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		<title>Roger Cohen’s Hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cohen's thinking is simple: Western-backed authoritarian governments=bad.  Iranian-backed Islamist authoritarian governments=good.]]></description>
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<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08iht-edcohen08.html?ref=rogercohen">Roger Cohen column</a> in the New York Times, he shows how much more moral and wise he is than the Western world:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Arab Spring is also a Western Winter.</p>
<p>I’m glad the United States and Europe have gotten behind the Bahrain-to-Benghazi awakening. But<strong> I’ve not heard enough self-criticism.</strong></p>
<p>Hearings should be held in the U.S. Congress and throughout Western legislatures on these questions: How did we back, use and encourage the brutality of Arab dictators over so many years? To what degree did that cynical encouragement of despots foster the very jihadist rage Western societies sought to curb?</p>
<p><span id="more-122379"></span>The West has long known what the likes of Qaddafi and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak did.</p>
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<p>Indeed. How can any Westerner have supported stable but oppressive Arab governments?</p>
<p>Instead, the West should be supporting these guys, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/opinion/09cohen.html?ref=rogercohen">as Cohen has written</a> in the past:</p>
<blockquote><p>Britain aligned itself with the U.S. position on Hezbollah, but has now seen its error. Bill Marston, a Foreign Office spokesman, told Al Jazeera: “Hezbollah is a political phenomenon and part and parcel of the national fabric in Lebanon. We have to admit this.”</p>
<p><strong>Hallelujah.</strong></p>
<p>Precisely the same thing could be said of Hamas in Gaza. It is a political phenomenon, part of the national fabric there.</p>
<p>[The U.S.] should initiate diplomatic contacts with the political wing of Hezbollah. The Obama administration should also look carefully at <strong>how to reach moderate Hamas elements</strong> and engineer a <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/03/khaled-meshal-any-unity-between-fatah.html">Hamas-Fatah reconciliation</a>.</p>
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<p>You see, Cohen is wise. He actually goes into these other countries and talks to carefully selected people under the watchful eyes of the secret services, so he has wisdom that US diplomats do not have (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/opinion/03iht-edcohen.html?ref=rogercohen">except when they do.</a>)</p>
<p>So Cohen certainly knew what he was talking about when he wrote<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/opinion/03iht-edcohen.html?ref=rogercohen">, in March 2009 </a>during his visit to Iran where he declared that the Jews there suffered practically no discrimination:</p>
<blockquote><p>The June presidential election pitting the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against Mohammad Khatami (a former president who once spoke in a synagogue) <strong>will be a genuine contest </strong>as compared to the charades that pass for elections in many Arab states.</p>
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<p>See how wise Cohen is? Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas are the good, democratic choice for the Middle East! Hezbollah, which has had a crucial role in turning Lebanon from a cosmopolitan and tolerant society into an Iranian satellite state armed to the teeth against Israel, is the model for all Arab states. Islamist Hamas, which chose to shoot rockets into Israeli communities after Israel withdrew every single resident and soldier, should be propped up with Western gifts and recognition. Arabs need to learn about free and fair elections from Iran. Hateful rhetoric against Jews and Israel are mere words, but Roger Cohen enjoying coffee with Islamic fundamentalists prove they are really the good guys. As he wrote, &#8220;Perhaps I have a bias toward facts over words, but I say <strong>the reality of Iranian civility toward Jews tells us more about Iran &#8211; its sophistication and culture &#8211; than all the inflammatory rhetoric</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cohen&#8217;s thinking is simple: Western-backed authoritarian governments=bad.  Iranian-backed Islamist authoritarian governments=good.</p>
<p>Cohen self-righteously tells Westerners that they need to engage in more self-criticism for their support of Arab authoritarian regimes.</p>
<p>But Roger Cohen sees no reason to admit any mistakes about his anti-democratic, Sharia-loving friends from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.</p>
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		<title>No Appeasement: 11 Reasons Why Israeli Concessions Will Not Bring Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giving In Is Not An Option]]></description>
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<p>For years, we’ve been hearing how important the peace process is. We are constantly being told that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is the root of all the problems in the Middle East (and, sometimes, the world). Even if a solution were to be found, we are constantly led to believe, the entire Arab world will become friendly and cooperative with the West.</p>
<p>The Europeans are frustrated, because they think they know what the major obstacle to peace is. Of course, it is Israeli intransigence. It is the existence of Jews wanting to live in the so-called West Bank, it is the hardheadedness of the Israeli government (especially the Likud,) it is “occupation,” it is Israeli refusal to negotiate on water, and Jerusalem, and descendants of refugees. it is a whole host of seeming issues. Once Israel sees the light and gives a few more concessions, the thinking goes, then the Arab world will welcome Israel with open arms as a full member of the Middle East. Terrorism will stop, Westerners will no longer need to go through security checks on airplanes, birds will sing Bach concertos in harmony and the lion will lie down with the lamb.</p>
<p>There is only one problem: <strong>peace is impossible</strong>. <span id="more-122180"></span></p>
<p>Not “difficult.” Not “unlikely.” But literally impossible, at least for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p><strong>Israeli concessions will not bring peace.</strong> They can bring temporary lulls, they can bring short-term goodwill from Western nations, but they cannot and will not bring peace.</p>
