
(236 posts)2. K&R