Jules Verne
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Israel and the foreign media
While Israel's war against Hizbuallah is still going on in Lebanon, there is another battlefield Israel has to fight successfully: the war on the world's public opinion. Basically, the American public opinion is more supportive of Israel than in Europe. Also, the American media, is showing more understanding to Israel's steps in Lebanon. For example, the American news network, "Fox", is covering the war while bringing the Israeli perspective. Its British counterpart, the BBC, is very critical of Israel, in a way that verges on hostility. On the whole, the European media is more critical of Israel, presenting it as an aggressor that kills innocent Lebanese civilians in vein, without introducing the whole picture: An Iranian-supported terror organization, which is equipped with thousands of rockets and operates from areas of civil population, with an unhidden goal: wipe off the Jewish state, as part of its global war against the West. The Arab propoganda of lies and the campaign to delegitimize Israel's right to exist are perceived by many people in Europe and around the world as true. Israel's foreign ministry, with its dull budget of 9 million US dollars a year (less than Coca Cola's budget, and Coca Cola is more popular) can't do the whole job on its own. Therefore we have to extend a hand in that respect: write e-mails to foreign press, take part in world forums that deal with the mideast dispute, write talkbacks and do anything that will balance the anti-Israel wave of reporting from the foreign media. One needn't be a native speaker of English to to this. This forum can also become a platform where we can discuss ways of handling this situation and help our country to win this justified war, which indirectly helps the West in coping the increasing threat of fanatic Moslem countries and Jihadist terror organizations.
While Israel's war against Hizbuallah is still going on in Lebanon, there is another battlefield Israel has to fight successfully: the war on the world's public opinion. Basically, the American public opinion is more supportive of Israel than in Europe. Also, the American media, is showing more understanding to Israel's steps in Lebanon. For example, the American news network, "Fox", is covering the war while bringing the Israeli perspective. Its British counterpart, the BBC, is very critical of Israel, in a way that verges on hostility. On the whole, the European media is more critical of Israel, presenting it as an aggressor that kills innocent Lebanese civilians in vein, without introducing the whole picture: An Iranian-supported terror organization, which is equipped with thousands of rockets and operates from areas of civil population, with an unhidden goal: wipe off the Jewish state, as part of its global war against the West. The Arab propoganda of lies and the campaign to delegitimize Israel's right to exist are perceived by many people in Europe and around the world as true. Israel's foreign ministry, with its dull budget of 9 million US dollars a year (less than Coca Cola's budget, and Coca Cola is more popular) can't do the whole job on its own. Therefore we have to extend a hand in that respect: write e-mails to foreign press, take part in world forums that deal with the mideast dispute, write talkbacks and do anything that will balance the anti-Israel wave of reporting from the foreign media. One needn't be a native speaker of English to to this. This forum can also become a platform where we can discuss ways of handling this situation and help our country to win this justified war, which indirectly helps the West in coping the increasing threat of fanatic Moslem countries and Jihadist terror organizations.