<p>Here are the top eleven reasons why this is so.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/07/no-appeasement-11-reasons-why-israeli-concessions-will-not-bring-peace-1/2/">And we&#8217;re starting with: The Islamo-fascists from Gaza&#8230;</a></strong></p>
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		<title>No Appeasement: 11 Reasons Why Israeli Concessions Will Not Bring Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giving In Is Not An Option]]></description>
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<p>For years, we’ve been hearing how important the peace process is. We are constantly being told that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is the root of all the problems in the Middle East (and, sometimes, the world). Even if a solution were to be found, we are constantly led to believe, the entire Arab world will become friendly and cooperative with the West.</p>
<p>The Europeans are frustrated, because they think they know what the major obstacle to peace is. Of course, it is Israeli intransigence. It is the existence of Jews wanting to live in the so-called West Bank, it is the hardheadedness of the Israeli government (especially the Likud,) it is “occupation,” it is Israeli refusal to negotiate on water, and Jerusalem, and descendants of refugees. it is a whole host of seeming issues. Once Israel sees the light and gives a few more concessions, the thinking goes, then the Arab world will welcome Israel with open arms as a full member of the Middle East. Terrorism will stop, Westerners will no longer need to go through security checks on airplanes, birds will sing Bach concertos in harmony and the lion will lie down with the lamb.</p>
<p>There is only one problem: <strong>peace is impossible</strong>. <span id="more-121743"></span></p>
<p>Not “difficult.” Not “unlikely.” But literally impossible, at least for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p><strong>Israeli concessions will not bring peace.</strong> They can bring temporary lulls, they can bring short-term goodwill from Western nations, but they cannot and will not bring peace.</p>
<p>Here are the top eleven reasons why this is so.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/06/no-appeasement-11-reasons-why-israeli-concessions-will-not-bring-peace/2/">And we&#8217;re starting with: The Islamo-fascists from Gaza&#8230;</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Palestinian Authority insults the US – and no one says a word</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority is officially calling the United States an "obstacle to peace." It is saying that the US - a nation that has worked harder than any other to bring about peace, a nation that brokered Camp David - cannot be an honest broker in negotiations. Whether you agree or disagree with the present administration, this press release is an unacceptable slap in the face of the world's superpower by an entity that cannot conceive of the idea of compromise for peace.

Yet the US has not said a word in response.]]></description>
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<p>Last March Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel to work on getting indirect peace talks underway.</p>
<p>While he was there, a Jerusalem planning committee announced the approval of an additional 1600 housing units in an existing Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. The neighborhood, Ramat Shlomo, would never be handed over to the Palestinian Arab state in any conceivable peace plan, and the Jerusalem municipality approves or rejects housing plans all the time. Beyond that, the PA had <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=170829">already admitted </a>that Ramat Shlomo would remain part of Israel.</p>
<p>Still, there was a firestorm of protest over this coincidental timing, as if the Knesset and Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister personally approve every housing project in Jerusalem. Secretary of State Clinton called the move &#8220;insulting&#8221; and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu had to express regrets over the incident.</p>
<p>The supposed &#8220;insult&#8221; was nothing of the sort, but the US publicly dressed down its closest ally in the Middle East because of the actions of a low-level city clerk.</p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s fast forward.<span id="more-120658"></span></p>
<p>On Friday, the US vetoed a UN resolution calling Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria &#8220;illegal.&#8221; This occurred after a long phone call from President Obama to PA president Mahmoud Abbas begging him to drop the resolution. Abbas ignored the President&#8217;s pleas.</p>
<p>After the vote and the veto, UN representative Susan Rice gave an unprecedented speech clarifying the US position, and groveling towards the Arab world by insisting how distasteful the Obama administration considers Jews living in their historic heartland.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.mofa-gov.ps/ar/index.php?p=main&amp;id=1010">response from the Palestinian leadership</a> was published, in Arabic, on the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It says, in part:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>U.S. veto: <strong>an obstacle to peace </strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The United States of America&#8217;s use of the veto to prevent the passage of a UN resolution condemning Israel&#8217;s settlement policy <strong>confirms that it is not an honest broker, </strong>and it is<strong> no longer able to carry out its responsibilities </strong>as a sponsor of any future Palestinian &#8211; Israeli negotiations.</p>
<p>This first veto of the administration of President Barack Obama <strong>puts the credibility of the sponsor of the peace process in jeopardy</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>We see the U.S. veto as encouraging Israel to move forward in the processes of settlement and Judaizing Jerusalem, and the construction of a wall of annexation and expansion. <strong>[</strong><strong>We] hold the U.S. administration to be fully responsibile for the consequences and repercussions. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">This, ladies and gentlemen, <strong>is what an an insult looks like.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The PA is officially calling the United States an &#8220;obstacle to peace.&#8221; It is saying that the US &#8211; a nation that has worked harder than any other to bring about peace, a nation that brokered Camp David &#8211; cannot be an honest broker in negotiations. Whether you agree or disagree with the present administration, this press release is an unacceptable slap in the face of the world&#8217;s superpower by an entity that cannot conceive of the idea of compromise for peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This hateful screed has, so far, been ignored both by the media and by the current administration. There have been no public calls for apologies, no calling out of president Mahmoud Abbas who is responsible for this statement.