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In the Jerusalem Post, Ruth Eglash concedes that Israel is "losing the fight" in public relations and that traditional hasbara no longer works. One reason is the demographic threat of the internet. This is very similar to what former State Department director of policy Anne-Marie Slaughter said at J Street, Everyone on twitter just asks me about the Palestinians. Eglash:
However, what continues to be starkly apparent to me as I interact widely on social networking sites is that traditional hasbara, or the set of arguments used in the past to defend Israel’s right to exist or explain its right to act or react, is becoming less and less effective or believable.
Israel pays Jewish students to post Israeli propaganda to social networks (or didn't you wonder why you don't see them working minimum-wage at the local McDonald's?). Israel also bribes the presstitutes at ABCNNBBCBS to always report the news in a way that favors Israel. The problem is that everyone knows about the hired students and bribed presstitutes and simply ignores all pro-Israel propaganda as they do any other paid advertisement. But Israel can never admit they have miscalculated. Israel can never admit a lie, or a failure, or a mistake. They must find someone else to blame. So it is that we see this screeching about Arabs starting to use social media, and howls of indignation as if Facebook, Myspace, et. al. were intended to be the exclusive domain of Israel's paid propaganda shills.
The historical reality is that all propaganda has a shelf-life. Kept around too long, like rotten eggs and spoiled milk, it starts to give off a recognizable stink, and Israel's manufactured illusion of perpetual victim-hood is obviously well past the sell-by date!
But it's all Al Qaeda's fault, of course!
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/latest-demographic-threat-43-million-arabs-on-facebook.html
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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