- Despite an internationally recognized
right to defend itself against terror attacks, Israel's public
diplomacy fails to convince the international and Western media and
political elements, which, for many and varied reasons, demonstrate an
ingrained propensity to prejudge Israel negatively.
- The initial few days of
international sympathy and understanding for Israel's right to defend
its population inevitably and rapidly metamorphosed into a wave of
condemnation and accusations. The change came with the deliberate
propagation of a false and distorted equivalence between a terror
organization blatantly violating humanitarian norms and a democratic
state legitimately defending itself against terror.
- In so doing, the media
chooses to ignore the Palestinian use of its civilian population as
human shields and the blatant abuse of hospitals, schools, mosques,
private homes, public buildings as rocket emplacements and weapons
storage facilities, and the hundreds of kilometers of offensive,
strategic tunnels under Gaza that endanger civilian life above.
- Israel's public diplomacy
could better rely on credible international military expertise, on
vocal support by local and foreign Arab experts, as well as the
real-time provision of accurate information to diplomatic missions and
Jewish communities.
- Public diplomacy should
bring to the attention of the international community the extensive
and illegal use and abuse of children by Hamas for military and
propaganda purposes, as well as the illegal use of incendiary balloons
and other anti-environment and anti-ecology weapons to destroy
Israel's agriculture and to pollute its environment.
- Public diplomacy must seek
to annul the artificial linkage that Hamas is attempting to generate,
into which the international media is buying, between events in the Gaza
Strip and the daily civil governance of Jerusalem. Pursuant to the
PLO-Israel Oslo Accords, Hamas has no standing regarding Jerusalem and
cannot artificially manipulate the international community into
accepting any such false linkage.
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