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Not only did Susan Rice&#8217;s little speech meant to blunt the veto not placate the Palestinian Authority &#8211; it is entirely possible that it emboldened them to slam the United States.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In fact, it might be even more than an insult &#8211; it is practically a public statement that the Palestinian Arabs no longer subscribe to the peace process.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yet there are no angry recriminations, no evidence of displeasure, no outrage. It is almost as if the Obama administration is afraid of upsetting the Palestinian Arabs while they do not hesitate to find ways to be &#8220;insulted&#8221; by its friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There is something deeply and profoundly wrong with this picture.</p>
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		<title>Hasbara 2.0: Getting people to listen to the message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective advocacy for Israel means finding a way to get the message across to people. And getting one's message across to others effectively involves psychology. People identify with various groups. If you are a Dallas Cowboys fan, you will naturally feel comfortable with other Cowboys fans, and it is easier for the other fans to gain your trust. The same with people who come from the same town you are from, or people of your faith, people who share your hobbies, or people of the same age and socio-economic status. This is natural.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is part 3 of a 3-part series.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Click here for <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/31/hasbara-2-0-why-the-israel-haters-are-winning-today/" >Part 1</a> and here for <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/09/hasbara-2-0-what-is-effective-hasbara/" >Part 2</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Effective advocacy for Israel means finding a way to get the message across to people. And getting one&#8217;s message across to others effectively involves psychology.</p>
<p>People identify with various groups. If you are a Dallas Cowboys fan, you will naturally feel comfortable with other Cowboys fans, and it is easier for the other fans to gain your trust. The same with people who come from the same town you are from, or people of your faith, people who share your hobbies, or people of the same age and socio-economic status. This is natural.<span id="more-120072"></span></p>
<p>It is just as natural for people to regard those outside their groups with suspicion. People will have their guard up towards people who are strangers, who are not easily identifiable as &#8220;one of us.&#8221;  Let&#8217;s call this guard &#8220;the barrier.&#8221;</p>
<p>No matter how open-minded you think you are, you almost certainly subconsciously trust people to whom you feel an affinity more than those who you consider somewhat different.</p>
<p>As we&#8217;ve mentioned earlier, Americans used to strongly identify with Zionism and Israelis. Both countries were founded by idealists, being born in wars won against all odds. During Israel&#8217;s first decades Americans naturally considered Israelis to be &#8220;just like us,&#8221; &#8211; scrappy, hardworking people building a nation from scratch, using their own brains and muscle, in an incredibly hostile environment, and even with a sense of humor.</p>
<p>America in the 1950s and 1960s was also a more outwardly religious nation. No one was insulted at the idea that the Founding Fathers would invoke Scripture and the word &#8220;God&#8221; was not considered inappropriate to use in public. The idea of a Jewish state in the land of the Bible was simply considered fitting.</p>
<p>As a result, Americans were very receptive to Israel&#8217;s narrative. The &#8220;barrier&#8221; between the two nations was very low, and trust was implicit.</p>
<p>Today the situation is different. Because of decades of propaganda and indoctrination, America is less patriotic and less religious. Moreover, the culture of hard work being its own reward is being slowly replaced with a culture of entitlement. The unity of purpose that America had during World War II &#8211; and even after Sputnik &#8211; has eroded.</p>
<p>To be sure, the heartland of America remains much as our nation was five decades ago. But on college campuses and in large cities, American ideals are being replaced with a philosophy that is truly dangerous to the nation over the long term.</p>
<p>This is of course a very big topic on its own.</p>
<p>But for Israel, this means that the barrier of communication with Americans has been raised. The constant demonization of Israel in the media and on campus has turned Zionists into &#8220;the other,&#8221; people no longer to be implicitly trusted. They are now regarded as Goliaths instead of Davids, as bullies instead of the bullied, as religious extremists who cannot be related to by an increasingly secular America.</p>
<p>The barrier is now high, and it must be broken down.</p>
<p>If a Mike Huckabee passionately defends Israel, the cosmopolitan New Yorkers and Chicagoans are not identifying with the messenger because he is regarded as a Republican nutcase. If Alan Dershowtiz writes an op-ed supporting Israel, they think that since he is Jewish his arguments are already tainted and his objectivity cannot be trusted. And unfortunately there are very few non-Jewish liberals left willing to publicly and passionately support Israel.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there are other ways to break down the barrier. And, contrary to how Jews tend to think, the answer has nothing to do with coming up with better arguments in favor of Israel.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Authority insults the US – and no one says a word</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority is officially calling the United States an "obstacle to peace." It is saying that the US - a nation that has worked harder than any other to bring about peace, a nation that brokered Camp David - cannot be an honest broker in negotiations. Whether you agree or disagree with the present administration, this press release is an unacceptable slap in the face of the world's superpower by an entity that cannot conceive of the idea of compromise for peace.

