Jerusalem
---- June 19, 2010 . No one is dying in Gaza. No one is
starving in Gaza. Fact is, tons of food, water, fuel and medicine
flow into Gaza from Israel every day in cooperation with the UN
and EU.
So why is
it that so many world leaders, the UN, newspaper editors and the
general public believe that the people of Gaza are suffering
from famine? That Israel is attacking "humanitarian"
ships and "peace activists" from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla?
That Turkey
deserves to demand that Israel apologize for simply defending
herself from more than 12,000 terror rockets that have fallen
on the Israel cities of Sderot, Ashdod and Ashkelon since Israel
left Gaza five years ago?
We must ask
ourselves how has the grotesque absurd transformed itself into
a clear perception of reality in every capital around the world?
Creative
satire from Israel has become the sole magical bullet in
responding to the Iranian, Hamas and Turkish Islamic Jihad PR
machine.
Not since
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels engineered the creative propaganda of
the Nazi regime has the world witnessed such professional and
sophisticated public relations and public affairs.
Iran is using
her petrol dollars to buy the best PR professionals on the world
market. And the results have been nothing less than stunning.
Where Islamic
suicide bombers could not and did not succeed, Iran today is using
her puppet organizations Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon
to wage not only a Jihad (Holy War against Jews and Christians)
of bullets and bombs, but an electronic Jihad that incorporates
the best of show business.
The invention
of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was a brilliant move. It was nothing
less than a laser guided weapon that found Israel's large and
exposed Achilles Heal - PR.
Israel suffers
from a lack of budget and PR professionals. The money in Israel
goes to F-16's, submarines, the Mossad, the Shabak and combat
units in the IDF. So when so called "peace activists"
with direct ties to Hamas and al-Qaeda arrived from Turkey, Iran
and those who are waging Islamic Jihad against the West prayed
that Israel would not know how to handle it. And they were right.
Rather than
respond with Israel naval officers in their dress white uniforms
passing out flowers and food to the "peace activists"
for the world media to record and upload, black masked commandos
stormed the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with paint ball guns. And to
add to Iran's joy, these Israel commandos had orders not to shoot,
even as their comrades were being knived, shot and clubbed as
they boarded. There were no Israel snipers. There was no cover
fire to take out the Islamic attackers.
But then something
of a miracle emerged on YouTube. It was not the standard dry and
academic videos that one would find being uploaded from the IDF.
Rather it was pure satire produced by the private sector.
The "We
Con The World" video went from a handful of viewers to over
100,000 viewers within 24 hours. Within a week and half over 3
million people viewed this creative and factual version of reality
in Gaza and Israel. Eventually YouTube removed the video even
as the Latma production team yelled Fair Use and foul. The video
may have been produced with all of the elements of Fair Use, but
YouTube, which is a corporation that makes a commercial revenue
is not Fair Use.
WeJew.com,
an Israel based video provider then picked up where YouTube left
off.
As the US
warns Europe of Iran missiles and as Iran dispatches "humanitarian"
Gaza Flotilla Ships from Iran, Turkey and Lebanon to provoke Israel
into a war, we should all sit back and take another look at the
Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
As "We
Con The World" simply states in its lyrics, all you have
to do is call yourself an activist. And with that magic word you
may just be able to enter Gaza with more lethal missiles, rockets,
bombs and bullets to attack Israel towns and cities with. Iran,
Hamas and Islamic Jihad failed to deliver weapons with the Karine
A carrying over 50 tons of weapons, including short-range Katyusha
rockets, antitank missiles, and high explosives. But the "activists"
might just succeed in softening up Israel's legal blockade of
Gaza. Create a hole just big enough to add a few more rockets
among the sacks of rice and plastic baby toys.
It's time
that Israel wakes up and provides a realistic budget for public
affairs and crisis communications management for both the Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel Defense Forces. That
in the next Security Cabinet meeting held in Jerusalem by the
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Minister
Ehud Barak that the missing and critical issue of public relations
and public affairs be addressed.
The cost of
a news release, a Twitter and Facebook account plus a YouTube
video is far less expensive than an all out war which could cost
the lives of thousands of Jews, Arabs and Christians in Israel,
in Iran and around the globe.
Public affairs
has a direct affect on life on the ground. So far Iran, Turkey,
Syria, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which
want to take away your basic freedom and democracy are winning
big time with a 1-0 score.
Just call
yourself an activist.
The
Israel News Agency,
which is accredited by Israel Government Press Office, was the
first on line news organization in Israel. The INA reaches up
to 60 million readers through Google News and Internet social
networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from
New York, London, Moscow and Paris to Toronto, Los Angeles, China
and India. Leyden is presently launching the United
States News Agency using the INA as a successful working model.