Finally: Israel to seek good PR?
If Prime Minister Netanyahu's director of policy planning and communications Ron Dermer can be believed, and if his program is actually implemented, Israel may finally be seeking positive publicity without being embarrassed about it. In his first interview since the Netanyahu Government took office in March, the Prime Minister's director of policy planning and communications has told The Age that it's time Israel switched its PR strategy from defence to offence.Does this mean that the Israeli government is actually going to tell the World that Jews have lived in Israel for 3,500 years, that the land was given to us by God himself, and that the 'Palestinian' interlopers didn't start arriving here until the late 1800's and have not been here since 'Time Immemorial'? Does it mean that the State of Israel is finally going to tell the World that we are here because this is and has for 3,500 years been the Jewish country, and that we're not here because the World feels guilty over the Holocaust?
"We have to break out of the straitjacket," Mr Dermer says. "We have to defend our own right to defend ourselves. It's not for other people to do it for us."
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"It is not enough for Israel to say that it wants peace. You must also say that you are not a thief. We did not steal another people's land. That is the core of this conflict," he says.
If so, that would be major progress. Unfortunately, not everyone will be happy about it. As you might imagine, the Leftists who worship at the altar of the 'peace process' are terribly upset that Israel might take a proud and positive view of itself.
"I think Israel has a policy problem, not a PR problem," says Uri Dromi, who was director of Israel's Government Press Office under former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.But Dromi and his fellow Leftists are not in power.
"The biggest problem is that Israel should not be in the (occupied) West Bank in the first place. Who cares what people write about us?"
Does this mean we can get rid of the 'Brand Israel' nonsense? I certainly hope so.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:21 PM
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Israel cannot do anything to end Arab hostility towards it. But Israel can and should stop being a punching bag for its enemies and rest of the world. Its good news that's sorely needed at a time when Israel can expect a drought of it.
Syria has a large population that lived there before the 1800s. Lebanon has such a population. So does Egypt and Iraq.
But for some strange reason, Palestine was empty! No one there!
I don't know why if you look at encyclopedia articles or traveler's books from 1850 you find description after description of cities, towns, and villages full of people.
And it's odd that all the old maps are peppered with these places too.
(And PLEASE don't quote Mark Twain to me. He also said Greece was empty. Empty seeming in comparison with Missouri and rural America, yes. But neither Greece nor Palestine were really empty as the rest of his writing about the subject makes clear.)
Palestine was of course no more lacking in inhabitants than any other place in the Middle East.
tell the World that Jews have lived in Israel for 3,500 years, that the land was given to us by God himself ...
Telling the world that Jews have lived in Israel for 3,500 years would be helpful. But telling the world that God gave the Jews the land of Israel is not going to convince anyone who isn't already a supporter of Israel.
After all, there are a tremendous number of people in this world who either don't believe in God, or think that God's name is "Allah" and that Allah either never gave Israel to the Jews, or that if he did, he took it away from them.
If the dispute over Israel comes down to whether the people and governments of the world believe the Torah, Israel loses, big time.
On the other hand, if the dispute over Israel comes down to whether the people and governments of the world believe that Jews have lived in Israel since ancient times, Israel has a good chance of winning that.
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