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<p>Last March Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel to work on getting indirect peace talks underway.</p>
<p>While he was there, a Jerusalem planning committee announced the approval of an additional 1600 housing units in an existing Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. The neighborhood, Ramat Shlomo, would never be handed over to the Palestinian Arab state in any conceivable peace plan, and the Jerusalem municipality approves or rejects housing plans all the time. Beyond that, the PA had <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=170829">already admitted </a>that Ramat Shlomo would remain part of Israel.</p>
<p>Still, there was a firestorm of protest over this coincidental timing, as if the Knesset and Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister personally approve every housing project in Jerusalem. Secretary of State Clinton called the move &#8220;insulting&#8221; and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu had to express regrets over the incident.</p>
<p>The supposed &#8220;insult&#8221; was nothing of the sort, but the US publicly dressed down its closest ally in the Middle East because of the actions of a low-level city clerk.</p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s fast forward.<span id="more-119679"></span></p>
<p>On Friday, the US vetoed a UN resolution calling Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria &#8220;illegal.&#8221; This occurred after a long phone call from President Obama to PA president Mahmoud Abbas begging him to drop the resolution. Abbas ignored the President&#8217;s pleas.</p>
<p>After the vote and the veto, UN representative Susan Rice gave an unprecedented speech clarifying the US position, and groveling towards the Arab world by insisting how distasteful the Obama administration considers Jews living in their historic heartland.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.mofa-gov.ps/ar/index.php?p=main&amp;id=1010">response from the Palestinian leadership</a> was published, in Arabic, on the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It says, in part:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>U.S. veto: <strong>an obstacle to peace </strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The United States of America&#8217;s use of the veto to prevent the passage of a UN resolution condemning Israel&#8217;s settlement policy <strong>confirms that it is not an honest broker, </strong>and it is<strong> no longer able to carry out its responsibilities </strong>as a sponsor of any future Palestinian &#8211; Israeli negotiations.</p>
<p>This first veto of the administration of President Barack Obama <strong>puts the credibility of the sponsor of the peace process in jeopardy</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>We see the U.S. veto as encouraging Israel to move forward in the processes of settlement and Judaizing Jerusalem, and the construction of a wall of annexation and expansion. <strong>[</strong><strong>We] hold the U.S. administration to be fully responsibile for the consequences and repercussions. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">This, ladies and gentlemen, <strong>is what an an insult looks like.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The PA is officially calling the United States an &#8220;obstacle to peace.&#8221; It is saying that the US &#8211; a nation that has worked harder than any other to bring about peace, a nation that brokered Camp David &#8211; cannot be an honest broker in negotiations. Whether you agree or disagree with the present administration, this press release is an unacceptable slap in the face of the world&#8217;s superpower by an entity that cannot conceive of the idea of compromise for peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This hateful screed has, so far, been ignored both by the media and by the current administration. There have been no public calls for apologies, no calling out of president Mahmoud Abbas who is responsible for this statement.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Not only did Susan Rice&#8217;s little speech meant to blunt the veto not placate the Palestinian Authority &#8211; it is entirely possible that it emboldened them to slam the United States.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In fact, it might be even more than an insult &#8211; it is practically a public statement that the Palestinian Arabs no longer subscribe to the peace process.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yet there are no angry recriminations, no evidence of displeasure, no outrage. It is almost as if the Obama administration is afraid of upsetting the Palestinian Arabs while they do not hesitate to find ways to be &#8220;insulted&#8221; by its friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There is something deeply and profoundly wrong with this picture.</p>
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		<title>The Top 13 Zionist Animal Conspiracy Theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel's Secret Weapons Exposed]]></description>
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<p>Arabs specifically and many Muslims in general know that the Jews, especially Israeli Jews, are brilliant and diabolical. They use their scientific knowledge to advance their nefarious cause, building ever-increasingly sophisticated weapons whose only purpose is to harass and annoy Arabs.</p>
<p>But the Zionist brilliance is not limited to chemistry, electronics and medicine. Apparently, the Zionist Jews are experts at weaponizing animals to carry out unspeakable acts of espionage and vandalism.<span id="more-119350"></span></p>
<p>Every couple of months, the Arab media describes such schemes in detail.</p>
<p>Here, for the first time, is the most complete known list of Zionist animal plots.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/20/the-top-13-zionist-animal-conspiracy-theories/2/" >And we&#8217;re starting with&#8230; </a></strong></p>
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		<title>White House vetoes UNSC vote – and then throws Israel under the bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday the US vetoed a Palestinian resolution declaring Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria to be "illegal," 

