INTO THE FRAY: ESCALATING ANTISEMITISM - THE BLAME ISRAEL BEARS
By Martin Sherman
- https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307414
- https://www.jns.org/opinion/escalating-anti-semitism-the-blame-israel-bears/
- https://jewsdownunder.com/2021/06/03/into-the-fray-escalating-antisemitism-the-blame-israel-bears/
- https://drrichswier.com/2021/06/03/escalating-anti-semitism-the-blame-israel-bears/
There is a symbiotic link between the abysmal (mis)conduct of Israel’s public diplomacy and the building crescendo of Judeophobic frenzy across the globe.
Israel is losing the war for international opinion because - in the final analysis - she does not really want to win it! Or at least the official organs charged with administering this war do not-- Entire world is not against us, March 28, 2007.
‘Israel has made itself defenseless’…. ‘Israel has vacated the battleground of the mind’… ’Israeli “hasbara†is a JOKE!’–Melanie Phillips—cited in INTO THE FRAY: Comprehending the incomprehensible, January 3, 2012.
Israel’s greatest strategic challenge, its gravest strategic failure, its grimmest strategic danger is the (mis)conduct of its public diplomacy.—INTO THE FRAY: Intellectual warriors, not slicker diplomats February 14, 2013.
Continued impotence and incompetence in the (mis)conduct of Israel’s public diplomacy is becoming not only [a] strategic threat to the country but is beginning to imperil Jewish communities abroad—INTO THE FRAY: Dereliction of duty, October 25, 2013.
‘It is dreadful to hear that the [popular children’s] snack Bamba has a promotional budget two to three times the size of the total state budget for public diplomacy…’— cited in INTO THE FRAY: If I were prime minister... October 31, 2013.
… much like the air force and missile defense, diplomacy is a strategic imperative whose function is to facilitate decision-making space for national leadership to pursue national interests. INTO THE FRAY: My billion-dollar budget: If I were PM (cont.), November 7, 2013.
By allowing Israel’s image to become so distorted and debased, Israel has made being Jewish a risk-fraught experience… rather than anti-Jewish prejudices generating anti-Israel prejudices, anti-Israel animosity translates into anti-Jewish animosity--INTO THE FRAY: Catalogue of common canards. September 4, 2014.
Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds across the world, for a very simple reason, very difficult to accept, yet very easy to prove: It simply does not want to win!—INTO THE FRAY: Preserving the Jewish nation-state-The imperative for a political ‘Iron Dome’, November 12, 2015.
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3yWe work on perceptions. With an exception of few odds, Muslims do not hate Jews. But the illegitimate state of Israel and steps taken by Israel to create suspicions. Please lend a hand of peace and remove suspicions and see how it works. Palestinians have right to exist so is the case of Jews.