Dan Fleshler has an amazing post on the spin machine that Israel is mounting to justify the slaughter in Gaza. Couple quotes:
I’ve been emailed advice, talking points and videos that are supposed
to help me win the game of perception management. All of them urge that
“we” try to turn the world’s attention to the suffering, traumatized
people of Sderot and the rest of Southern Israel and focus on the
duplicity of Hamas. None of them offer talking points to bolster
Livne’s bizarre argument that pummelling Gaza will help those who want
peace and coexistence. None of them even try to justify Israel’s
disproportionate response.
Reviewing this material, I got the sense of people flailing about, trying to work with a press kit that has woefully inadequate material. For example, I received a message from a group called Road 90 with the subject line “Media tools to help explain IDF operations in Gaza.” There are videos of air raids in Sderot. There is a cartoon entitled “How do you like it?” that shows people in France, UK and Germany fulminating as rockets fall behind them. Understandably, the presentation does not try to explain Israel’s wild over-reaction.
the spin machine is entirely superfluous. elites in US either are on their side or too cowed to object. the vast majority stopped caring either way: they know they have little to no impact on decision-making in this country, as Obama — the candidate of Change — will shortly demonstrate
I've not been e-mailed.
I note that the phrase "cycle of violence" has been ommitted from Phil's current political vocabulary, that Hamas seems to be innocent in his mind.
NOONE is innocent in cycles of violence. The violence is the chosen method of discourse.
hey Witty, perfect moral relativism with the katusha homemade rockets, and the most advanced military in the world, who have been occupying Palestine in contravention of UN regulations since 1967. And have the Israeli people changed their state policy?
You have to question where the state ends, and the individual civilians take responsibility for their state actions. Israel is wreaking destruction and death on civilians, and all Witty can parrot is Hamas and his hasbara schtick. You should go join the IDF Witty.