But the Obama administration did not want to give the world the impression that the US actually stands behind Israel.]]></description>
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<p>Last Friday, as expected, the<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0211/US_vetoes_UN_resolution_declaring_Israeli_settlements_illegal.html?showall"> US vetoed</a> a Palestinian Arab resolution declaring Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria to be &#8220;illegal,&#8221; after the<a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=208759&amp;R=R3"> PA refused</a> to accept a US-drafted compromise statement that would have said the UN &#8220;does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, which is a serious obstacle to the peace process.&#8221;<span id="more-119472"></span></p>
<p>But the Obama administration did not want to give the world the impression that the US actually stands behind Israel. Not at all! US representative to the UN Susan Rice took pains to say, for the record and after the vote, that the US <a href="http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2011/156816.htm">pretty much agrees with the resolution</a> &#8211; but that this was just not the right venue:</p>
<blockquote><p>The United States has been deeply committed to pursuing a comprehensive and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In that context, we have been focused on taking steps that advance the goal of two states living side by side in peace and security, rather than complicating it. That includes a commitment to work in good faith with all parties<strong> to underscore our opposition to continued settlements.</strong></p>
<p>Our opposition to the resolution before this Council today <strong>should therefore not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity</strong>. On the contrary<strong>, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.</strong> For more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 has <strong>undermined Israel’s security and corroded hopes for peace and stability</strong> in the region. Continued settlement activity violates<strong> Israel’s international commitments</strong>,<strong> devastates trust </strong>between the parties, and<strong> threatens the prospects for peace</strong>&#8230;.</p>
<p>While we agree with our fellow Council members—and indeed, with the wider world—about the<strong> folly and illegitimacy </strong>of continued Israeli settlement activity, we think it unwise for this Council to attempt to resolve the core issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. We therefore regrettably have opposed this draft resolution.</p>
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<p>As<a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/02/18/what-was-susan-rices-embarrassing-anti-israel-tirade-supposed-to-accomplish/"> Omri Ceren </a>points out, this little speech made sure that the US ticked off everybody.</p>
<p>Beyond that, Rice&#8217;s mini-tantrum at the UN was simply wrong. Israel has not supported the building of any Jewish housing outside existing boundaries of Jewish towns for years, and everyone &#8211; even the PLO, as documented in the &#8220;Palestine Papers,&#8221; and <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&amp;categ_id=2&amp;article_id=103042#axzz1Eaidi8pC">even Jimmy Carter </a>- recognizes that major settlement blocs will continue to be a part of Israel in any peace agreement.</p>
<p>It was also wrong in saying that Israel&#8217;s allowing Jews to build homes in their own historic homeland violates Israel&#8217;s international commitments. The UNSC resolutions that Israel has accepted, most importantly 242, makes it clear that <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/peace%20process/guide%20to%20the%20peace%20process/statements%20clarifying%20the%20meaning%20of%20un%20security%20c">Israel cannot and will not</a> give all of the lands it gained in 1967 to the Arabs.</p>
<p>There is also a fundamental flaw in Rice&#8217;s statement that the Jewish communities &#8220;<strong>undermined Israel’s security and corroded hopes for peace and stability.&#8221; </strong>They have ensured that Israel is not a mere 9 miles wide at its waist, that Tel Aviv is out of Qassam rocket range from the West Bank, and that terrorism is kept at bay.</p>
<p>Moreover, we cannot escape the irony: At the exact same time that the Arab world is erupting in protests and violent showdowns between people yearning for freedom and their autocratic rulers who don&#8217;t hesitate to shoot their own people, to say that Jews wanting to live in the heartland of Biblical Israel is the main threat to peace in the region is ridiculous.</p>
<p>The PLO cannot help itself &#8211; it needs to try to keep its own issues on the front burner on the international scene because it knows that the Arab world really doesn&#8217;t care about &#8220;Palestine&#8221; as much as it pretends. But when the region is in such upheaval, to think that this is what the UN is spending its time on just shows how out of touch that organization is with what&#8217;s really going on.</p>
<p>The sad part is that the US allowed itself to become not just a part of the farce, but to actively encourage it.</p>
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		<title>The Top 13 Zionist Animal Conspiracy Theories</title>
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<p>Arabs specifically and many Muslims in general know that the Jews, especially Israeli Jews, are brilliant and diabolical. They use their scientific knowledge to advance their nefarious cause, building ever-increasingly sophisticated weapons whose only purpose is to harass and annoy Arabs.</p>
<p>But the Zionist brilliance is not limited to chemistry, electronics and medicine. Apparently, the Zionist Jews are experts at weaponizing animals to carry out unspeakable acts of espionage and vandalism.<span id="more-116422"></span></p>
<p>Every couple of months, the Arab media describes such schemes in detail.</p>
<p>Here, for the first time, is the most complete known list of Zionist animal plots.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/20/the-top-13-zionist-animal-conspiracy-theories/2/" >And we&#8217;re starting with&#8230; </a></strong></p>
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		<title>The Mafia Mentality of the Mideast: Take Away the Jews Or We’ll Kill Them and It Will Be Your Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been variations, but this has been the argument that has been used against Israel for over six decades. Arabs cannot control themselves from killing Jews, therefore Jews must vacate areas that Arabs don't want them to go.]]></description>
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<p>In  1947, just days before the UN vote to partition Palestine into Jewish  and Arab states, an Egyptian leader named Mohammed Hussein Heykal Pasha  spoke out against the idea at a UN committe meeting at Lake Success.</p>
<p>His argument against a Jewish state was  simple.</p>
<blockquote><p>There  are a million Jews spread throughout the Middle East. it is not our  humanitarian duty and your duty on behalf of the Jewish people to place  in serious danger a million Jews just to save a few thousand in Europe  or to satisfy a Zionist dream.</p>
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<blockquote><p>You  are unconsciously on the verge of lighting the flame of anti-semitism  in the Middle East, which would be more difficult to extinguish than it  was in Germany. At present we regard the million Jews in our countries  as brothers &#8211; your decision would prompt some of our people to regard  them as enemies. I warn you of this while there is still  time.&#8221;</p>
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<p><span id="more-118294"></span>This  little speech is interesting because it uses an argument that has been  used by Israel&#8217;s enemies for years. The argument is twofold: if Jews get  what they want, there will be murderous consequences&#8211;and the West  will be responsible for those consequences because the Arabs will not be  able to stop them from happening.</p>
<p>Notice  how Heykal couched his threat against a million Jews. He used human  rights terminology! He argued, on humanitarian grounds, that a Jewish  state would cause Jews to die. The small fact that it  would be Arabs killing the Jews is of little moral consequence, as the corollary to the argument is that Arabs cannot control themselves from  acting violently.</p>
<p>There  have been variations, but this has been the argument that has been used  against Israel for over six decades. Arabs cannot control themselves  from killing Jews, therefore Jews must vacate areas that Arabs don&#8217;t  want them to go.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s  version of the argument is that Jews cannot live in the West Bank or  much of Jerusalem because the Arab world cannot tolerate them there. It  is regarded&#8211;by the Arabs themselves when they formulate this line of  reasoning&#8211;as an inherent part of the Arab psyche. The only way to  peace, they say, is by barring Jews from places like Hebron, Shiloh, Bet  El, Shechem, Bethlehem, and much of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>In this topsy-turvy worldview, peace is dependent on ethnic cleansing of Jews.</p>
<p>In  any other context, ethnic cleansing is considered a war crime. Only in  the territories is it considered a prerequisite for peace.</p>
<p>In  any other place in the world, a divided city is considered a tragedy.  Only in Jerusalem is it considered a necessity for peace.</p>
<p>And why do these inherently immoral things  lead to peace? Because if the Jews are not banned from the cities of their heritage, the Arabs&#8211;will start a war!</p>
<p>Over  the decades, what was easily seen as a crazy perversion of morality has  gained universal acceptance among people who otherwise are proud to  support human rights. The Jewish rights of self-determination and to  live in the land of their forefathers morphed from an admirable ideal  into a virtual crime.</p>
<p>There  are a number of reasons for this. For one, the idea of war has changed.  Not too long ago, while war was considered something to be avoided as  much as possible, it was nevertheless seen as a necessary evil to  forestall something worse. Now, war is considered something to be  avoided at virtually all costs. The mere threat of war is enough to get  people to be willing to support immoral actions, considering them better  than the alternative.</p>
<p>Another  reason is the same logic that the Arab world has used since the 1920s.  They promote the idea that Arabs are inherently unpredictable and  illogical, prone to doing crazy things if they do  not get their way. Jews, on the other hand, have a reputation that is  quite the opposite&#8211;they are logical and coolheaded, who can be  reasoned with. Logical people can compromise; crazy people cannot. It is  much easier to pressure the logical people.</p>
<p>A  third reason is closely related to the second. In the 1970s, the Arabs  made it clear that their disregard for human life was not only toward their Middle Eastern enemies, but against anyone in the world that they  disagreed with. Modern terrorism was born. Western nations, given the  choice of siding with a large, unpredictable and dangerous enemy or a  small nation that poses no threat, naturally go for self-preservation&#8211;and then justify that choice with a litany of excuses paradoxically  invoking human rights, inverting the people who truly want peace into  the warmongers and the people who threaten the entire free world into  the victims who deserve what they demand.</p>
<p>An organized crime  mentality has taken hold. The world is paying protection money to  Palestinian Arabs to try to stop them from going back to their days of  terrorizing the world.</p>
<p>Of course, latent anti-Semitism has contributed in no small part to  to this weird Bizarro world we now live in.</p>
<p>This,  in a nutshell, is how we came to the situation today where the people  who yearn most for peace and security in their tiny corner of the planet  are the most universally reviled people in the world, and their mortal  enemies are the moral underdogs. The sad fact is that most people cannot  even recognize that they have been brainwashed so thoroughly into  supporting the ethnic cleansers &#8211; and use the comforting words of &#8220;human  rights&#8221; to justify it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The Guardian and Al Jazeera released “The Palestine Papers,” they chose to write articles about a very small percentage of them -- and then they twisted what the papers actually said to advance their agenda.

 

In fact, the papers have a lot of information that is quite newsworthy that the Guardian decided against publicizing -- precisely because it makes the Palestinian Arab leaders look like fools, liars or both.]]></description>
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<p>When The Guardian and Al Jazeera released “The Palestine Papers,” they chose to write articles about a very small percentage of them &#8212; and then they twisted what the papers actually said to advance their agenda.</p>
<p>In fact, the papers have a lot of information that is quite newsworthy that the Guardian decided against publicizing &#8212; precisely because it makes the Palestinian Arab leaders look like fools, liars or both.</p>
<p>Here’s just one example<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/search/label/Palestine%20Papers"> out of many</a>.</p>
<p><span id="more-117579"></span>One paper is called “<a href="http://www.ajtransparency.com/en/document/2021">Talking Points on Recogntion [sic] of Jewish State</a>,” where the PLO details its reasons for not accepting Israel as a Jewish state.</p>
<p>The paper includes an annex that discusses the implications of such recognition. One of them is:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Recognizing the Jewish state implies recognition of a Jewish people and recognition of its right to self-determination.</strong> Those who assert this right also assert that the territory historically associated with this right of self-determination (i.e., the self-determination unit) is all of Historic Palestine. Therefore, recognition of the Jewish people and their right of self-determination may lend credence to the Jewish people’s claim to all of Historic Palestine.</p>
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<p>There is no controversy over the existence of the Jewish people. The Jews have been recognized as a nation by the entire world for some 3000 years. (Here’s an example from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Lb9GAAAAIAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=jewish+nation&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=GQRTTYuSAYrytgeRsPC-CQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">1850</a>, and an <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xxZ0GwAACAAJ&amp;dq=%22jewish+nation%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=gwRTTa-YN86gtgfi8qieCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=8&amp;ved=0CEsQ6AEwBw">anti-Semitic example</a> from 1743.) The Koran <a href="http://www.thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/what-koran-says-about-land-israel">seems to say it as well</a>. It is simply a fact.</p>
<p>Which means that <strong>the official PLO position is to deny an undeniable fact </strong>because that fact may makes their negotiating position weaker!</p>
<p>Also, note that while they use as their reason for denying Jewish peoplehood the possibility that it might be used against them in negotiations over the Green Line, that same denial can be (and is) used by Palestinian Arabs to deny the Jewish right to self-determination <strong>anywhere</strong>.</p>
<p>Yasser Arafat and other senior PLO officials used to tell everyone that <a href="http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/julaug00/debate.html">there was never a Temple in Jerusalem</a>. The official<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/pa-ministry-of-information-kotel-not.html"> Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information website </a> had an article last year that denied that there was any Jewish connection to the Western Wall, a claim that was <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=489">repeated </a>in official PA media.</p>
<p>The fact is that any recognition that Jews have historical ties to the land of Israel is threatening to a “people” who have only sprung up in the last century. The very existence of a Jewish people is a natural extension of that fear.</p>
<p>As a result, the Palestinian Arab leaders must go to great lengths to ensure that they can lie consistently about the non-existence of the Jewish nation. After all, if self-determination is a human right, then the Jews have that right as well &#8212; but <strong>only if the Jews are a people. </strong></p>
<p>Here we can see that the Palestinian Arabs know that their proposition is absurd, but they willingly choose to lie about a historical fact because the truth is uncomfortable to them.</p>
<p>Why should we believe them about anything else?</p>
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		<title>Hasbara 2.0: What Is Effective Hasbara?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zionists have over the past couple of decades acclimated themselves to being on the defensive -- to arguing that Israel is not the evil entity that it is portrayed as. We have lost the forest for the trees. We are so stuck in the arguments on the haters’ frameworks that we never come up for breath and show them Israel as it is.]]></description>
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<p>We have already defined hasbara as promoting Israel’s message, but we need to go a little bit further than that: we need to define what <strong>effective </strong>hasbara is.</p>
<p>I would define effective hasbara as having two critical components:</p>
<p>1. It improves public opinion of Israel</p>
<p>2. It is accessible to a large audience</p>
<p>The first part, improving public opinion of Israel, is actually easier than it sounds.</p>
<p>Zionists have over the past couple of decades acclimated themselves to being on the defensive &#8212; to arguing that Israel is not the evil entity that it is portrayed as. We have lost the forest for the trees. We are so stuck in the arguments on the haters’ frameworks that we never come up for breath and show them Israel as it is.</p>
<p><span id="more-117484"></span>Step back, forget being on the defensive, take the conflict out of the picture for now, think about everything you know about Israel from personal experience &#8212; and tell the world about that.</p>
<p>Recently, someone sent me some photos he took at a supermarket in Gush Etzion. It is an ordinary scene of people shopping, that just happened to be in one of those notorious “settlements” that everyone hears so much about. And in the center of the scene we could see this:</p>
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<p>A religious Jew, a “settler,” was smiling and apparently joking with an Arab woman who was also shopping there.</p>
<p>Scenes like this take place thousands of times every day in Israel. However, the rest of the world is clueless about it. They think of Israeli Jews as monsters, and no one is showing them the truth.</p>
<p>After <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/photo-of-oppressed-west-bank-arab-woman.html">I posted this photo on my blog</a>, a number of sites in Europe copied my post &#8212; an ordinary photo of people shopping became news!</p>
<p>This is only a tiny example. If you have snapshots from your last visit to Israel, look through them and see which show parts of Israel that people don’t see, and just tweet them or put them up on Facebook. Try to come up with a title that would make people want to click on them (I called my post “Photo of an oppressed West Bank woman.”)</p>
<p>Videos are even better. Here’s one of many flash mobs that Israel enjoyed last year:</p>
<p>Who, besides for people who will hate Israel anyway, can resist smiling when watching something like this?</p>
<p>People who have visited Israel don’t only have to post photos or videos. Stories and anecdotes about your “only in Israel” experiences are valuable as well.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t have firsthand experience of visiting Israel yet, there are plenty of other things that you can blog, or post on Facebook, or tweet, today. Look at articles from<a href="http://www.israel21c.com/">Israel21C</a> or <a href="http://israelity.com/">Israelity</a> or the <a href="http://www.isrealli.org/">Israelli</a> blog, and, if they catch your fancy, post them as well. They reflect what is really going on in Israel, and they are entertaining to boot.</p>
<p>In a way, it is sad that Israel’s reputation has been so stained by the haters that ordinary events seem extraordinary &#8212; but that is the entire point. If the truth about Israel would flood the Internet, then the haters would be the ones on the defensive. Make the Ziophobes insult good-looking people on the beach or Israel’s latest high-tech invention that is saving lives. They will end up looking like the fools that they are.</p>
<p>The second component of effective hasbara is that <strong>it needs to be widely available</strong>. This means that the hasbara must not be limited to certain limited websites or placed in places where they will not be seen after a short while.</p>
<p>It is admirable to stand up for Israel in message boards or in the comments section of major newspapers. If you think about it, though, the audience is often quite small and the devastating arguments that you crafted will disappear within hours or days. Even worse, the people that you end up arguing with are not usually going to be convinced because they are already emotionally invested in hating Israel &#8212; and the lurkers are often past caring.</p>
<p>I’m not saying to cede those venues entirely, but start to consciously think about getting the most “bang for the buck.” To give a simple example, while Yahoo News message boards might be entertaining and filled with passionate people, the message boards on Amazon reviewing books are much better venues for putting forth a pro-Israel message. After all, people will be looking up book reviews for years, and if they are searching for a book they already are probably smarter than most people &#8212; and more amenable to the truth.</p>
<p>For example, I once did an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3EHUBEK0RFAEU/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1595620176&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=#wasThisHelpful">Amazon review</a> of a book called “Who Speaks for Islam” which, in my opinion, was propaganda masquerading as science. People who read my review were most appreciative that they didn’t waste their money on the book, and how I exposed the deception by the authors of the book. That review is still there for anyone to find.</p>
<p>If you like to write letters to the editor of your local paper, consider taking the same letters and putting them up on the Web. Increase your potential audience by many orders of magnitude with the same effort.</p>
<p>Today, the easiest way to reach a large audience is YouTube. Even people who simply speak to the camera can gain large followings. There is no comparison between the number of people who view videos on YouTube and those who look everywhere else.</p>
<p>This doesn’t mean you have to be a video producer (although that certainly helps.)</p>
<p>Just last week, there was a Grad rocket that nearly hit a wedding in Israel. This is something that the world needs to see. A number of Israeli websites had <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4022593,00.html">video</a> &#8212; some of them <a href="http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-eb53c5f439ddd21004.htm">only in Hebrew</a> &#8212; but Israeli news sites make it notoriously difficult to transfer their videos to YouTube, meaning that the world at large cannot find videos like this without great effort. I got lucky in finding a way to download this video.</p>
<p>Videos such as this one can have a tremendous effect on public opinion &#8212; but they must be available for ordinary people to view! By moving this video from Yediot Aharonot’s site to YouTube I have made it available to the entire world, not just YNet readers.</p>
<p>This doesn’t mean that the world will watch it, but making it available is the first step. You cannot predict what video will got “viral” but it is obvious that if videos are not on YouTube, they won’t go anywhere.</p>
<p>And some videos do very, very well. Last year one of the best hasbara videos, in my opinion, was the “We Con the World” music <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg">video</a> by LatmaTV.</p>
<p>It was effective in getting a message across &#8212; that so-called “human rights activists” on the Mavi Marmara were really terrorists. It was effective in that it was viewed by millions of people. And it is very funny, so it broke out of the corner of cyberspace that is concerned with the Middle East and it made an impression on many, many other people who were otherwise uninformed about the truth of the flotilla.</p>
<p><strong>That </strong>is effective hasbara. And while we won’t always make such a splash, it doesn’t hurt to swing for the fences.</p>
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